By KELIN DILLON A total of 17 teams from Liga MX, Mexico’s top football division, were hit with sanctions of 177.6 million pesos by the Federal Economic Competition Commission (Cofece) for alleged monopolistic practices and putting a salary cap on the league’s women’s vision. The clubs sanctioned include América, Pachuca, Mazatlán, Guadalajara, Santos Laguna, Tigres, Toluca, Pumas, Monterrey, Necaxa, Atlante
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican mountaineer Ándres Pérez Martínez and his son Andrés Pérez Maillard broke new records in Peru last month as the oldest and youngest alpinists to climb that South American country’s second-highest peak, Alpamayo. Led by his father, Pérez Maillard, who had already earned the title of the youngest Mexican to climb Mont Blanc and
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF After 12 days of events in Tokyo, Mexico’s efforts in the 2020 Paralympic Games earned the country 22 medals and a place as one of the top 20 winningest nations inthe competition. Mexico left Tokyo with seven gold medals, two silver medals and two bronze medals, the best the country has performed in the
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF In what constituted the fifth Paralympic medal for Mexico, weightlifter Amalia Pérez took the gold in the female up-to-55-kilo category on Saturday, Aug. 28. At age 44, Pérez has remained undefeated at the Paralympic Games since she first won gold in Beijing 2008. A native of Mexico City, she won her second gold medal
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican swimmer Fabiola Ramírez Martínez won her country’s first Paralympic medal at the Tokyo games on Wednesday, Aug. 25, earning bronze in the 100-meter backstroke, category S-2. “I reached the goal line and saw the board and I didn’t believe it, until I turned to see the coaches,” Ramírez Martínez, who suffers from cerebral
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF With just four bronze medals, and no gold or silver, Mexico had its worst haul of Olympic medals during the Tokyo games since the 1996 Atlanta games. Although the Mexican delegation did come in fourth place seven times, it had a disappointing medal count in Japan. It won bronze medals in the mixed archery
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s men soccer team won a fourth medal for country at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games by beating Japan 3-1 on Friday, Aug. 6. The team won bronze medal by defeating the host country in a game that was considered the rematch of the 1968 Olympic Games, when the Japanese defeated Mexico 2-0 and
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By KELIN DILLON Tijuana native Brandon Moreno achieved history on the night of Saturday June 12, when he defeated Brazilian Deiveson Figueiredo in the Ultimate Fighting Club’s (UFC) flyweight division championship, becoming the first Mexican to ever hold a UFC title. Figuieredo and Moreno previously faced off for the belt in December 2020, with the even-handed fight resulting in a
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By KELIN DILLON Mexican Formula 1 (F1) driver Sergio “Checo” Pérez took first place for his team, Red Bull Racing, at the Azerbaijan Baku Grand Prix on the morning of Sunday, June 6, marking his first win with the team since joining the Austria-based team at the beginning of the season. His teammate, Max Verstappen, led the race for the
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XINHUA The Cruz Azul soccer team ended a 23-year Mexican top flight title drought on Sunday, May 30, by completing a 2-1 aggregate victory over Santos Laguna in the Liga MX Clausura final. Having lost the first leg 1-0 at home, on Thursday, 27, Santos Laguna drew level overall through a 37th-minute strike from Chilean midfielder Diego Valdes at Estadio
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