Cristiano Ronaldo was absent as Al Nassr advanced to the quarterfinals of the AFC Champions League Two on Wednesday with a 1-0 win over Arkadag FC of Turkmenistan that secured a 2-0 aggregate victory.

The 41-year-old Ronaldo, who returned last Saturday after missing three straight games amid reports of discontent with the club's management, watched from the stands.

On Feb. 7 Arsenal players walked off the field after a convincing 3-0 home win against Sunderland with their lead in the Premier League at nine points.

Then things started to go wrong.

Alysa Liu is left to bear the ambitions of the American figure skating team on Thursday night, when the last of the "Blade Angels" with a legitimate shot at the Olympic gold medal tries to catch Japanese teammates Ami Nakai and Kaori Sakamoto during the women's free skate at the Milan Cortina Games.

Nakai, Sakamoto and Mone Chiba give Japan the chance for the first-ever women's podium sweep.

Eileen Gu and all the other freestyle skiers wait for their scores by a large Powerade-branded cooler, then glide away without taking a drink.

Bottles of the blue sports drink are stacked in hockey penalty boxes. Even the tissues in figure skating's drama-packed "Kiss and Cry" area are branded.

FIFA President Gianni Infantino received a Lebanese passport at the Interior Ministry in Beirut on Monday, months after he was granted citizenship by President Joseph Aoun.

Infantino, who is married to Lebanese citizen Lina al-Ashkar, thanked Aoun at a meeting at the Interior Ministry where Infantino filed documents and had a photograph and fingerprints taken before being handed his new blue Lebanese passport.

Friday the 13th will be remembered as a lucky day for Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo Norway's cross-country skiing star won an eighth gold medal at the Milan Cortina Olympics Friday, tying an all‑time Winter Games record. The 29‑year‑old claimed victory in the men's 10-kilometer interval‑start race, for his third gold at the 2026 games.

Will three races still ahead of him, Klaebo now shares the record with three other Norwegian athletes who have all retired: Marit Bjoergen and Bjoern Daehlie in cross-country skiing and Ole Einar Bjoerndalen in the biathlon. Klaebo again gained vital ground in the final hill and clocked 20 minutes, 36.2 seconds, showing rare signs of fatigue as he collapsed at the finish line of the race considered to be his toughest challenge.

An all-time great comeback and a controversial exclusion were the dominant stories at the Milan Cortina Olympics on Day 6.

And then there's Chloe Kim, the American snowboarder who fell just short in her bid to become the first to win three consecutive Olympic gold medals in her sport.

Pep Guardiola is hoping two rare free midweeks will refresh his "exhausted" Manchester City squad for the Premier League title run-in after beating Fulham 3-0 on Wednesday.

Ticket prices for the 2026 World Cup have skyrocketed on FIFA's official resale platform, with seats for many matches listed at several times their face value even though most tickets have only recently been distributed following the end of the main sales phase in January.

Manchester United co-owner Jim Ratcliffe apologized Thursday for his "choice of language" after saying the "UK has been colonized by immigrants".

The billionaire businessman, founder and chairman of the Ineos chemicals company, made the remarks in a television interview in which he suggested "huge levels of immigration" to the UK had harmed the economy.