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Rangers will host Old Firm rivals Celtic and holders Aberdeen face a potential trip to Dunfermline in the Scottish Cup quarter-finals.
The draw, conducted following Falkirk’s extra-time win at Stenhousemuir, means the Pittodrie club take on Neil Lennon’s Scottish Championship side if they can see off Motherwell.
Elsewhere, St Mirren, shooting for a cup double, will host Partick Thistle while Dundee United or Spartans will visit Falkirk.
Dundee United’s meeting on Tayside with Spartans was postponed due to a waterlogged pitch, with the tie taking place on Tuesday 17 February (19:45 GMT).
Motherwell’s trip to take on Aberdeen, who beat Celtic in last year’s final, is the following day (19:45).
Celtic needed extra-time to eventually get by Dundee on Saturday, while Partick Thistle beat Elgin City and Dunfermline overcame Kelty.
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Antonio Jose Seguro of the centre-left Socialist Party has secured a landslide victory and a five-year term as Portugal’s president in a run-off vote, beating his far-right, anti-establishment rival, Andre Ventura, according to partial results.
With 95 percent of votes counted, 63-year-old Seguro has garnered 66 percent. Ventura trailed at 34 percent, still likely to secure a much stronger result than the 22.8 percent his anti-immigration Chega party achieved in last year’s general election. Ballots in large cities such as Lisbon and Porto are counted towards the end.
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Two exit polls have placed Seguro in the 67-73 percent range, and Ventura at 27-33 percent.
A succession of storms in recent days has failed to deter voters, with turnout at about the same level as in the first round on January 18, even though three municipal councils in southern and central Portugal had to postpone voting by a week due to floods. The postponement affected some 37,000 registered voters, or about 0.3 percent of the total, and is unlikely to influence the overall result.
Portugal’s presidency is a largely ceremonial role, but it holds some key powers, including the ability to dissolve parliament under certain circumstances.
Ventura, 43, who had trailed Seguro in opinion polls, had argued that the government’s response to the fierce gales and floods was “useless” and called for the entire election to be postponed.
However, the authorities rejected the demand.
Seguro, during his last campaign rally on Friday, accused Ventura of “doing everything to keep the Portuguese from turning out to vote”.
Despite his loss on Sunday, Ventura, a charismatic former television sports commentator, can now boast increased support, reflecting the growing influence of the far right in Portugal and much of Europe. He is also the first extreme-right candidate to make it through to a run-off vote in Portugal.
Meanwhile, Seguro has cast himself as the candidate of a “modern and moderate” left, who can actively mediate to avert political crises and defend democratic values. He received backing from prominent conservatives after the first round amid concerns over what many see as Ventura’s populist, hardline tendencies.
But Prime Minister Luis Montenegro – whose minority centre-right government has to rely on support from either the Socialists or the far right to get legislation through parliament – declined to endorse either candidate in the second round.
While the role is largely ceremonial, the head of state has the power to dissolve parliament and call early elections.
When figure skating coach Eteri Tutberidze’s “tremendous coldness” was described as “chilling to see” at the last Winter Olympics, it may have been hard to imagine her returning to her sport’s biggest stage.
Four years later, the highly successful coach is at Milan-Cortina – and not everyone is happy about it.
Tutberidze and her training methods were under the spotlight at Beijing 2022 amid the Kamila Valieva doping scandal that rocked the Games, and it was the then-IOC president Thomas Bach who gave the stinging assessment of the coach.
Rather than comforting 15-year-old gold medal favourite Valieva when she left the ice in tears after falling several times, Tutberidze had instead asked the youngster “why did you stop fighting?”
Bach said he had been “very, very disturbed” by what he had seen and that it did not give him “much confidence in this closest entourage of Kamila, neither with regard to what happened in the past, nor as far as it concerns the future”.
Well, that future is here and so too is Tutberidze.
Not only is Tutberidze back at the Olympics, but she is apparently coach to another Russian teenage medal hope.
That skater is 18-year-old Adeliia Petrosian, who is here as a neutral athlete (AIN) as Russia’s team are banned from the Games because of the country’s invasion of Ukraine.
However, Tutberidze is not officially listed as the teenager’s coach in the media guide for these Games and it remains to be seen whether she will be at rinkside when Petrosian competes.
BBC SportTutberidze’s official coaching role is with the Georgia figure skating team and she was at Milano Ice Skating Arena for the team event to watch one of her longest-serving pupils, Nika Egadze.
Egadze stormed to victory at the 2026 European Championships in Sheffield, where Tutberidze shared a warm hug with her skater after a gold medal-winning performance, and other athletes spoke positively about the coach.
It was a different story at Milano Ice Skating Arena as Egadze endured two error-strewn routines, with Georgia missing out on a medal.
In the short programme he made two early errors, failing to land the triple toe loop in his first technical element.
As he continued his performance, the TV cameras caught Tutberidze in passing – standing at rinkside, arms folded.
Egadze did enough to pull the performance around and help earn Georgia fifth place in qualifying, progressing to the final. When he came off the ice, the hug from Tutberidze seemed curt.
She joined the Georgian squad as they waited for the results. Generally, waiting teams will laugh and joke, even if they know elimination is coming.
Instead, the 11 skaters and team members sat stony-faced as the scores were announced.
If this was an indicator of the atmosphere in the team, it is certainly not positive, but it may have just been a moment of nervous focus.
Perhaps Tutberidze was minding her body language on Sunday as Egadze struggled even more in the free skate. Three of his first four elements scored negative points, and he nearly tripped over during his triple axel.
His coach gave him a pat on the hand as the numbers came in. Despite Egadze scoring only 154.79 for the free skate – 27 points lower than his season best – there was no berating.
Getty ImagesOfficial views on Tutberidze’s presence in Milan vary.
Given she has not been personally implicated in any doping scandals and has not broken any rules, Tutberidze has every right to be at the Olympics.
She has rejected any suggestions of wrongdoing in her career as a coach and said in 2022 she was baffled by Bach’s remarks.
“There was an investigation at the time and no issues were found that could be actioned against that individual,” IOC spokesman Mark Adams told a media conference on Sunday.
“If you are going to take action against someone, you need evidence, and from what I gather there isn’t any.”
However, World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) president Witold Banka said on Thursday he does not “feel comfortable with her presence here”, while Britain’s 1980 Olympic champion and BBC pundit Robin Cousins was unequivocal in his disdain.
“This comes down to the International Olympic Committee and International Skating Union – coaches are not part of the team,” Cousins told BBC Sport.
“So when they ban a team, the coach of said team is not part of that. That is not correct, as far as I am concerned. I would not have her anywhere near Milan, personally.
“Is that because of behaviour, or Russia being banned? All of the above.
Getty ImagesA few weeks ago, a television documentary – The Tutberidze Method – was released in Russia, celebrating her track record in training medal winners.
Two of Tutberidze’s skaters have won women’s gold and silver medals at the past two Olympics, but both were amid drama.
As the Valieva saga played out, Beijing 2022 champion Anna Shcherbakova was left barely celebrating victory – later saying she felt “emptiness” – while silver medallist Alexandra Trusova was so disappointed to miss out on gold that she said before the medal ceremony that she never wanted to skate again.
Four years before that, in 2018, favourite Evgenia Medvedeva was sobbing after being upstaged by 15-year-old training partner Alina Zagitova.
In the run-up to those two Games, Tutberidze’s skaters had been hot favourites, dominating the World Championships and European Championships.
Little has been seen of Petrosian recently on the international stage because of Russia’s ban from competition. The only real sighting of her was at September’s qualifying event in Beijing, where she won gold, but not all the top skaters were there.
Petrosian has also won the past three national championships – making it 11 years in a row for Tutberidze skaters – and she is the first woman to land a quadruple loop in competition, but she was injured last year and has struggled with errors this season.
Following the Valieva episode, the minimum age for competitors was raised from 15 to 17, an age that has not been far off retirement age for some of Tutberidze’s skaters in the past because of a combination of injury and a drop in technical skills.
It has been reported that her training model centres around female skaters peaking before they hit puberty.
Getty ImagesValieva, a mercurial talent who performances drew worldwide attention, was eventually banned for four years over her failed drugs test, but there were no sanctions for any of her entourage.
Her team have always insisted the failed test – for heart medication trimetazidine – was the result of contaminated cutlery which had been tainted by her grandfather’s medication, while Wada called for those behind the failed test to face justice because “the doping of children is unforgivable”.
“Wada is not behind the decision to accredit the coach [for Milan-Cortina],” Banka said. “The investigation found no evidence this person [Tutberidze] engaged in the topic, so there is no legal basis to exclude her.”
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A chieftain of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Kenneth Okonkwo, has faulted Senate President Godswill Akpabio over the Electoral Act Amendment Bill controversy and is calling for his removal.
Okonkwo spoke on Inside Sources with Laolu Akande, aired on Channels Television on Sunday.
“What it means is that Senator Godswill Akpabio has become an enemy of democracy and is sticking to the vicious cycle of election rigging, manipulation, falsification, and subterfuge by trying to maintain the same provision that the Supreme Court told you that if you do, you are an enemy of democracy,” he said.
“That man is an enemy of democracy and should be removed if he doesn’t resign.”
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The Electoral Act amendment bill passed the third reading at the Senate last week.
Clause 60 (30) of the Electoral Amendment Bill is connected with the electronic transmission of results. On Wednesday, the Senate retained the provision for the electronic transfer of results as contained in the 2022 Electoral Act.
The Red Chamber rejected moves for the real-time transmission of results and a 10-year ban on vote-buyers. It instead retained the sanctions of jail terms and fines.
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Mumbai, India — For most of a warm and breezy Sunday afternoon in Mumbai, the Wankhede Stadium felt closer to Kathmandu than India’s southern metropolis as thousands of Nepalese fans sang, danced and dared to dream while their cricket team took on the mighty England in the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2026.
A sea of red and blue replica shirts heaved in every nook and corner of the iconic 33,000-capacity venue, with supporters turning the famed Indian stadium into their adopted home.
A banner, saying “Feel the Thrill” stretched across stands and captured the mood perfectly as chants, drums and Nepali tunes echoed throughout the ground.
From children arriving with flags painted on their faces to elderly supporters proudly wearing the traditional Dhaka topi – a traditional Nepalese hat – fans of all ages turned up for what felt like a cricketing festival drenched in Nepali culture.
On the pitch, Nepal’s players delivered one of their most memorable performances in recent years, with the match ending in heartbreak as the team’s spirited chase fell agonisingly short on the final ball.
With the odds stacked heavily against them, Nepal walked out to face two-time champions England fully aware of the vast gulf in experience and pedigree compared to their opponents.
They hoped, though, that their hunger, intensity and fearless approach to the game could keep them firmly in the contest.
Chasing a challenging target of 185, the Rhinos proved why they are one of the most promising teams in associate cricket, as Lokesh Bam’s late heroics, coupled with Rohit Paudel and Dipendra Singh Airee’s onslaughts, pushed the contest to the last ball.
“We almost won but couldn’t go through because the players lack experience,” Nepal fan Subodh Dhakal, who travelled from Kathmandu, told Al Jazeera. “Experience will come with time, but the team played well.”
Dhakal, a doctor and passionate Nepal supporter, planned a quick two-day trip to attend the match with his wife, after watching the Nepal Premier League – the domestic league whose growth has been central to the nation’s progress in the sport.
Like Dhakal, Satyam Pokhrel also made his way to Mumbai from the Nepalese capital. Joined by a group of friends, Pokhrel revealed his plans to stay for the remaining three Nepal games, all of which are scheduled at the same venue.
“Nepal had a really good chance [to win], but were unlucky,” he said. “The match was very close; I’m proud of the team. They showed great energy and are capable of winning the upcoming games.”
Sunday’s heroics against England were not the first time Nepal troubled stronger opponents. Five months before the World Cup, they beat the West Indies 2-1 in a three-match series — their first bilateral series victory over a full member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) — while in 2024 they came within a run of upsetting South Africa at the T20 World Cup.
Nepal’s debut at the tournament, in 2014, led to a famous win over a highly-rated Afghanistan team.
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For many in the stands, being part of the atmosphere required journeys just as memorable as the match itself.
Bhuvan Rawal travelled from Tikapur in far-western Nepal, spending three days on the road to reach Mumbai by bus.
“I wasn’t bothered by the time or money taken to come here. Watching Nepal play at a World Cup is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for me,” said the 26-year-old.
“I’ve come with around 200 to 300 supporters from Nepal. We were aware of the match schedule since last year and were excited to be at Wankhede Stadium… Mumbai is our second home now!”
Rawal, who played cricket in his younger years and works as a gym trainer, believes lowly-ranked teams such as Nepal aren’t just here to make up the numbers at the expanded 20-team T20 World Cup.
“We may be a small country, but Nepal is very beautiful and can play wonderful cricket. I understand there’s a difference between full ICC members and associate teams, but don’t count us out.
“No team is too small to challenge the giants,” he said.
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