Bailly, 25, hurt his knee in last Thursday’s 2-1 win against Tottenham Hotspur in the International Champions Cup and had successful surgery on Tuesday. The Ivory Coast international missed United’s 1-0 win over Norwegian club Kristiansund in a friendly on Tuesday. It was the club’s fifth pre-season win in succession.
* The World Boxing Council said on Tuesday it had provisionally suspended Dillian Whyte as the mandatory challenger for Deontay Wilder's world heavyweight title because the Briton had failed a dope test. Britain's anti-doping agency UKAD has not commented on media reports that Whyte tested positive ahead of his fight in London against Colombian Oscar Rivas on July 20.
* Adding US mental strength and Swedish organisation to Brazilian talent and flair is a promising recipe for future success, the new coach of the Brazil women’s team said on Tuesday. Pia Sundhage, who has coached both the US and her native Sweden, became the first foreigner to manage a Brazil national side when she signed a two-year contract earlier this week.
* Former European Cup winners PSV Eindhoven were knocked out of the Champions League in the second qualifying round after a 2-1 defeat at Basel sent the Swiss side through on away goals on Tuesday. Celtic, who won Europe's premier club competition in 1967, set up a clash with Romanians Cluj in the next stage after a 2-0 win at Nomme Kalju completed a 7-0 aggregate rout of the Estonian champions.
* Double Olympic champion Caster Semenya will not defend her 800-metres title at the World Championships in Doha in September after the Swiss Federal Tribunal reversed a ruling that temporarily lifted the IAAF’s testosterone regulations imposed on her, a spokesman for the athlete said on Tuesday. Semenya is appealing the Court of Arbitration for Sport ruling on May 1 that supported the IAAF’s regulations, which say XY chromosome athletes with differences in sexual development can race in distances from 400m to a mile only if they take medication to reach a reduced testosterone level.
* Wolverhampton Wanderers have signed Italian forward Patrick Cutrone on a four-year deal from Italian club AC Milan, the Premier League side said on Tuesday. Financial details of the transfer were not revealed but British media reported the 21-year-old was signed for around £16 million (US$19.46 million).
* Jill Ellis, who became the first female coach in history to win back-to-back World Cups, will step down as boss of the US women's national team in early October, she said on Tuesday. Ellis, 52, who steered the US to a record-extending fourth World Cup title in France earlier this month, called the move "bittersweet", but said her decision to walk away after the team's victory tour was in line with the timeline she envisioned when she was first appointed in May 2014.
* Chelsea have banned a supporter for life for hurling racial abuse at players during last season's Premier League home match against Manchester City, the club said on Tuesday. City's Raheem Sterling was a target of abuse from fans near the touch line during the game, in an incident widely covered in the news for highlighting lingering racism among football fans despite years of efforts to stamp it out.
* Paris St Germain have signed Everton midfielder Idrissa Gueye on a four-year contract, the French champions said on Tuesday. The 29-year-old Senegal international joined Everton from Aston Villa in 2016 and made 108 appearances for the Merseyside club. He spent five years at Lille before moving to England, winning a league and cup double with the French club in 2011.
* Olympic snowboarding slopestyle silver medallist Max Parrot of Canada has said he has beaten cancer and intends to return to competition at an X Games event in Norway in August. Parrot, a five-times X Games champion who won silver at the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics, revealed in January that he had been diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma.
* Ligue 1 defending champions Paris Saint-Germain enjoyed a comprehensive 3-0 victory over Sydney FC in the International Super Cup in Suzhou, China on Tuesday. A pair of strikes from Kylian Mbappe and Edison Cavani put PSG firmly in charge before the halftime, and Metehan Guclu sealed the win after the break.
* The Wuhan Open organising committee announced Tuesday that 2019 Wimbledon champion Simona Halep would be heading to Wuhan in September for the US$2.83-million WTA Premier 5 tournament. This year's tournament will run from Sept. 22 until 28.
* Japanese badminton star Akane Yamaguchi overtook Tai Tzu Ying of Chinese Taipei to become the new World No.1 in women's singles. Her move to the summit of the world rankings follows consecutive victories in Indonesia and home soil, according to the latest world ranking released by Badminton World Federation on Tuesday.
