Name: Champions League trophy arrives in Madrid
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Description: The Champions League trophy arrived in Madrid on Thursday. Former Spanish footballers Fernando Morientes and Roberto Solozabal brought the trophy to Madrid which will host the final on Saturday. Liverpool take on Tottenham in an all-English final. This will be the 2nd straight Champions League final for Jurgen Klopp's men after the loss at the final hurdle last year to Real Madrid.

The Champions League trophy arrived in Madrid on Thursday. Former Spanish footballers Fernando Morientes and Roberto Solozabal brought the trophy to Madrid which will host the final on Saturday. Liverpool take on Tottenham in an all-English final. This will be the 2nd straight Champions League final for Jurgen Klopp's men after the loss at the final hurdle last year to Real Madrid. 

Indian all-rounder Hardik Pandya&nbsp;on Sunday took to his social media to announce that him&nbsp;and his fiance&nbsp;Natasa Stankovic are expecting their first child together. Hardik&nbsp;wrote that&nbsp;Natasa and I have had a great journey together and it is just about to get better. Together we are excited to welcome a new life into our lives very soon. Pandya&nbsp;added that he is thrilled for this new phase of their lives and also sought&nbsp;the blessings and wishes of his fans.&nbsp;Natasa and Hardik got engaged earlier this year and the couple is yet to tie the knot.

India's ace wrestler Vinesh&nbsp;Phogat&nbsp;is all set to be recommended for the&nbsp;Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award by the&nbsp;Wrestling Federation of India. This will be the 2nd consecutive year that the 25-year-old will be&nbsp;recommended for country's&nbsp;highest sporting honour. Vinesh&nbsp;had missed the award last year as fellow wrestler Bajrang&nbsp;Punia&nbsp;got the prestigious award. Vinesh&nbsp;has been rewarded for her&nbsp;consistent performances for quite a while now. After clinching gold at the 2018 Asian Games, she went to win a&nbsp;bronze medal at the World Champions last year and became the lone women wrestler from India to qualify for the now-postponed Tokyo Olympics. Vinesh&nbsp;also won a bronze at the Asian Championships earlier this year.

Renault have confirmed that they will stay in Formula 1 beyond the end of the 2020 season, despite making significant job cuts as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.&nbsp;The French manufacturer has cut 15,000 jobs as part of a cost-saving plan due to plunging revenues caused by the global pandemic. Renault interim chief executive said that the introduction of a cap on teams' budgets from 2021 had been an important part of their decision-making process.

Hockey India headquarters in New Delhi will close its doors for 14 days after 2 of its staffers tested positive for Covid-19. One of the infected employees worked in the accounts department while other is a junior field officer. As per the Delhi government's directives, both employees have been put under strict home&nbsp;quarantine. As a result, Indian Olympic Association president and International Hockey Federation chief, Narinder Batra&nbsp;has asked the country's National Sports Federations, all State Olympic Associations, and IOA&nbsp;as well to get each staff member tested for Covid-19. The federations will be given an option to work from home till test results come out.

Cricket Australia has announced a detailed schedule of India's tour down under which starts with the 3-match T20 series from October 11, followed by the World T20. Team India is then scheduled to play 4 Tests and 3 ODIs&nbsp;there. According to a report in&nbsp;Mumbai Mirror, the 3 T20Is in October might not happen as the Indian team is not keen to travel to Australia twice in a span of 3 months. With the travel requirements requiring the players to go in quarantine for 14 days due to the pandemic, the T20I series looks uncertain. Moreover, if the World T20 is postponed, which is highly&nbsp;likely, BCCI&nbsp;may try to fit in the IPL&nbsp;in that October-November window.&nbsp;

With the future of the World T20 still not clear,&nbsp;Marylebone Cricket Club&nbsp;President Kumar Sangakkara feels that the event might even be cancelled this year. During a show on Star Sports, Sangakkara&nbsp;said that every day, there are new learnings about Covid-19, so we will have to wait and see, but the options may be to cancel the World T20 this year and postpone it to another year.&nbsp;He added that anticipatory procedures have to be put in place that takes into account the health and safety of both players and spectators.&nbsp;ICC&nbsp;is expected to soon decide the fate of the Marquee event which is currently scheduled in Australia from October.

Virat Kohli and MS Dhoni's style of captaining India may be completely different but Virat&nbsp;feels that his predecessor had a huge role in him getting to lead Team India. During an Instagram live chat with R Ashwin, the Indian skipper said that ever since he came into the team, he would always be in Dhoni's ears on the field. He used to give a lot of ideas to MS and the former India captain used to keep observing Kohli. Kohli&nbsp;also said that he kept learning from Dhoni and his inquisitiveness probably gave MS the belief&nbsp;that perhaps Virat was the next guy to lead the country. Kohli&nbsp;further added that he doesn't think that&nbsp;the selectors appointed him as India captain suddenly. They&nbsp;probably had Dhoni as a sounding board before giving him the reins.&nbsp;

Bayern Munich continued their winning run in&nbsp;Bundesliga&nbsp;as they demolished&nbsp;Fortuna Dusseldorf&nbsp;5-0 in an empty stadium on Saturday night.&nbsp;Robert Lewandowski scored a brace to equal his most prolific season as Bayern&nbsp;opened up a 10-point lead at the top of the table. They are now closing in&nbsp;on their eighth straight Bundesliga title and need to win just 3 of their remaining 5 games.&nbsp;

While new measures take over cricket&nbsp;due to the Covid-19 scare, the English cricket board is now in talks with the International Cricket Council for allowing first-ever coronavirus&nbsp;substitutes in the upcoming games.&nbsp;ECB&nbsp;director of events, Steve Elworthy&nbsp;said that there are still some considerations from the ICC&nbsp;perspective about a Covid-19 replacement that still needs to be agreed upon. Elworthy&nbsp;hopes that it will be in place before the cricket starts. England is set to host West Indies and Pakistan for Test Series in July.

Former BCCI&nbsp;treasurer Anirudh&nbsp;Chaudhary&nbsp;feels that former Indian skipper MS Dhoni&nbsp;should continue playing for India. He said that Dhoni&nbsp;is fit and the best wicketkeeper in India. He went on to say that if he was the decision-maker, Dhoni&nbsp;would have been a part of the team&nbsp;as&nbsp;Dhoni&nbsp;is&nbsp;one of the finest minds in the game. Chaudhary&nbsp;also presented his views on the lucrative IPL. He&nbsp;said that efforts have to be made to try and have that situation where the show must go on.&nbsp;&nbsp;

The Board of Control for Cricket in India has nominated star batsman and vice-captain Rohit&nbsp;Sharma&nbsp;for the prestigious Rajiv&nbsp;Gandhi Khel&nbsp;Ratna&nbsp;award. Rohit&nbsp;has had a prolific 2019 and was the&nbsp;ICC ODI Cricketer of the Year. He also cracked five centuries at the 2019 World Cup and scored tonnes of runs in all formats. Apart from Rohit, opener Shikhar&nbsp;Dhawan, Ishant&nbsp;Sharma&nbsp;and Deepti&nbsp;Sharma&nbsp;have been nominated&nbsp;for Arjuna&nbsp;Awards.&nbsp;

5-time World Champion Viswanathan&nbsp;Anand is finally coming home after spending close to 3 months stuck in Germany. The former World number 1 was in Germany to play in a league but got stuck due to the lockdown. His attempts to return home were further delayed when the government of India imposed a travel ban. According to a report in the Time of India, the 50-year-old will travel from Frankfurt to Bengaluru&nbsp;soon and will undergo a 14 day quarantine period once he lands. Soon after that, he will be allowed to travel to Chennai and reunite&nbsp;with his family.&nbsp;

While sports is slowly adapting to the new normal,&nbsp;NBA&nbsp;is also looking forward to resuming play starting July 31st amid the virus scare. According to reports in the American media,&nbsp;NBA&nbsp;Commissioner Adam Silver said that he had informed the league's Board of Governors that he hopes to restart the season on the said date. The reports&nbsp;further mention that the NBA&nbsp;discussed competition scenarios and is still unclear about where the games would be played or whether they will be held in empty stadiums or not. NBA&nbsp;was called off in mid-March after its some players tested positive.

While the pandemic havoc has not eased out yet, Cricket West Indies on Friday approved the Test series against England. The 3 match Test series&nbsp;was originally scheduled to take place in June but is now shifted to July due to the virus scare. While all the matches will go ahead in empty&nbsp;stadiums, West Indies has also given its consent&nbsp;to playing cricket in a bio-secure environment to ensure the safety of the teams. The board&nbsp;also&nbsp;affirmed medical security and further mentioned that it would seek permission from the government to facilitate the hassle-free movement of the players and staff.&nbsp;

Mexican top tier football league will kick start a new season from 17th July.&nbsp;Liga MX's&nbsp;last season was cancelled due to the pandemic which has seen close to 90,000 infections and almost 10,000 deaths in Mexico. For the first time in Liga&nbsp;MX's&nbsp;history, no winner was announced as the league was cancelled by the federation.&nbsp;FC Juarez, a local club has confirmed that they will resume training from 8th June to prepare for the new season.&nbsp;

On Friday, the 20-time Grand Slam Champion Roger Federer&nbsp;replaced Juventus' star Cristiano&nbsp;Ronaldo&nbsp;and became the highest-paid athlete according to the Forbes'&nbsp;list. While the 38-year-old Swiss Maestro became the first from his sports to top the list, he has earned an estimated $106.3 million in the past 12 months. The Portuguese&nbsp;footballer had to take a major pay cut as a result of the economic crisis due to the pandemic. As the&nbsp;35-year-old stands on the&nbsp;second position, his pay cut has turned out to be a major reason for his fall out from being the number 1. Indian cricket captain Virat&nbsp;Kohli is the only cricketer on the list and features on the 66th spot

English Premier League giants Manchester United resumed full contact training as the league prepares to restart from 17th June. The club confirmed that the players who were part of individual training resumed contact practice in a bid to regain match fitness ahead of the restart. Premier League was suspended in March due to Covid-19 as players were forced to spend almost 2 months in lockdown&nbsp;without practice.&nbsp;

English football club Blackburn Rovers captain Elliott Bennett and 2 Fulham&nbsp;players have tested positive for Covid-19, the clubs confirmed on Thursday. 3 positive results came out from&nbsp;a total of 1030 tests that were carried out between Monday and Wednesday. Bennett who was asymptomatic to the novel virus will be isolated for 7 days and will return on June 5 for training if he does not show any symptoms. Fulham&nbsp;did not reveal the names of its players due to medical confidentiality but the club informed that their 2 players are undergoing&nbsp;self-isolation currently.

On Friday Former Pakistan skipper, Waqar&nbsp;Younis&nbsp;took to his twitter account to announce that he had decided to distance himself from social media. The 48-year-old's video came&nbsp;after his name was trending on Twitter and his fans&nbsp;criticised him for liking an obscene video. In the video,&nbsp;he&nbsp;said that someone had hacked his Twitter account and liked the obscene video and went on to mention that he was deeply saddened by it as it was not the first time.&nbsp;Younis&nbsp;also&nbsp;apologised in his video to his fans and promised that he would not use social media again.&nbsp;

Once the spearhead of Indian pace attack, Bhuvneshwar&nbsp;Kumar has now been out of the Indian Test set up for quite a while now. In an interview to the Times of India, the swing king said that he definitely wants to play Test cricket but he also knows that it won't be easy to make a comeback as everyone is doing very well. Bhuvi&nbsp;added that no matter what, he will&nbsp;try his best and will do everything possible to make a comeback in Tests. the 30-year old feels that red ball cricket is the toughest format and it gives a lot of satisfaction to perform in Tests. Bhuvneshwar&nbsp;who was battling&nbsp;multiple injuries also confirmed that he is fully fit now and is raring to go.&nbsp;

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