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A TISSUE used by Leo Messi to dry his tears and blow his nose during his emotional departure from FC Barcelona has been put up for auction for US$1 million.

MORE than Sydney, fewer than Athens, London or Peking, Spain has matched its Olympic medal haul from Rio 2016 and Atlanta 1996, with fewer golds than at the last Games but more diplomas, with 179 of Spain's 322...

AFTER long months of playing behind closed doors, sports teams will once again be spurred on by cheering fans in the stands – from next Friday (August 13), basketball and football stadia will be open to the public.

VETERAN MotoGP rider Dani Pedrosa is back on a bike and will be racing against his old friends at the Austrian Grand Prix on Sunday (August 8), three years after he retired from the sport.

SINCE Pablo Carreño knocked out world number one Novak Djoković to net the bronze in men's tennis singles, Spain has won another four Olympic medals – two bronzes and two silvers.

KNOWN for its late surges but rarely near the top, often standing out in minority disciplines, Spain has generally been successful enough in Olympic Games to be proud of itself but in a discreet, behind-the-scenes...

TRIUMPH at last for Spain at Tokyo 2020 has come at the steady and unflinching hands of its mixed team trap shooting pair after they fought off their counterparts from San Marino.

AN EPIC and completely unexpected result by a relative outsider has given Spain its second bronze medal – Pablo Carreño managed to beat ATP world number one Novak Djoković in three sets, sparking an episode of...

STARTING off relatively low down the ranking, Spain's Olympic medal count could be about to rise with promising performances from the women's and men's basketball teams, and super-swimmer Mireia Belmonte...

A SECOND Olympic medal has been added to Spain's 'Tokyo score' – this time for Granada-born mountain-biker David Valero, after an epic race that saw him claw himself back from almost last place.

SPAIN has won its first Olympic medal – a silver, and but for seven seconds, would have been a gold.

A NEW name to watch out for in the future has emerged on the global tennis circuit – and is now branded on social media users' minds after the recently-appointed minister for sports spelled it wrong on Twitter.