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Dwars door Vlaanderen organisers have opted to remove the Kanarieberg climb and the fast approach to it from the 2025 race route due to safety concerns.The paved climb is located near Ronse in Flanders and has also featured in the Tour of Flanders in the past. However, it hit the headlines at this year’s Dwars door Vlaanderen thanks to a mass crash on the approach to the hill.The crash in the peloton saw Wout van Aert, Jasper Stuyven, Biniam Girmay and Mads Pedersen among the riders who hit the deck hard on the fast and sweeping stretch of the N48…
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IRFU chief financial officer Thelma O’Driscoll said that while the union’s deficit is “certainly significant”, it was “anticipated and planned for”. “We are aiming to make a small cash surplus in the current financial year,” added O’Driscoll.”Ticket sales for our international matches continue to be strong, with all four games in this year’s Autumn Nations Series sold out. In addition, we had a full take-up of the tranche of 10-year premium tickets which became available earlier in the season.”Nevertheless, there are significant challenges ahead and although we are not forecasting to be in debt at any time over the next…
In recent months, King has kept an open mind about whether the WTA Finals should be staged in Saudi Arabia.The decision to hold the year-end tournament in Riyadh was criticised by some because of the country’s human rights record. Homosexuality is illegal in Saudi Arabia, while Amnesty International has cited the country’s “jailing of women’s rights activists, suppression of free speech and rampant use of the death penalty”.Martina Navratilova and Chris Evert considered the awarding of the Finals to Riyadh for a three-year term to be a “step backward” for women’s tennis, but King, who is gay, argued it was…
WHEN two Mexican fighters come together there is a good chance fans will see something special in the ring. And Emanuel Navarrete, 38-2-1 (31 KOs), believes his upcoming rematch Oscar Valdez, 32-2 (24 KOs), on December 7 at the Footprint Centre in Phoenix will trump their first fight. Navarrete defends his WBO super featherweight against his compatriot 16 months on from their first battle which ‘Vaquero’ won by unanimous decision. The Boxing News report on their first Civil War carried the headline ‘Breathtaking’. “I believe it will be an even better fight because we are familiar with one another,” Navarrete…
Anthony Gharib, ESPNNov 27, 2024, 06:21 PM ETBryson DeChambeau is coming off a strong season as a professional, but he might have achieved his most impressive feat Wednesday.Editor’s Picks2 RelatedDeChambeau started a challenge Nov. 13 in which he attempted to hit a hole-in-one over his house. As each day passed, he added another attempt — two on the second day, three on the third and so on.He posted his progress on social media and came excruciatingly close multiple times, including shots that were just inches away on Day 7 and Day 11. One shot went in the hole and came…
After almost three weeks without any NBA action, Lonzo Ball finally made it back to the basketball courts this Wednesday evening against Orlando. While the point guard hopes to work back into the Chicago lineup, his coach Billy Donovan delivered praise to his star player for his ability to bounce back from injuries time after time. “There’s never any of that it’s kinda like what’s next and what’s now? And he just moves forward. It’s an incredible quality and gift he has,” the tactician said about the mental resilience that Lonzo carries with him to overcome difficult obstacles in his…
MMA Fighting has PFL World Championship 2024 results and more from PFL’s season-ending event at the King Saud University Stadium in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Friday afternoon. In the main event, Brendan Loughnane looks to secure the $1 million prize by capturing the PFL featherweight tournament title for a second time when he faces Timur Khizriev in the final. Dakota Ditcheva squares off against Taila Santos in the PFL flyweight tournament final in the co-main event. Check out PFL World Championship 2024 results below. Main Card (ESPN+ at 1 p.m. EST) Brendan Loughnane vs. Timur Khizriev Dakota Ditcheva vs. Taila…
Let’s not beat around the bush friends—this was a ridiculously fast week in college swimming. The first week of midseason invites are in the books and there were jaw-dropping swims all around the country, including multiple NCAA record-breaking performances. We’ll be putting out articles on the new top times of the season and the NCAA relay qualification landscape separately; here, the goal is to simply celebrate as many of the excellent performances this past weekend in a reasonably sized article length. To do that, we’ve broken this digest down into several different “award” categories. Obviously, there were many more great…
Wout van Aert is expected to begin cyclocross racing at the end of the month but the Belgian Cycling team doctor has advised that the former world champion will take a cautious approach while he continues to recover from a knee injury sustained in a crash at the Vuelta a España in September.In an interview with HLN, Belgian Cycling’s team doctor Kris Van der Mieren emphasised that “speeding up or forcing the recovery is completely out of the question”.Van Aert was forced to abandon the Vuelta a España after he crashed on the descent of the Collada Llomena on stage 16 to…