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Yellow jersey Demi Vollering put a star next to stage 4 at the Tour de France Femmes, which combined the best parts of the Amstel Gold Race and Liège-Bastogne-Liège, both races she had won in previous years. But when officials confirmed that the victory went to Puck Pieterse (Fenix-Deceuninck) after a photo-finish sprint, Vollering said she had “no regrets”.”It’s a good day for me and for the whole team. My teammates did a good job with keeping me safe today and in the front. It was a nice day for us,” the SD Worx-Protime rider told the press at the…
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The draw for the second round of the Carabao Cup has been made, with the likes of Newcastle United, West Ham United and Everton learning their fate.After round one saw Championship, League One and League Two sides kick things off, we’ve reached the stage where the Premier League clubs not competing in European competition enter the tournament.All-Premier League ties of Nottingham Forest vs Newcastle and West Ham vs Bournemouth are among the most eye-catching, while there are also some local derbies like Millwall vs Leyton Orient, Barnsley vs Sheffield United and Blackburn vs Blackpool.Read on for the full Carabao Cup…
A new rule change by World Rugby could have a significant effect on some Welsh players
British number one Katie Boulter lost nine games in a row as she was beaten 2-6 6-0 7-5 by Magda Linette in the Cincinnati Open first round.Boulter broke Linette twice in the opening set to take the lead but Poland’s world number 43 responded in impressive fashion.Linette dominated the second set – dropping just eight points – to ‘bagel’ her British opponent in just 25 minutes.The Pole then powered into a lead at the start of the third set, earning her fourth-straight break of serve to move 3-0 up.Boulter, the world number 30, clawed her way back into contention to…
ANGELO LEO isn’t known as one of boxing’s biggest punchers but last weekend his 10th round win over Luis Alberto Lopez will go down as one of the knockouts of 2024. Eric Armit looks back at the fight round-by-round and how it reached its conclusion. Round 1 Leo was boxing neatly on the retreat stabbing out his jab and circling the advancing Lopez who was looking to cut off the ring to work the body. Lopez connected with some strong hooks and a right to the head. Score: 10-9 Lopez Round 2 Lopez was marching forward behind his jab and…
TaylorMade has unveiled the fourth generation of its popular Hi-Toe wedge range which is available at retail for pre-orders from August 14. Built on the success of previous Hi-Toe wedge generations, Hi-Toe 4 embodies proven TaylorMade design and technologies with a number of added performance features to give golfers more confidence, control and versatility in their short game. The toe mass pad is more visually pronounced in Hi-Toe 4 wedges compared to Hi-Toe 3. The larger profile gives golfers an added layer of confidence to execute a full suite of short game shots. Additionally, full-face grooves in the 54°, 56°,…
The NBA released its complete game schedule and national television schedule for group play of the Emirates NBA Cup 2024. The complete game schedule and national broadcast schedule for the 2024-25 regular season will be unveiled on Thursday, Aug. 15. Group play games will take place on Tuesdays and Fridays from Nov. 12 through Dec. 3. During these “Cup Nights,” the only NBA games scheduled will be group play games. TNT and ESPN will combine to air 14 games and NBA TV will televise three games in this first stage of the Emirates NBA Cup, previously named the NBA In-Season…
City Kickboxing head coach Eugene Bareman took a good look at how Israel Adesanya needs to approach UFC middleweight champion Dricus Du Plessis. Former champ Adesanya (24-3 MMA, 13-3 UFC) challenges Du Plessis (21-2 MMA, 7-0 UFC) in Saturday’s UFC 305 (pay-per-view, ESPN, ESPN+) main event at RAC Arena in Perth, Australia. Sean Strickland’s forward pressure gave Adesanya problems in their title fight at UFC 293, making Du Plessis confident that he can find similar success. Bareman acknowledges that Adesanya has to be wary of that and time his offense accordingly. “The trick is really – we know Israel can…
Paris Olympics: U.S. Women Shined, Men Struggled on French Soil For the first time in 20 years, the United States did not reach 30 medals in the pool at the Paris Games. With eight gold medals, the Americans had their lowest number of wins since the 1988 Olympics, and their tally of golds was halved from eight years ago in Rio de Janeiro, a Games which featured three fewer events. For most of the competition, Australia looked poised to win more golds than the U.S., only for the Americans to go on a mini-run in the last two days of…