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Junior Pan Pacific Champs: Teagan O’Dell Surges to Gold in 200 IM; Aussie Milla Jansen Takes 50 Free Title One of the themes during the Junior Pan Pacific Championships has been the United States’ ability to claim multiple gold-silver finishes in women’s competition. So, it was appropriate that one more sweep was secured on the final night of action in Canberra, Australia. This time, the 200-meter individual medley served as the stage. In a back-and-forth battle, Americans Teagan O’Dell and Lilla Bognar dueled over four laps, with O’Dell picking up the gold medal in 2:11.57. Bognar touched the wall right…
UAE Team Emirates have confirmed that João Almeida is out of the Vuelta a España with COVID-19.Almeida, 26, will not start Sunday’s stage 9 from Motril to Sierra Nevada. The Portuguese star, third in the 2023 Giro d’Italia, had already suffered a major time loss on stage 8, won by Primož Roglič (UAE Team Emirates).After racing the Tour de France in support of the winner Tadej Pogačar, Almeida had made a strong start in the Vuelta, finishing 10th in the opening time trial on home soil in Lisbon, then finishing alongside Roglič in the first uphill finish at Villuercas to…
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Alisson has revealed that Liverpool told him about their move for Giorgi Mamardashvili and believes the club need to prepare themselves for the future.It’s been a quiet summer for Liverpool, who are yet to make a signing following Martin Zubimendi’s decision to remain at Real Sociedad despite strong interest from the Reds.New manager Arne Slot would surely have hoped for his squad to be strengthend but with less than a week remaining Liverpool face a race against the clock to bring in any reinforcements.Alisson speaks on MamardashviliHowever, one player who may arrive is Valencia goalkeeper Mamardashvili with Liverpool in talks…
In 2023, Immanuel Feyi-Waboso was playing club rugby with Taunton. After ending last season scoring for England against the All Blacks, he is no longer under the radar.The Exeter wing has admitted as much. Feyi-Waboso had a breakout campaign last term both with club and country. Now, the 21-year-old’s challenge is to continue that progression.‘On a podcast, (ex-England wing) Jonny May said something about this,’ Feyi-Waboso said. ‘I didn’t hear it until someone told me about it and it was really good advice for me. I listened to it and he was basically saying the steps you need to take…
Novak Djokovic has called for “clear protocols” and “standardised approaches” to tennis doping cases with Jannik Sinner having escaped a ban after testing positive for a banned substance.The world number one twice tested positive for clostebol – a steroid that can be used to build muscle mass – in March.The Italian was cleared of fault or negligence by a tribunal last week, with the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) finding Sinner had been inadvertently contaminated with the substance by physiotherapist Giacomo Naldi.Naldi had been applying an over-the-counter spray – given to him by fitness trainer Umberto Ferrara – to a…
Joe Cordina says he left Tony Sims for a fresh start with Ben Davison after ‘the wheels fell off’ in his last fight. Cordina lost his world title when he was stunned by underdog Anto Cacace in Riyadh in May and he has now decided to leave Sims, who has trained him since the start of his professional career in 2017. The Welsh Wizard insists it was an amicable split with the man who steered him to two world titles at super-featherweight. “I was with him since the start of my career so almost eight years,” Cordina said during an…
Aug 24, 2024, 07:17 PM ETCASTLE ROCK, Colo. — Keegan Bradley is still getting used to his new title as U.S. Ryder Cup captain. He still feels like a player who should be competing to win and thinking about playing in the matches.He certainly looked the part Saturday in the BMW Championship, all while hearing the occasional “U-S-A! U-S-A!” cheer as he made his way across windswept Castle Pines for a wild round of 2-under 70 that gave him a one-shot lead over Adam Scott.”To be named Ryder Cup captain and still be a full-time player is strange, said Bradley,…
Chris Bosh played in a basketball game on Saturday for the first time since 2016 when he was forced to retire due to his blood clot condition. Bosh was only planning on attending Goran Dragic’s send off game in Slovenia, but he was inspired to actually play once he saw that his former Toronto Raptors teammate Rasho Nesterovic was also playing. “Once I saw Rasho Nesterovic get out there, I said, ‘OK, I could go up and down a couple of times,'” Bosh laughed. “Rasho’s great, we’re all older now, but those years in Toronto, they kind of brought me…
Florida State kicker Ryan Fitzgerald understood his assignment playing in Dublin, Ireland. After launching a massive 59-yard field goal through the uprights on Saturday, Fitzgerald celebrated with the billionaire strut first demonstrated by disgraced former WWE owner Vince McMahon but then infamously co-opted by Irish superstar Conor McGregor. Fitzgerald hit the booming kick and turned to celebrate with his teammates, who were equally excited after he tied the game 14-14 at the end of the first half. The 59-yard field goal was the longest of Fitzgerald’s career and the second-longest in Florida State history. Unfortunately, Fitzgerald’s heroics came in a…