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A women’s flyweight fight with top-10 implications is on the docket for Madison Square Garden. Karine Silva and Viviane Araujo will collide Nov. 16 at UFC 309 in New York. Two people with knowledge of the matchup recently informed MMA Junkie of the matchup but asked to remain anonymous as the promotion has yet to make an official announcement. Silva (18-4 MMA, 4-0 UFC) has shot up the UFC women’s flyweight ladder since her promotional debut in 2022. Thus far, she holds wins over Poliana Botelho, Ketlen Souza, Maryna Moroz, and most recently Ariane Lipski. Araujo (12-6 MMA, 6-5 UFC)…
Swim Training for 50s: A Look at Different Approaches to Sprinting Earlier in his career, the high school coach sought the secret to speed—especially fast 50s. As a high schooler, he had a teammate ultimately go a 22.4 50 free (nation’s third fastest in 1960). Later on he watched Katie Ledecky, at age 12, split a 25.75 fly leg and Caeleb Dressel drop a 17.63 50 free. He also read and talked to Dave Salo about race-pace training, conversed with Brent Rushall and Peter and Michael Andrew about USRPT, all in search of a final answer. In time, he had…
Image 1 of 15Vuelta a España 2024: Pavel Bittner (Team dsm-Firmenich PostNL) wins stage 5 in Sevilla(Image credit: Tim de Waele/Getty Images)Pavel Bittner (Team dsm-Firmenich PostNL) edges Wout van Aert (Visma-Lease a Bike) at the line in Sevilla for stage 5 victory(Image credit: Tim de Waele/Getty Images)Stage winner Pavel Bittner of Team dsmFirmenich PostNL reacts after finish in Seville(Image credit: Dario Belingheri/Getty Images)Giovanni Aleotti of Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe leads the peloton headed into the city limits of Sevilla (Image credit: Dario Belingheri/Getty Images)The front duo of Ibon Ruiz (Equipo Kern Pharma) and Txomin Juaristi (Euskaltel-Euskadi) held the lead until 38km to…
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Bundesliga side Stuttgart are lining up a bid to bring West Ham defender Konstantinos Mavropanos back to the club this summer, according to reports.Mavropanos spent three seasons with Die Roten between 2020 and 2023, initially on loan from Arsenal for two seasons before moving permanently in the summer of 2022.The 26-time Greece international played 89 times for Stuttgart across all competitions, scoring eight goals and helping the club re-establish themselves as a Bundesliga outfit before joining West Ham last summer.However, Mavropanos was never able to fully establish himself under David Moyes, starting just 16 Premier League matches last season.Mavropanos on the verge…
Finn Russell has backed Owen Farrell to star at his old club Racing 92 and said he would love to play with the former England captain again with the British & Irish Lions next summer.Russell, the Scotland and Bath fly-half, spent five years in French rugby as Racing’s No 10 – the shirt now filled by Farrell after his move from boyhood club Saracens to the TOP14.The two playmaking stars were part of the same Lions squad in South Africa in 2021 and Russell is eyeing up a reunion in Australia in 2025. Farrell’s Racing move means he is currently…
There will be no Andy Murray, who retired from the sport after his Olympic men’s doubles quarter-final defeat in August.British number two Cameron Norrie is also missing with a forearm injury.Jack Draper, the British number one, will be seeded for the US Open, with Dan Evans also in the main draw.Katie Boulter is the top-ranked Briton in the women’s draw, with Emma Raducanu and Harriet Dart also making the cut.In the men’s doubles, Joe Salisbury and American partner Rajeev Ram are the three-time defending champions.Eight other Britons are attempting to reach the main draw through qualifying, as mentioned above.
TWO of the biggest British fights of the 1990s are to be the subject of a new documentary on Amazon Prime. ‘Four Kings’ will air on Friday, September 27 and looks at Lennox Lewis vs. Frank Bruno and the Chris Eubank-Nigel Benn rematch. In an eight-day period between October 1, 1993 and October 9, 1993 Britain was the centre of the boxing world with Cardiff Arms Park in Wales and Old Trafford in Manchester playing host to the events which featured four different personalities. The two-minute trailer for the four-part documentary was published online yesterday and begins with Eubank, Lewis,…
Aug 20, 2024, 10:23 PM ETInternational team captain Mike Weir named Japan’s Shigeki Maruyama as his fifth and final assistant for this year’s Presidents Cup showdown against the United States in Montreal.The 2024 edition of the biennial competition, which pits a 12-man U.S. team against a lineup of international players from outside Europe, will be played Sept. 26-29 at The Royal Montreal Golf Club.”His record in this event speaks for itself,” Canada’s Weir, the 2003 Masters champion, said on Wednesday.”More importantly, he adds a trusted voice in our team room and is someone who will inspire these 12 players through…
Sunday’s WNBA matchup between the Seattle Storm and Indiana Fever averaged 2.23 million viewers on ABC. The number represents the fifth largest audience for a WNBA game since 2001. It was also the 19th game this season that averaged over a million viewers, with the Fever playing in 17 of those games.