Cycling team SD Worx and sprinter Lorena Wiebes are aiming for stage wins in the Giro Donne, which starts on Friday. The winning team also includes Femke Markus, New Zealander Niamh Fisher-Black, Hungarian Blanka Vas, Briton Anna Shackley and Italian riders Elena Cecchini and Barbara Guarischi. “In the Giro Donne we don’t start with an outspoken leader,” says sporting director …
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SD Worx aims for success in the Giro Donne with Lorena Wiebes and the ‘freebooters’: ‘Can run freely’ | sport
Cycling team SD Worx and sprinter Lorena Wiebes are aiming for stage wins in the Giro Donne, which starts on Friday. The winning team also includes Femke Markus, New Zealander Niamh Fisher-Black, Hungarian Blanka Vas, Briton Anna Shackley and Italian riders Elena Cecchini and Barbara Guarischi. “In the Giro Donne we don’t start with an outspoken leader,” says sporting director …
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Women’s World Cup hosts Australia’s opener against Ireland is sold out. On July 20, the ‘Matildas’ at Sydney Football Stadium will be cheered on by many of the approximately 80,000 spectators in attendance. On the same day, co-hosts New Zealand will most likely play to a full stadium in Auckland. According to tournament boss Dave Beeche, there are still a …
Read More »Carlsen doesn’t have to pay controversial chess player Niemann $100m | Sports Other
Controversial chess player Hans Niemann will not receive a $100 million compensation package from world champion Magnus Carlsen, who accused the chess talent of cheating. A judge in the United States dismissed the complaint on Wednesday. “We are pleased that the court rejected Niemann’s initiative to recover the unearned money,” a lawyer for Carlsen told The Wall Street Journal. Niemann’s …
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Now that the registration deadline for potential new F1 teams has passed and the FIA has closed the door, the next phase of the process will begin. So far we know from quite a few parties that there is interest and that they are committed to creating a new F1 team. The FIA announced last year that it planned to …
Read More »Great annual success of the Geuzenveld international rugby tournament
GEUZENVELD – The annual international rugby tournament Geuzenveld has been a great success. With over a hundred teams, internationals from around the world and the best players from Scotland, Wales and New Zealand, among others. Rugby sevens is the short and flashy tournament variant of the increasingly popular sport of rugby. Hundreds of volunteers from Amsterdam, players and forty top …
Read More »COLUMN: The time seems ripe for a bigger darts tournament in the United States
The return of the US Darts Masters to Madison Square Garden in New York was a resounding success. The United States looks set for a bigger tournament. The event again received a lot of media attention and seats were packed at the US Darts Masters. More than three thousand American fans had come to the tournament each day, where eight …
Read More »Crossfit athletes Jelle Hoste and Manon Angonese are the first Belgian man and woman to qualify for the World Cup in the United States: ‘Proud’ | other news
Our country has never had a representative in the world crossfit championship in the United States. But this summer, they are suddenly two. Jelle Hoste and Manon Angonese were the first man and first woman to qualify in European qualifying last weekend. The CrossFit Games in the United States are the sports world championship that combines fitness with athletics, endurance …
Read More »Documentary on the “protest peaks” Heerenveen | Latest news from Doetinchem
Mon, June 5, 4:46 PM To read aloud sport DOETINCHEM – Doetinchemmer Raymond Heerenveen belonged to the Dutch sprint elite in 1975. While others at the time boycotted an athletics tournament in apartheid-torn South Africa, Heerenveen, now 74, , visited the country of Nelson Mandela. Make a statement and run fast. He recently returned to work in …
Read More »Is the Bugatti Chiron Super Sport faster than a space shuttle on a runway?
You’ll probably recognize this: when you launch a spaceship worth millions or even billions of dollars into space, it’s good if the thing can also return to earth in one piece. Ask Elon Musk. NASA thought the same way some time ago. To that end, United States astronauts built the Shuttle Landing Facility at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. To …
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