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In recent years, volatility has been a trump card at the top of women’s tennis, but Naomi Osaka appears to be in a position to break the trend. With a victory over Jennifer Brady in the Australian Open final on Saturday, the 23-year-old Japanese has already won four Grand Slam titles and someone finally seems to be above the rest. …

Horse racing is one of those sports that you never seem to be too far away from, but do you know as much about it as you should? This, after all, is one of the most popular sports in the world and one that has bags of history. While there are plenty of reasons people love horse racing, the most …

Urbanus made his debut in the league at a young age. He proved to be a talented pitcher and led the Amsterdam OVVO to five consecutive national titles. In the early 1950s, Urbanus was the first European to have the opportunity to do a training course in the United States. After an internship with the New York Giants, he came …

Leader Smith was the first to play, facing Darius Labanauskas, the best-placed player on the Lithuanian side. “Bully Boy” played a solid game and was his 4-0 opponent. Cross then faced the unknown Mindaugas Barauskas. “Voltage” had an extremely difficult opening phase, but eventually left the podium with a 4-2 victory. Tomorrow, the English will face Austria. Belgium beats Latvia …

In Belgium there are still a lot of cool playoff fans, but in the US they’ve been fans of the system for over 50 years. How to explain this difference? We’ll find out in a new episode of Sporza @ School. Size America was born from the playoffs Ten years ago, the first play-offs were played in Belgium. A decade …

The battle for the America’s Cup, which takes place in New Zealand from March 6 this year, is the most prestigious sailing race in the world. And the ships that participate are the best of the best from a technological standpoint. Hydrofoils will play the main role in the competition to come: wings that lift boats just above the water …

Michael McDowell won the Daytona 500 on Monday morning (Dutch time). The Ford driver took advantage of a major accident during the final stages of The Great American Race, the first race of the new NASCAR Cup Series season. In the last lap, Joey Logano was in the lead, with Penske teammate Brad Keselowski behind him. Keselowski received a firm …

Twenty thousand people in the Netherlands have undergone organ or stem cell donation. Only a fraction of them – around four hundred – exercise several times a week. Too little confidence in one’s own body, too little knowledge of sports clubs and too little stimuli from the medical world are some of the reasons. The Sports and Transplantation Foundation wants …

Amsterdam, February 15, 2021 / EZPress / George Bennett is New Zealand’s new road cycling champion. This is the first national title for the 30-year-old cyclist of Team Jumbo-Visma. Earlier this week he already won silver in the time trial. Bennett had already finished second in the National Road Championship twice and was also second in the time trial on …

Han Urbanus was the first Dutch baseball player to delve into the cuisine of American professional baseball. He used the knowledge acquired in 1952 during an internship of over a month with the New York Giants to develop the sport in the Netherlands. The internship made Urbanus, then 24, realize that there was still a lot of work to be …