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The New York City Marathon’s real heroes finish after dark | Callum Jones
Drive To Survive, the seminal Netflix docuseries which introduced a new generation to Formula One, also unleashed a wave of sports shows that swept across virtually every streaming platform.Many follow the same playbook, carefully painting a behind-the-scenes portrait of elite athletes pursuing greatness – from cyclists confronting the steepest climbs of the Tour de France and surfers hunting vast waves to tennis players vying for grand slams and track sprinters for medals.“That’s kind of boring,” Michael Ring says of the genre. “It’s just another guy who figured out what he was best at in middle school, and didn’t go to high school with normal kids, and maybe went to college, and dropped out and became a millionaire tennis player.”Ring, 61, is among a handful of amateur runners who appear in Final Finishers, a new short film about the back of the New York City Marathon pack
Russians absent from world chess top 10 for first time since official lists began
It would have been inconceivable in the glory days of the Soviet chess empire. For the first time since 1971 when Fide, the world chess body, began publishing its rating lists – then annually and now monthly – there are no Russians ranked in the classical world top 10. Bobby Fischer was No 1 in the first Fide list, published on the eve of his Reykjavik match with Boris Spassky, but after Fischer gave up active play Anatoly Karpov and Garry Kasparov took over.In 1970, when the USSR team defeated the Rest of the World, or in the decades when Mikhail Botvinnik, Karpov, and Kasparov were the game’s supreme masters, it would have been a joke to suggest that Russian supremacy would disappear within half a century and be replaced by a rivalry between India and the United States.The final nail in the coffin came last week when Ian Nepomniachtchi, the double world title challenger, dropped from 10th to 14th after a poor performance at Tashkent, where he finished next to last and appeared uninterested
The Tour de France’s version of VAR? Get ready for yellow card controversy
The 2025 Tour de France could see yellow cards issued for bad behaviour by riders thanks to cycling’s answer to football’s VAR. Every touch of shoulders, switch of wheels, dramatic acceleration and multilingual insult in the peloton will be scrutinised by a growing number of in-race cameras and UCI commissaires.As part of the UCI’s bid to expand its repertoire of disciplinary and investigative tools, cards can be awarded for everything from celebrating a teammate’s win to riding on the pavement. The card system was trialled last year and is now being integrated into World Tour racing.If, during this year’s Tour, a rider is given two yellow cards during the race, he may be disqualified and suspended for seven days, while any rider accumulating three cards in 30 days is liable to be suspended for 14 days
The IOC handed LA the Olympics. Now Trump is weaponizing them | Jules Boykoff
When the International Olympic Committee first handed Los Angeles the 2028 Summer Olympics back in 2017, IOC president Thomas Bach called it “a golden opportunity” for all involved. Fast forward to last month when Kirsty Coventry took the reins from Bach at the IOC. So much has changed.In January, LA was hit with deadly wildfires. That same month a different sort of natural disaster took shape as Donald Trump returned to the White House
David Porecki returns to Wallabies team to face Fiji after 643-day international absence
The Wallabies have opted for experience in their front row to face Fiji this weekend, with former captain David Porecki called back into the team, 643 days since he last pulled on a gold jersey.Porecki, 32, was named on Friday in the starting XV for Sunday’s Test in Newcastle, alongside all-time cap record holder James Slipper and 80-Test tighthead Allan Alaalatoa, in a forward pack missing big guns Will Skelton and Rob Valetini, who both have calf injuries.Porecki last ran out for Australia at the ill-fated 2023 Rugby World Cup, then didn’t play at all in 2024 due to separate Achilles and calf issues, but has got the nod from coach Joe Schmidt to return to the international fold at McDonald Jones Stadium.He captained Australia to a historic loss the last time Australia met Fiji; he is one of nine players backing up from that clash at the 2023 Rugby World Cup in France, where Fiji posted their first victory over the Wallabies in 69 years, winning 22-15.Schmidt said Porecki’s reaction to the news was measured
Carey and Webster steady Australia after more batting woe in West Indies
Same bat time, same bat channel. That’s the feeling for Australia at the moment, as normal programming followed normal programming: top order failure, middle order digging the team out of a hole, a score that shouldn’t be enough against a proper batting side but might well be enough against a vulnerable one. As the second Test against West Indies began on the small island of Grenada on Thursday, a reasonable start of 47 without loss abruptly became 50-3, and 110-5, before finally recovering to 286 all out, on a hot tropical day when occasional rain bursts created short delays, and bad light prevented a late tilt against West Indies’ top order.Given how rarely the Grenada National Stadium is used, the surface was an unknown quantity. West Indies picked a fifth quick, Australia shrugged and picked the same four bowlers they would choose for St Moritz ice cricket if the chance came up
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