Hamilton reveals distress over ‘devastating’ groundhog accident at Canadian F1 GP

Lewis Hamilton has spoken of his distress after his Ferrari struck a groundhog during the Canadian Grand Prix on Sunday, describing the accident as “devastating”.The incident occurred 13 laps into the race, damaging the underside of Hamilton’s car and leaving him distraught. He had qualified in fifth on the grid and had been hoping to make inroads on those ahead of him while managing his tyres. But the accident cost him half a second per lap and was followed by other problems with the car.The 40-year-old Briton finished sixth in a race won by George Russell, well behind the leading contenders

Nezza sings national anthem in Spanish at Dodgers as protest against immigration raids

Singer Vanessa Hernández says she chose to sing the Spanish version of the US national anthem at Dodger Stadium on Saturday as a protest against recent immigration raids.Hernández, who performs under the name Nezza, says she was warned by a member of the Dodgers staff before the team’s game against the San Francisco Giants to perform the anthem in English.After her performance Hernández posted a video to TikTok, with the caption “Watch the Dodgers tell me I can’t sing the Spanish Star Spangled Banner that Roosevelt literally commissioned in 1945 – so I did it anyway.” The video shows an apparent conversation with the Dodgers staff member. “We are going to do the song in English today, so I don’t know if that wasn’t translated – er, communicated,” the employee says

ICC ready to back WTC four-day Tests in boost for smaller nations

The International Cricket Council is ready to sanction four-day Tests in the World Test Championship to help smaller nations to play more games and longer series.In the next WTC cycle, which begins with Sri Lanka hosting Bangladesh in a two-Test series on Tuesday, only five-day Tests are permitted by the ICC which has led to an emphasis on truncated series.Of the 27 Test series to be played among the nine countries contesting the 2025-27 WTC, 17 will feature just two matches, there will be six three‑match series and England, Australia and India will all play one five-match Test series against each other.During discussions last week at the WTC final at Lord’s, the ICC chair, Jay Shah, is understood to have expressed his support for four‑day Tests, with a view to sanctioning them in time for the 2027‑29 WTC cycle. England, Australia and India would still be permitted to schedule five-Test series of five‑day matches for the Ashes, the Border‑Gavaskar Trophy and the newly named Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy, the first iteration of which begins with the first Test between England and India at Headingley on Friday

Hollie Doyle: ‘I just want to be the best jockey – I don’t compare myself to female riders’

The jockey’s obsession with winning will drive her on again this week on racing’s biggest stage at Royal Ascot“I’m obsessed with winning,” Hollie Doyle says calmly in response to a suggestion that she seems consumed by racing, “but I do love horses as well. So that helps, doesn’t it?”The most successful female jockey in British racing history had begun our interview with an impressively crunching handshake. Doyle’s cheerfully powerful greeting confirmed that her small but muscled frame ripples with the strength of a supreme jockey absorbed in the singular world of racing. But her daily grind is elevated by more than a thousand victories in the saddle.Doyle offers a grimace of a smile when I ask if she is anything like AP McCoy, the great jump jockey, who said that the elation of a winner usually lasted less than a minute before he felt compelled to look ahead to his next fix of a victory

Jakob Ingebrigtsen’s father found guilty of hitting his daughter but cleared of abusing Olympic champion

The father of Jakob Ingebrigtsen has been given a 15-day suspended sentence after being found guilty of hitting the double Olympic champion’s younger sister, Ingrid, in the face with a wet towel.But Gjert Ingebrigtsen, who coached his Jakob to 1500m gold at the Tokyo Games in 2021 before their acrimonious split a year later, was acquitted of charges relating to physical and verbal abuse against Jakob.It came after a court in Norway found there was “reasonable doubt” about the vast majority of the accusations, with some family members siding with Gjert, and others with Jakob and his sister.The verdict marks another extraordinary episode in the life of the family that became huge reality TV stars after the docuseries Team Ingebrigtsen, which charted their lives and eccentric nature, became a phenomenon.However the six-week trial in the town of Sandnes painted a much darker picture of the family dynamic – particularly the incident in January 2022 when Ingrid, then 15, was hit with a towel after her father refused to let her play outside with friends

‘Gorgeous girl’: Ash Barty announces birth of daughter Jordan

​Retired Australian tennis star Ash Barty has announced the birth of her first daughter, Jordan.Barty and her husband, golf professional Garry Kissick, already have a son, Hayden, born almost two years ago.The former world No 1 and Kissick revealed the arrival of their “gorgeous girl” in a joint Instagram post on Monday.“Welcome to the world, Jordan” the parents said. “You are loved unconditionally and we are so grateful to have you in our arms, gorgeous girl