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Clara Tauson wins her second WTA title in what is likely to be the last Luxembourg Open edition.

Good to see Borowska on the podium after the 4th place in Tokyo

Not NFL but high school football on Friday night. 17 point comeback in 68 seconds!

Garin was a highly touted junior aka the next Marcelo Rios. And he whored up a ton of points on clay since late 2018 when he entered Top 100 based on ITF events which is possible the way rankings work. Five ATP titles + some Masters 1000 QFs later he's a Top 20 ranked player. If the indoor hard was fast like it should be, he would be quite vulnerable alright - though the scoreline is still shocking.

continues to be our bogey team on a regular basis

Zdeno Chara signed a 1-year deal with NY Islanders. I remember playing him with Islanders on my NHL 2000 game... like 21 years ago

Better get that speed climbing as separate event for Paris OG. might sneak a medal there

That must be the reason why Nairobi can't get that senior World Champs the entire Africa deserves

No surprise, Zakopane bails out from hosting the cross country at the upcoming U23 World Championships next February. They couldn't build a 5 km loop which was mandatory for the event - even with the COVID delay. The 3.75 km loop was approved for nordic combined but that's like a pariah event on the big scale anyway. Only ski jumping & NC will be held in Zakopane. The 3.75 km loop could have been artifically extended but they are building a domed speed skating rink within the complex already which has priority over cross country. https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1113063/world-ski-cross-country-champs

The population of chicken, cows & pigs is waaaay bigger worldwide than the population of dolphins. I'm not surprised tough, if only some Eastern Bloc or Third World country or China did a similar thing the outrage would be enormous. But because it's done by one of the rich Western countries people will come up with a thousand of reasons why it has to be done and it shouldn't be stopped Nothing to see here, get ready for more dolphins being killed next year!

Canada is responsible for the Atlantic cod population collapse and who cares about it these days? Nobody. Wealthy countries can always buy themselves a clear consciousness

Ahead of the Italian Grand Prix. Like I've mentioned before, this is a strategic place on the calendar for the last 'free' engine change for literally every team. Yep, Verstappen effectively has three more Grand Prix on the mileage (Hungary, Holland & Belgium which was a complete wash but not practice). Everyone is on the last allocated engine from Monza onwards (Perez took his 4th in Zandvoort already plus Bottas in Monza). Any further changes will result in grid penalties.

Denmark belongs to the rich north Europe, no chance anything will be done with the dolphins in Faroe Islands. Ecologists are paid off to look away

Every driver has three engines per season. Using four or more engines equals a penalty (you can go back to engine previously used as long as it's max. three). Here's the full chart at the Italian GP. Everyone is on their 3rd engine except for Bottas & Perez who are on #4 (they incurred penalties already). Bottas lost one in the Imola collision with Russell and Perez lost one in the Hungary Turn 1 pile-up. Verstappen lost one in the British GP shunt and is on his third since Hungary. Mind you, Monza is usually the target for an engine change since it's a power circuit. Most drivers made a switch to their third engine only ahead of this Grand Prix. https://maxf1.net/en/2021-f1-power-unit-elements-usage/

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Pair Men's C-4 500m September 18th 2021 Belarus x Czech Republic Hungary x Poland RCF x Spain Ukraine Men's K-4 500m September 18th 2021 Belarus Czech Republic Denmark France x Germany x Hungary Poland Portugal RCF Slovakia Spain x Ukraine Any Other Nation Women's C-1 200m September 19th 2021 Alena Nazdrova Katie Vincent x Maria Mailliard Vanesa Tot Yarisleidis Duboys Annika Loske Katie Reid Virag Balla Dorota Borowska x Irina Andreeva Tijana Arsic Antia Jacome Liudmyla Luzan x Any Other Athlete Men's K-1 200m September 19th 2021 Aliaksei Misiuchenka Jeremy Laray Badri Kavelashivili Kostja Stroinski Kolos Csizmadia x Andrea Di Liberto Arturas Seja Kevin Santon Jakub Stepun Alexander Dyachenko Strahinja Stefanovic Carlos Garrote x Petter Menning x Oleh Kukharyk Any Other Athlete Women's K-1 500m September 19th 2021 Anamaria Govorcinovic Anezka Paloudova Emma Aastrand Jorgensen x Manon Hostens Deborah Kerr Pauline Paszek Tamara Csipes x Agata Fantini Teresa Portela Svetlana 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Lars Ullvang Vitaliy Ershov Bojan Zdelar Theodor Orban Oleh Kukharyk Any Other Athlete Women's K-4 500m September 19th 2021 Belarus x Canada China Czech Republic Denmark France Germany Hungary x Poland x RCF Spain Ukraine Any Other Nation Women's C-1 5000m September 19th 2021 Volha Klimava x Katie Vincent Maria Mailliard x Vanesa Tot Yarisleidis Duboys Jana Zetek Annika Loske Bethany Gill Zsofia Kisban Magda Stanny Alina Kovaleva Maria Corbera x Liudmyla Babak Men's C-1 5000m September 19th 2021 Craig Spence Fernando Enriquez Filip Dvorak Jossep Karlson Sebastian Brendel x Balazs Adolf x Carlo Tacchini Sergei Tarnovschi Wiktor Glazunow Kiril Shamshurin x Matej Rusnak Noel Dominguez Andrii Zakharov Any Other Athlete Women's K-1 5000m September 19th 2021 Uladzislava Skryhanava Cathrine Rask Sarah Bruessler x Lizzie Broughton Ernese Kohalmi x Jennifer Egan Agata Fantini Maria Virik Elena Mironchenko Kristina Bedec Bridgitte Hartley Eva Barrios Linnea Stensils Inna Hryshchun x Any Other Athlete Men's K-1 5000m September 19th 2021 Aleh Yurenia x Artuur Peters Jakob Kurschat Balint Noe x Andrea Schera Quaid Thompson Ilya Podpolnyy Bram Brandjes Eivind Vold Fernando Pimenta x Vasiliy Pogreban Jost Zakrajsek Javier Lopez Martin Nathell Any Other Athlete [/hide]

They probably will but ahead of a track that actually enables overtaking a little more than others. Mexico is usually a strong track for Red Bull so they wouldn't risk losing a victory but maybe they do it ahead of Interlagos (or Austin if the mileage is bigger than we think).

Raiders beat Ravens 33-27 in OT on Monday Night Football! That was quite an upset. Just win, baby!

I don't think so. Too much to lose in the title race. Bottas was a non-factor for months so it didn't mean much.

UEFA and CONMEBOL are the two strongest feds, if they are both against the biennial WC it's all over.

It is BS penalty. It was a 50/50 racing incident IMO. However Sochi is one track where this penalty isn't that severe due to the extremely long run down to Turn 2 braking zone (T1 is a kink).

Daniil Medvedev denies Djokovic the CYGS. 6-4 6-4 6-4!

And the drama continues at Monza. Ricciardo wins ahead of Norris in McLaren 1-2 but we had a collision among two title rivals

One game away...

[hide] Preliminary Round September 12th - September 20th, 2021 24 Nations, 6 Groups, the 1st and 2nd Nation from each Group + the 4 best 3rd-placed Nations will qualify for the Round of 16 Group A Date & Time (GMT +3) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 September 12th 2021, h. 18:00 Kazakhstan 4 1 Costa Rica September 12th 2021, h. 20:00 Lithuania 1 3 Venezuela September 15th 2021, h. 18:00 Costa Rica 2 1 Venezuela September 15th 2021, h. 20:00 Lithuania 0 4 Kazakhstan September 18th 2021, h. 20:00 Costa Rica 2 2 Lithuania September 18th 2021, h. 20:00 Venezuela 1 4 Kazakhstan Group B Date & Time (GMT +3) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 September 12th 2021, h. 16:00 RFU 5 1 Egypt September 12th 2021, h. 18:00 Uzbekistan 2 1 Guatemala September 15th 2021, h. 18:00 Egypt 3 2 Guatemala September 15th 2021, h. 20:00 Uzbekistan 1 4 RFU September 18th 2021, h. 18:00 Egypt 2 3 Uzbekistan September 18th 2021, h. 18:00 Guatemala 0 4 RFU Group C Date & Time (GMT +3) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 September 13th 2021, h. 18:00 Morocco 5 3 Solomon Islands September 13th 2021, h. 20:00 Thailand 2 7 Portugal September 16th 2021, h. 18:00 Solomon Islands 0 9 Portugal September 16th 2021, h. 20:00 Thailand 3 3 Morocco September 19th 2021, h. 20:00 Solomon Islands 2 5 Thailand September 19th 2021, h. 20:00 Portugal 7 1 Morocco Group D Date & Time (GMT +3) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 September 13th 2021, h. 18:00 Vietnam 0 10 Brazil September 13th 2021, h. 20:00 Panama 3 6 Czech Republic September 16th 2021, h. 18:00 Brazil 7 3 Czech Republic September 16th 2021, h. 20:00 Panama 3 4 Vietnam September 19th 2021, h. 18:00 Brazil 8 1 Panama September 19th 2021, h. 18:00 Czech Republic 8 3 Vietnam Group E Date & Time (GMT +3) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 September 14th 2021, h. 18:00 Paraguay 3 7 Spain September 14th 2021, h. 20:00 Angola 0 5 Japan September 17th 2021, h. 18:00 Spain 6 2 Japan September 17th 2021, h. 20:00 Angola 1 7 Paraguay September 20th 2021, h. 18:00 Spain 8 1 Angola September 20th 2021, h. 18:00 Japan 3 2 Paraguay Group F Date & Time (GMT +3) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 September 14th 2021, h. 18:00 Serbia 2 3 Iran September 14th 2021, h. 20:00 Argentina 7 0 United States September 17th 2021, h. 18:00 Iran 6 2 United States September 17th 2021, h. 20:00 Argentina 5 4 Serbia September 20th 2021, h. 20:00 Iran 2 4 Argentina September 20th 2021, h. 20:00 United States 2 6 Serbia Top 3 Place 1st Place 2nd Place 3rd Place Nation [/hide]

Seems like Blue Jays got too excited over that Yankees sweep since they lost to the lowly Orioles yesterday. Sigh. Meanwhile Yankees continue to slump as they got beat by Mets 10-3.