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Swiatek DRAGS Pliskova 6-0 6-0 in Rome final

And he managed to crash twice even... Miller wins and now we enter the Ducati-friendly tracks again. Maybe Zarco can finally win at Mugello though I fancy Bagnaia to be in the mix more.

Starting the race on blacks and doing the rest on reds was the way to go. Grosjean also lost a lot of time rubbing paint with Sato at one point. He was much slower on blacks while VeeKay's initial stint on blacks didn't cost him anyting. He only did 8 green flag laps on blacks at the start.

Rinus VeeKay wins his first IndyCar race!

10 laps to go and Rinus VeeKay leads Grosjean by 9 seconds. @heywoodu Are U watching?

Good thing it was IDF that destroyed the building so journalists won't lose their minds over "freedom of speech" if that was done by Hamas

Adrian Meronk znowu trzeci, tym razem na British Masters.

Iga Swiatek wins two matches today and will play Karolina Pliskova in the Rome final.

Romain Grosjean takes pole for Indianapolis road course race. V8s convert Scott McLaughlin in 5th to follow up on a great 2nd place at Texas two weeks ago.

50 deaths. Meh, that's nothing. Hamas had to make their presence known during Ramadan again. This stuff is as irrelevant as those mass shootings in USA. Global public doesn't give a damn about Israel vs Palestine Chapter 3647483

Biden is a Big Tech puppet. If NBC tells him US athletes have to take part in Tokyo, he won't have anything to say.

Turns out British Paralympian legend Sarah Storey is another case of asthma TUE glory. And the TUE was granted AFTER she tested for too high salbutamol level. How long this crap will be tolerated? There must be millions in play if thet let these cheaters get away with such obvious rules bending. Good thing Storey isn't Russian or else they'd ban her ass forever. https://www.bbc.com/sport/disability-sport/57054880

No chance slalom canoeing ever wins a competition versus the break dance crap for instance. I fully expect in 10-20 years there will be voices to have canoeing removed from Olympics alltogether as not being flashy & progressive enough

But IOC selects the actual quota? If they say it's one national entry per event no other governing body can do anything about it. Remember the table tennis controversy when they disallowed the third entry per nation just so China doesn't sweep all the medals everywhere

It's good Zwolinska gets to reprsent Poland at SOG though. Both in men & women the youngsters have beaten the veterans which I find a much better outcome.

Barbora Strycova (tennis) announced her retirement. She is also pregnant

Z European Tour dalej spada 15 ostatnich w rankingu, czy coś się przy COVID zmieniło?

Meanwhile in Texas...

Quartararo struggled with arm pump and tumbled right down to 13th. At this rate Joan Mir will emerge as the most consistent scorer again.

Trzecie miejsce Adriana Meronka na Teneryfie. Tydzień temu był chyba 15? Coś się ruszyło?

People want to see the Games, period. Not even gonna mention the athletes. IOC has a bad press but if the Games are cancelled all the blame will be put on Japan. I have no doubts about it. Every single global event will go ahead starting with Euro soccer in less than 100 days. There will be no excuses for Japan and their struggles.

Cars can be easily rebuild overnight. Since reliability is basically a non-factor in F1 these days (least of all among the top teams) these qual races will be a boring procession all the time IMO. Hell, FIA even said they won't be using this format on all tracks even if it gets expanded. Even Liberty can't sell the "overtaking excitement" on tracks like Monaco or the Abu Dhabi borefest. They know even those mythical "new fans" can't be that stupid.

Brisbane would be cancelled? No way. They are letting crowds back at the V8 Supercars races so I presume they'd go ahead with SOG 100%.

Yep, that's the hidden bonus for Mercedes and Red Bull in particular (not so hidden if you know where to look). Gone will be the days of pit wall screw-ups when team leave their cars in garage thinking the time is safe and then it looks silly when it's not. Sprint quals will make sure all the fastest cars will start at the front of the grid all the time. And Liberty calls this excitement? Bunch of idiots.

This actually means there will be more pressure and backlash on Japan. Because if the main issue is how Japan struggles to embrace the pandemic they will be crushed on the global stage. The entire world is dealing with COVID and their excuse to cancel the Games would be "We are struggling". Bullshit. That's not an excuse at all. It looks especially bad for a country that thrives on extreme job culture and their goal to achieve perfection. Frickin' baseball stadiums in USA will open to full capacity later this month IIRC and Japan "is struggling"? They won't get away with that when it comes to the biggest sporting event of them all.