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Jamie Murray - British Tennis player and Doubles Specialist.  Won the Davis Cup, 7 Grand Slams and 34 Tour Titles and was ranked World Number One so probably the best Britain have ever had in that discipline.
 
Jamie Murray: British doubles legend retires from tennis - BBC Sport

You can push the hype meter up to eleventy nine, because he has just won the Pays Basque by a big margin, with three individual stage wins including the Time Trial.   

Because of the continued uncertainty in the Gulf, the Doha Diamond League has been reorganised to the 19th June, in between Oslo and Paris.  Shanghai on 16 May will therefore be the first DL meet of the season.  
 
WDL meeting in Doha postponed until June - Wanda Diamond League

To be fair, they didn't eat ALL of him. 

To be fair, they didn't eat ALL of him. 

Another of history's forgotten episodes, the great Australio-Hungarian Empire.
 

Another of history's forgotten episodes, the great Australio-Hungarian Empire.
 

Off we go in the Bronze Match &  manufacture a first end 3 out of used matches & fluff from your pockets.

Pogacar facing ten years in notorious tropical penal colony!   Only joking, a fine and a possible driving ban, of all things.
 
According to Belgian media,, external the riders could reportedly face fines ranging from 320 euros (£280) to 4,000 euros (£3,500) and driving bans of eight days.
 
Tour of Flanders winner Tadej Pogacar faces fine for running red light - BBC Sport

terrible last shot from the young Italian lad leaves an easy takeout for . 9-7

Well, this sounds like good news.  Of course, have a decade of retests to look forward to.
 
For the first time in 28 years, no athlete has been found to have taken a banned substance at an Olympics - at least so far.
 
More than 3,000 samples were collected from almost 2,000 athletes during February's Winter Olympic Games in Milan-Cortina, Italy, and no anti-doping rule violations have been reported.
 
 
Winter Olympics 2026: No positive doping tests during Milan-Cortina Games - BBC Sport

So the six teams in the play-offs already decided.  But the all-important order still to be set.  Rules are Top Two get auto-advanced to the Semis, then places 3-6 will play off for the other two Semi spots.
 
Rank   Team   Games   Wins   Losses   1  SWE - Sweden     11 9 2 Q 2  CAN - Canada     10 8 2 Q 2  SCO - Scotland     10 8 2 Q 2  SUI - Switzerland     10 8 2 Q 5  ITA - Italy     10 7 3 Q 5  USA - United States     10 7 3 Q 7  CHN - China     10 4 6   7  GER - Germany     10 4 6   9  CZE - Czechia     10 3 7   9  JPN - Japan     10 3 7   11  KOR - Korea     11 3 8   12  POL - Poland     10 2 8   13  NOR - Norway     10 0 10  

Some revisions to the generally-accepted chronology of Japanese history.
 
Godzilla Ukiyo-e Giclee Print "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji: The Great Wave off Kanagawa" | UKIYO-E WORKS

And Kirsty Muir confirms the Overall Park & Pipe Crystal Globe!
 
Kirsty Muir: British freestyle skier wins historic World Cup titles - BBC Sport

Charlotte Bankes wins the final boarder cross race of the season in ; takes the overall Crystal Globe!  

iOC confrim definitive Olympic ban for Transgender & DSD athletes.
 
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/articles/cdj7dgvlj0no

iOC confrim definitive Olympic ban for Transgender & DSD athletes.
 
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/articles/cdj7dgvlj0no

Here's the Placings Table, which works out rather differently than the Medals Table.
 
Placing Table | Kujawy Pomorze 26 | World Athletics Indoor Championship

fencingtv.com
 
now it's all there (needs registration, but for now it's free of charge, so it's still OK)

One of your classic blunders in the Deutschland Tour today -  Sheehan raises his hands and celebrates the sprint win 5m before the line & Narvaez celebrates the sprint win 5m after the line.....

best ever at the World Indoor was 3 Golds in 1999, so three in an hour is pretty good!
 
And BBC report she is going to do a leg in the 4x400m!
 

Race off for the Pentathlon Gold.  wins!

girl auditioning for a part in the Addams Family

Full respect from the Goose.  

Full respect from the Goose.