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Aryna Sabalenka ends losing streak against Elena Rybakina to take Indian Wells title

  • World No 1 had lost four finals against opponent

  • Sabalenka comes back from set down for victory

Aryna Sabalenka snapped her losing streak against Elena Rybakina in a thrilling Indian Wells final on Sunday.

The world No 1 beat Rybakina to win her maiden grand slam title at the Australian Open in 2023 but since then had lost all four finals against the Kazakh, including at the WTA Finals last season and in Melbourne in January.

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Oscars 2026 red carpet: Rose Byrne, Chase Infiniti and more – in pictures

The best looks from the red carpet at the 98th Academy Awards in Los Angeles

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Fifth Iranian football player leaves Australia after initially accepting offer of asylum

Minister Tony Burke confirms another member of Iran’s women’s football team left Australia late Sunday night

A fifth member of the Iranian women’s football squad has left Australia after withdrawing her claim of asylum.

The office of the home affairs minister, Tony Burke, confirmed on Monday that the woman had left late on Sunday night.

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Restraining and sedating dementia patients ‘routine’ in hospitals in England, study finds

Patients experiencing raised bedside rails, doors and pathways blocked by furniture and physical interventions

People with dementia are being subjected to restraints and non-consensual sedation while in hospitals in England, according to the first study of its kind.

These restrictive practices were found to be an “embedded aspect of routine ward care”, according to the analysis, with such examples including dementia patients having their bedside rails raised, doors and pathways blocked by furniture, experiencing verbal commands to sit down or go back to bed, and physical interventions such as non-consensual sedation.

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More countries, bigger audience but controversy lingered in Milano Cortina

Russia’s involvement meant politics could not be avoided at a Paralympics more competitive than ever

The theme of the closing ceremony of the Winter Paralympics, held at the Olympic curling arena in Cortina D’Ampezzo, was “Italian Souvenir”. It followed, through dance and music, the ambitions of a young girl, played by Sofia Tansella who has spinal muscular atrophy, to see her dreams represented in the world. It was of course a metaphor for the Paralympic movement more broadly, a movement that has been boosted by a successful two weeks in Milano Cortina.

The International Paralympic Committee has been able to boast a number of striking milestones at these Games, on the 50th anniversary of the first. Milano Cortina has had the most countries in competition, 55, and the most to win medals, 27. The number of countries winning gold medals, 18, is the joint-highest in history. Although gender imbalance remains a genuine problem, there were more female competitors than ever before, 160, an 18% increase on four years ago and 26% of the total athlete count of 611, another record.

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Djokovic meldt zich af voor mastertoernooi van Miami

MIAMI (ANP/AFP) - Tennisser Novak Djokovic heeft zich teruggetrokken van het masterstoernooi van Miami. De 38-jarige Serviër heeft last van een schouderblessure, meldden de organisatoren.

De 24-voudig grandslamwinnaar bereikte op het masterstoernooi van Indian Wells de vierde ronde, waarin hij werd uitgeschakeld door de Brit Jack Draper. Djokovic won het toernooi van Miami zes keer, maar verloor de finale vorig jaar van Jakub Mensik uit Tsjechië.

Op Indian Wells speelde Djokovic met een sleeve om zijn rechterarm, omdat hij last had van een lichte blessure, die hem hinderde bij zijn opslag.


Xandra Velzeboer voor de vierde keer wereldkampioene op 500 meter

MONTREAL (ANP) - Shorttrackster Xandra Velzeboer is voor de vierde keer wereldkampioen op de 500 meter geworden. De 24-jarige olympisch kampioene was bij de WK in Montreal de beste in de finale. Selma Poutsma greep het zilver. Chiara Betti uit Italië pakte het brons.

Poutsma was als beste weg bij de start, maar Velzeboer nam het initiatief al snel over. De andere finalisten kwamen niet in de buurt bij de twee Nederlandse shorttracksters, waarvan Velzeboer met 41,761 de snelste was.

Velzeboer greep eerder op de dag zilver op de 1500 meter en zaterdag ook al zilver op de 1000 meter. Beide keren won Kim Gilli uit Zuid-Korea. Met de andere Nederlandse shorttracksters veroverde ze goud op de aflossing. Op de gemengde aflossing kwam ze in de finale ten val.

Michelle Velzeboer eindigde als tweede in de B-finale, nadat ze ten val was gekomen in de halve finales.


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