HEERENVEEN (ANP) - Jenning de Boo spreekt van het mooiste schaatsweekend uit zijn carrière, al werd het WK sprint op een donderdag en vrijdag gehouden. De 22-jarige Groninger klopte zijn rivaal Jordan Stolz en veroverde de wereldtitel sprint in Thialf. "Ik ben heel goed in één keer pieken, maar moest hier vier keer goed zijn. Dat het me gewoon lukt, had ik niet gedacht", aldus De Boo.

De sprinter moest op de Spelen van Milaan op de 500 en 1000 meter genoegen nemen met zilver achter Stolz. "Ik was na de Spelen supergebrand en hongerig. Ik wilde hem heel graag verslaan, zo zei ik net ook tegen hem. Het is jammer dat het niet gelukt is op de Spelen, maar ik kijk daar op geen enkele manier negatief op terug."

De Boo was trots op zijn prestatie van dit WK. "Ik wist dat hij te verslaan was en op de Spelen zat ik heel dichtbij. Ik heb mezelf verbaasd, maar hij verbaasde me ook een beetje. Dat ik op de laatste 1000 meter met een voorsprong van 1,8 seconde zou starten, dat had ik me begin dit seizoen niet kunnen voorstellen."

PARIJS (ANP) - Slechts negen olietankers, vracht- en containerschepen zijn sinds maandag door de Straat van Hormuz gevaren. Dat heeft het Franse persbureau AFP becijferd op basis van gegevens van MarineTraffic, een website waarmee de locaties van schepen te volgen zijn.

Door de ligging van de zeestraat naast Iran durven grote scheepvaartconcerns het al dagen niet aan om door de Straat van Hormuz te varen. Dat heeft grote economische implicaties. Bijna 20 procent van de ruwe olie en ongeveer 20 procent van het vloeibaar gemaakte aardgas (lng) in de wereld wordt normaal gesproken via de Straat van Hormuz vervoerd.

Maar nu er oorlog woedt in het gebied liggen in de Perzische Golf en ook buiten de zeestraat tal van schepen te wachten. De olie- en gasprijzen zijn daarom flink gestegen.

AFP telde overigens alleen schepen die ten minste één signaal aan beide zijden van de Straat van Hormuz uitzonden. Anders kon het persbureau niet zien of ze echt door de straat waren gevaren.

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Manager knows his quadruple-chasers have a target on their back in their FA Cup fifth round trip to Mansfield

Mikel Arteta knows the score. There is a reason why Arsenal’s trip to Mansfield Town on Saturday is the tie of the FA Cup fifth round, why it has been selected by TNT Sports for a 12.15pm kick-off. It has all the ingredients and everybody – Arsenal fans aside – is looking for an upset. Arteta was asked whether he was clear on that point. “Yes,” the Arsenal manager replied.

It has always been this way when a top club visits a minnow and, to repeat, the plotlines are certainly there for this one. Mansfield are 16th in League One, too close to the relegation line for the comfort of the manager, Nigel Clough. The Stags have gone nine league matches without a win.

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• Ireland 27-17 Wales

• Wales give Ireland a fright before hosts hang on

Never in the Five and Six Nations history between Ireland and Wales have the scales been so lopsided as they prepared to play in Dublin. When referee Karl Dickson wrapped it up on a beautiful spring night those scales had shifted. Not quite enough to give Wales a win they would have celebrated like a Championship, but enough to leave their hosts as shaken as they were stirred.

You couldn’t claim Ireland didn’t deserve to win given their dominance and efficiency in that last quarter of the field, but it was a battle that will force Andy Farrell to revisit the quality of Ireland’s attack.

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This time around, Liverpool made no mistake at Molineux. They remain on the road to Wembley, and thanks to two players signed in 2017, two time-honoured club legends with now uncertain futures. Andy Robertson and Mohamed Salah scored the goals that took the game away from Wolves to soothe the pain of Tuesday’s Premier League defeat. Curtis Jones’s strike completed a Friday night of far greater comfort, as Wolves crashed back to the reality of nine remaining Premier League matches before the drop comes. Their goal from Hwang Hee-chan, a substitute, came far too late.

While Arne Slot had expressed disappointment at the Premier League’s entertainment levels, a verdict hostage to fortune three days previously, his starting selection suggested an FA Cup exit could not be countenanced. Winning the trophy will not offer total job security but losing twice at the Premier League’s bottom club in the space of a few days might well have been a felling blow.

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• Loud applause greets volunteers carrying Ukraine flag

• Iran’s solitary athlete unable to safely leave his country

The Russian flag was flown at an international sporting event for the first time since the invasion of Ukraine on Friday night, an act met largely by silence, as the Winter Paralympic Games got under way with a high-end opening ceremony in Verona.

Dance, music and visual art combined in a beguiling hour-long performance, celebrating the Paralympic movement and stressing the importance of physical access for people with disabilities, all in a Roman amphitheatre made accessible just for the event. But the eyes of the crowd and a global audience were on the parade of athletes passing into the Arena di Verona.

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This is a very weird story about how squid stayed on the menu of Byzantine monks by falling between the cracks of dietary rules.

At Constantinople’s Monastery of Stoudios, the kitchen didn’t answer to appetite.

It answered to the “typikon”: a manual for ensuring that nothing unexpected happened at mealtimes. Meat: forbidden. Dairy: forbidden. Eggs: forbidden. Fish: feast-day only. Oil: regulated. But squid?

Squid had eight arms, no bones, and a gift for changing color. Nobody had bothered writing a regulation for that. This wasn’t a loophole born of legal creativity but an oversight rooted in taxonomic confusion. Medieval monks, confronted with a creature that was neither fish nor fowl, gave up and let it pass.

In a kitchen governed by prohibitions, the safest ingredient was the one that caused the least disturbance. Squid entered not with applause, but with a shrug.

Bonus stuffed squid recipe at the end.

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