Zondag gaat de olympische ijshockeyfinale tussen de Verenigde Staten en Canada. Tussen de twee buurlanden speelt er veel meer dan alleen sportieve rivaliteit. „Jullie kunnen ons land niet afpakken, en onze sport evenmin.”
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Ze is pas 22 jaar oud, maar de Chinees-Amerikaanse Eileen Gu is nu al de succesvolste freestyleskiër ooit. Zaterdag kan ze haar zesde olympische medaille winnen. Tot afgrijzen van de Amerikaanse vicepresident JD Vance.
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Al zes jaar proberen Xerina (34) en Frank (38) een kindje te krijgen, met de nodige tegenslagen: drie miskramen en twee stilgeboren kindjes. Nu zoeken ze een draagmoeder, maar ook dat blijkt ingewikkeld. “We hopen op een wonder.”
A whole haberdasher’s worth of experience, led by the peerless Gibson-Park, fairly tormented their younger and more hopeful hosts
So it looks as if it might have been a bubble. England’s 12-match winning run came to a shuddering halt last week, but it was possible to believe that flop might prove a one-off – a chastened Scotland at home, after all, has been the downfall of many an England team.
Well, there are scattered strips of latex all over Twickenham now, England’s balloon more than spectacularly popped by an Ireland side who are hardly afraid of inspirational rugby against this lot themselves.
Continue reading...Chelsea got what they deserved here. They had been coasting to fourth courtesy of an early João Pedro goal, but the second-half dismissal of Wesley Fofana gave a glimmer to a Burnley team previously clinging on. Liam Rosenior’s side desperately tried to run down the clock, only to allow an unmarked Zian Flemming to nod home a James Ward-Prowse corner in added time. It might have been worse, as Jacob Bruun Larsen nodded an identical Ward-Prowse corner over the bar.
Rust the culprit? Chelsea’s players had enjoyed four days off given to them by Rosenior, Cole Palmer heading a winter sun delegation to Dubai in a rare midweek without competitive action. Estêvão was an absentee after a hamstring problem picked up on his return to training. Roméo Lavia, missing since November, on the bench was a point of intrigue, after the news he had spent his convalescence fine-tuning his decision making with the help of virtual reality.
Continue reading...Dutch skater claims his first gold since 2014
Jordan Stolz misses out on fourth medal of Games
Jorrit Bergsma, the mullet-wearing 40-year-old speed skating legend from the Netherlands, won the men’s mass start on Saturday afternoon for his second medal of the Milano Cortina Games and his first Olympic gold since 2014.
Bergsma crossed first in 7:55.50, ahead of Viktor Hald Thorup of Denmark and Andrea Giovannini of Italy, denying American star Jordan Stolz in his bid to become the first man in 32 years to win three long-track speed skating golds at a single Olympics.
Continue reading... Updates from 4.40pm kickoff (GMT) at the Principality
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Yes, we know the team is struggling, but the Principality Stadium looks incredible!
If you are a rugby fan and you’ve not visited this cathedral, get your accountant on the line and book yourself a trip.
I am not a confident Welsh fan. There are so many issues at the moment, it’s hard to know where to start. The WRU is spectacularly badly run. We were fortunate to have a couple of generations of genuinely World Class players between the mid 00’s and 2020ish, and considering the resources available, population, player base etc, that was always likely to drop off at some point. But I don’t think anyone expected the drop-off to be quite so drastic. We kept being told that it was a young side who would gained experience and improve. But that’s been a stuck record for 4 years or so. There’s no identity to the team. When you watch them, you often cant see what they’re trying to achieve. The basics, the flipping basics(!), are repeatedly falling apart. The first quarter against England was as bad a spell of international rugby as you’re ever likely to see. I don’t know where to go from here. It’s hideous.
Continue reading...Bundesliga leaders go nine clear at top with 3-2 win
Fà bregas’s side round off damaging week for Juve
Harry Kane scored twice as Bayern Munich beat Eintracht Frankfurt 3-2 in the Bundesliga on Saturday to move nine points clear of Borussia Dortmund at the top of the table.
Bayern took the lead in the 16th minute when Aleksandar Pavlovic volleyed in from the edge of the box and Kane made it 2-0 four minutes later, ghosting inside a crowded box to head home from a Michael Olise corner. The England captain struck again in the 68th minute, punishing a defensive error before curling a shot inside the left post for his 28th league goal of the season.
Continue reading...LYON (ANP/AFP) - Meer dan 3000 mensen hebben in Lyon meegelopen in een herdenkingsmars voor de vermoorde radicale nationalist die in die stad werd doodgeslagen, melden lokale autoriteiten.
De mars vond plaats onder zware beveiliging uit angst voor confrontaties met extreemlinkse demonstranten. President Emmanuel Macron riep voorafgaand aan de mars op tot kalmte.
De 23-jarige Quentin Deranque kwam afgelopen zaterdag om het leven nadat hij werd aangevallen door radicaal-linkse activisten. Zeven mensen zijn aangeklaagd voor zijn dood.