General Sports Thread

https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/to...roglic-shows-off-his-wounds-ahead-of-stage-4/

Cyclists are a different breed!

 

Cav won a stage! His 31st stage win in his TdF career, just incredible. He is in pieces trying to talk to the interviewer.

 

One of the favourites to be atop the NBA draft in two years is named Victor Wembanyama. I'm going to be doing triple-takes for years.

 

Mark Cavendish, Andy Murray. Whatever happens next, both of you are incredible and it’s great to see you both back at the top of your game again.

 

Cav wins again! 10 years after the last time he won in Chateauroux, he wins his 32nd TdF stage! Just 2 more to equal Eddy Merckx’s record.

 

GB's World number 338, 18 year old Emma Raducanu has just beaten the World number 41, Markéta Vondroušová in straight sets at Wimbledon.

 

Amazing game. 3-0 down in the second set too.

 

Proper legend. Poor chap though.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/disability-sport/57688019

 

Dan Evans out yesterday....shame as that match was winnable...unlike Murray's against a top player. Pleased for Murray that he managed to play three matches (12 sets) and came out unscathed, but the question remains whether he wants to carry on when he will probably never reach the level he was before (as he can't even practice as much as he would like due to his ongoing injuries). Difficult decision....no going back once you retire at this level...I guess it depends on how much pleasure he gets from the game and what he wants to do in the future.
So just Cam Norrie (oh dear, Federer) and Emma Raducanu (what a future star).
It has been great to have Wimbledon back....feels like normality has returned.

 

First game of the British and Irish Lions tour of South Africa today. I’m not bitter at all about the fact that I should have been there to see them play (I was there in 2009) and, but for COVID19 and various issues (which I won’t mention here for fear of getting too political) which means I and my friends were unable to travel to see them, I’d have been cheering them on for the next few weeks.
However, the big question for today’s game is who will win, the Lions or the Lions? Think I’ll put my money on the Lions

 

New contract for Hamilton so we'll get to see Max v Lewis for a while yet.

 

That's quite a Q1 lap from Alonso...

 

Lando really is very very very good.

I wasn’t 100% about him being grade A, but wow, I was wrong.

 

He has found a bit of a different gear of late. He'd been a quiet sort of quick, extremely smooth and consistent but not flashy. Now he has the confidence to push the car, and by all accounts the McLaren isn't the easiest car to push.

 

He’s murdering Danny Ric, and he’s no slouch.

 

Yeah, it's pretty eye-opening. The McLaren's extremely fast but tough to handle in corners, and it's giving Riccardo (who knows his way through a corner) fits. Yet Lando at 21 seems to have the thing on rails.

 

Lando thanking all the people in orange for supporting McLaren

 

Lando given a 5 second penalty . Bloody infuriating and embarrassing

 

Both penalties, for Lando and for Perez, are absolute nonsense.

 

Stewards dug themselves into a hole with the first one for sure.