Canadian women's rugby 7s team advance to Cup semifinals in Singapore
Fancy Bermudez scored two tries Saturday to help Canada defeat the U.S. 31-21 and move into the Cup semifinals at the HSBC SVNS Singapore.
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Singapore's Maximilian Maeder off to winning start in 2025, tops Spain kitefoiling competition
SINGAPORE: In his first competition of the year, Singapore’s star kitefoiler Maximilian Maeder started exactly how he ended 2024 - by winning.
Verstappen takes pole for Japanese Grand Prix ahead of Norris
SUZUKA, JAPAN: Four-time world champion Max Verstappen smashed the track record to snatch pole position for Sunday’s Japanese Grand Prix ahead of McLaren’s Lando Norris, as Yuki Tsunoda qualified a lowly 15th in his Red Bull debut. Verstappen clocked a blistering lap of 1min 26.983sec in his Red Bull, 0.012sec ahead of championship leader Norris, with McLaren’s Oscar Piastri third. Verstappen set a new Suzuka track record with his final lap in Saturday’s qualifying, pipping Norris right at the death. “Each session we kept making little improvements, then the last lap was flat out,” said Verstappen, who has won the Japanese GP for the last three years. “In a Formula One car around here is insane. This is a proper highlight for us to be back on pole here.” It was Verstappen’s first pole position of the season. The Dutchman is still looking for his first grand prix win of the new campaign. Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc was fourth ahead of Mercedes’ George Russell, with Mercedes’ Kimi Antonelli sixth and RB’s Isack Hadjar seventh. Ferrari’s Lewis Hamilton was eighth, followed by Williams’s Alex Albon and Haas’s Oliver Bearman. Norris is looking for his second grand prix win of the season, after triumphing in the season opener in Australia. He finished second behind Piastri in China a fortnight ago in a dominant start to the campaign for McLaren. “I’m happy, congrats to Max, he did a good job,” said Norris. “You have to credit something when it is a lap that good that he must have done.
Lando Norris Fastest In McLaren 1-2 As Fires Again Disrupt Japan GP Practice
Championship leader Lando Norris went fastest ahead of McLaren teammate Oscar Piastri in Saturday's final practice for the Japanese Grand Prix as small trackside fires again disrupted the session. Britain's Norris, who was also quickest in Friday's first practice, clocked a fastest lap of 1min 27.965sec to lead Australia's Piastri by 0.026sec. Norris is looking for his second grand prix win of the season after triumphing at the opener in Australia and finishing second behind Piastri in China. Piastri won in Shanghai in a dominant start to the campaign for McLaren.
"We Always Knew...": On George Russell Replacing Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes Director's Huge Statement
George Russell has "stepped up" for Mercedes and grown into a leadership role since Lewis Hamilton left for Ferrari, the team's engineering director said Friday. Russell is now the German team's senior driver after seven-time world champion Hamilton departed at the end of last season and was replaced by 18-year-old rookie Kimi Antonelli. Russell has responded with two third-placed finishes to start the season and Andrew Shovlin said the 27-year-old Briton was embracing his role as Antonelli's mentor. "George is trying to give him the benefit of his experience," Shovlin said at the Japanese Grand Prix in Suzuka.
Everything you need to know about Canada at the women's hockey world championship
Less than two months is all that separated Toronto Sceptres forward Hannah Miller from playing her first game with the Canadian senior national team.
Viswanathan Anand Dances To 'Main Hoon Don' At Indian Chess Grandmaster's Wedding. Video Viral
The wedding pf Indian grandmaster Vidit Gujrathi and Dr. Nidhi Kataria appeared to be a grand affair, with top chess stars attending the event in Pune. World Champion D Gukesh and chess great Viswanathan Anand were seen dancing to popular Bollywood songs. Several videos of the same have gone viral on social media. Apart from Gukesh and Anand, top International Masters like Anish Giri and his wife Sopiko Guramishvili, also a Grandmaster, too attended the pre and post-wedding functions of Vidit and Nidhi. Gukesh danced to the famous Bollywood song 'Badri Ki Dulhania' along with Tania Sachdev, Anish Giri and Sopiko Guramishvili.
Ketum PSSI: Banyak Tiket Piala Dunia U-17, Garuda Muda Harus Maksimalkan
Ketum PSSI Erick Thohir berharap Timnas Indonesia U-17 memaksimalkan kesempatan meraih tiket Piala Dunia U-17 2025 yang banyak tersedia di Piala Asia U-17 2025.