Cycling-Bouwman wins Giro stage seven as Lopez retains pink jersey
(Reuters) - Dutch rider Koen Bouwman timed his final effort to perfection to win the seventh stage of the Giro d'Italia, a 196-km ride between Diamante and Potenza on Friday.
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MotoGP Le Mans: McPhee comfortable and improving on return
Friday’s Moto3 practice saw John McPhee circulating just adrift of the Le Mans top ten on his return to the Sterilgarda Max Racing Team.
Bouwman wins Giro stage seven as Lopez retains pink jersey
Dutch rider Koen Bouwman timed his final effort to perfection to win the seventh stage of the Giro d'Italia, a 196-km ride between Diamante and Potenza on Friday.
Tennis-Swiatek beats Andreescu in Rome for 26th consecutive win
(Reuters) - World number one Iga Swiatek extended her winning run to 26 matches with a 7-6(2) 6-0 victory over Bianca Andreescu in the quarter-finals of the Italian Open on Friday.
EU's Sefcovic 'appeals to UK to return to negotiations' over N. Ireland Protocol
Sefcovic rejects a suggestion from the UK that the EU side is not showing enough flexibility over the Northern Ireland Protocol: "I totally don't accept that statement because we have been the forthcoming party and we have been bringing solutions to the table for more than a year (...) Unfortunately until today we did not get the proper access to the data and the forthcoming attitude from the UK where they would meet us halfway."
Iga Swiatek is now 26 matches unbeaten, sinks Bianca Andreescu in straight sets to reach Italian Open semi-finals
Iga Swiatek is into the semi-finals of the Italian Open after a convincing 7-6(2) 6-0 win over Bianca Andreescu. The Rome defending champion will play Aryna Sabalenka in the semi-finals, who she beat in the Stuttgart final, as the Pole bids to win her fifth successive WTA tour title. Ad/> A topsy-turvy opening set saw both players break each other's serve three times, but it was Swiatek who took control in the tie-break.
MotoGP Le Mans: ‘Good result’ from Dixon’s ‘strange day’
Inde GasGas Aspar’s Jake Dixon suffered a ‘strange day’ as he prepared for the French GP completing Friday eighth in the Moto2 times.
Angola’s Formigas basketball school: shaping kids for life
Hard-working like the ants they’re named after, Angola’s Formigas do Cazenga are a basketball team and school preparing inner-city kids in Luanda for a better life. One of their star players, Sara Caetano, has gone on to the Tony Parker Adéquat Academy in Lyon, France. Parker, a veteran NBA star, says he aims to find more players like Sara in Angola and beyond.