Sir Jim Ratcliffe has the money and drive to hire a Manchester United dream team
Manchester United were never going to issue a response to the Ineos spokesman who declared Sir Jim Ratcliffe's interest in buying the club on Wednesday night.
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Shahbaz Ahmed has been a three-year project for us: Mike Hesson
Indian Premier League is still a few months away but Royal Challengers Bangalore are back in business, putting their players through the grind at monthly camps monitored by their coaches. Despite qualifying for the playoffs, the Faf du Plessis-led side returned a mixed bag last year, though some players are making telling statements with the national squad. Dinesh Karthik’s career has received a second wind, pacer Mohammed Siraj is back after a lull, Harshal Patel is in the mix and Shahbaz Ahmed has earned his maiden India call-up.
Is there room for a world gymnastics champion on the world championships team?
TAMPA — Stephen Nedoroscik is the lone entrant at the U.S. Gymnastics Championships who already owns an individual world title, yet he might not make the five-man team for the world championships in two months.
La Vuelta 2022: 'Lovely to see' - Classy gesture praised as Jumbo-Visma hand 'gift' victory to Robert Gesink
Jumbo-Visma not only won the day with a dominant display in the Stage 1 team time trial at La Vuelta, but they also came up with a very classy gesture to recognise Robert Gesink's selfless career. The Dutch team beat Ineos Grenadiers to top spot on the timesheet by 13 seconds to stamp their authority on the third and final Grand Tour of the season in a significant way in front of jubilant fans in Utrecht. Ad In clinching victory they also found the time to show respect and appreciation for one of the team's unsung heroes in Gesink, who has dedicated his career to supporting his team-mates while receiving little individual glory.
Opinion: Team time trial discipline makes welcome but subdued return to La Vuelta as Jumbo-Visma triumph
Let’s be honest – it was hardly edge-of-the-seat entertainment or white-knuckle tension. But then when was the last time you could say that about a prologue or opening individual time trial? Even so, we got to witness a supersonic performance from Jumbo-Visma as they got Primoz Roglic’s quest for an historic fourth consecutive Vuelta off the ground.
'Pretty epic' – Dan Bigham beats Victor Campenaerts’ previous mark to smash UCI Hour Record
Britain’s Dan Bigham smashed the Hour record after he completed a distance of 55.548km around the Tissot Velodrome in Grenchen, Switzerland. Bigham, who is an aerodynamics specialist and race engineer for the British cycling team Ineos Grenadiers, beat the previous record of 55.089km, meaning he was almost half a kilometre faster than when the record was set by Belgium's Victor Campenaerts back in 2019. Ad The Hour record is considered one of the most prestigious records in cycling as it is the longest distance cycled in one hour on a bicycle.
Stuart Broad’s dreamy innings lends England a certain poetry in decay
Welcome back, then, the England Test team. We’ve been expecting you. On a weirdly frictionless third day at Lord’s England’s cricketers simply ran out of Baz. Or rather, they met a much stronger opponent in South Africa, with a bowling attack good enough to strip away the buzzwords, the marketing schlock, the vibes power, the man-feelings, to bury the adrenal highs of the early summer. And to do so with a surgical brilliance that feels all the more peculiar because it doesn’t really lead anywhere.
ICC relents to broadcaster pressure on ‘media rights’ opaqueness, brings some clarity to tender process
The ICC has now decided to do the following:A) The base price (ICC has used the term 'benchmark' price) for the four-year rights cycle for all ICC matches in India is now being pegged at US$1.44b. B) The ICC is about to convey to broadcasters that a '2.8 multiplier formula' will be applied to the eight-year cycle, which means the base price for the eight-year cycle will be calculated at US$1.44b (base for four years) multiplied by 2.8, which works out to around US$4b.