Real Madrid's most decorated player Marcelo confirms departure
After lifting a fifth Champions League trophy with Real Madrid, captain Marcelo said he is bringing his 16-year stint with the Spanish and European champions to an end.
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Giro d’Italia demons purged, can Jai Hindley now threaten cycling superstars Tadej Pogacar and Primoz Roglic?
Jai Hindley successfully broke up a Giro d’Italia duopoly on Sunday in becoming the first rider in five years to secure the maglia rosa who wasn’t either from Ineos Grenadiers or called Richard Carapaz. The Bora-Hansgrohe rider also became the first rider outside cycling’s big three teams – Ineos, Jumbo-Visma and UAE Team Emirates – to win a Grand Tour in the previous nine editions since Carapaz’s Giro win for Movistar in 2019.
Jai Hindley becomes first Australian Giro d'Italia champion
Bora–Hansgrohe rider Jai Hindley became the first Australian winner of the Giro d'Italia after safely coming through Sunday's final stage, a 17.1km time trial around Verona, to stay ahead of Ecuadorian challenger Richard Carapaz.
Huddersfield Town stand at crossroads as supporters brace for Wembley's emotional rollercoaster
Excitement and anxiety are so closely related because the cause of so often the same: uncertainty. The future is never written, but a lot of the time we go through our lives knowing that tomorrow will be more or less the same as today. Days like this, though, send us through a cycle of nerves, excitement, anxiety, anticipation, edginess and mania because there is no way of knowing what tomorrow will look like for Huddersfield Town.
Newcastle line up high-profile friendlies against Atalanta and Athletic Bilbao in late July
NEWCASTLE: Newcastle United’s US travel plans may well be in tatters but that hasn’t stopped them landing two high-profile home summer friendlies.
Giro d'Italia 2022 Stage 21 LIVE - Jai Hindley intent on closing out maiden Grand Tour success
STAGE 20 RECAP: Hindley in pink after Carapaz cracks on Marmolada, Covi wins Stage 20 Ad/> The stars finally aligned for Bora-Hansgrohe and Jai Hindley after the Australian cracked his pink jersey rival Richard Carapaz on the final climb of the Giro d’Italia in the Dolomites on Saturday. Hindley’s unforgiving burst of pace on the steep Marmolada, or Passo Fedaia, inside the final few kilometres of Stage 20 snapped the elastic for the Ineos Grenadier leader, who battled to limit his losses but fell 1:25 behind his rival ahead of the final time trial on Sunday.
Scheffler seizes PGA Colonial lead with closing birdie
LOS ANGELES: Top-ranked Masters champion Scottie Scheffler closed with a 30-foot birdie putt to seize a two-stroke lead after Saturday’s wind-whipped third round of the US PGA Charles Schwab Challenge.
Opinion: Bora Hansgrohe and Jai Hindley won the Giro d'Italia more than Ineos Grenadiers and Richard Carapaz lost it
Jai Hindley was right: he hadn't come to the Giro «to put socks on centipedes» after all. Hindley uttered that deliciously Australian expression after slashing Richard Carapaz's lead to three seconds in Aprica at the start of the third week — the same three seconds by which he trailed his rival for pink going into Saturday's final day in the mountains.