TT 2022: Dunlop takes Supersport race two victory
Michael Dunlop took his second win of TT 2022 on Friday when he bagged the second Monster Supersport race win ahead of Peter Hickman and Dean Harrison.
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Watsonians close in on FOSROC title with Edinburgh's Matt Currie in at outside centre
Just two days after being named in the Scotland squad for the summer tour, Matt Currie will turn out at outside centre for Watsonians as they aim to clinch the FOSROC Super6 Sprint Series title against nearest challengers Stirling County this evening (7.45pm).
Shericka Jackson wins over Elaine Thompson-Herah, Allyson Felix in Rome
Shericka Jackson played spoiler in a race that included the three women who combined to win the last seven Olympic flat sprint titles, taking the 200m at a Diamond League meet in Rome on Thursday.
Shericka Jackson sets meeting record with season-best time at Diamond League 200m in Rome, Dina Asher-Smith third
Jamaican sprinter Shericka Jackson won the 200m at the Diamond League meeting in Rome for the Golden Gala Pietro Mennea. Until 2021, Olympic gold medallist Jackson had focused on the longer sprint disciplines but she is now having success in the shorter events. Ad/> The 27-year-old came to Italy with a season’s best of 22.07 seconds to her name but broke both that time and the meeting record of 22.06 held by Dina Asher-Smith, with a time of 21.91.
Hamilton made honorary citizen of Brazil
Lewis Hamilton was made an honorary citizen of Brazil on Thursday as the lower house of parliament passed a bill on the matter.
Another win for Wout van Aert at the Criterium du Dauphine, but bunch leaves it late as Belgian wins Stage 5
A nailbiting finale in Chaintre ended with hearts broken in the breakaway, as a marauding peloton denied them mere metres from the line. Wout van Aert (Jumbo Visma) won by half a wheel from Jordi Meeus (Bora Hansgrohe) and Ethan Hayter (Ineos Grenadiers) in third, to make it two wins and four top two finishes from five stages so far. Ten bonus seconds took the Belgian rider’s lead in the general classification to over a minute from Italian Mattia Cattaneo (QuickStep AlphaVinyl).
Women's Tour 2022: Grace Brown wins Stage 4 in Wales, Lorena Wiebes relinquishes race lead
Grace Brown (FDJ Nouvelle Aquitaine) claimed a first road victory of the season at the Women’s Tour on Stage 4, beating Kasia Niewiadoma (Canyon–SRAM) and Elisa Longo Borghini (Trek-Segafredo) into second and third in a very select sprint finish. Having been a key member of a medium-sized group that successfully snapped the elastic from the peloton, and then the instigator of a move that reduced that break to ribbons, the Australian rider played the finale to perfection.
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