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“I was keen, mad keen. I had to be,” William Buick says as he remembers how, as a boy in Oslo, he was desperate to ride racehorses before school every freezing day. Buick, who has just become Britain’s champion jockey for a second successive year, would cycle to a racecourse despite the brutal winter mornings. “I was about 12 and I’d be riding out for Wido Neuroth, who is the biggest trainer in Norway, and Scandinavia.
Quarter-final weekend, as it had always threatened to, saved its best for last. An extraordinary match of fluctuating fortunes ended with French players scattered across the turf, part despair, part exhaustion, denied the chance to prevail at their own World Cup.
It remains one of the more striking moments in Olympic history: a star-spangled rocket man hovering over the Los Angeles Coliseum at the opening ceremony in 1984, heralding a new era of commercialism and pizzazz. And although history is unlikely to precisely repeat when the Games return in five years’ time, it will rhyme: LA 2028 plans to go big and brash again.
Off comes the scrum cap. The Stade de France is slowly emptying: of people, of noise, of hope. Antoine Dupont trudges across the turf, dazed and directionless, hands clasped to his head. This is a place he knows and a feeling he does not. He drags his blue jersey up over his face, but the tears do not come yet, and so he pulls it down again. For perhaps the first time on a rugby field, Dupont has no idea what he’s supposed to be doing.
In the pantheon of world netball greats, South Africa-born shooter Irene van Dyk – who played 72 Tests for the Proteas before switching allegiances and playing 145 times for New Zealand – stands alone. For now anyway.
Wales needed to beat Croatia to keep their automatic qualification hopes alive and how they got a barnstorming performance to match. Harry Wilson was the match-winner on a supercharged night, scoring twice to hoist Wales into second in Group D and take matters into their hands, but there were no end of moments to savour from this monumental victory over a team ranked sixth in the world.
Lisa Bluder’s idea turned into history. The Iowa’s women’s basketball coach came up with the plan for her team to play an outdoor game at Kinnick Stadium, with the hope of setting an all-time women’s basketball attendance record.