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London Marathon 2025 Elite Fields: men for men, entrance lists for women

The London marathon, on April 27, will showcase the first face to face confrontation between the Olympic women’s gold medalists for decades.

The female elite field includes the Olympic champion of Paris Sifan Hassan in the Netherlands, the Olympic champion of Tokyo Peres Jepchirchir of Kenya and the holder of the Ruth Chepngetich world record of Kenya.

More Ethiopian Tigst Assefa, which means that the field includes the three fastest women in history: Chepngetich (2:09:56), Assefa (2:11:53) and Hassan (2:13:44).

Hassan and Jepchirchir would be the first gold medalists of the Olympic female marathon to run on 26.2 miles since the Ethiopian Fatuma Roba and the Valentina Yegorova Russian went to one to the Nagano 2004 marathon in Japan in Japan in Japan in Japan in Japan , according to Tilastopaja.

In Paris, Hassan won the gold marathon after bronze in 5000m and 10,000m. She became the second person to win a medal in the three longest races at the Olympic Games after the Czech Emil Zátopek, who won the three in 1952.

Hassan won the London marathon in 2023 when he started at the distance.

“London is also the place where I learned to be patient, to trust myself and to continue to push even when it seems impossible,” She said in a press release. “It is a place where I grew up, not only as an athlete, but as a person.”

Jepchirchir is the only person to win the Olympic, Boston and New York marathons during a career. She did it in eight months in 2021 and 2022.

On October 13, Chepngetich lowered the world record to 2:09:56, becoming the first woman to beat 2:10 in the marathon and breaking the previous Asfa record of 1:57.

The male field of the London marathon includes the Olympic gold medalist from Paris Tamirat tola of Ethiopia, as well as the Olympic and global bronze medalist of 10,000m Jacob Kiplimo in Uganda during his 26.2 miles beginnings.

Triathlon – Olympic Games Paris 2024: Day 5

Alex Yee, Olympic Triathlon Olympic gold medalist, to run the London marathon

Alex Yee will become the last triathlon star to run a marathon.

February 18, 2025
Billy outsidechel, Russell Henley, Sungjae IM, Luke Clanton de FSU in Cognizant Classic Field

Palm Beach Gardens – Three golfers classified in the Top 25 in the world and the most classified world’s amateur engaged in the Cognizant Classic in the beaches of Palm.

Russell Henley, ranked 17th in the official ranking of world golf course, n ° 21 Billy outside the chick and n ° 22 Sungjae IM will be joined by the Junior of Florida State University Luke Clanton for the event which takes place on February 27 at 2 March at PGA National.

Henley, the 2014 winner after defeating Rory McILroy, Russell Knox and Ryan Palmer in a playoff series, made his 11th awareness. Henley won four times on the PGA Tour. It is currently n ° 19 in the Fedex Cup classification with the first 10 this season at the Sony Open (T10) and the Pebble Beach Pro-Am (T5).

IM won the Cognizant 2020 classic, pulling a last 66 round to retain Mackenzie Hughes by a shot for his first PGA Tour career victory during his 50th departure. He plays cognizant for the seventh consecutive time. The double winner of the tour is n ° 12 in the Fedex Cup classification and two top 5 this season at the Sentry (3) and Farmers Insurance Open (T4).

Billy Horschel looks at his Birdie Putt on the sixth green when the Cognizant Classic is opened in Palm Beachs from PGA National Resort & Spa on Thursday, February 29, 2024, at Palm Beach Gardens, fl.

Excluding the former Florida Gator, placed in the top-20 five times in 12 departures from Cognizant, including his best outing, equally in 2017, five drawn behind the winner Rickie Fowler. Excluding eight times winner on tour, has a 43rd in the Fedex Cup classification. Its best finish in six events this season is a T9 at Pebble Beach Pro-Am.

Clanton, in the field on a sponsor exemption, seeks to secure his PGA Tour card. He accelerated 19 points at the PGA Tour University, a point less from the 20 points necessary to win a tour card after the spring season. The native of Hialeah will make his first official departure at the National PGA and the fourth professional start of the season. He was tied in the 15th rank at Open Farmers Insurance.

The executive director of Cognizant Classic, Todd Fleming, said that the addition of Henley, IM and out of pearl is “a testimony of the solid field and the intense competition that we are impatient to present”. He said that Clanton “would add another layer of excitement for the phenomenon of the state of Florida and local fans throughout the week of the tournament”.

Cognizant has now announced seven of the first 50 in the world and expect at least 10 more when the final field is revealed on Friday. In addition, the inhabitants of Fowler, Daniel Berger, Gary Woodland and Camilo Villegas were confirmed.

The tournament is in its second year with Cognizant as a title sponsor and with the management division of the PGA Tour championships operating the event.

Classic consiant in palm beaches

February 26-March 2. Champion lessons, PGA National, Palm Beach Gardens.

TV: Thursday 2 p.m., Golf; Friday, 2 p.m., golf; Saturday, 1 p.m., the golf passing to NBC at 3 p.m.; Sunday, 1 p.m., the golf passing to NBC at 3 p.m.

Title field: Austin Eckroat.

Tom d’Angelo is a chronicler of senior sports and journalist of the Palm Beach Post. It can be attached to tdangelo@pbpost.com.

This article originally appeared on Palm Beach Post: Billy Outcher, Russell Henley, Sungjae IM is committed to Cognizant Classic

February 18, 2025
RFEF launches an investigation into the referee following controversial decisions in Osasuna vs Real Madrid

RFEF launches an investigation into the referee following controversial decisions in Osasuna vs Real Madrid

Referee Jose Manuel Munuera Montero caused all kinds of controversies in Spanish football recently after his questionable referee in the Real Madrid VS Osasuna match.

Manuel Montero notably ignored a potential penalty on Vinicius Junior, but more importantly, gave Jude Bellingham a straight red in the first half after a supposed dissent – a decision which had a considerable impact on the result of the game.

Real Madrid has remained furious with Montero’s arbitration, double their attacks on the association of arbitrators.

RFEF Survey on Manuel Montero

In the wake of the recent controversy, RFEF decided to investigate the referee Manuel Montero, reports AS.

It seems that the Director Body has launched an official survey on Montero on conflicts of potential interests linked to its out -of -range commercial activities.

The survey is centered on the property of Munuera Montero of Talentis Sports, a consulting and management company of sports which would have links with the main football institutions, including Laliga, UEFA, the RFEF itself.

Munuera Montero under surveillance. (Photo by Juan Manuel Serrano Arce / Getty Images)

He also has links with clubs like Atletico Madrid, Manchester City, Aston Villa and PSG.

The Federation’s compliance committee assesses if these associations violate article 9.1 of the regulatory code, which prohibits arbitrators from having secondary interests which could interfere with their professional functions.

Possible sanctions on cards?

The report adds that Munuera Montero could face serious consequences if it is found guilty of violation regulations.

According to the RFEF Ethics Code, all the referees, club officials and members of the director must avoid conflicts of interest.

If Munuera Montero has not disclosed its external commercial activities, it could be in violation of these regulations.

Sanctions could include a fine of up to € 100,000 and a refereeing ban that can go up to five years. That said, the investigation is still at the start of the stadiums and there remains a lot to do.

February 18, 2025
US Open 2024: Frances Tiafoe beats Ben Shelton in an exciting revenge match

Frances Tiafoe took the American revenge match against Ben Shelton. (Photo / Seth Wenig)

While the US Open continued on Friday, Ben Shelton and Frances Tiafoe clashed in a long -awaited third round match. The All-American well-matching competition ended with Tiafoe Victorious 4-6, 7-5, 6-7 (5), 6-4, 6-3 after five fascinating sets.

Tiafoe will pass in his fifth consecutive round from 16 to Flushing Meadows, where he will face Alexei Popyrin, who turned N ° 2 Novak Djokovic later on Friday.

Tiafoe and Shelton were well matched from the start, with Shelton, who pierced with a victory over Tiafoe last year, winning the first set with a 6-4 victory. In the second, Shelton took an early advance, but Tiafoe came from 5-4 to win the 7-5 set.

The third set was incredibly uniform, the players exchanging breaks on their way to an equality break, while playing high level tennis.

The equality break was more dramatic, as they are often. Shelton took an advance of 6-0, but Tiafoe responded by holding five consecutive points, largely of Shelton’s errors. He finished a short point, because Shelton struck an ace with a service of 143 mi / h to close the whole and take a 2-1 match advance.

Tiafoe took the lead at the start of the fourth set, increasing 3-2, but Shelton won the next match and brought things back to 3-3. The two exchanged a match each, before Tiafoe took an undisputed game to lead 5-4. In the decisive game, Tiafoe took advantage of some key errors from Shelton to win the 6-4 set.

Tiafoe broke Shelton at the start of the fifth set, and the younger player seemed to be too grassy to set up another return. A number of high -effort sets have caught up with it, while Tiafoe looked inflatable like never before.

The two Americans played their strengths well, with Shelton serving his usual staging while Tiafoe had excellent well -placed shots on the line. Tiafoe also took advantage of Shelton’s errors, while Shelton, 21, ended the match with 58 uncompvious mistakes against 27 of Tiafoe.

Shelton’s strength was rather in his service, with 23 AS and many more winners from Tiafoe.

Shelton against Tiafoe has become something of a rivalry in the past year. The shock of Friday was a revenge match of the US Open last year, when a Shelton, then 20, beat Tiafoe in four sets to advance in the semi-finals and celebrated, pretending to hang up The phone. Shelton continued to lose against Novak Djokovic in the semi-finals. In particular, Tiafoe will avoid Djokovic this time and will rather face Australian popyrine.

Friday’s matches were good for the Americans, starting with Coco Gauff beating Elina Svitolina in three after abandoning the first set. GAUFF will now face his American colleague Emma Navarro in the fourth round this weekend.

February 18, 2025
A rare gold medal from the 1904 St. Louis Olympic Games sold $ 545,371 at auction

BOSTON (AP) – A gold medal awarded to the first Olympic Games organized on American soil was auctioned for more than half a million dollars, which is part of the hundreds of lots of souvenirs of games during Decades, a business announced on Friday.

The medal of the St. Louis Olympic Games of 1904, sold at auction for $ 545,371, carries the inscription “Olympiad, 1904” and shows a victorious athlete holding a crown on the front. On the other side, Nike, the goddess of victory in ancient Greek mythology, is shown alongside Zeus, the king of the gods of the Pantheon, and the words for the 110 -meter obstacles that were awarded. The medal, awarded to American Fred Schule, includes the original ribbon and leather case.

It was the first Olympic Games where the gold medals were awarded and the Americans took advantage of it, winning 78 of the 96 events. Unlike the Olympic medals these days which are mainly in silver with a gold veneer, they were smaller and entirely in gold.

Bobby Eaton, Olympic specialist in Boston based RR auction, said it was unusual that a medal of this kind is presented at auction, although the particular came from the collection of the Schule family.

“No one really knows exactly how many Olympic gold medals from 1904 are still there,” said Eaton. “What we know is that they are extremely rare. Of the 100 gold medals awarded in Saint-Louis, many have been lost for time or are hidden in collections and private museums.”

Beyond the gold medals, the 1904 games were also stored for a lot of controversy and quirks.

The games were initially awarded to Chicago, but the organizers of the world exhibition in St. Louis feared the competition for attendance and protested a second international event held simultaneously. The fair organizers have threatened to organize their own sporting events. It took the founder of the modern Olympic movement, Pierre de Coubertin, to forge peace by moving the 300 miles Olympic Games (483 kilometers) to the south.

If this drama was not enough, Fred Lorz seemed to have won the marathon race until it was discovered, it rose halfway in a car.

The organizers organized “days of anthropology” when members of Aboriginal tribes around the world at the exhibition for the purchase of Louisiana, the official name of the World Fair of Saint-Louis, were torn from the fair and said to compete without warning.

The games have also seen the beginnings of boxing and free struggle, sports that hung on to the summer Olympic Games to the present day, as well as longtime croquet and tug events.

“These medals are not only competition – they are an snapshot of the first days of modern Olympic Games,” said Eaton. “Having one like this, in such an exceptional state, is really remarkable and a unique opportunity for collectors.”

The sale is part of hundreds of Olympic items that were up for auction, including a bronze medal from the Paris Olympic Games in 2024, as well as gold medals from the 1932 Los Angeles Olympic Games, Olympic Games de Tokyo from 1964, 1998 Nagano Olympics and 2012 London 2012, 1964 Tokyo Olympics, 1998 Nagano Olympics and 2012 London 2012, 2016 Olympic Games.

Olympic memories have long recovered a good price.

In 2022, the silver medal captured by Luz Long, the long German jumper who became friends with Jesse Owens at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, sold at auction for more than $ 488,000. A first silver medal awarded to the first modern Olympic Games in Athens in 1896 sold $ 180,111 when it was auctioned in 2021 and a gold medal at the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver sold $ 68,750 in 2019.

The athletes also auction their medals for charity, including the double canoe champion Yuri Cheban of Ukraine whose two gold medals and a bronze were sold at auction for $ 109,451 in 2022 to help the effort war. The swimmer Ryan Lochte sold his six Olympic silver and bronze medals at the same year, the $ 166,779 collected to go to an organization benefiting children. He kept his gold medals.

The next summer Olympic Games will be in Los Angeles in 2028, marking the third time that the City has organized the Games. He also welcomed the games in 1932 and 1984.

February 18, 2025
The Formula 1 commission proposes to add more compulsory stand stops at Monaco Grand Prix

Formula 1 Monaco Grand Prix can have at least two compulsory stops in 2025. (Photo by Bryn Lennon – Formula 1 / Formula 1 via Getty Images)

Could the Monaco Grand Prix have at least two compulsory stops in 2025?

The FIA said on Tuesday that the F1 committee “had discussed specific regulations proposals in Monaco” and “the Commission agreed to increase the number of compulsory stands in the race”. These proposals will be discussed further by the sports advisory committee in the coming weeks.

The F1 teams are currently required to make at least one tire change during a Grand Prix in dry conditions. The teams must run at least two of the three tires available during a race, which means that if a pilot starts the race on the soft compound tire, he must also run the medium or hard tire at a given time during of the event.

Monaco has been a source of dismay for F1, because the winding track through the Principality does not have much room for cars to be exceeded, especially since F1 cars have become much larger in recent years. The race is one of the most famous on the calendar, but the qualification day has an excessive importance.

Four of the last six races have not presented a single change of head and you have to return to the 2016 race to find the last race with more than two changes of the head. There have not been more than four head changes in a single Monaco Grand Prix since the 2004 race.

The commission’s proposal was unveiled among other announcements Tuesday before the painting program for each team Tuesday afternoon. The FIA said: “New more rigorous deviation tests on the front wing will be introduced from the Spanish Grand Prix” and, “new more rigorous deviation tests on the rear wing” would start at the start of the season. The fastest teams in recent years have been accused as much as possible the wings rigidity rules by moving and deviation of cars while cars are at high speed to create more support strength and reduce the trail.

February 18, 2025
Adam Scott will understand that the PGA Tour players were not happy if Liv Golfers come back

San Diego (AP) – Rory McILroy thinks that the reunification of the players who defeated the LIV golf funded by Arabia is best for membership in the PGA Tour and “Everyone must just recover” and go front.

Adam Scott will understand if there are still bad feelings. He was put in the foreground of such discussions since he joined the PGA Tour Board at the beginning of 2024, roughly when the PGA Tour was part of the strategic sports group and its investment of 1.5 billion dollars.

“I would not be surprised – or I would not judge anyone, the members – if the reunification happened and that they were not satisfied with the way it happened,” said Scott, stopping for Rub your eyes with both hands before adding: “I hope they don’t spend as much time talking about it.

“I would not keep anyone against anyone if there were negative emotions attached to it, the thoughts of the returning players.”

PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan said reunification was a priority in touring the tour with the public investment fund of Saudi Arabia. Scott shared an overview of the reasons why it took time, even if the talks seem to progress.

When asked if reunification was the only way to follow, he replied: “It is a way to follow”.

“But it’s not just the decision of the tour, you know what I mean?” He said. “There are two people in this discussion, more to be honest – the DP World Tour, many other stakeholders in the professional game. The tour and its representatives talk about it a lot.

“It is not an easy thing to solve, otherwise we would have resolved it, I think.”

Scott has no regrets to have agreed to be on the advisory advice of players for the first time at the age of 42, then to win an election to be president of PAC who led to being director of the players and Finally a trip to the White House with Monahan to meet the meeting with President Donald Trump.

But it was a lot.

“I’m going to be honest, it took a few months to wrap the stuff of the head,” he said. “During the first weeks of me coming to the board of directors, we vot for a minority shareholder to take equity in the tour. There are no easy answers to all this. Everyone has the right to Feel something about what happened.

“The only thing I know is that we are not going to please everyone, but everyone should know that I will support these players of players,” he said “they try to do the Best thing for the whole of membership.

Get a step on it

One of the advantages of the signature events of the limited field was to avoid too much traffic on the golf course, which often leads to long rounds. PGA Tour officials have succeeded – hardly – to stick to the plan of Twosomes off a tee at Genesis Invitational, a rarity on the west coast when you try to integrate into the CBS diffusion window .

This helped that 54 players cut Torrey Pines from the 72 men’s field (the cup is not a bad idea for other signature events – not only Genesis, Bay Hill and Memorial). One more group and the tour would probably have gone to the T-shirts division.

Time has certainly helped too. When the tour was in Torrey Pines a month ago, it was a complete field (cut in the top 65 and the links) with bouncing and courageous conditions.

Meanwhile, the LPGA tour is not mistaken while trying to get things done. It has an effective new policy when the tour resumes its national schedule in Arizona at the end of March.

The players will be sentenced to a fine for having taken up to five seconds above the limit. They will receive a penalty at a blow if they are six to 15 seconds above the limit and two strokes if they are exceeded by the limit of 16 seconds or more.

The first player in the group to strike 3, the shots and the approach putts will obtain 10 additional seconds, but not for extinguished on the by 4 and the by 5 (unless it is one by 4 accessible) .

Justin Leonard coaches

Mike Thomas was walking in the final of the Genesis Invitational in Torrey Pines looking at his son, Justin, recording another top-10. And from time to time, he checked his phone to get a score update – on the PGA Tour champions.

There, the first Sunday of the Chubb Classic was Justin Leonard, who won for the first time in almost 17 years.

The link with Thomas is southern Florida and Leonard’s son Luke.

Thomas, who has retired after a long career as a PGA professional in Kentucky, is best known for his work with junior golfers. Having moved to Florida, he helped Luke Leonard.

This led Justin Leonard, a former winner of the British Open and the players, to ask Mike Thomas last year to Royal Troon if it did not bother him to take a look.

Leonard grew up with the coach of the PGA renown temple, Randy Smith, in Royal Oaks, and this is always the case. Thomas gives him a set of eyes near his home, and the work has borne fruit.

“Luke, my 18 -year -old son, worked with Mike Thomas and I always appreciated the way he communicated and his eyes,” said Leonard. “So I contacted him when I was in Too after the first round and he somehow showed me what was going on and why I was struggling. So we tried to do some work in there. “”

Leonard won for the first time since St. Jude Classic in 2008.

“I have an excellent situation with Randy Smith and Mike Thomas,” he said. “It’s so fun to be finally here because I always felt like I would be.”

Classification updates

The official classification of world golf should not mean as much for Jon Rahm since he left to join the Liv Golf Funded by Saudi Arabia, which does not obtain large -game ranking points because its small list does not Never change the whole season.

He crossed the bad type of milestone anyway. Rahm fell from the top 50 this week (n ° 52) for the first time in eight years. The Spaniard first carried out the top 50 by winning the farmers’ insurance open in Torrey Pines in 2017.

Justin Thomas tends slowly in the other direction. He now has six top 10 in his last eight tournaments in the world, and his equality for the ninth at the Genesis Invitational allowed him to return to the top 10 for the first time since he missed the Cup in the Masters 2023 .

The next step for Thomas wins for the first time since he won his second PGA championship in May 2022 in Southern Hills.

Divots

Only two of the seven winners of the PGA Tour this season were not already exempt from the Masters. This is likely to change this week in Mexico, an area that has only 11 players already planned for Augusta National. … Mike Corbat, former CEO of Citigroup, and Bill Rhodes, executive president of Autzone, joined the PGA Tour Policy Board. There had been vacant posts since Jimmy Dunne and Mark Flaherty resigned last year. … Rose Zhang, champion of the NCAA of Stanford and double winner of the LPGA tour, joined the Bay Golf Club ownership group on the Indoor TGL League. … With his equality for the ninth in the Genesis Invitational, Nick Taylor became the 117th player to exceed $ 20 million in PGA Tour gains.

Weekly statistics

The seven winners of the PGA Tour this season came from seven countries – Japan, Canada, Austria, the United States, Northern Ireland, Belgium and Sweden.

Last word

“You don’t have to look too far beyond our ranking to know that outside the majors, if you want to see the best players in the world, there is only one place to see it. And It’s in Liv. ” – Scott O’Neil, the new CEO of Liv Golf.

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February 18, 2025
Arsenal and Chelsea began to outbid for the spurs for the Dortmund striker

Arsenal and Chelsea began to outbid for the spurs for the Dortmund striker

The Borussia Dortmund season collapses. A 2-0 humiliating defeat against Bochum let them blocked in the middle of the table, eight points from the champions League squares and with little recovery sign. As indicated by Bild, the consequences could be serious. If Dortmund fails to qualify for Europe, a major summer exodus is on the cards and a player attracts a particularly strong interest.

Premier League clubs line up for Bynoe-Gittens

In a season filled with frustration, Jamie Bynoe-Gittens was one of the rare light points. The 20 -year -old winger recorded seven goals and four assists, presenting his offensive prowess in one side in difficulty. His performance did not go unnoticed, especially in England.

Imago photo

According to Bild, Tottenham is desperate to bring him back to the Premier League, which would have been willing to break his financial limits to sign him. However, their task will not be easy. Arsenal and Chelsea, both financially stronger, also entered the race. This could trigger an auction war, the Spurs potentially need to match or exceed an offer of 100 million euros to have a chance.

Dortmund financial dilemma

For Dortmund, the situation is simple: miss European football, and at least a better player must be sold. With Bynoe-Gittens their most precious asset, a move to England seems the most likely result.

Imago photo

Adding to uncertainty is the fractured relationship between the player and some Dortmund fans. After being replaced against Bochum, he would have been insulted by supporters, leaving him visibly furious. His reaction suggests that a summer outing may not be unwanted.

While the Dortmund season continues to collapse, the best clubs in the Premier League are waiting behind the scenes, ready to jump.

Our point of view – Analysis of the EPP index

For fans of Arsenal and Chelsea, this transfer saga is an enticing perspective. Bynoe-Gittens represents the ideal mixture of youth, talent and potential, and whatever the club, its signature could win a future superstar.

From Arsenal’s point of view, the addition of Bynoe-Gittens to an already dynamic attack featuring Bukayo Saka, Gabriel Martinelli and Leandro Trossard would raise their team more. Its dribbling capacity, its rapid acceleration and its threat of lens make it a perfect adjustment for the high intensity system of Mikel Arteta.

Chelsea, on the other hand, has invested aggressively in young talents, and Bynoe-Gittens aligns perfectly with their long-term strategy. A move to Stamford Bridge would see him develop alongside other rising stars like Cole Palmer and Noni Madueke. Its versatility could also be a crucial asset in the evolutionary tactical approach of Enzo Maresca.

The key battle will be financial. Tottenham is passionate, but Arsenal and Chelsea have the resources to overcome them. If Dortmund is indeed forced to sell, expect an auction war with high issues, the winner obtaining one of the most exciting young wingers in England.

For fans of the two clubs, this is a transfer race that is worth watching closely.

February 18, 2025
Novak Djokovic crashes to open us 1 day after the stunning of Carlos Alcaraz

Novak Djokovic will have to wait for another year for an unprecedented 25th Grand Chelem. (AP photo / Julia Nikhinson)

By entering the US 2024 open, its two previous champions Carlos Alcaraz and Novak Djokovic were the favorites of the bets. Then, the tournament lost them both in its first week, in the space of two days, in a sport where the titans rarely fall against non-titans.

Djokovic was amazed by the seeded n ° 28 Alexei Popyrin 6-4, 6-4, 2-6, 6-4 in the third round Friday, a day after Alcaraz was rebounded by the tournament by Botic Van de Zandschulp. It was the first elimination of the Serbian star of a Grand Colem since the 2017 Australian Open.

The two upheavals leave the seeded Jannik Sinner as the favorite to win the US Open title, after winning the Australian Open 2024 earlier this year.

It also means that US Open 2024 will be the first Grand Chelem without Djokovic, Rafael Nadal or Roger Federer in the round of 16 since the 2004 France Open, while Djokovic was 17 years old (by Espn). It is a sequence of 81 tournaments.

This year will also be the first time since 2002 that no member of the Big 3 has won a slam.

Alexei Popyrin won him against Novak Djokovic

As with the upheaval of Alcaraz, Djokovic was down and a break before he really feels in difficulty. Popyrin took a set up closely by regularly storming the net and having Djokovic beat him. Djokovic, always playing with non -specific injuries, could not.

Djokovic looked even worse in the second set, before finally waking up in the third and breaking the popyrine when he first chance. He failed to consolidate this break, but worked very well with the following two. Popyrin seemed to be injured late in the second set and made a lot of mistakes in the third who shouted from a person trying to keep the energy.

There were still fun points, however.

If the popyrine kept the energy, it borne fruit in the fourth set. Assated 2-2, the Australian forced four break points and finally pierced the last with a magnificent winner of Crosscourt:

The celebration that followed was noisy enough for women’s seeded n ° 2 Aryna Sabalenka, still waiting to take the court at the Arthur Ashe stadium after Midnight, local time, copied him to the training room.

Djokovic obtained the double break point in the next match, but it just gave Popyrin the opportunity to show his courage. The following four points: The winner of Popyrin Fordehand, Popyrin Ace, Popyrin Forwand Winner, Popyrin Ace. Then he broke Djokovic again except ending the match.

It was a global ugly match of Djokovic. While Alcaraz fell because he lacked his shooting signature, Djokovic continued to give points with 14 double flaws, his never in a Grand Slam match and 49 uncompvious mistakes. The Popyrin had electrical points, but he made enough mistakes himself for a younger djokovic – or healthier – probably made him pay.

Popyrin will advance to face the n ° 20 Frances Tiafoe in the fourth round, which will be the first appearance of the 25 -year -old woman after the third round of a great slam in her entire career. It was not an upheaval out of day like Van de Zandschulp on Alcaraz, however. Popyrin won the Canadian Open, a US Open development event, earlier this month and entered New York City with as much momentum as he did in his career.

In Tiafoe, he will get a powerful veteran who survived a five -hour marathon match against Ben Shelton earlier on Friday. But he already has a strong career moment.

Waiting for Novak Djokovic for a 25th Grand Slam continues

The defeat of Djokovic at the US Open Middle 2024 will be his first year without victory at the Grand Chelem since 2017. He lost against Sinner at the Australian Open, withdrew from the French Open with a knee injury and fell in Alcaraz in the final in Wimbledon.

Djokovic at least could take advantage of his first Olympic gold this year in Paris, but at 37, he could be time to wonder how many slams he left him, especially when Alcaraz is only 21 years old and that the sinner has 23 years old.

Djokovic will have its next opportunity for a 25th slam at Australian Open next year, as well as a chance in an unprecedented 11th title in Melbourne. Only Rafael Nadal has more titles in a single Grand Slam (French Open, 14).

February 18, 2025
Former French Olympic champion withdrew

Kate French won the modern gold from Pentathlon to the Tokyo Olympic Games in 2021 [PA Media]

Modern Pentathlete Kate French, who won Olympic gold at the Tokyo Games, announced her sports retirement.

French also won five world championship medals and six European gold medals during her career, and won the World Cup title during a dominant 2021 in which she was classified as number one in the world.

The 33 -year -old man returned to sport after 18 months last summer to participate in Paris, but the illness hampered his chances of winning another medal and she withdrew from the competition on the last day.

In an article on Instagram, French said that she was leaving sport “with a heart full of happiness and a head full of wonderful memories”.

She added: “There were a lot of ups and downs, but it was an incredible adventure and frankly, I would not change anything.”

The Frenchman, from Kent but now based in Wiltshire, has been involved in sport since he joined the British Pathway program in 2007.

In 2010, she was part of the team that won the world junior title before winning a first world’s senior gold medal in the team team in Taiwan in 2013.

French finished fifth in Rio in 2016 during his first Olympic Games before storming the title in Tokyo five years later.

She swam a personal record at the 200m freestyle and finished more than 15 seconds in advance in the laser race to establish a new Olympic record for the total highest points of the event.

The French took a break in sport after winning gold in 2021, competing only twice the following year, before retreating in 2023, because it “did not want to regret” not having tried for the games from Paris last summer.

“On the one hand of performance, Kate dominated sport, and on the one hand, she continues to inspire in the way she did,” said Jamie Cooke, Pentathlon performance manager GB .

The modern pentathlon is subject to a significant overhaul before the next games in Los Angeles in 2028, with a removal show-jjumping from five events to be replaced by an obstacle course in Ninja Warrior style.

February 18, 2025