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After claiming his second victory of the 2016 Formula One season in the Canadian Grand Prix, Lewis Hamilton‘s title challenge is very much back on track. Forty-three points behind Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg after the opening five races, the three-time world champion has taken just two rounds to slice that gap to nine. Hamilton admitted he was relieved to cross the finish line at the Circuit...
Published: June 13, 2016
At this year’s U.S. Open, expect the course to get just as much attention as the golfers themselves. Golf‘s second major of the year will take place at Oakmont Country Club in Oakmont, Pennsylvania, near the city of Pittsburgh. This will be the eighth time Oakmont has played host to the U.S. Open, and it has routinely turned a simple par into a luxury score. Jordan Spieth, who won...
Published: June 13, 2016
Dominic Thiem eventually clinched victory in a rain-interrupted Mercedes Cup final on Monday, beating Philipp Kohlschreiber 6-7 (2), 6-4, 6-4. The match was strung out over two days after poor weather conditions in Stuttgart, Germany, on Sunday. It meant the players resumed on Monday with the first set precariously placed in a tiebreak before the final settled down into a fascinating contest. It was...
Published: June 13, 2016
Many expected two teams to sail through Copa America Centenario Group C. Not many predicted that Venezuela would be one of them. Mexico and Uruguay were the clear favourites to progress to the quarter-finals and heading into the final round of fixtures in the group stage, the main issue for debate was supposed to be which of the two would finish first or second. That’s still the case, although...
Published: June 13, 2016
Germany kicked off their fifth major tournament under Joachim Low’s guidance on Sunday, and the World Cup holders kept their perfect record in opening matches alive: Germany are the first team at Euro 2016 to win with more than a one-goal advantage and arguably cemented their status among the favourites to win the tournament, but not everything was sunshine and roses. In fact, there were...
Published: June 13, 2016
Hungary striker Krisztian Nemeth has had a lot to celebrate over the last 12 months. There was the curling comet of a goal that leveled the U.S. Open Cup final against Philadelphia, which Sporting Kansas later won on penalties. Then there was Nemeth making Major League Soccer history as the only player in the league’s 20-year existence to score on all of his first seven shots on goal in a season. After...
Published: June 13, 2016
With Wimbledon drawing closer, the grass-courts tournaments are hosting stars like Roger Federer and Dominic Thiem from European outposts like Stuttgart and S-Hertogenbosch. Last week, we were treated to a spectacular duel between Federer and Thiem that had all the elements of Shakespearean theater. The other big winner was Andy Murray, despite not striking a tennis ball in match play. We examine his...
Published: June 13, 2016
The U.S. Open returns this year to the venue where it’s been contested more than any other: Oakmont Country Club outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Regarded as one of the most difficult tracks in the world, and almost universally agreed to have the quickest, most difficult putting surfaces anywhere, Oakmont promises to provide the sternest of tests. Indeed, the winning score the last time the...
Published: June 13, 2016
Well, it wasn’t supposed to go like this. With a point against Peru, who hadn’t beaten Brazil in a competitive fixture for over three decades, Brazil would have advanced as group leaders to the knockout stages of the Copa America Centenario. That would have set up another no doubt fiery meeting with Colombia on Friday. Instead, the Selecao were dumped out of the continental competition...
Published: June 13, 2016
MONTREAL — Lewis Hamilton had a question when he arrived for his post-qualifying media session at the Canadian Grand Prix. After taking a quick glance at the television in the Mercedes hospitality unit, where Nico Rosberg and others were watching the England-Russia Euro 2016 match, which was in its 54th scoreless minute, Hamilton said, “How is it possible that England’s not friggin‘...