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The third race of the 2014 Formula 1 calendar edges ever closer as the sport’s best and brightest descend upon Bahrain for their first practice sessions on Friday. Having won the Australian Grand Prix before placing second in Malaysia last weekend, Nico Rosberg comes to the Bahrain International Circuit on top of the drivers’ standings, with Mercedes team-mate Lewis Hamilton following in...
Published: April 4, 2014
President of the Federation Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA), Jean Todt, has sent a letter to Sebastian Vettel reprimanding the four-time Formula 1 world champion for recent comments made on the V6 engine. German daily newspapers Sport Bild and Tagesspiegel (h/t GrandPrix247) revealed Todt had sent the personal message earlier this week, following Vettel‘s claims...
Published: April 3, 2014
There are now just 18 months until England welcomes the 2015 Rugby World Cup to its shores, but no man is a certainty for the event. Over the next year-and-a-half, each and every player who is hoping to have a role in rugby’s most prestigious tournament will be put through his paces, albeit some boast a more assured spot than others. The tightrope journey is more precarious for some, though,...
Published: April 1, 2014
With this season’s Heineken Cup quarter-finals waiting just around the corner, Europe’s giants took a final breath on the domestic stage before they resume their international endeavours. Logovi’i Mulipola will be among those featuring in the last eight of the continent’s heavy hitters, and for the second week in succession, he makes this week’s shortlist after another...
Published: March 31, 2014
The Sharks took one step closer to the Super Rugby title, capitalising on the Chiefs’ 34-34 draw against the Bulls, triumphing over the Waratahs to take a six-point lead at the summit of the standings. The quality performances rolled in from across the league, though, with the Hurricanes and Chiefs contributing their share of star displays to the weekend line-up. Read on for a compilation of...
Published: March 27, 2014
The British and Irish Lions tour is a momentous occasion of any rugby professional’s career, and one which some might wish came more regularly than its current four-year cycle. However, while it may be no enviable task, we’ve decided to step into Warren Gatland’s shoes for a brief spell, piecing together a theoretical 37-man squad which could tour this summer. For the sake of precision,...
Published: March 26, 2014
An ex-Formula One chief doctor says that due to “serious lapses in judgement,” Michael Schumacher was airlifted to the wrong hospital after hitting his head in a skiing accident. The poor judgement, which caused vital hours to be lost in the race to save the driver’s life, “could, and almost certainly did, worsen the outcome in Michael’s case,” and he now...
Published: March 25, 2014
Following Round 6 of the campaign, Super Rugby no longer has any unbeaten teams, with the Sharks and the Chiefs each losing in their most recent outings to spice things up at the top of the table. With those underdog victories came the appropriate amount of heavy hits, but it was the Highlanders’ meeting with the Hurricanes that produces the biggest collision of all this time around. In the Northern...
Published: March 24, 2014
Round 6 of the 2014 Super Rugby calendar brought with it a great deal of change in the Southern Hemisphere’s landscape. The Chiefs and the Sharks each saw their unbeaten starts to the season come to an end at the hands of the Western Force and Bulls respectively, but both teams remain at the summit of their conferences nonetheless. However, it wasn’t just the big guns who featured in some...
Published: March 19, 2014
The 2014 Six Nations championship didn’t fail in living up to its billing as the tightest tournament of its kind to date, with a flurry of last-minute drama giving the competition a particularly vivid send-off. In the end, it was Ireland who withstood a French tide in Paris to claim their first title since 2009, with Joe Schmidt reigning triumphant in his first major voyage with the team. However,...