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On Saturday, the English rugby union might have welcomed a superstar.

Noah Caluori, a teen winger, scored five tries to help Saracens defeat Sale Sharks in their blatantly stunning full Premiership debut, 65-14.

The Sale defense struggled with Caluori’s 6′ 5″ frame repeatedly, both in the air and on the ground, due to his 6′ 5″ frame.

Sam Warburton, a former Wales captain, believes Steve Borthwick should call up the 19-year-old for the autumn internationals because he was so stunned.

In his capacity as a TNT Sports pundit, Warburton declared, “I haven’t seen a player this good in the air, ever, and he’s a teenager.”

After watching Caluori’s incredible performance, former England winger Chris Ashton, a different TNT pundit, declared he was “lost for words.”

Even former Sarries hero Ashton’s signature swan dive scoring celebration was emulated by Caluori, but Ashton doesn’t believe the teenager will take anything from him.

With a score of 101, Ashton compared his own status as the all-time top-flight try scorer, saying, “He’ll only need 20 games to get [my] record.”

He has shown some of his skill in the air, but you don’t see him very often gliding past players with ease. You might get one of his three or four really good tries [normally].

He’s in a great team, and Sale reduced his team to 14 men, but Sale had no idea how to handle his air conditioning skills in the first half. Five tries on your first try is… I have no words to describe. That is excellent.

Has he exceeded expectations in this regard?

Alex Sanderson, the Sale boss who had already lost some ground, could not hide his admiration.

“I don’t believe it could have been any better for him,” he said. Five attempts? If you look at the scoreline, he defeated us by himself,” Sanderson said.

It would be easy to see Caluori’s stunning display as a launch pad for a successful club and international rugby career. His future appears incredibly bright.

However, Saracens rugby director Mark McCall cautioned against exceedingly high expectations.

Everyone needs to take a breath, according to McCall, but Noah’s aerial ability is unique.

He is both a fantastic child and a very special player. He’s a very young, sage, and intelligent person who will undoubtedly attract a lot of attention.

He can handle that, but he isn’t yet the best player, by any means.

He is aware of the importance of improving. Although his ceiling is enormous, let’s take advantage of it and allow him to grow naturally.

McCall also cautioned Caluori that his burgeoning reputation must be guarded as well.

Caluori declared he would go over the experience as soon as he could after revealing his excitement over his night of work.

“I’m probably going to watch it back and wonder, how did this happen?” “,” Caluori told TNT.

“I merely wanted to make the most of it,” he said. We had a set goal as a team this week: returning to being ruthless, bouncing back to zero, and going once more, giving it our all.

When I told my roommates back home that they thought names like Maro Itoje were my current team-mates, I said. We as young people as possible are attempting to learn the most from them.

If Caluori maintains his form from Saturday, Itoje might well be his team-mate for both the club and the nation.

And that should occur sooner, than later, according to former Irish Lions captain Warburton.

He is almost undefendable, Warburton continued, “I can’t believe the height he can reach.”

Finishing it in the gravel trap wasn’t the ending Jonathan Rea wanted, in a career that earned 119 victories, 264 podium finishes, and six World Superbike Championship titles.

The Northern Ireland rider was planning to end his glittering 17-year career at Sunday’s Jerez final race of the season.

However, it came to an abrupt conclusion when Rea was denied a second start in the Superpole race for a knee injury sustained during a first-lap collision.

There were “mixed emotions” in the 38-year-old’s words, “I’m very grateful that I’ve had the career that I’ve had” but not the end we all hoped for.

Being excluded from the season finale was a cruel way to leave the sport, as well as putting an end to a challenging two-year relationship with Yamaha, which he had called “stressful” and “struggle,” and which was a step up from the six titles won by Kawasaki between 2015 and 2020.

Rea told BBC Sport NI’s Stephen Watson in Spain, “I was frustrated to go down, and to be ruled out of my last race isn’t how I wanted to write the story’s conclusion.”

“I need to be very content, too.” I’m happy to close the chapter.

Rea, who also ended Saturday’s opening race in the gravel at Jerez, had a second crash of the weekend.

On the first lap of his motorcycle, he and Australian Remy Gardner collided, sending both riders into the gravel trap. Rea was taken away from his torn bike on a stretcher when the collision occurred on Sunday morning.

He claimed that early signs of knee ligament damage showed up while he was walking in the paddock.

Rea added that his team manager and wife Tatia, who had frequently been by his side with their sons Jake and Tyler, made him feel bad when he learned he would no longer be able to race one last time.

He continued, “It’s tough in one way because it’s not how you imagined you finished.”

You are not able to choose how that ends, as every story does, though.

Rea’s World Superbike career’s final two years could not have been more different from the unheard success he had during his golden era, when he broke records after records to become the most decorated rider in the championship.

However, he compared Valentino Rossi, the legend of motorcycle racing, who won six titles in the top class before his retirement in 2021, to his cherished memories.

Rea, who started out with Honda in 2008, continued, “This is just a small chapter in a big book that we’ve written.”

“The great Valentino Rossi, I can’t recall how his final season, let alone his final race, went. I hope that’s how I’ll be remembered.

I went down fighting, and I hope people still are inspired by that statement. I’m certain that I will leave my career feeling content with what I did and that I will never have any regrets.

Rea hobbled into his box in the pits while his team waved a “Thank you JR” banner, and then received a special helmet to mark his professional career.

We’re proud of what he has accomplished, but we’re more proud of who he is, according to his father Johnny, a successful motorcycle racer himself in the 1980s.

Toprak Razgatlioglu won his third World Superbike title in Jerez, beating Nicolo Bulega in the final race, in a dramatic manner.

The BMW rider, who won the championship in 2021 and 2024, had a sizable 39-point lead over Bulega from Ducati at the weekend.

Although Bulega won the Superpole sprint race on Saturday in front of Razgatlioglu, that margin decreased as a result.

Rea and Gardner had made eye contact with the riders’ leaders on the opening lap, but Bulega made a gaping pass and the defending champion slid into the gravel.

Although Bulega received a long-lap penalty for the incident, he still had enough speed to win the sprint race and cut Razgatlioglu’s lead to 22 points.

All eyes were on Razgatlioglu, who needed to finish 13th or higher to claim the title, after the 26-year-old Italian rider controlled the main race to claim the title.

In the end, the 29-year-old raced from 10th to third place to celebrate his final World Superbike victory before joining Yamaha for MotoGP in 2026.

“We had a fantastic season,” he said. Everyone, my team, everyone worked so hard, thank you very much, Razgatlioglu said to TNT Sports.