After a year off, British judo Olympian Lucy Renshall took home her second consecutive medal at the Zagreb Grand Prix.
Following a gold-winning campaign at the European Open in October, the 29-year-old made a fine comeback in Croatia by competing in the -63 kg category.
Although Israel’s Gili Sharir lost to Renshall in the semi-finals, Renshall won gold in the bronze medal contest against Sharir’s fellow compatriot Inbal Shemesh.
Renshall, who retired from competing at the Paris Olympics in 2024, said, “It’s great to be back on the IJF tour.”
I took a year off the WCPP (World Class Performance Programme for British Olympians) after the Olympics to concentrate on other things and take a break, but I was eager to return.
I felt more than prepared to take the “step by step” approach, with UK competitions coming first, followed by a European Open following. I can see how hard work has paid off after competing in the Zagreb Grand Prix and winning a medal. I’m more than ever upbeat and looking forward to what’s up next.
After the couple have been separated for a while, Vogue Williams has furiously refrained from making accusations that she is “heading for a breakup” with husband Spencer Matthews.
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Vogue and Spencer have been tied up with a few separate projects(Image: Dave Benett, Jed Cullen/Dave Benett/Getty Images)
Vogue Williams, a reality TV personality, has responded to rumors that her marriage to Spencer Matthews “is headed for a breakup.”
She revealed to co-host Joanne McNally on the My Therapist Ghosted Me podcast that she had been in the dark about rumours that Spencer and her husband were “headed for a breakup because they’re spending so much time apart.” “
Vogue pointed the finger at Joanne as the liar who was the source of the gossip while mocking Spencer’s absence from her “girls’ weekend” at the Glen Affric Estate in the Scottish Highlands.
According to her, she told Joanne, “Spencer and Vogue are headed for a breakup because they’re spending so much time apart.”
And because he appeared on Saturday in my Affric content, I could only speculate as to what it was. But I’m like, maybe it’s because he’s going away for three weeks as well. . “
She argued, however, that couples should be able to concentrate on their individual careers without stoking the false impressions that their relationships might be troublesome. She yelled at me. Do we now need to be sewn together to demonstrate our unity? “.
As Vogue and Tom Read Wilson reportedly plan to join the I’m A Celebrity roster, the gossip machine will have fresh material this week. Get Me Out of Here, Everyone! on Thursday, Jungle. She has pledged to stoke trouble.
“I wouldn’t mind causing a bit of mischief, a bit like Traitors vibes,” she told the Mirror.
I’m not trying to irritate anyone, but I think I’m willing to play the game. “
And Vogue is gearing up for an extended stint, too: “I have done all my Christmas shopping,” she said.
When Ian Machado Garry takes on Belal Muhammad on Saturday in Qatar, he claims that he has the chance to make everyone else in the welterweight division “irrelevant.”
In a fight that could determine the number one contender against welterweight champion Islam Makhachev, the Irishman, who is ranked sixth, will face second-ranked American Muhammad.
Last week at UFC 322, Makhachev dominated Jack Della Maddalena with a card featuring several other welterweight competitors who were in the spotlight.
Leon Edwards, a former world champion, was knocked out by Brazil’s Carlos Prates, and Michael Morales of Ecuador’s Michael Morales of the United States, did the same.
One thing needs to be made clear, I want to say. Everyone in this room, in every interview I’ve given this week, has questions for people from the previous week, Machado Garry said.
When I defeat Belal Muhammad this week, I render Belal Muhammad out of the welterweight division. I’ll establish myself as the top contender.
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The 28-year-old Machado Garry’s victory over Muhammad, 37, will undoubtedly bring his name to the minds of Makhachev’s upcoming challenger, but he may need to do so in a special way to win.
Prates’ victory in the straight left defeat of Edwards elevated him to fifth place in the welterweight rankings.
Morales, by contrast, outperformed Brady before coming off the bench to record his 19-game unbeaten run and move up to third place in the rankings.
Shavkat Rakhmonov, who is ranked four and defeated Machado Garry in the UFC last December, finished sixth, but the Kazakhstani fighter is currently out injured.
Prates (90%), Rakhmonov (86%), and Morales (71%) all have higher UFC finish rates than Machado Garry (33%), but he is confident of persuading the matchmakers he deserves to be next.
“It’s about being the best and most interesting,” added Machado Garry. I was the deciding factor in what happens to the rest of the division, despite the guys’ excellent work last week.
“It’s my entire goal this weekend to go out there and prove to myself that Ian Machado Gary is the best welterweight currently on the planet.”
After defeating Della Maddalena, Makhachev, 34, demanded a title fight with Kamaru Usman, the previous champion.
The 38-year-old Nigerian, who defeated Joaquin Edwards in June, is eighth overall in the world rankings, one place ahead of Edwards.
Machado Garry claims that since the division has advanced, Makhachev should concentrate on developing younger fighters like Prates and Morales rather than “has-beens.”
Because it’s an easy fight, an easy pay check, and a first title defense, he continued, “If I were Islam, I would want to fight Usman as well.”
Team Pimblett teammates ready to make their debut
On the undercard, two British lightweight team-mates will make their UFC debuts.
At featherweight, Bogdan Grad of Austria takes on Liverpool’s Luke Riley, who has won his first 11 fights so far.
Nurullo Aliev, a fellow Liverpudlian, will face lightweight from Tajikistan, by Shem Rock, a fellow Liverpudlian.
The pair have traveled together and are set to corner them for their fights in Doha, according to Pimblett, who is fifth in the lightweight UFC rankings.
After the military issued forced displacement orders to residents of several southern Lebanoni towns, Israeli warplanes on Wednesday destroyed a number of buildings. Israel is pursuing sites that it claims are Hezbollah.
I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! is a reality for Lily Phillips, who has revealed she would definitely be up for it! after recently visiting Australia.
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Lily Phillips has opened up about potentially appearing on I’m A Celeb, as well as her dating life(Image: HN)
Lily Phillips has hinted she could be set to appear on I’m A Celebrity. The content creator, who is no stranger to controversy, is currently in Australia, where the ITV programme is filmed. This year, the likes of Jack Osbourne, Aitch, AngryGinge, Ruby Wax, Lisa Riley, Eddie Kadi and Kelly Brook are all battling out to become the next King or Queen of the Jungle.
But while the current celebs are embedded deep in the camp, Lily, 24, admits she would be more than happy to be surrounded by spiders and snakes. “I would love to do I’m A Celeb,” she told the Mirror. She added: “I wish that is why I was going to Australia. I one hundred per cent would love to [do it], I’d have to buy some critters from the internet before and try them and do my own little Bushtucker Trials. I’ve been skydiving, I’m not really afraid of creepy crawlies, I think I’d be pretty good in the jungle.”
She continued, “My home is infested with spiders because I currently reside in the countryside.” We’ve come to the conclusion that we’re just cohabiting, which is fine.
The content creator has recently made an appearance on ITV’s Blind Matchmaker, despite Lily’s reputation for her frequently contentious adult entertainment stunts. Contestants are completely blindfolded as they search for love in the television series. The contestants can only rely on the person’s voice, confidence, humor, and personality to determine their own success, unlike other shows like Love Is Blind.
Lily praised the concept of no preconceived notions of how someone looks or what kind of bias exists behind it. She continued, “I think it’s kind of like Blind Dates because it’s nice to date someone based on their voice and personality rather than necessarily their appearance.”
Reflecting on dating as a woman in her early twenties with dozens of apps, including the likes of Raya, Tinder and Hinge to name a few, Lily said: “If you don’t like the way they look, they’re out of the picture.
Dating apps now narrow down their search using around five images and a string of questions, including “Dream dinner guests” and “Describe your ideal Sunday” before even speaking with the person at the other end.
I personally find someone to be more attractive because I become more drawn to them and form a relationship with them. Although she may have hundreds of potential partners waiting to meet her, Lily acknowledges that her dating life is not all that it can be called.
She described her quest for love as “challenging.” I don’t really date, in any way, in any way, either, in all truth. I’ve never been on a date, and I’ve always felt like “This is going to be serious,” so I just assumed that someone would never date me because they knew what I do. But let’s go out for some drinks and have a good time.
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“So definitely challenging, but we won’t quite cross that bridge yet; we’ll see when it comes.” However, Lily acknowledges that it “weans out” people who she wouldn’t date if they were hostile toward her or opposed to her. “I wouldn’t want to date them anyway, just because I don’t live in that kind of lifestyle.”
On ITVX and ITV’s YouTube channel, you can watch Blind Matchmakers.
The development board of Rwanda’s premier league leaders announced on Wednesday that their partnership with Arsenal would end at the end of the current season.
The Visit Rwanda partnership, which was signed eight years ago, had become more and more sensitive as a result of the escalating violence in the mineral-rich eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, which is close to Rwanda.
The M23 militia, which has seized large tracts of DRC territory since it took up arms in 2021, is being alleged by the DRC to be supporting and arming Rwanda.
Despite signing a ceasefire agreement and peace framework in recent months, the conflict has claimed the lives of thousands of people and created a humanitarian crisis.
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Arsenal supporters protested the partnership’s continued existence in April, in which case the Visit Rwanda logo is displayed on the players’ jersey sleeves.
The Rwanda Development Board announced in a statement that Arsenal and the Rwanda Development Board had reached a mutual agreement to end their partnership at the end of the current season, bringing the partnership to an end.
Rwanda maintains partnerships with Atletico Madrid, Bayern Munich, and Paris Saint-Germain in Europe.
