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In a two-up sprint finish, Kim le Court won the Tour of Britain Women’s first stage.

With 30 kilometers left, the pair attacked and fought off the chasing pack before resuming their assault.

With just over 200 meters left, Mauritian Le Court, 29, outsmarted the American Olympic road race champion to the finish line.

British riders Cat Ferguson and Millie Couzens finished fifth and sixth, while Lorena Wiebes finished third and five seconds behind.

Lizzie Deignan, a two-time champion, finished 20th overall before retiring from racing in the final race in the United States.

An 81.5km stage between Dalby Forest and Redcar on the Tour of Britain Women stage in North Yorkshire started with.

Le Court launched her attack at the bottom of Langburn’s Bank, where the riders were confronted by Faulkner and Blakey Ridge, with Faulkner leading the way.

With 28 kilometers to go, FDJ-Suez and Movistar led the pack in the lead pair’s direction, with FDJ-Suez and Movistar leading the charge from a reduced group that was 34 seconds ahead.

With 15 kilometers left, Faulkner almost lost the race, avoiding a traffic island only to have a corner to go.

Le Court and Le Court continued their break until the finish line before winning the sprint to take the leader’s jersey.

Referee Bobby Madley has stated that he “hates” football’s use of video assistant referee technology because it removes the emotion from the game.

Madley serves as the English Football League’s (EFL)’s fourth official for Premier League games.

VAR is used throughout matches in England’s top flight, but the EFL does not use it in regular league games.

“Hate it, hate it,” the fan said. I still support League One and the Championship, Madley said during a talk on the technology in sport at the Cheltenham Science Festival.

“Little League One is a game because you score a goal, you look at the referee, you look at the assistant, he hasn’t raised his flag,” he said.

Football is a game where there could be just one minute, one goal, and that’s it because “[VAR] takes that emotion away.”

As a fan, I don’t really enjoy that experience because I have to wait and wait and wait and wait and wait for what feels like an eternity.

More will come later.

The new trophy will be presented in the England and India Test series this summer in honor of legendary pair Sachin Tendulkar and James Anderson.

In the weeks leading up to the five-match series, which kicks off at Headingley on June 20th, the Tendulkar-Anderson Trophy will be revealed.

Tendulkar, an outstanding Indian star, has 15 921 runs in Test history. The 52-year-played 200 Tests between 1989 and 2013.

With 704 wickets, Anderson is England’s all-time best wicket-taker and the most successful test paceman.

The 42-year-old has worked as England’s bowling coach since leaving international cricket last summer, and he has since signed a one-year extension to his Old Trafford contract.

Tendulkar and Anderson faced off in 14 Tests. Tendulkar was bowled by no other bowler for nine consecutive games by Anderson.

The pair’s choice is in line with the Crowe-Thorpe Trophy, which was given its name after Graham Thorpe of England and Martin Crowe of New Zealand. The Test series was won by England with a score of 2-1 during England’s first appearance on New Zealand last year.

The Pataudi Trophy, which is named in honor of the Pataudi family, had previously been played as a test series between England and India in the UK.

In the 1930s and 1940s, the son of the Nawab of Pataudi, who was one of India’s greatest captains, played for both England and India. The Pataudi family has been informed that the trophy was changed.

Due to a Covid scare, England are the current and final holders of the Pataudi Trophy, having stayed with a 2-2 draw in a series that spanned 2021 and 2022.

The Anthony de Mello Trophy, named in honor of the former Indian cricket administrator, is played in test matches between the two nations. The De Mello Trophy will no longer be contested, but the Tendulkar-Anderson Trophy will. Following a 4-1 series win last year, India now holds the De Mello Trophy.

At the European artistic swimming Championships in Madeira, Ranjuo Tomblin won four medals overall, helping Great Britain to win six medals overall.

Tomblin won the solo technical competition last year after winning the men’s solo free title and becoming the first British male to do so in the competition. With a score of 234.4225 points, Tomblin won the men’s solo free title.

The 19-year-old now held a 1.7966-point advantage over Filippo Pelati, who won bronze with Spain’s Dennis Gonzalez Boneu.

In addition to taking home two medals in the mixed competitions, Tomblin also won bronze in this year’s solo free event.

Tomblin and Olympic silver medalist Izzy Thorpe both won silver in the technical event’s mixed duet, their first competition together.

He and Holly Hughes also won bronze in the mixed duet free.

Liverpool turned down a request to speak with forward Luis Diaz from Barcelona.

Diaz, one of Liverpool’s key players in winning the Premier League title last year, is not for sale, according to club sources.

The 28-year-old signed for Liverpool from Porto in January 2022 and is on a one-year deal until 2027.

As Liverpool won the title by ten points, he scored 13 goals and added seven assists.

After Diaz and his girlfriend both posted lengthy social media posts to Liverpool fans that might have been read as farewell messages, Diaz’s future sparked more speculation.

Early in the transfer window, Liverpool’s chief executive of football, Michael Edwards, and Richard Hughes, the club’s sporting director, have begun a fresh start to Arne Slot’s squad.

Dutch right-back Jeremie Frimpong’s transfer from Bayer Leverkusen was completed last week for a sum of $ 29 million.

Liverpool are close to agreeing a club-record £109 million fee for Leverkusen’s Germany midfielder Florian Wirtz, and they are interested in signing Bournemouth left-back Milos Kerkez for between £45 and £50 million.

Giorgi Mamardashvili, a Georgian goalkeeper, will make his debut after spending the season on loan at Valencia before joining Liverpool last summer.

In April, Virgil van Dijk, the captain, and prolific forward Mohamed Salah signed a new two-year contract to stay at Anfield until 2027, ending speculation about his future.

Caoimhin Kelleher was sold to Brentford for an initial £12.5 million fee while Trent Alexander-Arnold, who is currently at the end of his Liverpool contract, signed for Real Madrid.