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Piastri wins F1 Chinese GP, with Norris second on dominant day for McLaren

Australian bounces back from Melbourne dismay Russell third for Mercedes, with Verstappen in fourth Oscar Piastri won the Chinese Grand Prix with a dominant run from pole position for McLaren, once again demonstrating the team have a fearsomely quick car in the second race of the new season. He secured a comfortable one-two, with his […]

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‘It’s a privilege’: Boris van der Vorst, the man who saved Olympic boxing

By forming a new governing body, World Boxing, the Dutchman prevented the sport being banished by the IOC “It feels like such a sweet week and of course I’m very happy and proud,” Boris van der Vorst says as, in his role as the president and one of the founders of World Boxing, he takes

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Canada’s Jonathan David: ‘If people say I’m the best in Concacaf it makes me proud’

The 25-year-old Canada and Lille striker, one of the game’s most coveted free agents, spoke with the Guardian on the eve of a politically fraught showdown with the US A Friday night Twitter transfer rumour frenzy is picking up steam. This is the way of things but particularly so on international weeks when the digital

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Jude Bellingham’s simple, repetitive genius can make all the difference for England | Jonathan Liew

Attacker will antagonise and frustrate, but that is simply the price of doing business with genius. Go with it The deception begins before he has even received the ball. As Ezri Konsa steps forward, Jude Bellingham leans towards his marker, Ylber Ramadani, and intimates he wants the pass in behind. Ramadani steps across to cover.

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George Foreman showed every gesture is political – especially for Black athletes | Bryan Armen Graham

At the 1968 Olympics, Foreman’s flag-waving was seen as deference if not betrayal. But the reaction to it reveals the limited ways we allow Black athletes to express themselves When a teenager from Texas named George Foreman waved a tiny American flag in the boxing ring after winning Olympic gold in 1968, he had little

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