Newest – The Black Stricks girls have certified for the quarter-finals of the World Cup after beating India 4-3 of their final pool sport.
Olivia Merry
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The New Zealanders completed prime of their group with two wins and a draw to routinely qualify for the final eight.
India opened the scoring within the first 5 minutes earlier than Olivia Merry scored from a penalty nook and Tessa Jopp added a second from the sector simply earlier than half time.
Frances Davies scored the third from a penalty nook simply after the break.
India then bought their second halfway by means of the second half.
Merry grabbed her second from a penalty nook purpose within the final 5 minutes, whereas India scored their third simply earlier than the ultimate whistle.
Different matches must be performed earlier than New Zealand’s quarter-final opponent can be discovered.
Fisher-Black climbs up GC
Nelson bike owner Niamh Fisher-Black has moved into the highest 5 on the Giro d’Italia after one other spectacular journey on the seventh stage.
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The 21 12 months outdated completed sixth on the stage to maneuver up three locations generally classification.
She has additionally elevated her lead within the younger rider class.
Dutch star Annemiek Van Vleuten leads total with Fisher Black nearly six minutes behind.
She is the main rider for her SD Worx group.
Cricket employs spies to search out racists
Warwickshire will deploy undercover spotters for the second Twenty20 between England and India at Edgbaston after allegations of racist behaviour amongst members of the group throughout the fifth take a look at this week.
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Numerous supporters mentioned on Twitter that they had been focused by racist abuse from different followers on the Birmingham venue on Monday. The house aspect gained the match by seven wickets to attract the sequence 2-2.
Along with using “undercover soccer crowd-style spotters”, there can be enhanced police presence at Edgbaston for the sport on Saturday.
The Bharat Military, India’s official international supporters’ group, later mentioned lots of its members had been focused by “a really small minority”, with the England and Wales Cricket Board saying they had been “very involved” by the reviews.
The West Midlands Police have already launched an investigation into the incident.
English cricket was rocked by a racism scandal final 12 months when former Yorkshire spinner Azeem Rafiq alleged that he had been a sufferer of institutional racism on the membership.
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Pogacar takes yellow
Twice defending champion Tadej Pogacar stormed to victory in stage six of the Tour de France with a late lung-busting effort and snatched the general chief’s yellow jersey from Wout van Aert.
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It was the seventh Tour stage win for the Slovenian, who completed forward of Michael Matthews and David Gaudu within the 220-km journey from Binche to Longwy, the longest on this 12 months’s race.
The UAE Crew Emirates rider benefited from 2020 runner-up Primoz Roglic, who dislocated his shoulder throughout the fifth stage, mistiming his dash and sped away from his compatriot in the previous few metres to take the win.
Pogacar leads American Neilson Powless by 4 seconds within the basic classification with Jonas Vingegaard of Denmark 27 seconds additional again in third.
Friday’s stage seven is a 176.5-km journey from Tomblaine to La Tremendous Planche des Belles Filles.
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Zhou blissful to be again
Chinese language Method One rookie Guanyu Zhou is trying ahead to a fast return to racing in Austria this weekend after an enormous crash final week during which he feared his automotive would catch fireplace with him trapped inside.
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The Alfa Romeo driver spoke to reporters concerning the British Grand Prix crash that despatched his automotive flying over a tyre wall at Silverstone earlier than being wedged sideways between limitations and the catch fence.
He repeated that the halo head safety system, a titanium ring across the cockpit, had saved his life.
“(I am) blissful to have back-to-back races as a result of in the event you had a summer time break after (such a crash) that will be horrible, since you could be fascinated about it and repeating the crash in your thoughts time and again,” he mentioned.
“Good to be again as quickly as I may.”
Zhou issued an image on Twitter of him with FIA medical workers on the Pink Bull Ring: “Completed the ultimate medical verify, all good to go,” he mentioned.
Zhou, China’s first Method One driver, mentioned he didn’t understand how he survived the incident however “trying again, clearly, the halo I noticed saved me”.
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Trendy pentathlon enchantment dismissed
The Courtroom of Arbitration for Sport has dismissed an enchantment by the Danish Trendy Pentathlon Affiliation in opposition to the game’s governing physique UIPM for its choice to drop horse using from the Olympic programme from 2028.
The UIPM determined in November 2021 to take away horse using from the 2028 Los Angeles Video games within the wake of an outcry after a German coach punched a horse that refused to leap a fence on the Tokyo Video games.
In February 2022, the MPADK filed an enchantment to the CAS to reverse the choice, saying the UIPM’s Government Board had no energy to take the choice and had breached the statutes and the UIPM Code of Ethics.
Trendy pentathlon was launched on the 1912 Stockholm Video games as a illustration of the talents required of a cavalry officer — fencing, swimming, equestrianism, capturing and working.
The game’s governing physique mentioned in Might it had chosen two variations of impediment racing for testing from greater than 60 choices to exchange equestrianism.
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Grinner pleads responsible
American basketball participant Brittney Griner has pleaded responsible in a Khimki, Russia, courtroom to medication costs that might deliver a sentence of as much as 10 years.
Hours after Griner’s spouse, Cherelle, pledged to not relaxation till she is dwelling, the WNBA All-Star advised a choose she had no intent to interrupt the legislation.
“I might prefer to plead responsible, your honor. However there was no intent. I did not need to break the legislation,” Griner mentioned, based on Reuters.
Griner requested the choose for “time to organize” her testimony. She’s scheduled to look once more in a single week, July 14, along with her detention at the moment scheduled to final into December.
United States President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris took half in a name with Cherelle Griner this week, their first dialog since Brittney Griner was taken into custody at an airport close to Moscow on drug costs.
Brittney Griner wrote a letter to Biden that was delivered to the White Home for the Independence Day vacation. It was a plea to Biden to work on her case and likewise to help different People held in Russia.
The White Home mentioned Biden advised Cherelle Griner that the administration is pursuing “each avenue to deliver Brittney dwelling.”
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