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I don't think it was the heat as much as the surface, and some injury issues that were the cause of the upsets - many of the players who lost, Gauff, and Zverev, for example, are not strong grass-court players.

I think it's better without the lyrics - Wonder's vocal makes it more difficult to skate too - also the song is sung in first person, and Kagiyama is not a young black man.

I think it's important to note that this even happened in March when Raducanu was practicing at the All England Club. Whether people were really angry about it I would guess probably not as this sort of thing happens all the time where players have been asked to change their outfit because of...

This is how Wimbledon Day 1 went:

That sounds about average for the Americans in the past couple decades - probably average around 15 players in each the men's & women's draws at each of the Grand Slams. A few more at the US Open for obvious reasons. In comparison in 1980 the Wimbledon draws featured: Men: 47 Women: 51

I was not familiar with this cover - it's an acoustic version. :love:

Surviving Ohio State documentary about the sexual assaults against students at Ohio State for 20 years by a medical professional was recently released on HBO. It's not an easy watch, but the story of what happened at Ohio State is so much larger than I was aware before viewing the film. Trigger...

A match for the ages.

What's that based on? All the videos have Russian graphics, feature Russian skaters, and the social media links are all to Russian sites. It screams fan content, not skater looking to promote their brand.

This channel https://www.youtube.com/@alisaefim/featured I think this is a fan channel. The social media links don't include their joint Instagram. https://www.instagram.com/team_efimovamitrofanov/?hl=en

Canada has already qualified spots in all disciplines for the Olympics - 2 pairs entries - and so won't be competing at the Olympic Qualifying event.

Yes, France does not currently have a pairs entry though they can try again at the Olympic qualifier in September. Yes, there are additional athlete quotas that could be used for the team event. They are intended to be used by the Olympic host, but Italy qualified in every discipline so that's...

We don't know for sure yet - details have not been finalized. https://gymnastics-now.com/how-the-artistic-gymnastics-mixed-gender-team-final-could-work-at-the-la-2028-olympics/