Diana Taurasi lost in the WNBA finals but her greatness remains secure
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It was all set up perfectly for Diana Taurasi. After the Phoenix Mercury’s postseason series win over the Las Vegas Aces, the WNBA legend flew back home to witness her wife give birth to the couple’s second child. 这...
Doubts on legacy and cost concerns hang over Tokyo Olympic Games
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The public square outside Shimbashi station, the scene of anti-Olympic protests this summer, has resumed its usual role as an after-work rendezvous. Newspapers that juxtaposed athletic feats with a rising coronavirus ...
Copper and Quigley lead Sky past Mercury in Game 1 of WNBA finals
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Kahleah Copper scored 22 points, Allie Quigley added 18 and the hot-shooting Chicago Sky opened the WNBA finals with a 91-77 win over the Phoenix Mercury on Sunday. The Sky withstood Phoenix’s fast start and took cont...
Diana Taurasi leads Phoenix Mercury past Aces to advance to WNBA finals
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When Phoenix Mercury coach Sandy Brondello was asked what was the difference in the fourth quarter, she had a simple response: It was Diana Taurasi. Taurasi scored 14 of her 24 points in the fourth quarter, and Brittn...
A county for taste: cycling around Rutland, England’s secret foodie heartland
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‘You can get a good meal for two out of one grey squirrel,” chef James Goss told me as we sat in his pub after the evening rush. “I prepped 20 today; that’ll be 40 portions.” He might make squirrel sausages. Maybe con...
Simone Biles says she should have quit a long time before Tokyo 2020
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Simone Biles has admitted that she should have walked away from the Olympic programme “way before” the Tokyo Games. Biles withdrew from five of her six finals at the Olympics in July to focus on her mental health afte...
Rhik Samadder tries … track cycling: ‘It’s like being overtaken by lorries on a motorway designed by Escher’
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This is hardly the place to admit it, but I hate cyclists. I never know if they are going to stop at traffic lights or plough through; they’re often very shouty due to always being in danger; and the worst thing is, t...
Do not squander cycling gains made during pandemic, Labour says
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Labour has called for rapid extra spending on safe cycling and walking, saying that as motor traffic levels return to pre-Covid levels the gains in active travel made during the pandemic could soon be squandered. This...