Mel 💁🏽‍♀️

[Mel 💁🏽‍♀️ @Meld_z]

I love you even more my love @alfali44 thank you for this special moment 😘🙏🏾❤️!!!

[Apiwe Fali @alfali44]

I LOVE YOU MME PILUSA 🙏🏾❤️😍 @Meld_z

[CITIUS MAG @CitiusMag]

The end of an era. 🥺

🇯🇲 The legendary Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce finishes her World Championships career in Tokyo with 17 career medals.

2007 – 4×100m 🥈
2009 – 100m 🥇, 4×100m 🥇
2011 – 4×100m 🥈
2013 – 100m 🥇, 200m 🥇, 4×100m 🥇
2015 – 100m 🥇, 4×100m 🥇
2019 – 100m 🥇, 4×100m 🥇
2022 – 100m 🥇, 200m 🥈, 4×100m 🥇
2023 – 100m 🥉, 4×100m 🥈
2025 – 4x100m 🥈

#WorldAthelticsChamps

[Rafa Nadal @RafaelNadal]

👋🏼 See you soon, Paris ☺️

[Mel 💁🏽‍♀️ @Meld_z]

@hwivesfanatic Please never let us forget it!!!!

[felicia_pilusa @FeliciaPilusa]

@islaamiyaah Stay away from Narcissists.

[Lalah Delia 📖 @LalahDelia]

This is your sign to let it go. God is going to take care of it.

[Swish 🍒 Tennis @Zwxsh]

Q: Who do you think has got the most aura?

🇦🇹 Dominic Thiem: "The worst thing in tennis is if you play against Rafa in Philippe-Chatrier and then the guy starts to talk '2005, 2006, 2007...' And then he gets to like year 11 and... You already lost."

[Roger Federer @rogerfederer]

Vamos, @RafaelNadal!

As you get ready to graduate from tennis, I’ve got a few things to share before I maybe get emotional.

Let’s start with the obvious: you beat me—a lot. More than I managed to beat you. You challenged me in ways no one else could. On clay, it felt like I was stepping into your backyard, and you made me work harder than I ever thought I could just to hold my ground. You made me reimagine my game—even going so far as to change the size of my racquet head, hoping for any edge.

I’m not a very superstitious person, but you took it to the next level. Your whole process. All those rituals. Assembling your water bottles like toy soldiers in formation, fixing your hair, adjusting your underwear... All of it with the highest intensity. Secretly, I kind of loved the whole thing. Because it was so unique—it was so you.

And you know what, Rafa, you made me enjoy the game even more. 

OK, maybe not at first. After the 2004 Australian Open, I achieved the #1 ranking for the first time. I thought I was on top of the world. And I was—until two months later, when you walked on the court in Miami in your red sleeveless shirt, showing off those biceps, and you beat me convincingly. All that buzz I’d been hearing about you—about this amazing young player from Mallorca, a generational talent, probably going to win a major someday—it wasn’t just hype.

We were both at the start of our journey and it’s one we ended up taking together. Twenty years later, Rafa, I have to say: What an incredible run you’ve had. Including 14 French Opens—historic! You made Spain proud... you made the whole tennis world proud.

I keep thinking about the memories we’ve shared. Promoting the sport together. Playing that match on half-grass, half-clay. Breaking the all-time attendance record by playing in front of more than 50,000 fans in Cape Town, South Africa. Always cracking each other up. Wearing each other out on the court and then, sometimes, almost literally having to hold each other up during trophy ceremonies.

I’m still grateful you invited me to Mallorca to help launch the Rafa Nadal Academy in 2016. Actually, I kind of invited myself. I knew you were too polite to insist on me being there, but I didn’t want to miss it. You have always been a role model for kids around the world, and Mirka and I are so glad that our children have all trained at your academies. They had a blast and learned so much—like thousands of other young players. Although I always worried my kids would come home playing tennis as lefties.

And then there was London—the Laver Cup in 2022. My final match. It meant everything to me that you were there by my side—not as my rival but as my doubles partner. Sharing the court with you that night, and sharing those tears, will forever be one of the most special moments of my career.

Rafa, I know you’re focused on the last stretch of your epic career. We will talk when it’s done. For now, I just want to congratulate your family and team, who all played a massive role in your success. And I want you to know that your old friend is always cheering for you, and will be cheering just as loud for everything you do next.

Rafa that!

Best always, your fan, 

Roger

[kayla🫆 @trulykaykay]

hit the gym. avoid drama. smell nice. make money. level up your circle. talk less. pray more. think highly of yourself

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

Public transport in Finland is on another level.

[D. @Lush_Beauty1]

🤞🏽🤞🏽🤞🏽

[J @Jayecane]

claim it.

[Akani Simbine @AkaniSimbine]

An Olympic Silver Medalist 🥈😭

#Olympic2024 #Paris2024

[Gontse Chauke 📝 @_BlackZA]

The moment Tebogo Letsile hit the under 20 world record, he truly deserves this win.

[FloTrack @FloTrack]

Letsile Tebogo was asked after winning the men's 200m final if he aspires to world records and being the face of track and field.

Here was his answer:

"I can't be the face of athletics because I'm not an arrogant or a loud person like Noah (Lyles)."

#Paris2024

[REDUXX @reduxx]

(Continued from above)

Yesterday, the International Boxing Association released an eleventh hour statement which definitively established that Khelif was not eligible to compete in women's boxing.

Khelif, along with Taiwan's Lin Yu-Ting, had been previously disqualified from the 2023 Women's Boxing World Championship after it was determined they had an unfair advantage over female boxers.

And while supporters and national Olympic Committees claimed this was simply because the boxers had "naturally high testosterone," the IBA put this myth to bed and confirmed they had not conducted a testosterone level test on either one of them.

Instead, the IBA said that Khelif and Lin had been disqualified after a separate medical test was conducted which established they were not eligible to participate in women's boxing.

Crucially, the IBA defines "woman" as "an individual with XX chromosomes." The "gender tests" they conduct on boxers do not measure their hormone levels, but determines whether they meet this definition of "woman" as per the IBA eligibility criteria.

Khelif and Lin did not.

Yet despite this, the @iocmedia has allowed both to compete in women's boxing at Paris 2024. While some may believe the IOC conducted their own medical tests, this is untrue. The IOC ceased all sex-testing in 1999. And for the purposes of the Paris Olympics, the eligibility for women's boxing has been limited to whether an individual has legal documents stating they are female.

Reduxx will be clear for a final time: Khelif and Lin are NOT believed to be transgender. Instead, they are believed to be individuals impacted by a Difference of Sexual Development, a medical condition which results in the abnormal development of secondary sex characteristics.

Individuals impacted by some DSDs, for example, may have XY chromosomes, but not develop a penis in utero. Thus, they are marked as "female" when they are born, and may go a substantial part of their lives without knowing they are biologically male.

In the past, male athletes with DSDs have been actively sought out by national Olympic teams because they have a substantial advantage over females and can fly "under the radar" thanks to their "female" legal documentation.

But individuals with XY chromosomes, no matter their secondary sex characteristics or medical conditions, are still male. And they should not be competing against females.

@iocmedia was and has been aware of concerns surrounding Khelif and Lin's biological sex, yet has been allowing them to continue compete against females.

This is putting female athletes at serious risk. It is also crushing the dreams of female Olympians like Angela Carini, who earned their place in their sport.

[FA | Self-Driven @FAgbodeka]

Every dad’s dream is to see his kids do well in life. Isn’t this beautiful?

[Celine Dion @celinedion]

I’m honored to have performed tonight, for the Paris 2024 Opening Ceremony, and so full of joy to be back in one of my very favorite cities! Most of all, I’m so happy to be celebrating these amazing athletes, with all their stories of sacrifice and determination, pain and perseverance. All of you have been so focused on your dream, and whether or not you take home a medal, I hope that being here means that it has come true for you! You should all be so proud, we know how hard you have worked to be the best of the best. Stay focused, keep going, my heart is with you! - Celine xx…

Photo: Laura Gilli

[Rafa Nadal @RafaelNadal]

Merci ❤️ Paris

[Rafa Nadal @RafaelNadal]

❤️