Pat Walker

Voices Institute, Founder and Director

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Wolff says F1 risks disarray if Massa succeeds in title bid

Formula One risks disarray in the unlikely event of Felipe Massa winning a threatened legal claim for the 2008 world championship, according to Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff.

Former Ferrari driver Massa, now 42, has alleged he was denied the title by a “conspiracy” because the sport’s leaders knew the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix was manipulated but took no action until a year later.

We are signing up to sporting regulations that are very clear and you commit (to) as a license holder. If everybody were to open up situations then the sport would be in disarray and especially when you look at the full championships.

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@Lisona Romantic gestures on the rise post-pandemic, travelers eager to make up for lost time. Proposal Paris notes 30% increase in requests between 2021-2023. Kiss Me in Paris, event planner, sees surge in demand.

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@yesmcnr British Vogue's final issue under Edward Enninful features 40 legendary cover stars, a surprising and impactful decision.

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@tanzalha The Bentley Residences in Miami will incorporate design elements from the car brand, with amenities like Dezervators and parking spaces for residents' cars.

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@Lisona Messi's injury hasn't stopped criticism from Chinese internet users, as shown by the Hangzhou Sports Bureau's recent statement.

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@CAMILAM79 Sotheby's wins art fraud lawsuit against Russian billionaire.

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@daniFLYY Russia, to its sanctions list, leading to potential disruptions in the global diamond trade.

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@Redman56267 Karen Celebertti, director of Miss Nicaragua, has resigned following charges of conspiracy and treason along with her husband and son.

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Taylor Swift celebrates with Travis Kelce as the Chiefs advance to Super Bowl

The Kansas City Chiefs are going to the Super Bowl, and Taylor Swift was on hand in Baltimore on Sunday to help boyfriend Travis Kelce celebrate the team’s second consecutive trip to the Super Bowl.

After the game, which aired on CBS, Swift was seen on the field embracing and kissing Kelce, who helped his team best the Baltimore Ravens in the AFC Championship playoff game.

During the game, Swift watched from a suite at M&T Bank Stadium alongside her friend and wife of actor Miles Teller, Keleigh Teller, and model Cara Delevingne. The friends were shown multiple times.

Sunday’s playoff game marks the 12th Chiefs game that Swift has attended to support Kelce since she first showed up at Arrowhead Stadium in September.

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Novak Djokovic laments ‘one of the worst’ performances at a grand slam as Jannik Sinner makes Australian Open final

Novak Djokovic fell to his first defeat at the Australian Open in a staggering 2,195 days as he was defeated by Jannik Sinner on Friday, 6-1 6-2 6-7(6-8) 6-3.

The 22-year-old Sinner will now contest the first grand slam final of his career having ended Djokovic’s bid for an 11th title in Melbourne.

It also means that Djokovic’s pursuit of an outright record 25th grand slam title is put on hold after he was outplayed by the Italian across their three hour, 22-minute contest.

Sinner, who dropped his first set of the tournament in Friday’s semifinal, is the youngest male finalist at the Australian Open since Djokovic won the title in 2008 and will face either Daniil Medvedev or Alexander Zverev in Sunday’s showpiece.

“It was a very, very tough match,” Sinner said in his on-court interview. “I started off really well. He missed for two sets, I felt like he was not feeling that great on court, so I just tried to keep pushing.”

You have to go all the way back to his fourth-round defeat against Chung Hyeon in 2018 for the previous time that Djokovic lost in Melbourne – 33 matches ago.

‘Nole’ later gave a very frank assessment of his performance against Sinner, which was also his first semifinal defeat at the Australian Open.

“He outplayed me completely today,” Djokovic told reporters. “Look, I was, in a way, shocked with my level, in a bad way. There was not much I was doing right in the first two sets.

“I guess this is one of the worst grand slam matches I’ve ever played – at least that I remember. Not a very pleasant feeling playing this way. But at the same time, credit to him for doing everything better than me in every aspect of the game.”

Djokovic was uncharacteristically sloppy in the opening exchanges and produced 29 unforced errors across the first two sets. Sinner, by contrast, had only eight, and his accuracy and aggression earned him a 2-0 lead in just an hour and 13 minutes

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‘If any country can do it, it’s Ireland’: How to make the NFL’s next overseas star

There are deeply entrenched ties between the United States and Ireland – just ask US President Joe Biden.

Rarely if ever though has that unwavering relationship between the two countries branched out into the sporting ether – both nations pursuing their own national field sports in a manner which arguably borders on religious observance.

For Ireland, that sport is Gaelic football, with the 15-man ball game a central tenet of not just the nation’s sporting identity, but it’s cultural one too.

With a storied 140-year history, the game was once a motivating force in the resistance against the British empire, and has since gone on to blossom into one of the world’s leading amateur sporting institutions, drawing hundreds of thousands of spectators each summer.

With players moonlighting as postmen and teachers, along with its entirely different rule set, Gaelic football ostensibly bares no correlation to its American cousin across the Atlantic Ocean, where contracts can scale into the hundreds of millions of dollars.

Upon closer scrutiny though, there may be more crossover than people might think, according to one NFL kicking coach. So much so that Tadhg Leader believes that Ireland’s national ball game could prove to be the perfect breeding ground for the NFL’s next generation of kicking talent.

“Only two sports in the world put the ball directly onto the grass and then ask you to kick the ball straight up between two upright posts – American football and Gaelic football. No one else does that,” NFL kicking coach Leader told CNN Sport.

“In rugby, it’s on a tee and soccer is low between a goal. The uniqueness of Gaelic footballers is that they’ve been performing this skill since they were children.

“They’ve more than put their 10,000 hours in, albeit with a different ball but the crossover with it being off the deck is there. That’s why I believe the Irish can become such talented place kickers. Then, with punting, dropping the ball from the hands, that’s another crucial aspect of Gaelic football too.”

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