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Persistence is the name of the game. The inside ๐ดโโ๏ธ๐ดโโ๏ธ track on how the #TDF2027#GrandDepart was confirmed for ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟโคต๏ธ
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Menโs Tour de France route:
โข Friday 2 July | Stage One: Edinburgh to Carlisle
A very special look at Dalton Smithโs win in New York and where it sits alongside Honeyghan, Stracey, Buchanan and every other great win by a British boxer overseas and against the odds. Plus, a guest appearance by Mike Costello. This is a gem. https://t.co/7qqJX9E4dk
๐ The revitalisation of rugby league in London off to a promising start. FT: Broncos 42-12 Widnes Vikings.
Cherry Red Records Stadium (aka Plough Lane to a certain demographic) in Wimbledon is the place to be to watch the story unfold.
Some famous faces in attendance for our round one clash against Widnes yesterday โฝ๏ธ๐ช๐ผ
Tickets ๐๏ธ for our Challenge Cup clash against Wests Warriors and our round 2 against Oldham on sale now. https://t.co/46eTD9PqRw
#wearelondon#relentlesspursuit
How do we bring young people in? How do we make women visible? How do we make racing welcoming?
Katie Page of Magic Millions has the answers
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https://t.co/cEtxTrF55i
โณ๏ธ๐ฅ LIV v PGA and the battle for the professional golf circuit. Iconic events are more powerful than the pull of superstar players #whoknew
Great piece here on the current state of play courtesy of @bizzofsport. Roll VT from 37m 15s https://t.co/pkGyJBRe4D
It was special to talk to @oismurphy as he spoke in gripping detail about the demons he faces as champion jockey. So much raw honesty about his alcoholism, the shock of turning 30, winning a 5th jockey's title and why he still loves racing & Sylvia Plath
https://t.co/QzLgVfP7Xu
๐จ๐๐๏ธ #WATCH: PGA of America President, Don Rea spoke on verbal abuse toward Rory at the Ryder Cup: โI haven't heard some of that. I'm sure it's happened, it happens when we're over in Rome on the other side, & Rory understands..
(@BBCNews, @MMcEwanGolf)
I'm seeing quite a bit of comment about this, so I want to make a couple of points.
I'm not owed eternal agreement from any actor who once played a character I created. The idea is as ludicrous as me checking with the boss I had when I was twenty-one for what opinions I should hold these days.
Emma Watson and her co-stars have every right to embrace gender identity ideology. Such beliefs are legally protected, and I wouldn't want to see any of them threatened with loss of work, or violence, or death, because of them.
However, Emma and Dan in particular have both made it clear over the last few years that they think our former professional association gives them a particular right - nay, obligation - to critique me and my views in public. Years after they finished acting in Potter, they continue to assume the role of de facto spokespeople for the world I created.
When you've known people since they were ten years old it's hard to shake a certain protectiveness. Until quite recently, I hadn't managed to throw off the memory of children who needed to be gently coaxed through their dialogue in a big scary film studio. For the past few years, I've repeatedly declined invitations from journalists to comment on Emma specifically, most notably on the Witch Trials of JK Rowling. Ironically, I told the producers that I didn't want her to be hounded as the result of anything I said.
The television presenter in the attached clip highlights Emma's 'all witches' speech, and in truth, that was a turning point for me, but it had a postscript that hurt far more than the speech itself. Emma asked someone to pass on a handwritten note from her to me, which contained the single sentence 'I'm so sorry for what you're going through' (she has my phone number). This was back when the death, rape and torture threats against me were at their peak, at a time when my personal security measures had had to be tightened considerably and I was constantly worried for my family's safety. Emma had just publicly poured more petrol on the flames, yet thought a one line expression of concern from her would reassure me of her fundamental sympathy and kindness.
Like other people who've never experienced adult life uncushioned by wealth and fame, Emma has so little experience of real life she's ignorant of how ignorant she is. She'll never need a homeless shelter. She's never going to be placed on a mixed sex public hospital ward. I'd be astounded if she's been in a high street changing room since childhood. Her 'public bathroom' is single occupancy and comes with a security man standing guard outside the door. Has she had to strip off in a newly mixed-sex changing room at a council-run swimming pool? Is she ever likely to need a state-run rape crisis centre that refuses to guarantee an all-female service? To find herself sharing a prison cell with a male rapist who's identified into the women's prison?
I wasn't a multimillionaire at fourteen. I lived in poverty while writing the book that made Emma famous. I therefore understand from my own life experience what the trashing of women's rights in which Emma has so enthusiastically participated means to women and girls without her privileges.
The greatest irony here is that, had Emma not decided in her most recent interview to declare that she loves and treasures me - a change of tack I suspect she's adopted because she's noticed full-throated condemnation of me is no longer quite as fashionable as it was - I might never have been this honest.
Adults can't expect to cosy up to an activist movement that regularly calls for a friend's assassination, then assert their right to the former friend's love, as though the friend was in fact their mother. Emma is rightly free to disagree with me and indeed to discuss her feelings about me in public - but I have the same right, and I've finally decided to exercise it.
How about that world men's 800m final in Tokyo?!
What a sensational finish at the World Athletics Championships ๐คฏ
๐ฐ๐ช Emmanuel Wanyonyi โ 1:41.86 CR
๐ฉ๐ฟ Djamel Sedjati โ 1:41.90
๐จ๐ฆ Marco Arop โ 1:41.95
๐ฎ๐ช Cian McPhillips โ 1:42.15 NR
๐ช๐ธ Mohamed Attaoui โ 1:42.21
๐ฌ๐ง Max Burgin โ 1:42.29 PB
๐ฏ๐ฒ Navasky Anderson โ 1:42.76 NR
๐ง๐ผ Tshepiso Masalela โ 1:42.77
This is insane:
Truls Moregard won the Europe Smash (equivalent of a Grand Slam in tennis) on this MONSTER rally...
...score at three sets all, 10-9 in the deciding set ๐คฏ