THIS WAS A BEAUTIFUL MOMENT FOR SPORT WHEN IOC PRESIDENT THOMAS BACH HAILED A NEW ERA FOR OLYMPIC EDUCATION AS THE INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC ACADEMY REOPENED AFTER RENOVATION IN ANCIENT OLYMPIA
MANY CONGRATULATIONS TO SEVEN-TIMES WORLD CHAMPION LEWIS HAMILTON WHO WON HIS 100TH RACE AT THE RUSSIAN GRAND PRIX ON 26TH SEPTEMBER 2021…! HIGHLIGHTS OF THE RUSSIAN GRAND PRIX 2021 IT WAS A SUPERB RACE, BECAUSE IT HAD BEEN RAINING THE DAY BEFORE AND THE CONDITIONS HAD BEEN SLIPPERY SO NOBODY REALLY KNEW HOW IT WOULD ALL PAN OUT. (INDEED, LEWIS HAD SKIDDED OFF THE TRACK THE DAY BEFORE AND DAMAGED HIS FRONT WING.) BUT THE CLOUDS PARTED AND THE SUNLIGHT POURED IN AT THE BEGINNING OF THE RACE, ALLOWING THE DRIVERS TO LINE-UP, RARING TO GO. RED BULL HAD GIVEN MAX VERSTAPPEN A NEW POWER UNIT, SO HE STARTED AT THE BACK OF THE GRID, BUT STILL MANAGED TO WEAVE HIS WAY THROUGH THE PACK AND UP TO THE PODIUM. RUSSIAN GRAND PRIX 2021 WHEN YOU HEAR THAT SOCHI IS A ‘SEASIDE RESORT’, YO...
IN A CHAOTIC RACE WITH SEVERAL INCIDENTS, INCLUDING MAX AND LEWIS COLLIDING EARLY IN THE RACE, RED BULL’S MAX VERSTAPPEN WON THE IMOLA GRAND PRIX…. MAX VERSTAPPEN CELEBRATES HIS WIN AFTER THE RACE WITH MERCEDES’ LEWIS HAMILTON COMING SECOND, AND MCLAREN’S LANDO NORRIS THIRD. LANDO WAS ALSO AWARDED ‘DRIVER OF THE DAY’. LEWIS HAMILTON ATTEMPTS TO OVERTAKE MAX VERSTAPPEN BUT BECOMES MOMENTARILY UNBALANCED VALTTERI BOTTAS AND GEORGE RUSSELL ALSO MADE CONTACT LATER IN THE RACE AND CRASHED INTO THE BARRIER AT HIGH SPEED BUT LUCKILY NO-ONE WAS HURT…! HIGHLIGHTS OF THE IMOLA GRAND PRIX THE WEATHER WAS CHALLENGING WITH INTERMITTENT RAIN AND A VERY SLIPPERY SURFACE, BUT IT CERTAINLY MADE FOR INTERESTING ‘EDGE OF YOUR SEAT’ STUFF… ASTON MA...
MANY CONGRATULATIONS TO CHELSIE GILES (PICTURED) WHO WON GREAT BRITAIN’S FIRST MEDAL FOR TEAM GB IN THE JUDO BRONZE MEDAL MATCH TODAY IN SPECTACUAR FASHION…! TEAM GB HIGHLIGHTS OF THE TOKYO OLYMPICS 2020/21 – DAY 1 GENERAL HIGHLIGHTS OF THE TOKYO OLYMPICS 2020/21 – DAY 1
The positive impact of Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 is being celebrated this week, with the first anniversary of the event on July 23. Tokyo 2020 faced unprecedented challenges as the first postponed Games, but managed to be safe, successful, pioneering and groundbreaking, with a legacy being demonstrated in Japan to mark the anniversary.
IN A DRAMA-FUELLED RACE, IN EXTREMELY WET AND SLIPPERY CONDITIONS, ALPINE’S ESTEBAN OCON CLAIMED HIS MAIDEN WIN AT THE HUNGARIAN GRAND PRIX 2021 AFTER WITHSTANDING PRESSURE FROM SEBASTIAN VETTEL FOR MUCH OF THE RACE! (THIS WAS ALSO ALPINE’S DEBUT WIN!) HIGHLIGHTS OF THE HUNGARIAN GRAND PRIX 2021 EARLY INTO THE RACE ON TURN ONE, VALTTERI BOTTAS MADE CONTACT WITH THE BACK OF LANDO NORRIS’S CAR (PERHAPS BECAUSE OF THE SLIPPERY CONDITIONS, AND VALTTERI BEING UNABLE TO BREAK IN TIME.) VALTTERI LOST CONTROL, AND SLID ACROSS THE TRACK, TAKING OUT RED BULL’S SERGIO PEREZ WITH HIM. IN THE MEANTIME, LANDO NORRIS CRASHED INTO MAX VERSTAPPEN AND LANCE STROLL AND CHARLES LECLERC ALSO CRASHED, WHICH RESULTED IN THEIR RETIREMENT AS THEIR CARS WERE SO BADLY DAMAGED, PLUS ALS...
FOLLOWING THE SUPERB PERFORMANCES BY THE ENGLAND FOOTBALL TEAM, WE TAKE A LOOK AT SOME OF THE HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE ENGLAND VS DENMARK, GERMANY AND UKRAINE MATCHES, WITH POST MATCH INTERVIEWS AND ANALYSIS….. HIGHLIGHTS OF THE FANTASTIC EURO 2020 MATCH BETWEEN ENGLAND (2) AND DENMARK (1) GARETH SOUTHGATE IS CLEARLY DELIGHTED AGAIN AFTER ANOTHER ENGLAND TRIUMPH – THIS TIME OVER DENMARK…HERE IS HIS POST-MATCH INTERVIEW…! HARRY KANE GIVES POST-MATCH INTERVEW FOLLOWING SPECTACULAR ENGLAND VS DENMARK MATCH HIGHLIGHTS OF THE EURO 2020 MATCH BETWEEN ENGLAND (2) AND GERMANY (0)  A DELIGHTED GARETH SOUTHGATE GIVES INTERVIEW AFTER ENGLAND VS GERMANY TRIUMPH HARRY KANE GIVES INTERVIEW STRAIGHT FROM THE PITCH, AMIDST RAPTURES OF “SWEET CAROLINE” FROM ELATED FANS HIGH...
LEWIS HAMILTON TRIUMPHS AT THE IMOLA GRAND PRIX 2020 IN 1:28:32:430 AS MERCEDES WIN THEIR SEVENTH CONSECUTIVE CONSTRUCTORS’ TITLE! LEWIS’S TEAM-MATE VALTTERI BOTTAS CAME SECOND +5:783, AND RENAULT’S DANIEL RICCIARDO CAME THIRD +14:320 LEWIS HAMILTON, VALTTERI BOTTAS AND DANIEL RICCIARDO GIVE POST-RACE INTERVIEWS STRAIGHT FROM THE TRACK (ALONGSIDE MERCEDES BOSS TOTO WOLFF) LEWIS HAMILTON GOES IN FOR A TYRE CHANGE AT THE IMOLA GRAND PRIX TED KRAVITZ OF SKY SPORTS TALKS US THROUGH THE EXCITING RACE LEWIS AND DANIEL DRINK CHAMPAGNE FROM DANIEL’S SHOE ON THE PODIUM AFTER THE RACE ALTHOUGH WHEN YOU TAKE A CLOSER LOOK – IT DOESN’T LOOK AS THOUGH LEWIS ENJOYED IT VERY MUCH! ALPHA TAURI’S DANIIL KVYAT CAME FOURTH +15:141 (WITH 10 POINTS SCORING FINIS...
MANY CONGRATULATIONS TO LEWIS HAMILTON WHO HAS TRIUMPHED AT THE PORTUGUESE GRAND PRIX 2020, AND BECOME THE FIRST FORMULA 1 DRIVER EVER TO WIN 92 RACES…! LEWIS’S MERCEDES TEAM-MATE VALTTERI BOTTAS CAME SECOND, AND RED BULL’S MAX VERSTAPPEN CAME THIRD (ABOVE) LEWIS “FLIES OUT OF HIS CAR” WITH EXCITEMENT AFTER HIS 92ND TRIUMPH BEFORE THE RACE, LEWIS ‘TOOK THE KNEE’ IN SUPPORT OF THE ‘BLACK LIVES MATTER MOVEMENT’ AND HATE IN ALL IT’S FORMS AND AFTER THE RACE LEWIS’S FATHER ANTHONY WAS WAITING IN THE WINGS TO CONGRATULATE HIMÂ LEWIS HAMILTON STORMS TO VICTORY AT THE PORTUGUESE GRAND PRIX 2020 IN HIS NOW INFAMOUS “CAR NO 44” IT WAS AN EVENTFUL RACE, WITH DRIVER CLASSIFICATIONS CULMINATING AS BELOW A CHARMING LOO...
LEWIS HAMILTON TRIUMPHS AT THE EIFEL GRAND PRIX IN NURBURGRING! LEWIS HAS NOW MATCHED MICHAEL SCHUMACHER’S RECORD OF 91 VICTORIES, MAKING HIM ONE OF THE JOINT BEST DRIVERS OF ALL TIME! AFTER THE RACE, MICHAEL SCHUMACHER’S SON MICK PRESENTED LEWIS WITH MICHAEL SCHUMACHER’S HELMET, WHICH LEFT LEWIS LOOKING VERY EMOTIONAL. MICHAEL SCHUMACHER’S HELMET, LEWIS’S TROPHY AND LEWIS’S HELMET PROUDLY PRESENTED ON HIS SHELF (BELOW) LEWIS STORMED TO VICTORY IN 1:35:49:641, WITH MAX VERSTAPPEN (RED BULL) COMING SECOND +4.470, AND DANIEL RICCIARDO (RENAULT) THIRDÂ +14.613
After An Extremely Eventful Tuscan Grand Prix Which Had Many Sitting On The Edge Of Their Seats The Whole Time, Lewis Hamilton Continued His Quest For Social Justice, With His T-Shirt Reading “Arrest The Cops Who Killed Breonna Taylor” On The Front Whilst On The Podium Collecting His Trophy… Lewis Hamilton, Valtteri Bottas And Alexander Albon Give Post-Race Interviews It was an incident packed race with some nasty crashes (from which everyone luckily emerged unscathed), including several cars colliding on the pit-straight during which chaos ensued, with a wheel flying across the track, cars smashing into each other, and the barrier, and debris strewn everywhere. Cars Collide And Debris Is Strewn Across the Track At Mugello Today And also another involving Lance Str...