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‘I can’t believe it. Of all the people to hit, bloody Bradley Wiggins’
Bradley Wiggins was released from hospital on Thursday following his bike crash as British Cycling announced that Shane Sutton, the team’s head coach, had also been knocked off his bike.
Wiggins, who won the Tour de France and Olympic gold this year, spent Wednesday night in hospital with minor rib injuries and cuts and bruises after being knocked off his bike by a van outside a petrol station while on a training ride near his home in Lancashire, northern England. (Photos: JEFF PACHOUD/AFP/Getty Images; REUTERS/Phil Noble)
U.S. vs. The World: Team Europe’s latest strategy at the the Ryder Cup is to blind their opponents. Good work, everyone.
Leaping on a careless word, which is what the British tabloids do best, reporters were all excited about a quote from Englishman Ian Poulter, who stepped in it while trying to describe the emotions the Ryder Cup inspires.
“I hate to say we don’t get on for three days, but there is that divide, and it’s not that we don’t like each other,” Poulter said. “We are all good friends, both sides of the pond. But there’s something about Ryder Cup which kind of intrigues me how you can be great mates with somebody, but, boy, do you want to kill them in Ryder Cup.” Love took his comments with a grain of salt. “It’s not a war, it’s a party. It’s a golf match … Things will get testy — chippy as they say in hockey — because it’s intense. But we’ll be friends at the end of it.”
Andy Murray and the U.S. Open trophy took a tour of New York on Tuesday. Here is a brief account of his journey.
From clockwise:
- Andy and the trophy enjoy a laugh at the NBC Today Show
- Andy and the trophy share a romantic glass of wine at the British Consulate
- Andy and the trophy enjoy an intimate moment in the park with 200 of their closest photographer friends
- “Could you BE more excited by your U.S. Open victory?”
- The wire service says this is Andy and “his girlfriend Kim” but her Starbucks cup says “Julie” … And where is the trophy?
(Source: sports.nationalpost.com)
After reveling in a rousing Olympic summer of sporting success, Britain awoke Tuesday to another major milestone: Finally, after 76 years of waiting, the country has a male Grand Slam tennis champion.
Andy Murray’s five-set victory over Novak Djokovic in the U.S. Open final provided the perfect bookend to a summer in which a British rider won the Tour de France and British athletes scooped heaps of medals at the hugely successful London Olympics and Paralympics.
Nowhere was the impact of Murray’s win felt more deeply than in his Scottish hometown of Dunblane, a cathedral town made famous for a mass shooting in 1996, when a gunman killed 16 children and their teacher in an elementary school.
Our photographers chose their favourite photos from the Olympics, including this one of Mo Farah and his daughter. Click through to see our entire gallery.
World champion Mo Farah secured Britain’s first Olympic gold medal in the men’s 5,000 metres on Saturday to deafening cheers, a week after winning gold in the 10,000.
Farah, who finished in a time of 13 minutes 41.66 seconds, was the seventh man to win both the 5,000m and 10,000m events at the same Olympics.
Dejen Gebremeskel of Ethiopia finished in a time of 13:41.98 in silver with Kenya’s Thomas Pkemei Longosiwa in bronze.
Hannah Whelan of Great Britain competes on the balance beam in the Artistic Gymnastics Women’s Team final on Day 4 of the London 2012 Olympic Games. Click through for more of the day’s best Olympic photos.
OOPS. Rory McIlroy, the 23-year-old Northern Irishman, hit a spectator on the head at the British Open on Thursday after going out of bounds at the 15th.
McIlroy said he was troubled by the incident at the 15th - where he took a double-bogey six - and delighted with a battling fightback that yielded birdies at the 16th and 18th holes.
“That was an eventful last four holes,” he said. “My tee shot on 15 went slightly right and I got an unfortunate break but I thought I did well to keep my composure and keep my concentration and finish the way I did.
“He (the fan) could have headed it the other way, it would have been in the fairway.”
McIlroy made amends to the bloodied spectator who quickly had his head bandaged up.
“I gave him a glove with a sad face and my autograph,” said the 2011 U.S. Open champion.
“I’ve done that a few times before, it’s not the first time. The most important thing was that he was okay because I would have felt terrible if it had been worse that it was.
This is not strange at all: Tiger Woods fans dressed as, yes, tigers, follow the play during the second practice round prior to the start of the British Open. That is dedication.
Tears of joy and sadness: There were going to be tears at the end of this Wimbledon men’s final, because both Roger Federer and Andy Murray have some precedent there.
In the end, they came from the winner and the runner-up.
Federer’s tears began almost before he fell to the court in triumph, tears of joy and relief as he won his seventh career title at Wimbledon, the 17th major of his career, the first in 2 1/2 years.
The seventh title ties him with his idol Pete Sampras. And this time, Federer’s twin daughters Myla and Charlene were on hand for the triumph.
Photos: Stefan Wermuth/Reuters, Paul Gilham/Pool/Reuters
