Month: July 2021

3:42 PM ET Associated Press HAMPTON, Ga. — NASCAR drivers for 24 years lobbied against a repave at Atlanta Motor Speedway. The company that owns the track said it is done giving the competitors the final word in a long-overdue paving project. Speedway Motorsports on Tuesday said this weekend’s events will be the final NASCAR
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12:45 PM ET Associated Press VALENCE, France — Mark Cavendish won the 10th stage of the Tour de France in a mass sprint Tuesday, putting himself within one win of Eddy Merckx’s record haul of 34 at cycling’s biggest race. Tadej Pogacar kept the race leader’s yellow jersey. Back in the race for the first
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11:03 AM ET ESPN News Services LONDON — Former tennis star John McEnroe is being criticized for his reaction on the BBC’s broadcast to British teenager Emma Raducanu‘s mid-match retirement at Wimbledon. McEnroe, a seven-time Grand Slam singles champion, appears as an analyst on the host country’s television coverage at the All England Club. McEnroe
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8:22 PM ET The Australian Grand Prix is believed to have been scrapped from the 2021 Formula One calendar, 7NEWS reports. The race at Albert Park in Melbourne was originally scheduled for March but a COVID-19 outbreak earlier in the year forced organisers to shift the event to November, between the races in Brazil and
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8:31 AM ET Formula One champions Mercedes are fighting against the odds now in their title battle with Red Bull, team boss Toto Wolff said after Sunday’s Austrian Grand Prix dealt a fifth successive defeat. Once-dominant Mercedes started the season chasing their eighth consecutive constructors’ championship and with Lewis Hamilton seeking an unprecedented eighth drivers’
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