Ban on travellers from Europe stacks the odds even further in favour of Steve Stricker’s team at Whistling StraitsThe vast array of superlatives attached to the Ryder Cup ignore the recent propensity for predictable outcomes. Since Europe trounced the United States in Michigan, 17 years ago, there has been just a single away victory. When that transpired, at Medinah, we all saw fit to brand it a “miracle”. The past three Ryder Cups have been won by the length of a par five.Few events in sport do exaggeration better than the biennial joust of Florida-based millionaire Europeans and Florida-based millionaire Americans – and the Ryder Cup is all the better for such giddiness – but at some point the trend...
Ban on travellers from Europe stacks the odds even further in favour of Steve Stricker’s team at Whistling StraitsThe vast array of superlatives attached to the Ryder Cup ignore the recent propensity for predictable outcomes. Since Europe trounced the United States in Michigan, 17 years ago, there has been just a single away victory. When that transpired, at Medinah, we all saw fit to brand it a “miracle”. The past three Ryder Cups have been won by the length of a par five. Related: R&A scrap ‘no-readmission’ policy at Open tournament from 2022 Related: Stacy Lewis left out of United States’ Solheim Cup team Continue reading...
The Chicago racecourse is set for demolition due to the amount of gambling revenue sucked out of punters’ pockets as a fixed percentage of turnover as opposed to the placing of bets“Really?” asked the Daily Racing Form’s Marcus Hersh on Twitter on Saturday above a picture of Arlington racecourse in the suburbs of Chicago. “Just rip it down?”Sadly, after 94 years as the major racetrack in America’s third-largest city, it seems they really will. The 326-acre venue that staged the Arlington Million, the first race to offer a million-dollar purse, and where Rock Of Gibraltar so bravely failed to go out on a high in the 2002 Breeders’ Cup Mile, has been sold to developers. The 2021 running of its...
The runner has overtaken Carl Lewis as the most decorated US track Olympian, but her influence transcends athleticsIn the minutes after the end of the very last event, an army of construction workers filed into the Olympic Stadium to start getting it ready for the closing ceremony. The athletes were still making their way out through the line of TV, radio and press interviews while the workers were marching past them, hauling palettes of stacked plastic matting to lay over the track and great rolls of fabric to unwrap. The Olympics are winding down, and the athletics is wrapping up. Looking back on what’s happened here in the last nine days, you can see the ways in which the Games...
This week’s roundup also features the most spectacular knockout ever, 20 minutes of Maradona and plenty more1) The Olympics have both already started and start again on Friday. This is the second time Tokyo has hosted the event, the first being in 1964. Here’s the official film of those Games; here’s an explanation of its global and cultural impact; here are its top 10 moments; here’s Lynn “The Leap” Davies winning long-jump gold; here’s Ann Packer taking 800m gold; here’s Mary Rand winning gold, silver and bronze in the long jump, pentathlon and relay, here’s a feature on her, and here she is returning to her hometown of Wells; and here’s the BBC’s theme tune.2) It was a hard few...