Algerian Olympic champion Imane Khelif is appealing World Boxing’s ban on her competing unless she undergoes “genetic sex” testing [archived link]. Give ’em hell, Imane!
cool links
VFX artist Wren Weichman aka SirWrender put a special camera inside a clear bowling ball and threw it down an alley to show its journey from throw to pins and back into the ball return.
If seeing Roger Federer at Wimbledon this week has made you miss him on grass, here’s an hour of some of his best shots on the surface at Halle and Stuttgart.
Christian Horner has been sacked by Red Bull after 20 years as principal at F1 team. Bye, bye!
Here’s a Wikipedia article about “sleep in the NBA“. It feels more like a blog post but it’s cool to have the info. (h/t @juniedreamcast.bsky.social)
Lyon just got relegated to Ligue 2 due to financial problems. The owner and club officials met with the DNGC to try and sort things out (they were provisionally relegated in November 2024) but couldn’t come to an agreement. The seven-time Ligue 1 champions will now play in the second division for the first time since the 1988/89 season.
A funny anecdote from Roy Keane about Ruud Gullit and an “unusual” question about injuries…
Found this really cool Subbuteo team on Bluesky painted to look like AFC Richmond from Ted Lasso. Makes me want to play Subbuteo again (and watch the show finally).
Remember Adidas Predators? They’re back in gold form. As a lover of Predators and gold stuff, I quite like the new Adidas Predator Precision ZZ FG in Gold Metallic.
Rafael Nadal spoke to Roland-Garros about his legacy and memories of the tournament that he made his home. ICYMI somehow, he won it 14 times which will likely be an unbroken record.
For Atlas Obscura, Sam Lin-Sommer wrote about Oaxaca in Mexico and its love of basketball through La Copa Benito Juárez, an annual tournament that takes places in the mountains: At this tournament, there are no corporate sponsorships, no prize money. Just some 6,000 players and fans from the basketball-crazed mountains of the Sierra Juárez, trekking to the Zapotec hamlet of Guelatao de Juárez, driven by, as the tournament’s motto goes, el honor de competir.
I’m late but Alex Ovechkin beat Wayne Gretzky’s all-time goals record. I also learnt that they are both kinda shitty with their vague alignments with Putin and Trump so hopefully someone not shitty can beat them both to 2nd and 3rd one day.
I have no opinion on the GOAT debate (so don’t bring it here) but these Michael Jordan plays are ridiculous.
TIL: there are London Irish, London Scottish, and London Welsh rugby teams (although I also found out that the original London Welsh had to fold but the name lives on via an amateur team). Oh, and London Cornish, London French, and London New Zealand! London South Africa were also a club but dissolved in 2014.
For Colossal, Grace Ebert covered Keerthana Kunnath’s photo series about a community of female bodybuilders in Kerala, titled “Not What You Saw”: Set against common backdrops like beaches, the outside of a traditional Indian home, and lush, green foliage, the collection highlights an alternative vision of beauty grounded in immense female power.