Ng On-yee made a record-breaking 137 break against Liam Highfield in the English Open on Thursday, 33 years after Allison Fisher’s 133 against Joe Swail in the 1992 Dubai Classic qualifiers. The Hongkonger took her time as she made history to draw the match level at 1–1.
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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!
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.
Madison Keys is the 2025 Australian Open Women’s Singles champion
Keys open doors, as my old head of year used to say.
Glorious on the female and non-binary photographers ‘changing the way we see sport’: We all know those iconic sports photos—the triumphant victory, the crushing defeat. But there’s a whole world of sports photography out there, and many of its most exciting voices are female and non-binary.
Taisiia Onofriichuk’s Olympic rhythmic gymnastic performance to Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” was sensational for multiple reasons. I’m surprised that the Olympics, Eurosport or BBC haven’t covered this yet.
Shout out to Sifan Hassan for winning gold in her first Olympic marathon
Is there any long distance race she can’t win?
Simone Biles landing the first ever Olympic Yurchenko double pike
I don’t have any words left. Just sublime.
It’s Nice That spoke to Middle East Archive’s founder Romaisa Baddar about the archive’s new photography book, Football: Each image paints a vivid portrait of different expressions of the sport and its shared love in so many different spaces
It’s Nice That profiled Craig Stronach’s creative project with the England Lionesses who played in the 1971 Women’s World Cup in Mexico, better known as the Lost Lionesses.