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The Courier
4 days ago
- The Courier
Great pictures as tractor pullers thrill the crowds at Brechin
Tractor pullers from across the UK are in Angus for the latest round of the British Championship at a purpose-built venue on the outskirts of Brechin.
Belfast Telegraph
05-08-2025
- Belfast Telegraph
Glenn Irwin to make British Superbike comeback with new team after shock Hager PBM Ducati split
The Carrickfergus man was confirmed to be departing the Ducati side by 'mutual consent' on Tuesday morning after the two sides reached a 'point of conflict' in their discussions over his comeback from a horror crash at Snetterton in June that left him needing surgery on his pelvic region. Irwin had sounded an optimistic note that he could be back as early as this weekend however, despite that, in a statement by Hager PBM Ducati it was revealed that the pair have parted ways by 'mutual consent', with former British champion Scott Redding drafted in as Irwin's replacement for the remainder of the season. It did not take long for the 35-year-old to find a replacement ride, however, with Nitrous Competitions OMG Racing Yamaha confirming only an hour later that they would be adding Irwin to their roster for the remainder of the campaign alongside defending British champion Kyle Ryde, running two bikes for the rest of the year. We need your consent to load this Social Media content. We use a number of different Social Media outlets to manage extra content that can set cookies on your device and collect data about your activity. Irwin will take to the grid at Thruxton at the weekend on his new machine for the first time, with team owner David Williams commenting: 'Nitrous Competitions OMG Racing are excited to have Glenn join the team. "Between him and Kyle, we believe we have the strongest pairing on the current grid, and are entering the second half of the Bennetts British Superbike Championship season with a stronger sense of optimism than ever.' Irwin raced under the Hager PBM Ducati umbrella from 2016 to 2018 before rejoining in 2023, winning 19 races and racking up a further 23 podium finishes, and he nearly delivered the 2023 British Championship to the team, missing out by half-a-point to Tommy Bridewell. 'Hager PBM Ducati and Glenn Irwin have announced that their contractual relationship has been terminated by mutual consent,' said Hager PBM Ducati's statement, with the team riding only one bike for the rest of the year. 'Following Glenn's serious accident at Snetterton in June and period of recovery it was the opinion of the team that his return should be deferred until at least after Round 7 at Cadwell Park. 'This decision was taken by the team management on the ground of managing competition expectations and a duty of care to Glenn as despite recovering to a position where 'fitness to ride' could potentially be achieved, the team felt that risks remained in this early period of recovery that a subsequent fall could result in a further, complicated injury. 'As a result of a point of conflict the parties have agreed to terminate their contractual relationship, and Glenn is free to pursue other opportunities to fulfil his insistence to immediately return to competition.'
The Guardian
01-08-2025
- The Guardian
Chess: 10-year-old targets world record alongside grandmasters at British Championship
England's grandmasters are in action on Saturday, as round three of the British Championship gets under way at St George's Hall in the centre of Liverpool. Former Russian Nikita Vitiugov, 38, the national No 1, is top seeded while the No 2 and world senior champion, Michael Adams, is the man in form after the 53-year-old from Taunton, Somerset, won the English title in July. The continuing chess boom, reflecting the easy availability of online blitz games, the popularity of the world No 1, Magnus Carlsen, and the success of Netflix's The Queen's Gambit, have combined to spark a record entry of more than 1,600 players for the championship and its subsidiary tournaments. Vitiugov, who switched federations in response to the invasion of Ukraine, and Adams, who defies the years and was impressive when winning the English title at Kenilworth, can expect several challenges to appear during the 11-round tournament, which finishes on Sunday week. Gawain Jones, 37, is the defending champion and No 3 seed. Matthew Wadsworth, 25, and England's youngest ever grandmaster Shreyas Royal, 16, are ambitious for new achievements while Dan Fernandez, 27, is fresh from an impressive first place in the Ghent Open. Bodhana Sivanandan, the 10-year-old Harrow primary schoolgirl who is already in the record books, scored another landmark result last Sunday when she achieved a Fide women's grandmaster performance with 4.5/9 at the Aix-en-Provence tournament in France. In doing so, Sivanandan broke a historic age record set by Judit Polgar, the all-time women's No 1, in London 1988 at age 12, and then broken by Hou Yifan, China's all-time women's No 2, as an 11-year-old at the Beijing Fide zonal in 2005. Sivanandan met a strong field, including a grandmaster and five international masters. Her fast, confident, accurate and impressive defence in a tricky pawn down rook endgame against 2488-rated GM Ortik Nigmatov of Uzbekistan was captured on video by ChessBase India. Her overall performance rating for the event was 2401, providing her first woman grandmaster norm and her second of three required norms for woman international master. Her overall Fide rating leapt from 2087 to 2216, her highest yet. The age record for a national championship was set in July 2024 by a 10-year-old, Abdalrahman Sameh Mohamed, who totalled 10.5/11 with a rating performance of 2466 in the Egyptian championship in Cairo. For the UK, the record holder is Akshaya Kalaiyalahan, who won the first of her two British women's titles in 2013, aged 11. Sivanandan's latest result suggests that she has made a big quantum jump, as many talented juniors do. She currently has momentum on her side. In such circumstances, extraordinary results become possible. The women's championship at Liverpool is incorporated within the open event, and on the face of it, winning the title this year could be a bridge too far for Sivanandan. The three clear favourites are the former world girls champion Harriet Hunt, the English woman champion, Elmira Mirzoeva, and the defending co-champion Lan Yao, who is fresh from a major success at the Andorra Open, where she achieved her third and final norm for the IM title, although she still needs a 2400 rating for that against her current high of Fide 2382. This was Yao's winning final round game, which clinched her final norm. She was unbeaten in the Andorra Open against six IMs and a GM. Sign up to The Recap The best of our sports journalism from the past seven days and a heads-up on the weekend's action after newsletter promotion Last Sunday, the same day that Sivanandan and Yao reached their norms, Jonathan Pein, 27, son of the ECF International Director and CHESS magazine editor, Malcolm Pein, made his first IM norm in Oviedo, Spain, sharing third prize with seven wins, two losses, and no draws. Chess made its first appearance this week at the Esports World Cup in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, with a huge $1.5m prize fund. The quarter-finals and semi-finals were both played on Thursday. One game provided an early disaster, as Nodirbek Abdusattorov v Jan-Krzysztof Duda lasted only five moves due to a mouse slip: 1 e4 e5 2 Nf3 Nc6 3 Nc3 Nf6 4 Bc4 Nxe4 5 Nxe4 d6?? and Black resigned. Of course 5...d5 was intended, when the game is level. In the quarter-finals Alireza Firouzja (France) beat Abdusattorov (Uzbekistan) 3-1, Arjun Erigaisi (India) beat Ian Nepomniachtchi (Russia) 2.5-1.5, Carlsen (Norway) beat Nihal Sarin (India) 2.5-0.5, and Hikaru Nakamura (US) beat Levon Aronian (US) 2.5-1.5. In the semi-finals Firouzja beat Erigaisi 4-1 and Carlsen beat Nakamura 4-3. On Friday the Carlsen v Firouzja final and the Nakamura v Erigaisi third place match both start at 1pm BST on The games are live and free to watch, and highly recommended viewing. There are several streams available and Stream A has England's David Howell as the lead commentator. 3982 1 g4+! fxg4 (if Kh4 2 Bg3 mate) 2 Rd5+! Ne5 3 Rxe5+ Qxe5 4 Qxh6 mate.
