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Fox News
18-07-2025
- Sport
- Fox News
LIV Golf Andalucia Preview: Sergio Garcia Eyes Repeat At 'My Favorite Course'
LIV Golf returns to historic Real Club Valderrama for the third consecutive season for this week's LIV Golf Andalucia, the 10th tournament of the 14-event 2025 season. When: July 11-13, 2025Where: Real Club Valderrama, San Roque, Cádiz, SpainCompetition: Three rounds/54 holes of stroke playField: 54 players — 13 teams of four players each, and two wild cardsDefending champions: Sergio Garcia (individual), Fireballs GC (team) Shotgun Start (ET)Rd. 1, Friday - 7 2, Saturday - 7 3, Sunday - 6:30 a.m. Spanish-born Sergio Garcia, the captain of Fireballs GC, calls Real Club Valderrama "my favorite course in the world." Given that Garcia has won four professional tournaments there, including his breakthrough LIV Golf individual playoff in 2024, it's no wonder a smile crosses his face whenever he talks about Valderrama. The 45-year-old Garcia certainly is happy to return to the course for this week's LIV Golf Andalucía for the third consecutive year. "It's super special," Garcia said. "Not only for me but for all of us because of how much Valderrama means to all of us, to Europe, all the amazing things that have happened here on this golf course." Last year was certainly amazing for both Garcia and his Fireballs, as they swept both trophies via playoff – the only time in LIV Golf's young history that a tournament has produced a double playoff for the individual and team titles. "It's been great to me," Garcia said. Garcia is not the only Spanish-born captain in LIV Golf. Legion XIII's Jon Rahm also enjoys returning to his home country to play Valderrama, the first course in Continental Europe to host the Ryder Cup in 1997. "It's all subjective, but it's probably the best golf course we have in Spain," Rahm said. "It's something that we all grew up wanting to play." Cleeks Golf Club Captain Martin Kaymer was born in Germany but now resides in the Sotogrande area that includes Valderrama. He's been close on several occasions in his pro career to lifting a trophy there. "One of those venues where I wanted to put my name on the trophy," Kaymer said. "I came close. I think I finished five or six times in the top 5. So, it's a golf course that I like, that I enjoy playing, that I can play well. It's a matter of time, hopefully." Bryson DeChambeau's Crushers GC have won the last three LIV Golf team titles and will seek a fourth straight trophy at LIV Golf Andalucía. If they win at Valderrama, it would match the LIV Golf record for longest win streak by either a team or individual. 4 – 4Aces GC (2022 Portland/Bedminster/Boston/Chicago) 3 – Crushers GC (2025 Korea/Virginia/Dallas)3 – Fireballs GC (2025 Adelaide/Hong Kong/Singapore) 2 – Ripper GC (2024 Adelaide/Singapore)2 – Crushers GC (2024 Jeddah/Hong Kong)2 – Torque GC (2023 DC/Andalucía) San Roque, Cádiz, Spain Par: 71Yardage: 7,010Meters: 6,410 Bogey Avoidance: Much more important than birdie rate. The average top-5 finisher at this course has made 2.75 bogeys per round vs 4.25 for the other players finishing in the top 50. Finding Fairways: The value of distance is the lowest all season, averaging at just +0.11 per hole. There is also severe miss fairway penalty in play, average +0.40. Driver will likely only be used 6/7 times at the most. Inside 150 Yards: Players will face 52% of their approach shots this week with the wedges inside of 150 yards vs the season average of 32.5%. Lag Putting: Because the penalty for missing greens is so severe, players focus on the middle and larger parts of the greens instead of aiming for flags. Thus, longer lag first putts are more impactful. This piece is courtesy of Mike McAllister in partnership with LIV Golf. Want great stories delivered right to your inbox? Create or log in to your FOX Sports account, and follow leagues, teams and players to receive a personalized newsletter daily!
Daily Mail
13-07-2025
- Daily Mail
Six injured by stampeding animals as Running of the Bulls festival begins
Six people were trampled on the first day of the Running of the Bulls in Spain. Five reportedly suffered bruises while one had a leg injury as the festival in the northern town of Pamplona got underway. Reports said six fighting bulls became detached from the herd shortly after ranchers released them from their pens. Mayhem: Six people were rushed to hospital with injuries on the first day of the famous Running of the Bulls festival in Spain Medics confirmed the casualty toll half an hour after runners risked their lives by putting themselves in front of six fighting bulls led by six steers as they sprinted along the half-mile run through the streets of Pamplona's old town. The famous festival kicked off with the traditional San Fermin opening ceremony called the Chupinazo. But two of the six fighting bulls became detached from the rest of the group shortly after ranchers let them out of their pens. The animals, from the Fuente Ymbro farm in Spain's south-west province of Cadiz, included one called Zalagarda which is the heaviest of this year's bull runs and weighs in at 1,300lb. During the festival, thousands of revelers dressed in the traditional white outfits with a red bandana around their necks ending up soaked in wine and sangria. Images showed onlookers lining the streets and cheering as the bulls trampled past among the runners. 'As usual, the straight stretch of this street was crowded with young men and a few young women, many of whom were run over, fell, and trampled by bulls and steers,' El Pais reported. The 8am run, which lasted two minutes 37 seconds and ended with the animals being guided into pens after reaching the town's bull ring, was the first of eight so-called encierros which form the highlight of the festival. Last year, five runners were left injured on the seventh day of the festival. A 37-year-old man from Beriain near Pamplona suffered the only gore injury, said to have been to his palate. The other five casualties included a 54-year-old man from New York. All six runners who needed hospital treatment were males. And in 2023, six people were also left injured in the first race, none of them seriously, medics said at the time. Sixteen people have been killed during the bull runs at the annual festival, which finishes on July 14 and was made famous by the 1926 Ernest Hemingway novel The Sun Also Rises, since records began in 1910. Beefy parade: Six bulls are released at 8am every day to run from their corral to the bullring through the narrow streets of the old town while runners ahead of them try to stay close to the bulls without falling over or being gored The most recent death was in 2009 when 27-year-old Daniel Jimeno, from Madrid, was gored in the neck by a bull called Capuchino. Several foreigners, from Australians to Americans through to Britons and Irish, are normally among the injured. Between 200 and 300 people are usually left injured each year at the festival during the bull runs. The first of the eight encierros last year took place four hours after a San Fermin reveler collapsed and died. Police rushed to the scene and tried to save the 40-year-old man but were unable to resuscitate him. Animal rights activists campaign against the festival every year, saying it is cruel to animals who are goaded and then killed in front of baying crowds.
Yahoo
13-07-2025
- Science
- Yahoo
Archaeologist Says He's Found Atlantis in Groundbreaking Discovery
An archaeologist says he's found the lost city of Atlantis in what would obviously be a groundbreaking find. The claim was made by archaeologist Michael Donnellan at the Cosmic Summit 2025 conference, according to Diario AS. He also played a documentary at the summit "featuring images obtained through underwater technology," the site reported. He repeats the claim in the trailer for that documentary. However, notes that scholars aren't sure whether Atlantis was a myth or real; over the years, other theories have pegged it as being at different locations, including Santorini, Greece. According to Diario AS, Donnellan claims "he has identified three submerged concentric walls carved into the seabed," and that "the dimensions and layout match the city described by Plato in the dialogues Timaeus and Critias," describing Atlantis. Donnellan claims he discovered Atlantis two miles off the coast of Cadiz, Spain, according to LADBible. "If anyone had told me six years ago that I would go in search of Atlantis, I would have said they were crazy," Donnellan says in a documentary trailer that he posted on Instagram. "And yet, here we are. Knowing what we know; not a myth. Not a legend. Atlantis was real. The lost empire Plato described in such precise detail. It actually existed. I have seen these structures with my own eyes. I have touched them with my own hands. These years of field research are about to write a whole new chapter in human history. They will help resolve those eternal questions of where we came from." Cosmic Summit 2025 describes itself as a "live, four-day event where truth-seekers from 14 different countries and 45 U.S. states came together to learn from each other, having life changing conversations, party and laugh together and challenge what we think we know about human history, earth history, science, and the hidden patterns shaping our world." Other theories have the lost city located in Santorini, North Africa, or Sweden, according to LADBible. Some scholars don't believe Atlantis ever existed, the site also noted. 'It matches everything Plato says verbatim,' Donnellan said of the structures he found underwater, according to LADBible. 'He says it came from outside the straits in the region known by the Greeks, 2,400 years ago, as Gades. We know that perfectly well to this day that Gades is the modern-day Cádiz, which happens to be the oldest city in western Europe.' LADBible noted that the structure discovered by Donnellan also has "carved canals and a rectangular ruin in the middle." According to Atlantis was "a likely mythical island nation mentioned in Plato's dialogues Timaeus and Critias" that "has been an object of fascination among western philosophers and historians for nearly 2,400 years. Plato (c.424–328 B.C.) describes it as a powerful and advanced kingdom that sank, in a night and a day, into the ocean around 9,600 B.C." That site says ancient Greeks were divided as to whether Atlantis was "history or metaphor." According to Plato described Atlantis as having an advanced culture and "an island larger than Libya and Asia Minor put together, located in the Atlantic just beyond the Pillars of Hercules—generally assumed to mean the Strait of Gibraltar."Archaeologist Says He's Found Atlantis in Groundbreaking Discovery first appeared on Men's Journal on Jul 12, 2025
Daily Mail
07-07-2025
- Daily Mail
Pamplona bull-runners are tossed around and trampled with at least six injured under the hooves of rampaging animals as famous Spanish festival gets underway
Six Pamplona bull-runners have been rushed to hospital with injuries after being trampled by the rampaging animals on the first day of the famous Running of the Bulls festival in northern Spain. Medics confirmed the casualty toll half an hour after runners risked their lives this morning putting themselves in front of six fighting bulls led by six steers as they sprinted along the half-mile run through the streets of Pamplona's old town. The famous festival in the northern Spanish town kicked off at midday yesterday with the traditional San Fermin opening ceremony called the Chupinazo. But two of the six fighting bulls became detached from the rest of the group shortly after ranchers let them out of their pens. The animals, from the Fuente Ymbro farm in Spain's south-west province of Cadiz, included one called Zalagarda which is the heaviest of this year's bull runs and weighs in at a whopping 610 kilos which is 96 stone. According to El Pais, five people suffered bruises and one suffered a leg injury, although it has not been specified whether it was the result of a goring. The nationalities of those hurt today is not yet known. All are thought to be men. During the festival, thousands of revellers dressed in the traditional white outfits with a red bandana around their necks ending up soaked in wine and sangria. A participant is hit by a young cow in the bullring after the first 'encierro' (bull-run) of the San Fermin festival in Pamplona, northern Spain, on July 7, 2025 Images showed onlookers lining the streets and cheering as the bulls trampled past among the runners. 'As usual, the straight stretch of this street was crowded with young men and a few young women, many of whom were run over, fell, and trampled by bulls and steers,' reported El Pais. This morning's 8am run, which lasted two minutes 37 seconds and ended with the animals being guided into pens after reaching the town's bull ring, was the first of eight so-called encierros which form the highlight of the festival. Last year, five runners were left injured on the seventh day of the festival. A 37-year-old man from Beriain near Pamplona suffered the only gore injury, said to have been to his palate. The other five casualties included a 54-year-old man from New York. All six runners who needed hospital treatment were males. And in 2023, six people were also left injured in the first race, none of them seriously, medics said at the time. Sixteen people have been killed during the bull runs at the annual festival, which finishes on July 14 and was made famous by 1926 Ernest Hemingway novel 'The Sun Also Rises', since records began in 1910. Six bulls are released at 8am every day to run from their corral to the bullring through the narrow streets of the old town while runners ahead of them try to stay close to the bulls without falling over or being gored The most recent death was in 2009 when 27-year-old Daniel Jimeno, from Madrid, was gored in the neck by a bull called Capuchino. Several foreigners, from Australians to Americans through to Brits and Irish, are normally among the injured. Between 200 and 300 people are usually left injured each year at the festival during the bull runs. The first of the eight encierros last year took place four hours after a San Fermin reveller collapsed and died. Police rushed to the scene and tried to save the 40-year-old man but were unable to resuscitate him. Animal rights activists campaign against the festival every year, saying it is cruel to animals who are goaded and then killed in front of baying crowds.
BreakingNews.ie
01-07-2025
- BreakingNews.ie
Bilingual barrister comes to aid of 'nervous' translator on his first day
A bilingual barrister came to the rescue at the Special Criminal Court on Tuesday when a "nervous" interpreter on his first day struggled to translate for a group of Spanish men charged with drug offences. The three-judge court was expecting to be updated on whether a group of six men would require trial dates for allegedly conspiring to import a large quantity of drugs into Ireland. Advertisement As prosecution counsel Tessa White BL began to speak, Ms Justice Karen O'Connor, presiding, became concerned that the Spanish interpreter was not translating what was being said. The judge turned to Cathal McGreal BL, defending, saying: "You have good Spanish, are you satisfied that what is being translated is accurate?" "No," Mr McGreal replied. The court gave the parties time to tell their clients what was happening. When the court resumed, Mr McGreal explained that the interpreter has worked previously in hospitals but never in a court setting. Advertisement "The interpreter is perfectly capable but he got very nervous and was worried if he could continue," Mr McGreal said. He said the interpreter would be able to translate the rest of the day's business which required nothing more than setting dates for a next appearance. Ms Justice O'Connor heard that two of the accused, Ali Ghasemi Mazidi (50), with an address in the Netherlands, and Raul Tabares Garcia (48), of Cadiz in Spain, will require trial dates. Ms White said the trial is likely to take four to six weeks. Ireland Conor McGregor continues appeal without fresh evid... Read More Ms Justice O'Connor adjourned the matter to July 21st, when she will set a trial date. Co-defendants Sean Curran (37), with an address at Carrickyheenan, Aughnacloy, Enniskillen, Co Fermanagh, Juan Antonio Gallardo Barroso (56), of no fixed address in Spain, Pedro Pablo Ojeda Ortega (36) of Cadiz and Angel Serran Padilla (40) of Malaga will have their cases mentioned again on July 7th. Advertisement In total, 10 men from Ireland, Spain, Serbia, and the Netherlands are charged with conspiring with one another to do an act in the State that constitutes a serious offence, namely the importation of controlled drugs in excess of €13,000 on dates between February 27th and March 14th, 2024, both dates inclusive. The alleged offence is contrary to the Misuse of Drugs Act 1977. Gardai arrested the ten men in March last year during operations in the villages of Tragumna and Leap near Skibbereen in west Cork, where a jeep, camper van, articulated truck, and rigid inflatable boat were seized as part of the suspected drug smuggling operation.
