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Scottish Sun
04-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Scottish Sun
Simone Biles leaves fans divided with ‘cringey' Kentucky Derby antics as they beg ‘please don't do that again'
Click to share on X/Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) OLYMPIC hero Simone Biles left fans divided following her appearance at the Kentucky Derby. Biles, 28, performed the traditional "Riders up" call, signalling the jockeys to climb aboard their horses before the iconic race. Sign up for Scottish Sun newsletter Sign up A beautiful Riders Up from Simone Biles. #KyDerby — NBC Olympics & Paralympics (@NBCOlympics) May 3, 2025 2 Simone Biles split opinion with her 'Riders up' intro 2 Biles kicked off this year's Kentucky Derby The seven-time Olympic champion donned a lavender dress and matching hat as she was flanked by local law enforcement and looked into the camera to deliver the message. Biles said: "Ladies and gentlemen, the city of Louisville, the Commonwealth of Kentucky and sports fans from around the world have been waiting for this moment." The famous gymnast then gave the signal in an excited tone as she blew a kiss to the camera. Biles' performance split opinion as there were some that thought she sounded too different. One fan posted: "It was cringey.. She doesn't normally talk like that. Right? Haha maybe she does IDK." Another commented: "Simone Biles, wow, please don't do that again lol!" And a third wrote: "Oh, that's a little over the top." But there were also a lot of people who praised Biles' performance on social media. One fan posted: "Pretty amazing to have one of the greatest Olympians of all time, Simone Biles, doing the 'Riders up' call for the Kentucky Derby." Another commented: "Great job at the Derby!!!" Simone Biles makes major announcement after leaving NFL star husband Jonathan Owens as she stuns in glitzy dress And a third wrote: "Simone Biles doing it right at the #KentuckyDerby."
Indian Express
04-05-2025
- Sport
- Indian Express
Swimmer Katie Ledecky breaks 800m freestyle world record
American swimmer Katie Ledecky has shattered her own 800m freestyle world record on Saturday. She clocked 8 minutes 4.12 seconds at the Tyr Pro Series meet in Fort Lauderdale, Florida to better her previous mark of 8:04.79 which she set at the 2016 Rio Olympics. It was a tactical race from Ledecky who paced it masterfully surfing ahead through 400m. She ceded her lead at the 450m and 500m but was back in the lead by 550m and a powerful final leg saw her break the world record. The record-breaking swim capped an extraordinary series of performances for Ledecky, who posted her second-fa 400m freestyle time on Thursday. This was her best timing in nine years – and the second-fastest 1500m freestyle time in history on Wednesday. Ledecky's most recent world record before this was in the 1500m in May 2018 in a 50m pool came into the 1500m freestyle. The 28-year-old holds 15 world records in the 50m pool. WORLD RECORD for Katie Ledecky! 🇺🇸 The First Lady of Freestyle bests her time from the 2016 Rio Olympics in the 800m. 🎥: USASwimming | #TYRProSeries — NBC Olympics & Paralympics (@NBCOlympics) May 3, 2025 Who is Katie Ledecky? At the age of 28, Katie Ledecky is one of the most decorated swimmers in the World and US history. She has won a total of nine Olympic gold medals and 21 World Championship medals. Ledecky is the fifth-most decorated athlete in the Olympic history. Ledecky was one of the surprising stories from the 2012 London Olympics as then 15-year-old surprised everyone by winning the gold medal in the 800m freestyle. At the 2016 Rio Olympics, Ledecky emerged as the most decorated female athlete with four gold medals, one silver medal, and two world records. Ledecky became the first American female swimmer to win an individual event in three straight Olympics at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and emerged as the most decorated U.S. female athlete.
New York Times
04-05-2025
- Sport
- New York Times
Katie Ledecky breaks her own nine-year-old world record in 800-meter freestyle
The world record in the women's 800-meter freestyle has been untouchable for nearly nine years since Katie Ledecky swam it in 8:04.79 at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. No one had come within two seconds of that time since. That all changed Saturday. And Ledecky, naturally, was the one to do it. The American swimming legend broke her own record in the event at the TYR Pro Series in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., finishing in 8:04.12 to beat her previous unmatchable time by over a half-second. WORLD RECORD for Katie Ledecky! 🇺🇸 The First Lady of Freestyle bests her time from the 2016 Rio Olympics in the 800m. 🎥: USASwimming | #TYRProSeries — NBC Olympics & Paralympics (@NBCOlympics) May 3, 2025 Ledecky, who has won gold in the 800-meter freestyle in four straight Olympics, now owns the 10 fastest times ever in the event. The win comes two days after Ledecky bested rival Summer McIntosh in a thrilling 400-meter race, an event Ledecky has lost ground in since winning gold in Rio. The 28-year-old Ledecky has nine career Olympic golds and 14 total medals to go along with 21 world championship golds. Advertisement She has said she's eyeing competing at the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. 'I'll take it year by year and give it everything I've got for as long as I have left in me,' Ledecky said when asked about continuing her career following her final race in Paris last summer. American Gretchen Walsh also reset her own world record on Saturday in the 100-meter butterfly — twice. She swam 55.09 in the prelims to lower her previous record of 55.18, then topped it with a 54.60 in the final.
Irish Examiner
03-05-2025
- Sport
- Irish Examiner
Andrew Coscoran claims thrilling win at Grand Slam Track in Miami
Andrew Coscoran recorded the biggest win of his career at the second edition of Grand Slam Track in Miami on Friday night, the Dubliner out-kicking a world-class field to take victory over 3000m in 8:17.56. After a dawdling pace through the opening two kilometres, Coscoran reached the bell in fifth place, but then unleashed a 54-second final lap, and a blazing 11.89-second final 100m, to hit the front a few metres from the finish, with USA's Grant Fisher, a double Olympic medallist in Paris, second in 8:17.60. Britain's George Mills, a recent European indoor silver medallist over 3000m, was third in 8:17.77. 'I've been in a couple of neck-and-neck races where I've fallen over the line,' said Coscoran. 'When I was just coming up to the line, I was like, 'Do I need to actually fall here to try and get this?' It was a bit neck and neck but with a couple of metres to go I was like 'I definitely have this.' 'My mindset is I can always maybe get it. First lap, I'm like, 'How do I win this?' Same with every other lap. I thought I definitely had it with about three or four metres to go. Before that, I was asking myself if I can win it and it was definite with four metres to go.' The win puts Coscoran in line for the biggest payday of his career on Sunday, when he will race the same athletes over 5000m. Grand Slam Track is the new professional series co-founded by US star Michael Johnson, with prize money that dwarfs that of the Diamond League. The series features four 'racers' in each category, who compete at every meet, and four 'challengers', with Coscoran receiving a call-up as the latter for the Miami event. The Irishman wins it! 🇮🇪 Andrew Coscoran outkicks Grant Fisher to take the 3000m.@GrandSlamTrack | 📺 Peacock — NBC Olympics & Paralympics (@NBCOlympics) May 2, 2025 His win netted him 12 points in the long-distance category, where the 5000m will determine the final standings. The competitor with the highest points tally after that race will win $100,000, with second receiving $50,000 and third netting $30,000. If Coscoran finishes second to anyone besides Fisher in the 5000m, he will be the overall winner and if he finishes second to Fisher, the tie-break is decided based on their overall cumulative times for both races. Though he's best known for his exploits at shorter distances – Coscoran holds both the Irish mile and 1500m records – he is a dangerous competitor over 3000m and 5000m given his ample endurance. 'The thing is I've probably raced one 5K in the last five years,' he said. 'It was alright, it was 13:12, but these guys are well experienced in the 5K. I'm gonna hang in and try to make a move like I did today and maybe that's enough. We'll see.' He will race the 5000m at 9.44pm Irish time on Sunday, with live coverage on TNT Sports 2 from 8.30pm. Elsewhere, Rhasidat Adeleke and Brian Fay will be in action at the Shanghai/Keqiao Diamond League in China today, with Adeleke racing the 200m at 1.01pm Irish time and Fay in the 5000m at 12.26pm. There's live coverage on Virgin Media Two from 12pm.
Yahoo
30-03-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
World figure skating championships results: Ilia Malinin, U.S. dominant on last day
BOSTON — On the final day of the 2025 world figure skating championships in Boston, Ilia Malinin defended his title and cemented his place as the man to beat at the 2026 Milan-Cortina Olympics. Malinin, 20, was the last person to take the ice at TD Garden on Saturday for his free skate and landed six quadruple jumps en route to a dominant victory. The only skater in history to land a quadruple axel in competition, Malinin has not lost a competition in nearly 18 months and has now won two world titles in a row. It's the first time the U.S. has won world titles in three figure skating disciplines at the same world championships. That's in part because of what happened earlier Saturday. Madison Chock and Evan Bates won their third consecutive world title in ice dance with a magnificent free skate, finishing well ahead of their Canadian rivals, Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier. Here's everything else you might have missed from the last day of the world figure skating championships: Ilia Malinin did not achieve his goal of landing seven quads in the same program. But he did land six, something that only he has done before: Quad flip, quad axel, quad lutz, quad loop, quad toe loop and quad salchow. The performance left Malinin exhausted on the ice, and NBC's commentators speechless on the television broadcast. "That should not be possible," Tara Lipinski said on NBC. "It's like he undoes gravity." ILIA. Quad God ends #WorldFigure with a SPECTACULAR free skate to win the world title! — NBC Olympics & Paralympics (@NBCOlympics) March 30, 2025 In 2022, Ilia Malinin became the first figure skater to land a quadruple axel in competition. Nobody else has been able to match the feat since. And he did another one Saturday. The take-off is what makes the jump so impressive. Because the axel is the only jump with a forward-facing take-off, the quad axel actually features 4.5 rotations rather than four. If you followed along with Saturday's free skate, you might've seen Adam Siao Him Fa of France do a backflip near the end of his program and thought "wait... what?" Yes, after years of being banned by the International Skating Union, the backflip has made a return this season. Siao Him Fa has been among the first to embrace it, as has Ilia Malinin. Prior to this year, backflips would be seen occasionally in the exhibition programs at galas following competition, but never at the competitions themselves. As men's figure skating continues to shift toward the technical, and away from the artistic, Jason Brown continues to break the mold. In a free skate without a quadruple jump, the 30-year-old once again showed the value of artistry and drew thunderous applause from TD Garden in the process. His free skate was strong enough to move him into the leader's chair, and left him near tears as he exited the ice. It was a triumphant moment for Brown not just because of the home crowd, but also because of what he's been through this season. An equipment issue, which he's described as "the boot issue," hindered his performances and caused him to withdraw from nationals in January. Nathan Chen, the reigning Olympic gold medalist, was one of three "legends" made available to members of the media ahead of the men's free skate Saturday. Chen graduated from Yale last year and is currently participating in a post-baccalaureate program in Baltimore for a year. He said he still skates, but probably only once a week "on a good week." "There's a rink that's like 45 minutes from where I live. On Fridays, we get out of class early, so that's where I'm at," Chen said. Chen, who will turn 26 in May, never formally announced his retirement from figure skating. But when asked about Alysa Liu's comeback this season and whether he can envision making a similar return, he laughed. "I mean, I'm in my program. I'm quite busy," he said. "I'm just trying to survive right now. We have two months before the (Medical College Admission Test) and I'm like, 'oh man, this is a lot.' But it's super inspiring what she did." How's this for a throwback? More than six years before these world championships, Alysa Liu and Ilia Malinin posed for a photo together atop the podium after winning advanced novice titles at the 2018 Asian Open. "The future is bright," U.S. Figure Skating wrote in a caption accompanying the photo. You can say that again! The future is bright. 😎🤩 Alysa Liu and Ilia Malinin each won an advanced novice title at the 2018 Asian Open today for #TeamUSA! 🥇🥇 — U.S. Figure Skating (@USFigureSkating) August 2, 2018 If it wasn't clear already, it's certainly clear now: Madison Chock and Evan Bates will be the team to beat in ice dance at the 2026 Winter Olympics. After years of going back-and-forth with Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier of Canada, Chock and Bates pulled ahead at last year's world championships and did the same again this year, wowing the home crowd with their jazz-themed free skate. They won both the rhythm dance and free dance en route to their third consecutive title. As we enter the home stretch of the free dance competition, arguably no program has drawn more of a reaction from the TD Garden crowd than the Dune-themed skate by Olivia Smart and Tim Dieck. The fiercely energetic performance, which featured costumes remniscient of the recent Dune movies, put the Spanish team atop the leaderboard with a score of 123.71 and left Dieck overcome with emotion on the ice. Smart and Dieck's program is one of six at these world championships that features music from Dune. Meanwhile, the American team of Caroline Green and Michael Parsons closed their season with an emotional and elegant performance that brought a score of 114.96. They finished ninth. Compatriots Christina Carreira and Anthony Ponomarenko followed with an even stronger score, of 123.37 and placed fifth. To put it briefly: They're significant. Without going into all of the nuances of the International Skating Union's quota allocation system, skaters' performances here earned Olympic spots for their countries. And those countries will now decide who gets to fill those spots at the end of this year or early in 2026. A total of 83 quota spots were at stake across the four disciplines at worlds. While nobody was technically punching their own Olympic ticket in Boston, there are many cases where that was more or less the case. Ilia Malinin, the 20-year-old defending world champion from Vienna, Virginia, had a three-point lead going into Saturday's free skate after a near flawless performance in the short program Thursday. Skating to the song "Running' by American rapper NF, Malinin breezed through his three jumping passes − including a quad lutz-triple toe loop combination. The crowd at TD Garden started cheering about 15 seconds before his program even ended. We'll be watching Ilia Malinin's short program on repeat all night long. ⭐️ #WorldFigure — NBC Olympics & Paralympics (@NBCOlympics) March 27, 2025 The portions of the world figure skating championships that were televised on NBC or USA Network will have many of the usual broadcasting voices. Terry Gannon handled play-by-play duties, with Tara Lipinski and Johnny Weir offering color commentary. The telecasts also featured Gabriella Papadakis, a 2022 Olympic gold medalist, as an ice dance analyst, with Andrea Joyce and Adam Rippon as reporters. Here are the final results of the 2025 world figure skating championships. Ice dance Madison Chock and Evan Bates, USA: 222.06 Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier, Canada: 216.54 Lilah Fear and Lewis Gibson, Great Britain: 207.11 Charlène Guignard and Marco Fabbri, Italy: 206.46 Christina Carreira and Anthony Ponomarenko: 204.88 Men's singles Ilia Malinin, USA: 318.56 Mikhail Shaidorov, Kazakhstan: 287.47 Yuma Kagiyama, Japan: 278.19 Adam Siao Him Fa, France: 275.48 Kevin Aymoz, France: 272.52 Women's singles Alysa Liu, USA: 222.97 Kaori Sakamoto, Japan: 217.98 Mone Chiba, Japan: 215.24 Isabeau Levito, USA: 209.84 Amber Glenn, USA: 205.65 Pairs Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara, Japan: 219.79 Minerva Fabienne Hase and Nikita Volodin, Germany: 219.08 Sara Conti and Niccolo Macii, Italy: 210.47 Anastasiia Metelkina and Luke Berulava, Georgia: 202.21 Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps, Canada: 199.76 This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: World figure skating championships 2025: Ilia Malinin, US dominant
