Latest - New Zealand driver Fabian Coulthard has broken his Supercars victory drought.
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Coulthard has won the opening race at The Bend in South Australia to end a 41-race winless streak.
His team-mate Scott McLaughlin has finished back in 15th after being forced off the track by championship rival Jamie Whincup at the end of the opening lap.
McLaughlin recovered but was then penalised for an overtaking manoeuvre of his own.
He still finished four places ahead of Whincup and is now 151 points clear in the championship standings.
There are a further two races tomorrow (Sunday) with McLaughlin attempting to win a third straight Supercars title.
Lakers win game one of Western Conference finals
Anthony Davis had 37 points and 10 rebounds, and the Los Angeles Lakers cruised to a 126-114 victory over the Denver Nuggets in Game 1 of the Western Conference finals near Orlando.
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Davis, who converted 12 of 21 shots from the floor, scored 20 points in the second half.
Kentavious Caldwell-Pope scored 18 points on 6-of-10 shooting, including 3-of-5 on 3 pointers, while LeBron James added 15 points, 12 assists and six rebounds for the Lakers. Dwight Howard had 13 points off the bench and effectively defended Nuggets center Nikola Jokic.
Jamal Murray and Jokic each scored 21 points for Denver. Michael Porter Jr. had 14 points, but no other Denver players reached double figures.
Game 2 is Monday (NZT).
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Giannis wins second straight NBA MVP award
Milwaukee Bucks forward Giannis Antetokounmpo was named NBA MVP for the second straight season.
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Antetokounmpo received 85 of the 101 first-place votes and earned 962 total points to outdistance second-place LeBron James (16 first-place votes, 753 points) of the Los Angeles Lakers. Houston Rockets star James Harden (367) was third.
Antetokounmpo joins legendary Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and James as the only two players to win multiple MVP awards by age 25. He and Abdul-Jabbar (1971 and 1972) are only the Bucks to win the award twice.
However, the 25-year-old Antetokounmpo isn't so keen about being called a two-time MVP. Especially after the Bucks were eliminated in the second round of the playoffs after compiling a league-best 56-17 record.
"Don't call me a two-time MVP until I'm a champion," Antetokounmpo said from his native Greece during an interview on NBA TV.
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Storm prop punished for bubble breach
Melbourne prop Christian Welch has been has been fined $10,000 by the NRL and stood down by the Storm for inviting an unregistered guest into the club's COVID-19 bubble on the Sunshine Coast.
Christian Welch is tackled by Mitch Aubusson during the 2018 NRL grand final Photo: Photosport Ltd 2018
Welch will miss today's (Saturday) match against Wests Tigers and was served with a breach notice by the NRL after Melbourne informed head office of the COVID-19 breach.
He was hit with a $20,000 fine although half of that amount is suspended.
"Complying with the protocols is absolutely critical to our season. The protocols ensure we protect the safety of our players, staff and the community,'' NRL CEO Andrew Abdo said.
"Any player or official who breaches the protocols will face a significant fines. The overwhelming majority of our players and officials have done the right thing throughout a very challenging season. It is critically important that compliance continues."
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Fans of Australian women's team find only men's away shirt is on sale
Australia's women's football team, the Matildas, apologised on Friday after it emerged that their replica away kit was not on sale in female sizes.
Matildas midfielder Elise Kellond-Knight rises up for a header against the Football Ferns Photo: Photosport
The new kit, made by Nike of 100% recycled polyester from plastic bottles, was unveiled earlier alongside the men's home and away jerseys but fans soon noted that only the women's gold home shirt was available for purchase online.
Australia and New Zealand are due to host the 2023 Women's World Cup.
The omission drew amazement on social media, with players also reacting.
"Ummmmm. this is a fairly significant problem," commented defensive midfielder Elise Kellond-Knight, who plays in the Swedish league.
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Dane claims his second stage win of the Tour
Denmark's Soren Kragh Andersen claimed his second audacious solo stage win of the Tour de France with a perfectly timed attack late in the 19th stage, an undulating 166.5-km ride from Bourg en Bresse to Champagnole.
Soren Kragh Andersen of Team Sunweb celebrates. Photo: Photo News / Panoramic
The Sunweb rider, who also won the 14th stage in Lyon with an instinctive move in the finale, jumped away from a group of late breakaway riders to give his team their third stage win this year after Marc Hirschi's victory in the 12th stage.
"The victory in Lyon gave me confidence because I had proven myself on the biggest race in the world," Kragh Andersen told a news conference.
"That's why I went for it today. I was suffering but I knew that in that case the others were suffering as well."
Slovenian Luka Mezgec took second place, and Belgian Jasper Stuyven finished third, both 53 seconds behind, as Primoz Roglic retained the overall leader's yellow jersey.
Roglic leads second-placed and fellow Slovenian Tadej Pogacar by 57 seconds going into tonight's decisive individual time trial, which should see the Jumbo Visma rider secure his maiden Tour title.
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