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Zheng Qinwen upsets Iga Swiatek in Olympic women’s tennis semifinal, becomes first Chinese person to reach gold-medal match.
Despite entering the semifinal on a 20-match winning streak on clay, Olympic gold favorite Iga Swiatek has been eliminated from the women’s tennis tournament.
The world’s top-ranked player was defeated in straight sets by Zheng Qinwen from China, 6-2, 7-5.

The NFL is back tonight! Oh my gosh, there’s football tonight! 
So great.
Life is good.
Order restored. America is great again.
But, wait.
You have to know that what the NFL is promising and what it is about to deliver may not be exactly the same thing.
Yes, the Houston Texans and the Chicago Bears are playing in Canton, Ohio, on Thursday night.

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Audi’s F1 program poaches a key personnel figure from Red Bull
Just over a week ago the incoming Audi Formula 1 project announced that Mattia Binotto, formerly the Team Principal at Ferrari, was taking over the operation as the new Chief Operating and Chief Technical Officer at Sauber Motorsport AG.
Now Audi is adding a key team member from Red Bull.
Jonathan Wheatley, the Sporting Director at Red Bull, is departing the team at the end of the 2024 season.

Caitlin Clark has a month-long break from basketball after being snubbed from making Team USA for the Paris Olympics, and she plans to take full advantage of her time away from the court by playing plenty of golf and getting her new set of clubs dialed in.
Clark not making the U.S. women’s basketball roster for the 2024 Olympics continues to be a major talking point given that the former Iowa star has already become the most-popular player in the WNBA halfway through her rookie campaign.

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With a perfect 3-0 in Olympic play, the USWNT appeared to be on the right track under head coach Emma Hayes
The United States women’s national team is the most decorated in international women’s Soccer. With four FIFA Women’s World Cup trophies, one second place and three third place finishes in the World Cup, four Olympic gold medals, one Olympic silver and one Olympic bronze, they are not ‘arguably’ the most dominant team in international women’s soccer, they quite simply are.

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5 former first-rounders that could wash out in Year 3
Training camp and the preseason are a time for hope around the NFL.
In addition to the new faces on their squad, teams and fans alike are also looking to see how the members of previous draft classes are maturing and developing.
The 2024 season marks Year 3 for the 2022 draft class – a year that’s critical in a lot of different ways.

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There’s no excuse for the U.S. to be so bad at 3×3 basketball in the Olympics.
The United States is the best basketball country in the world, and it still isn’t particularly close. The U.S. men have won seven of the last eight gold medals in the Olympics, and the American women haven’t even lost a game since 1992.

Algeria’s Imane Khelif, the Olympic boxer who was caught last year “pretending to be” a woman after a series of DNA tests, entered the ring for the first time today in Paris. 
And the fight lasted all of 46 seconds. Forty-six!
Khelif disposed of opening-round opponent, the Italian Angela Carini, so quickly, that if you blinked, the fight was over. Just like that. Pooooof. Done. Like it never happened. Carini forfeit the fight after taking two shots to the head in the opening seconds.

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Conference realignment is out of control.
Katie Ledecky dominated the 1,500-meter freestyle final Wednesday at the Paris Summer Olympics, which is certainly nothing out of the ordinary. Since appearing on the global stage Ledecky has owned the event, and she set another Olympic record on her way to capturing gold.
Wednesday she simply left the field behind, often appearing as the only swimmer in the frame:

Simply the greatest.
Katie Ledecky adds another gold medal to her legendary career achievements.#ParisOlympics | NBC and Peacock pic.

The F1 summer shutdown may be upon us, but there is always time to tweak the rules
At the Chinese Grand Prix last April two incidents involving Fernando Alonso and Carlos Sainz Jr. had race stewards reaching for the Sporting Regulations.
Now, to clarify said regulations Formula 1 has revised its rules during the summer shutdown.
The first incident involved a clash on the track between the two drivers during the F1 Sprint Race at the Chinese Grand Prix. In the closing stages of that Sprint Race, the two drivers came together, with Alonso’s AMR24 suffering a puncture.