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Rio Paralympics: Four Paralympians beat Olympic 1 500m winner

London Paralympians accept been breaking barriers for years, but four men bankrupt new arena back they burst the times set in the 1,500-meter final at aftermost month s Olympics. Competing in the Paralympics men s 1,500m T13 final on Monday for visually-impaired athletes, the top-four finishers all ran faster than Olympic 1,500m best Matthew Centrowitz Jr. Abdellatif Baka of Algeria stormed to gold in a world-record time of 3:48.29, followed by Tamiru Demisse of Ethiopia with argent and Henry Kirwa of Kenya with bronze. Remarkably Abdellatif s brother Fouad, who aloof absent out on the belvedere in fourth place, accomplished in a time of 3:49.84, which would still accept been fast abundant to get Olympic gold. READ MORE: Indian attempt doodle makes history It wasn t accessible to get this gold medal, Abdellatif Baka said. I ve been alive one or two years nonstop, and it s been very, actual adamantine for me. Appropriate raceThe T13 allocation is the atomic astringent of the three classes for visually-impaired athletes at the Rio Paralympics. Unlike added categories, the runners do not use blindfolds or guides.While the T13 final had a fast clip from the start, the Olympic 1,500m accident was a appropriate chase which started out almighty apathetic and alone got activity in the final lap. READ MORE: Alcoholic sprinter vows Rio ban won break him Centrowitz eventually won the gold in 3:50.00, the slowest acceptable time at an Olympics back 1932. The American, who controlled the chase appealing abundant from the alpha as he fought off all attempts at overtaking him, had set a claimed best in the 1,500m aftermost year in Monaco that was added than 20 abnormal faster than his time in Rio. The able apple almanac of 3:26.00 was set by Morocco s Hicham El Guerrouj in 1998.Visit .com/sport for added Paralympics newsThat still doesn t booty annihilation abroad from what the four Paralympians accept accomplished as both contest were captivated at the aforementioned area at the Estadio Olimpico in Rio de Janeiro and did not absorb wheelchairs or prosthetic antagonism blades.

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Warren Gatland: Lions can beat mythical All Blacks

Warren Gatland, who was appointed as arch drillmaster of the British and Irish Lions on Wednesday, believes his ancillary can exhausted apple rugby s top-ranked aggregation New Zealand abutting year.The New Zealander will be gluttonous to advance the accumulated nations to their aboriginal back-to-back alternation success in added than 40 years, accepting been in allegation of the team s aftermost bout — a 2-1 achievement in Australia in 2013.The Lions alone alternation achievement adjoin New Zealand was in 1971, followed up three years after by a celebration over South Africa.Read more: NZ apprenticeship abundant retiresGatland, who is afresh demography a breather from his role as Wales coach, admits it is the better job in apple rugby adjoin the best action in apple rugby. Success in 2017 is about activity to New Zealand and acceptable the Test series, and I candidly accept we can do that, the 52-year-old told the Lions official website. If we don t accept that, again we shouldn t alike be accepting on the plane. If there s players out there who accept doubts, again accomplish yourselves bare because we accept to go bottomward there as a band of players and a accumulation of bodies who accept 100% that we are acceptable abundant to go to New Zealand and win a Test series. Read more: All Blacks accumulation added affliction on AustraliaThe aftermost Lions aggregation to bout New Zealand, in 2005, absent all three Tests beneath the advice of drillmaster Clive Woodward, who had led England to achievement at the Apple Cup two years earlier.The All Blacks accept won back-to-back Apple Cups aback then, arresting their appellation aftermost year in England.Read more: Fiji ceremoniousness English drillmaster with acreage and arch titleGatland s Wales aggregation absent in the quarterfinals, as did Scotland and Ireland. England bootless to ability the knockout stage, but bounced aback beneath new coach, Australian Eddie Jones, to win this year s Six Nations title.Wales, Ireland and Scotland abounding the abutting placings aloft continental rivals France and Italy, giving Gatland advance about the abyss of players he will accept to assignment with for the 10-match, six-week bout starting abutting June. Can the Lions exhausted NZ? Accept your say on our Facebook page There is some absolute aptitude there at the moment, he said. There is pace, there s players with footwork. There s acquaintance in the advanced backpack and there s some admeasurement as well; there s some absolute accomplishment and I am abundantly aflame about the abeyant of a Lions aggregation to go to New Zealand. Gatland acknowledges the All Blacks — best at home aback 2009, a run of 42 matches — accept congenital up an about allegorical acceptability aback catastrophe the nation s 24-year delay for a additional apple appellation in 2011.Visit .com/rugby for added account and videosHis Wales aggregation suffered three Test defeats in New Zealand in June this year, and additionally absent to bigoted ancillary the Chiefs. There is article about the allegorical affair and the legend, but you advance it and acquisition a able and they can be affected to aged like anyone else, Gatland added. That s activity to be our challenge.

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US Open: Is a smart court the secret weapon to beat Serena Williams?

London Up adjoin Serena Williams in the US Open quarterfinals afterwards Wednesday, Simona Halep will be relying on a allotment of cutting-edge technology to get an bend over the 22-time above winner.A acute court.The fifth-seeded Romanian has bigger her serve by blurred her brawl bung afterwards her coach, Darren Cahill, alien Playsight s SmartCourt video and analytics technology in convenance in March. It gave Simona burning acknowledgment that blurred the brawl bung gave her added ability in the serve, added leg drive up through the brawl as she wasn t pausing to delay for the bung to drop, and bigger ascendancy of the brawl with an added circuit rate, Cahill, a above drillmaster of Andre Agassi and Lleyton Hewitt, said in an email.Read: Serena break Federer s recordIsraeli armyDeveloped by Israeli aggressive veterans who acclimatized technology acclimated to alternation their country s fighter pilots, Playsight s SmartCourt technology annal players via six absolutely automatic high-definition on-court cameras and again crunches the numbers for burning assay at an alternate touchscreen kiosk. The arrangement isn t cheap. It costs $12,500 to be installed on an calm cloister and $10,500 for an alfresco court, with account aliment and absolute billow accumulator and acceptance of up to $500 per cloister on boilerplate depending on how abounding are set up. Particularly accessible on the inferior circuits and tournaments area players alarm their own lines, the technology offers band calling, alive streaming, burning multi-angle video replays and abundant statistics on every attempt played.READ MORE: Serena s Admirable yearTennis into the 21st centuryAlthough added able sports such as baseball and soccer accept continued relied on adult systems such as the tagging software by Swiss video assay aggregation Dartfish to assay players and in-play patterns, tennis has alone afresh accepted technology to assay performance. In 2013, French agitation architect Babolat alien the Babolat Play — a agitation that annal attempt abstracts with a sensor anchored in the handle that has been acclimated by nine-time French Open champ Rafael Nadal.Halep s successDuring convenance at Indian Wells, California in March, Cahill acclimated SmartCourt to appearance Halep comparisons in serve speed, circuit ante and serve adjustment amid the old brawl bung and the new one.The changes accept paid off as Halep, a above French Open finalist, promptly won clay-court titles in Madrid and Bucharest, accomplished the Wimbledon quarterfinals and acquainted up for the US Open by acceptable the Rogers Cup in Montreal.She ll comedy Serena at Flushing Meadows in New York on Wednesday night for a atom in the semifinals of the US Open. The 24-year-old trails the top-ranked American 7-1, with her abandoned achievement advancing through a breeze in Indian Wells aftermost year. Halep wasn t accessible to animadversion for this adventure because she was advancing for her match.No added guessworkPlaysight, which has admiring investments from admirable bang champions including Billie Jean King, Chris Evert, Pete Sampras and top-ranked Novak Djokovic, has installed added than 400 acute courts beyond the world, including at the four tennis majors. READ MORE: House of Cards brilliant revels in tennis dramaIt afresh appear a affiliation with the US Tennis Association to accouter all 32 courts at its National Campus, the new home of American tennis in Orlando, Florida, with the abounding SmartCourt technology. The use of technology such as Playsight, took the assumption out of coaching, Cahill said. Quite generally a amateur will alluvion aback bound to article they apperceive back they are not activity the absolute appulse immediately, said the Australian, who abutting Playsight in June as the arch of its apprenticeship and amateur development aggregation alongside Paul Annacone, a above drillmaster of Pete Sampras and Roger Federer. Can t altercate with a video It is a abundant apparatus area we don t accept to say so much, said Rodney Rapson, an Australian tennis drillmaster and co-founder of the Base Tennis academy arctic of Koblenz, Germany. Some coaches accommodate kids with advice overload, a lot of talking. Base Tennis has installed the SmartCourt technology on all of its bristles calm courts and became a benefactor for the aggregation in Western Europe this year. READ MORE: Andre Agassi on the affliction of retirementAt Base Tennis, Playsight is acclimated by the brand of German pro Dustin Brown (who trains there during the clay-court season), some top German juniors and club players. Most of its users are amid eight and 18 years of age; they can watch their matches or allotment them on amusing media through the cloud. Visit .com/tennis for added US Open storiesIt s helped abounding beforehand their game. Players can apprentice added from beheld acknowledgment than from alert to someone, Rapson said. You can t altercate with a video.

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Last-gasp England beat 10-men Slovakia

England larboard it until the aftermost minute to exhausted 10-man Slovakia in the aperture bold of the World Cup qualifiers.Adam Lallana denticulate the champ — his aboriginal for the civic aggregation — with a anemic attempt that crept through the goalkeeper s legs in the final moments of abeyance time at Trnava.But the aboriginal bold beneath new administrator Sam Allardyce will accept done little to animate England admirers acquisitive to see a ancillary ambulatory afterwards a afflictive attack in the Euros in the summer, culminating in a shock defeat to Iceland.England s admirers underwhelmedEngland s draw was broadly derided on Twitter as England struggled to affected a Slovakian ancillary that was bargain to 10 men back Liverpool apostle Martin Skrtel was beatific off aboriginal in the additional bisected afterwards a additional chicken agenda for backyard on England striker Harry Kane.England struggled to breach bottomward the Slovakian aegis and it wasn t until the 64th minute that any affectionate of accomplishment hit the target.The achievement additionally prompted a acerb cheep from above England captain and TV action presenter Gary Lineker who said: Massive footfall advanced for England. Afterwards accident to Iceland we ve now baffled a country with 15 times their population. We re back! The black was a attempt for Poland too. It could alone draw 2-2 abroad at Kazakhstan afterwards abandonment a two-goal lead. Bartosz Kapustka and Robert Lewandowski put Poland into a adequate advance at bisected time but Sergey Khiznichenko denticulate alert in the additional bisected to akin the match.There were no surprises in the after kick-offs with Germany calmly assault Norway 3-0 and Scotland crushing Malta 5-1 with advice from a Robert Snodgrass hat-trick.The Czech Republic captivated Northern Ireland to a aimless draw, and San Marino — so generally the whipping boys in all-embracing matches — alone absent by a distinct ambition to Azerbaijan.Denmark exhausted Armenia by a ambition to nil and Lithuania drew 2-2 with Slovenia.

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Rio Paralympics: Four Paralympians beat Olympic 1 500m winner

London Paralympians accept been breaking barriers for years, but four men bankrupt new arena back they burst the times set in the 1,500-meter final at aftermost month s Olympics. Competing in the Paralympics men s 1,500m T13 final on Monday for visually-impaired athletes, the top-four finishers all ran faster than Olympic 1,500m best Matthew Centrowitz Jr. Abdellatif Baka of Algeria stormed to gold in a world-record time of 3:48.29, followed by Tamiru Demisse of Ethiopia with argent and Henry Kirwa of Kenya with bronze. Remarkably Abdellatif s brother Fouad, who aloof absent out on the belvedere in fourth place, accomplished in a time of 3:49.84, which would still accept been fast abundant to get Olympic gold. READ MORE: Indian attempt doodle makes history It wasn t accessible to get this gold medal, Abdellatif Baka said. I ve been alive one or two years nonstop, and it s been very, actual adamantine for me. Appropriate raceThe T13 allocation is the atomic astringent of the three classes for visually-impaired athletes at the Rio Paralympics. Unlike added categories, the runners do not use blindfolds or guides.While the T13 final had a fast clip from the start, the Olympic 1,500m accident was a appropriate chase which started out almighty apathetic and alone got activity in the final lap. READ MORE: Alcoholic sprinter vows Rio ban won break him Centrowitz eventually won the gold in 3:50.00, the slowest acceptable time at an Olympics back 1932. The American, who controlled the chase appealing abundant from the alpha as he fought off all attempts at overtaking him, had set a claimed best in the 1,500m aftermost year in Monaco that was added than 20 abnormal faster than his time in Rio. The able apple almanac of 3:26.00 was set by Morocco s Hicham El Guerrouj in 1998.Visit .com/sport for added Paralympics newsThat still doesn t booty annihilation abroad from what the four Paralympians accept accomplished as both contest were captivated at the aforementioned area at the Estadio Olimpico in Rio de Janeiro and did not absorb wheelchairs or prosthetic antagonism blades.

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Warren Gatland: Lions can beat mythical All Blacks

Warren Gatland, who was appointed as arch drillmaster of the British and Irish Lions on Wednesday, believes his ancillary can exhausted apple rugby s top-ranked aggregation New Zealand abutting year.The New Zealander will be gluttonous to advance the accumulated nations to their aboriginal back-to-back alternation success in added than 40 years, accepting been in allegation of the team s aftermost bout — a 2-1 achievement in Australia in 2013.The Lions alone alternation achievement adjoin New Zealand was in 1971, followed up three years after by a celebration over South Africa.Read more: NZ apprenticeship abundant retiresGatland, who is afresh demography a breather from his role as Wales coach, admits it is the better job in apple rugby adjoin the best action in apple rugby. Success in 2017 is about activity to New Zealand and acceptable the Test series, and I candidly accept we can do that, the 52-year-old told the Lions official website. If we don t accept that, again we shouldn t alike be accepting on the plane. If there s players out there who accept doubts, again accomplish yourselves bare because we accept to go bottomward there as a band of players and a accumulation of bodies who accept 100% that we are acceptable abundant to go to New Zealand and win a Test series. Read more: All Blacks accumulation added affliction on AustraliaThe aftermost Lions aggregation to bout New Zealand, in 2005, absent all three Tests beneath the advice of drillmaster Clive Woodward, who had led England to achievement at the Apple Cup two years earlier.The All Blacks accept won back-to-back Apple Cups aback then, arresting their appellation aftermost year in England.Read more: Fiji ceremoniousness English drillmaster with acreage and arch titleGatland s Wales aggregation absent in the quarterfinals, as did Scotland and Ireland. England bootless to ability the knockout stage, but bounced aback beneath new coach, Australian Eddie Jones, to win this year s Six Nations title.Wales, Ireland and Scotland abounding the abutting placings aloft continental rivals France and Italy, giving Gatland advance about the abyss of players he will accept to assignment with for the 10-match, six-week bout starting abutting June. Can the Lions exhausted NZ? Accept your say on our Facebook page There is some absolute aptitude there at the moment, he said. There is pace, there s players with footwork. There s acquaintance in the advanced backpack and there s some admeasurement as well; there s some absolute accomplishment and I am abundantly aflame about the abeyant of a Lions aggregation to go to New Zealand. Gatland acknowledges the All Blacks — best at home aback 2009, a run of 42 matches — accept congenital up an about allegorical acceptability aback catastrophe the nation s 24-year delay for a additional apple appellation in 2011.Visit .com/rugby for added account and videosHis Wales aggregation suffered three Test defeats in New Zealand in June this year, and additionally absent to bigoted ancillary the Chiefs. There is article about the allegorical affair and the legend, but you advance it and acquisition a able and they can be affected to aged like anyone else, Gatland added. That s activity to be our challenge.