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This is the biggest week in UFC history coming up, with shows on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, and championship matches all three nights. There’s been lots of promotion. An interesting note is if the Brock Lesnar vs. Mark Hunt fight will be mentioned on Raw, as this would be the last Raw episode leading to the fight. Probably not, since aside from a web site article when it was announced, WWE has done nothing to promote it. It’s pretty clear whatever WWE is getting out of the deal wasn’t contingent on the buy rate or else they’d have pushed it. Although she has to take it and can’t respond, you can just imagine Stephanie McMahon seething about what Lesnar said at the UFC media call this past week about how he doesn’t give a shit about what she thinks.

The UFC preview show airs tonight at 10:30 p.m. Eastern and 7:30 p.m. Pacific on FS 1. It’s a one hour show on the big four fights on PPV: Lesnar vs. Hunt, Daniel Cormier vs. Jon Jones, Miesha Tate vs. Amanda Nunes and Frankie Edgar vs. Jose Aldo. FOX will be airing the show on 7/9 at 2 p.m., or a few hours before the card starts.

We’re looking for reports on today’s WWE show in Huntington, WV to [email protected].

We’re also looking for your thoughts on today’s New Japan Kizuna Road show, thumbs up, down or in the middle, best and worst match to [email protected].

Raw will be Monday night from Columbus, OH. Given that Raw is on July 4th, it is likely to be the lowest rating for a Raw show in the history of the show. Dean Ambrose vs. The Miz in a rematch from Smackdown, Rusev vs. Titus O’Neil for the U.S. title and a Team USA vs. Team International 16 man elimination match have all been announced. Shane McMahon is scheduled to return.

Smackdown is Tuesday night in Toledo. No John Cena or Seth Rollins advertised. Dean Ambrose, A.J. Styles and Kevin Owens are the top names advertised.

THE ROUNDUP

WWE Main Event: Dudleyz vs. Enzo & Cass highlight tag team only show
TUF 23 recap: Miesha Tate guest coaches as the season winds down
USA vs The World 16 man elimination set for RAW, more
WWE Tokyo, Japan, live results: Dean Ambrose vs. Chris Jericho vs. Seth Rollins; Nakamura vs. Kevin Owens
Ric Flair returning to podcasting

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READ IT HERE: July 4, 2016 Wrestling Observer Newsletter: NJPW G1 tournament preview, Ali vs. Inoki anniversary, more – A preview of NJPW’s G1 tournament, notes on the anniversary of Ali vs. Inoki, plus tons more.

It’s a double issue week featuring a look back 40 years at what was the biggest undertaking up to that point in pro wrestling history, and Inoki vs. Ali match, how it came together, what happened that night, coverage of the upcoming G-1 Climax tournament, coverage of Ultima Lucha 3 and details on where the company stands, full coverage of the WWE cruiserweight classic, ROH Best in the World coverage as well as a look at those coming and going from the promotion, the death of Ryan Jimmo, the life and times of Gypsy Joe, and far more about the fallout of the Roman Reigns suspension.

The lead story details this years G-1 tournament including what will air in English, newcomers to the tournament, some interesting political news regarding who is and isn’t in it, as well as a complete lineup for every show.

This issue looks at the background of Ali vs. Inoki, the first time boxer vs. wrestler with major stars came close to happening, boxing champions who did wrestling and wrestlers who faced boxers including involving one of the all-time greats, Thesz vs. Marciano talk, and the two best known mixed matches prior to Ali vs. Inoki in the U.S.

There is also a look at Japanese pro wrestling in the 70s and how that led to the match, the business of Billy Robinson involving Inoki vs. Baba, how Inoki was being marketed, and the attempts to put together Ali vs. Bruno Sammartino and how that led to this.

The goals of Ali vs. Inoki for the New Japan side, the pro wrestling angles, just how big the match was why the match wasn’t a work, where Ali’s career stood at the time, media coverage, how the terrible rules were the reason the fight, Sammartino’s broken neck and return, Stan Hansen becoming a superstar in Japan, and why Ali vs. Inoki was not a success in much of the U.S, and much more in this issue of the Wrestling Observer.

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SUNDAY NEWS UPDATE

Bryan and I will be back tonight talking Raw preview, New Japan Kizuna Road, CMLL Anniversary show and taking questions you can send to [email protected].

Both the New Japan show today and the CMLL iPPV on Friday night were really good. Matt Sydal & Satoshi Kojima & Ricochet (pictured above) beat The Young Bucks & Kenny Omega to win the trios titles. The Young Bucks & Omega all came out wearing WWE New Day T-shirts. Proof that New Japan is very different from WWE where such a thing could never happen.

Central Intelligence featuring Dwayne Johnson is estimated at No. 6 at the box office this weekend at $12.33 million in week three. I just saw that movie last night and it was hilarious.

Pro Wrestling NOAH will decide its reps in the upcoming Super J Cup tournament on Tuesday at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo with the winners of Yoshinari Ogawa vs. Taiji Ishimori, Kenou vs. Genba Hirayanagi and Hajime Ohara vs. Daisuke Harada winners going to the tournament which starts on 7/20 at Korakuen Hall. The Tuesday show also features Naomichi Marufuji & Toru Yano (Yano will be on the next ROH PPV show in Las Vegas) defending the GHC tag titles against Minoru Suzuki & Takashi Iizuka.

The movie “Marauders” with Dave Bautista had a limited release this weekend. It can also be purchased via digital download and on iTunes. Bautista plays an FBI agent investigating a series of bank heists. Bruce Willis also stars.

Sexy Star unmasked at a boxing show last night in Mexico City and said she was going into that sport. She hasn’t been wrestling anywhere but Lucha Underground for a while having quit AAA. She’s talked about going into boxing for some time and her husband, Jhonny Gonzalez, is a well-known boxer, and before that she dated the even bigger name boxer Erik Morales.

WWE

The WWE crew flew home yesterday from Japan. They have the traveling day off and start back at Raw tomorrow.
There will be a former General Manager on Raw on Monday. It’s not Paul Heyman, as we’ve noted, as he’s involved in marketing a bikini contest being held at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas starting today and will be there all week.
Steve Austin getting mainstream pub here.
Bret Hart talks current WWE here.
This isn’t a story about Undertaker, but a Deadspin story about a party house in Florida that used to be owned by Undertaker is here. (thanks to Alex Marvez)

UFC

I talked to Don Frye prior to his induction into the UFC Hall of Fame here.
The Las Vegas Review Journal talks to Lorenzo Fertitta about sale.
Fertitta looks back at UFC 100 and previews UFC 200.
Richard Abreu, who is 7-2 and came from TUF Brazil, had a potential Anti-Doping violation stemming from an out-of-competition test. USADA informed UFC of the issue earlier today.
Georges St-Pierre talks UFC fighter pay.
TJ Dillashaw claims Cody Garbrandt made up the story of knocking him out in practice.
Eddie Alvarez believes there is no such thing as overtraining and it’s an excuse for people to take it easy.
Daniel Cormier and Cain Velasquez talk UFC 200.

UFC odds for this week’s fights from 5 Dimes:

Eddie Alvarez +275
Rafael dos Anjos -335
Alan Jouban -125
Balal Muhammad +105
Derrick Lewis +115
Roy Nelson -135
Claudia Gadelha +105
Joanna Jedrzejczyk =-125
Ross Pearson +315
Will Brooks -380
Daniel Cormier +245
Jon Jones -290
Frankie Edgar -115
Jose Aldo -105
Johny Hendricks -120
Kelvin Gastelum +100
Amanda Nunes +210
Miesha Tate -250
Cain Velasquez -275
Travis Browne +235
Brock Lesnar +150
Mark Hunt -170
Diego Sanchez -105
Joe Lauzon -115
Jim Miller -245
Takanori Gomi +205
Gegard Mousasi -275
Thiago Santos +235
Cat Zingano -185
Julianna Pena +160
Raphael Assuncao +350
TJ Dillashaw -440

MISCELLANEOUS

An Olympic wrestling preview is here.
Cody Runnels will be appearing as a guest star in an upcoming episode on the fall season of “Arrow,” the show with Stephan Amell. He feuded with Amell in WWE last year building up a match at SummerSlam. Both were at a pro wrestling convention in New Jersey making the announcement, saying that the two of them have become friends.
Sorry to hear about the death of Bonnie Gomez, the wife of the late Pepper Gomez. She passed away on Friday. There will be a service next week in Alameda, where she has lived most of her life.
The fake Bobby Heenan and Cyndi Heenan twitter accounts were both taken down today.
Preston City Wrestling from yesterday in Blackpool, UK before 200 fans for a packed house: Iestyn Rees b El Ligero, Martin Kirby & Joey Hayes b Chris Masters & Dave Rayne, Team Single DCOR London Riots (to set up a street fight match on 8/6), Billy Gunn b Bob Holly (crowd loved them both, fans were chanting “1998” at both of them), Viper b Sammy Stoker, Sha Samuels & Lionheart b Noam Dar & Grado, Zack Sabre Jr. b Bubblegum in a very good match. Sabre said he wanted to face Bubblegum again on 9/24. (thanks to Steve Magnnis)
Here is an update on all the issues with the University of Minnesota wrestling program, and the alleged drug issues and J Robinson (the coach who has been very successful in building the program to one of the strongest in the country and a former college roommate of Gerald Brisco).
A story on Kurt Angle is here.
A story on the increase in U.S. interest in New Japan Pro Wrestling here. (thanks to Adam Abdalla and Chris Cruise)
Michael Beadle beat Greg Anthony last night in Morgan City, LA to win the NWA National championship during a show called Cajun Heat that drew more than 1,000 fans.
Lucha Xtreme TV results from last night in Fresno: Manny Fernandez b Dark Usagi, Big Dogg b Donny Suarez, Anthony Idol b Chris Nar, Homicide b Anthony Idol.
A new company called Best in the West says they will be running monthly in the Fresno area and opening up a wrestling school. They are going head-to-head with Lance Cardoza & Manny Fernandez’s Lucha Xtreme on 7/16. Best in the West will be in Madera at the Elks Lodge #1918 with at 6 p.m. Wiseguy vs. Chupacabra. Lucha Xtreme will be in Fresno at the Tioga Sequoia Beer Garden as part of a wrestling and stand up comedy TV tapings with Fernandez and Homicide as the top names. (thanks to Jon Southerland)
CMLL from Tuesday night in Guadalajara: Magnum & Vaquero Jr. b Diplomatico & Carlo Roggi, Escandalo & Fujin & Raijin b Pegasso & Starman & Triton, Esfinge b Furia Roja in a mask vs. mask match (Roja unmasked as Ivan Alejandro Lemus Perez, 20 years old from Guadalajara, 6 years experience), Diamante Azul & Michael Elgin & Maximo Sexy b El Terrible & Rey Bucanero & Vangellys, Atlantis & Kushida & Volador Jr. b Tama Tonga & Tanga Roa & Mr. Niebla-DQ.
PMLL from Friday night in Tijuana: Exodo & Galaxy b Alastor & Thunder Kid, Cheyenne & Martinete b Efekto & Pitbull, Dinastia & Octagoncito b Mini Abismo Negro & Mini Psycho Clown, Amnesia & Extassis b Argenis & Elegido, Super Rhino b Drakma in a loser loses his mask match that also included Luminoso, Shamu, Zaeta, Romeo, Dick Angelo Jr., and Scream (Drakma unmasked as Eduardo Gonzalez, 35, from Toluca, with 17 years experience), Bestia 666 was the last guy left in a cage with Pentagon Jr., Damian 666 and Nicho, The Psycho Circus b Averno & Chessman & Villano IV to win the Frontera Cup). (thanks to Kris Zellner)
Caristico and La Mascara appear on 7/23 in Pacoma, CA at the San Fernando Valley Boys & Girls Club.
Fenix vs. Pentagon Jr. takes place on 7/24 in Woodside, NY at Club LaBoom.
Laredo Kid vs. Brian Cage headlines on 7/13 in Benbrook TX a the Camp Bowie Bingo Hall.
Michael Elgin & Kushida & Mascara Dorada vs. Tama Tonga & Tanga Roa & Mr. Niebla headlines tomorrow night in Puebla for CMLL.
Caristico & Mascara Aerea & Mascara Dorada vs. Mr. Elektro (Electroshock) & Rey Escorpion & Rush headlines on 7/15 in Tijuana at Auditorio Municipal.
A trailer for a new interview with Lanny Poffo is here.

TODAY IN PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING HISTORY: AJ Styles & Jerry Lynn win NWA Tag Team Titles

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British consumers may have been victims of a huge wine swindle, according to fraud investigators who believe some 10 million bottles of cheap Spanish rosé have been illegally sold as more expensive French wine.

The rosé, falsely labelled as ‘vin de France’ (French table wine) or more expensive IGP (protected geographical indication) wine, was sold by four “very large” French distributors, according to Alexandre Chevallier of the French consumer fraud office.

“These cases of Spanish wine fraudulently passed off as French concern more than seven million litres of wine [equivalent to 10 million bottles],” he said.

The results of an investigation carried out in 2016 and 2018 and revealed by Le Parisien newspaper on Monday have shocked France. For many French wine drinkers, rosé is the summer tipple of choice. Consumption has risen sharply during the current heatwave in much of the country.

Britain is one of the largest export markets for French rosés and investigators believe some bottles may have ended up in the UK.

Criminal proceedings are about to be launched, officials said, but they have not named the vineyards or merchants accused, or revealed whether arrests have been made. If convicted of fraud, vendors risk lengthy prison terms and hefty fines.

French winemakers watch wine flowing from the tap of a Spanish truck's tanker during a demonstration against southern countries' wine imports in 2016Credit:
RAYMOND ROIG/ AFP

The wine was either falsely labelled as French, or given misleading labels that revealed its origin only in small, hard-to-read letters at the bottom of the label on the back of the bottles. On the front, labels sometimes showed a French flag or pictures of French villages.

A wine distributor based near the Spanish border is accused of concealing the origin of three million litres of Spanish rosé, equivalent to four million bottles, sold as French wine over three years.

“We first received warnings about ‘Frenchification’ towards the end of 2015,” Mr Chevallier said. “We started investigating, checking producers, importers, restaurants and distributors.”

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The investigators were horrified to find evidence of Spanish wine being passed off as French in more than a fifth of the establishments they checked.

The profits generated from the fraud are still being evaluated, but are believed to be enormous. A litre of Spanish rosé cost about 30p in 2016. Passed off as a French IGP (protected geographical indication) wine, it would fetch up to three times that amount wholesale, while a 75 ml bottle would sell from about £4 to £10 retail.

It is the latest of a series of scandals that have tarnished the reputation of the French wine trade.

In March, police discovered that more than 66 million bottles of ordinary table wine had been passed off as Châteauneuf-du-Pape and other prestigious Côte du Rhône appelations.

Weeks later, one of Bordeaux’s most highly regarded châteaux was accused of illegally adding sugar to some of its 2016 Margaux vintage. Château Giscours said the mix-up was accidental.

In 2010, 12 winemakers and merchants in southern France were convicted of selling millions of fake pinot noir to E&J Gallo, a California-based wine producer and distributor. At the trial, defence lawyers noted that no American consumers had complained.

Miss Goldberg’s return to WWE on Monday night’s Raw or want to watch it again? Check out last night’s video highlights from a show that also featured more tension building between Kevin Owens and Chris Jericho, Sasha Banks and Charlotte doing sit-down interviews about their upcoming Hell in a Cell match, Sami Zayn confronting Braun Strowman, and more.

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Seth Rollins vs. Chris Jericho

Mark Henry & The Golden Truth vs. Titus O’Neil & The Shining Stars

Charlotte discusses her match against Sasha Banks at Hell in a Cell

Things get tense between Chris Jericho and Kevin Owens

Big E vs. Sheamus

Neville vs. Bo Dallas

Bayley vs. Dana Brooke

Paul Heyman has a warning for Goldberg

Sami Zayn confronts Braun Strowman

Meet the Rusevs

Emmalina premieres soon

Big Cass vs. Karl Anderson

Sasha Banks is prepared for her historic Hell in a Cell match

TJ Perkins, Rich Swann & Cedric Alexander vs. Brian Kendrick, Tony Nese & Drew Gulak

Mick Foley books Kevin Owens vs. Seth Rollins vs. Chris Jericho for next week

Goldberg enters a WWE ring for the first time in 12 years

Goldberg sends a message to Brock Lesnar

Raw fallout: Bayley makes her way to the trainer’s room after her match with Dana Brooke

Raw fallout: Goldberg’s reaction to Brock Lesnar appearing on Raw next week

Alain Ducasse, France’s best-known superchef, is to launch legal action against two rival cooks for “conflict of interest” after losing a battle to keep control of his famed Eiffel Tower restaurant.

Mr Ducasse, the first chef to win the maximum three-star rating from the Michelin guide for three separate restaurants in the same year, has been overseeing the prestigious Jules Verne restaurant on the second floor of the tower since 2007. Alain Soulard, one of his protégés, runs the slightly less top-notch 58 restaurant on the first floor.

When Donald Trump made a state visit to Paris last year he and the first lady dined with President Emmanuel Macron and his wife, Brigitte, at the Jules Verne. Mr Ducasse served them sole with hollandaise sauce, Rossini beef fillet and chocolate soufflé.

However, with the contract up for renewal on October 1, the head of the board operating Paris "Iron Lady", as the Eiffel Tower is known, informed the superchef’s backers last week that it had plumped for a rival team.

The winners were Frédéric Anton, whose Le Pré Catelan is among the most fashionable restaurants in Paris, and Thierry Marx, arguably France’s most media-friendly cook, a Top Chef juror famed for creating cooking schools for the deprived.

Superchef Alain Ducasse says he lost contract for Eiffel Tower restaurant due to "biased" consultancy report favouring rivalsCredit:
FRED DUFOUR/AFP

Jules Verne and the 58 are leased by Sodexo, the catering group that signed up Mr Ducasse as its front man more than a decade ago. But before the lease was up for renewal, Mr Ducasse jumped ship and moved to Sodexo’s biggest rival, Elior.

Sodexo now backs the two rival chefs.

When the Ducasse team received the call from the head of the board of SETE (which operates, maintains and organises events at the Eiffel Tower) announcing that he had lost the tender on July 5, the chef’s initial reaction was one of "total incomprehension given all that he has done for the Eiffel Tower over the past 10 years and its international fame,” Frédéric Thiriez, the chef’s lawyer, told the Telegraph.

“Then he felt a sense of revulsion.”

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The Ducasse camp accuse the consultancy tasked with choosing the winning candidate, Nova Consulting, of writing up a “totally biased” report “systematically” in favour of Sodexo. It dubbed “surprising” that the consultancy found the other camp’s “culinary project” better than Mr Ducasse’s given that he is “one of the world’s two chefs with the most (Michelin) stars”.

Top chef Thierry Marx is among two cooks picked to run the Eiffel Tower's Jules Verne restaurantCredit:
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The Ducasse offer, it said, offered higher profitability (€15.2m per year compared to €14m for Sodexo), was the only one guaranteeing an overall payback of €120m during the 10-year lease.

Mr Thiriez said the chef intended to launch a legal challenge next Monday with an administrative judge for “conflict of interest”.

He said that Nova Consulting had recently been employed as strategic adviser to Sodexo Prestige, the unit in charge of running the Eiffel Tower eateries, as well as other Sodexo initiatives.

That relationship cast “doubt on the impartiality of the procedure”, he said.

“We want the judge to annul the decision and start the process from scratch with a different consultancy,” he added.

Ludovic Badin, lawyer for the Eiffel Tower operator, declined to comment on the tender process for reasons of “confidentiality” but told Le Parisien that while Sodexo had employed Nova Consulting, so had Elior.

“True but only for a very small contract,” said their lawyer. “Whether one or both parties previously employed the consultancy, that is still enough to cast doubt on their impartiality.”

Even if the appeal fails, the final decision lies with Anne Hidalgo, the Socialist mayor of Paris, who has expressed a desire for Eiffel Tower eateries to use local produce to lower its carbon footprint.

There are political overtones to the tussle as Mr Ducasse is close to Mr Macron, with whom Ms Hidalgo has a notoriously fractious relationship. She could back Mr Ducasse as a peace offering or, on the contrary, choose to show she calls the shots by backing his rivals. The town hall has a month to make a pronouncement on the case.

Nova Consultancy has declined to comment.

To some she was the flame-haired Russian face of their country’s gun lobby. To others she was a journalist. Some saw her as a mere student.

But to the US government, she was a suspected spy.

Now Maria Butina, 29, is facing federal conspiracy charges, appearing in court on Wednesday in Washington DC.

Butina’s lawyers acknowledge that she has been intensively questioned by the Senate intelligence committee, but insist that she is just a student.

Yet she has been on the FBI’s radar since at least 2015.

"It’s psychosis. A witch hunt," her father, Valery Butin, was quoted as saying Wednesday by the Altapress website in her hometown of Barnaul.

Maria Butina

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Australia’s most populous state was declared entirely in drought on Wednesday and struggling farmers were given new authority to shoot kangaroos that compete with livestock for sparse pasture during the most intense dry spell in more than 50 years.

Much of Australia’s southeast is struggling with drought. But the drought conditions in the state of New South Wales this year have been the driest and most widespread since 1965.

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The state government said Wednesday that 100 percent of New South Wales’ land area of more than 800,000 square kilometers (309,000 square miles) was now in drought.

Primary Industries Minister Niall Blair said farmers were enduring one of the driest Southern Hemisphere winters on record.

"This is tough. There isn’t a person in the state that isn’t hoping to see some rain for our farmers and regional communities," Blair said in a statement.

Cattle on a dry paddock in the drought-hit area of Quirindi in New South WalesCredit:
GLENN NICHOLLS/AFP

Farm reservoirs have dried up and crops are failing.

State and federal governments are providing financial help, but not enough for many farmers.

With dry conditions forecast to continue for the next three months, farmers had to decide whether to continue the expensive and laborious task of hand-feeding cattle and sheep or sell their livestock.

The state government on Wednesday also lifted the number of kangaroos that farmers are allowed to shoot and reduced bureaucratic red tape facing land holders applying for permission to shoot.

Farmer Clive Barton walking through the paddocks in the drought-hit area of Duri in New South WalesCredit:
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The requirement to tag dead kangaroos to keep a tally of the number shot across the state had been dispensed with.

"Many farmers are taking livestock off their paddocks, only to then see kangaroos move in and take whatever is left," Blair said.

"If we don’t manage this situation, we will start to see tens of thousands of kangaroos starving and suffering, ultimately leading to a major animal welfare crisis," he added.

A train makes its way through dry paddocks in the drought-hit area of Quirindi in New South WalesCredit:
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But Ray Borda, president of the Kangaroo Industries Association of Australia, which represents commercial shooters who hunt kangaroos for meat and leather, raised animal welfare concerns about the regulation changes.

"Anybody on the land that will make a phone call to the Department of Environment can get permission to shoot almost whatever they want to shoot and it’s unaudited and unchecked and that’s our concern – animal welfare," Borda told Australian Broadcasting Corp.

The government would have been better off subsidizing professional shooters to reduce kangaroo numbers more humanely, he said.

"We see this as probably the worst possible outcome for the kangaroo, but I’ve got to emphasize we do understand the plight that farmers are in," Borda said.

Swiss sports brand On has teamed up with Danish luxury audio brand Bang
and Olufsen to create what they are calling the “ultimate running kit”.

Built on what the two brands describe as “shared design philosophies and
a fascination for deepening human experiences” the collaboration aims to
bring together running and music in a new way.

The ultimate running kit features On’s latest elite-level competition
shoe, the Cloudboom, alongside a limited edition of Bang and Olufsen’s
first true wireless sports earphones, Beoplay E8 Sport On Edition. The
special edition features both Bang and Olufsen’s and On’s minimalist logos,
highlighted by colour contrasting aluminium rings and a cloud pattern.

“It has always been a dream of mine to create the ultimate competition
running shoe”, said Olivier Bernhard, co-founder of On in a statement. “The
Cloudboom is created with the inputs of our elite athletes who know what it
takes to run your fastest marathon ever. At the same time, I love the
Clouboom’s silhouette. It incorporates the core DNA of our brand –
minimalist design and maximum performance – a principle we share with Bang
and Olufsen.”

The Cloudboom is On’s ultimate competition shoe, created with elite
athlete input, and features twin CloudTec cushioning technology to provide
an instant fit and long-distance comfort, which the brand states is
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In addition, the trainer features a carbon-fibre infused Speedboard and
a single layer of engineered mesh ensures low weight and maximum
breathability while a new grip-rubber compound in an advanced traction
pattern is designed for optimised traction, while the extreme rocker shape
of the bottom unit helps the rolling motion for even more propulsive
power.

Cloudboom will be available on On’s e-commerce as well as at Browns, Mr
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priced 300 pounds.

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Lance Stroll says that the Racing Point RP20 proved itself to be the second-quickest car on the grid in Hungary, beaten only by the Mercedes which it so closely resembles.

Stroll qualified in third place behind the two Silver Arrows on Saturday, and gained a place when Valtteri Bottas suffered a start line miscue at the start of the 2020 Hungarian Grand Prix.

The early round of pit stops in response to a rapidly drying track jumbled up the running order and left him briefly down in fifth place, but he was back in the top three by lap 16 only to be demoted again by a recovering Bottas midway through the race on lap 35.

Even though he’d also been overhauled by Red Bull’s Max Verstappen, Stroll remained confident in his car’s capabilities.

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“I truly believe we have the second fastest car here this weekend which gives me a lot of positivity moving forward this year,” he told Sky Sports F1 after the finish. “We’ve had three races now and looked strong in all of them.

“It’s been a solid weekend from start to finish,” he continued. “I definitely think a podium was possible today.

“[Even so] I’m really happy with P4, it’s a good result and I have to thank the team for such a great job today and all weekend,” he said. “It was fun to fight Max at the start of the race and run in P2 in the changeable conditions.”

He added that losing out to Bottas had been largely the result of a difference in strategy calls between Racing Point and Mercedes rather than reflective of the strength of the cars.

“We were staying out a bit longer towards the middle of the race where Valtteri undercut us,” he explained. “He was behind us, he went for the stop and we were expecting some more rain so we were trying to drag out that stint a little bit longer. And unfortunately the rain never came.

“He just managed to simply undercut us,” Stroll stated. “By the time we pitted a couple of laps later, he was eight seconds up the road – and we were comfortably P4 at the stage.

“Maybe we could have done things differently, but you can always say that after the race. That’s racing and we’ve got to be happy with fourth,” he said. “We actually ended up in quite a lonely race to P4, but the main thing is that we were able to score a good haul of points for the team.

“It was such a complex race and I’m looking forward to reviewing it and learning what we can for the races to come.”

Stroll’s team mate Sergio Perez qualified in fourth and finished in seventh place after suffering wheel spin on the damp grid when the lights went out at the start,

“It’s always tricky to recover at the Hungaroring, but we tried our best and I had some good battles,” Perez said. “I had a few adventures out there too and I ran wide in the dry and was lucky not to touch the wall.

“When I did get some clean air, I could show the pace of the car, but the time I lost on lap one was costly. The main thing is that we’ve scored more points for the team.”

The strength of Racing Point’s car this year has certainly caused a stir in the F1 paddock and led to complaints that the design’s close resemblance to that of last year’s Mercedes is a breach of the rules.

Renault formally protested the design of the RP20 based on the similarity of the brake ducts between the two cars. The French manufacturer formally protested the design again after the end of today’s race.

The matter is currently under investigation by the FIA which has asked for reference parts and components to be supplied by both teams.

By renewing their protest again this week, it means that the outcome of the protest will also apply to the results of the race in Hungary.

Racing Point insist that the protest is without merit and that they own all of the intellectual property and designs of the RP20 as the rules stipulate.

The team is currently fourth in the constructors championship, tied on 40 points with McLaren, while Renault is further back in sixth place with 12 points.

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RENO, Nev. — Minnesota State wrestling competed at the Reno Tournament of Champions in Reno, Nev. Sunday. Cody Quinn (Sr., 165 lbs. 3-2) finished the day with a positive record of 3-2.

Fourth-rated Quinn saw his first action of the season with a fall over Brock Crocker (Southern Oregon) at the 1:51 mark. Quinn kept his winning ways going with a 9-1 major decision win over Mark Mabry (Adams State). His first loss of the season came by a major decision win by Ryan Blees (Oklahoma State). When Quinn moved to the consolation bracket, Quinn recorded his second fall of the day with a pin at the 1:35 mark against Justin Samora (Adams State). Fourth-rated Payton Moore from the NJCCA (Southwestern Oregon CC), ended Quinn’s day with a 9-4 decision loss.

Da’Wayne Robertson (Jr., 125 lbs. 2-2) finished 2-2 on the day. His toughest battle of the day was against #3 in Division II Gerald Huff (Adams State). Both wrestlers made it to the quarterfinals by medical forfeits before Huff won by a 5-4 decision win.

Other than Robertson, two other wrestlers finished at the .500 mark today including, Malcolm Allen (Jr., 285 lbs. 2-2) and Scott VanDeLoo (Jr., 184 lbs. 2-2).

Minnesota State will be back in action after the new year when it hosts Minot State on January 9, in Taylor Center.

List of Minnesota State competitors at Reno Tournament of Champions
Malcolm Allen (Jr., 285 lbs. 2-2)
Adam Cooling (So., 157 lbs. 2-1)
Sawyer Hoffman (Jr., 157 lbs. 1-2)
Chaydon O’Fallon (Fr., 197 lbs. 0-2)
Cody Quinn (Sr., 165 lbs. 3-2)
Da’Wayne Robertson (Jr., 125 lbs. 2-2)
Darick Vancura (So., 174 lbs. 0-2)
Scott VanDeLoo (Jr., 184 lbs. 2-2)
Alphonso Vruno (Jr., 141 lbs. 2-1)
Chris Zimmer (So., 197 lbs. 0-2)

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