Tremendous table tennis, speedway skills and amateur driving spills
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Version 0 of 1. 1) Ma Long and Fang Bo go all-out in one of the great table tennis points at the final of the World Championships – and it gave Fang Bo a championship point, too. The full match is here. 2) Like a real-life Wacky Races, here’s amateur hour , Performance Car Day at Castle Combe racetrack. 3) Take time to revel in the magic of this beautiful short film about speedway. 4) ESPN’s Outside the Lines documentary on Floyd Mayweather that supposedly got reporters banned from the big fight. 5) This week’s best football fails: Collin Quaner pulls off a quite superb little flick-on in the Bundesliga. Sadly into his own goal. Then one to haunt ex-Liverpool keeper Daniele Padelli as he commits an absolute howler against Empoli. 6) No harm in highlighting Adam Roscoe’s extraordinary goal – high drama and brilliance rolled into one – to save Chorley FC in the 95th minute when they were 2-1 down to Boston United in the Conference North semi-final play-offs. Chorley went on to win on penalties and reach Saturday’s final with Guiseley, which Roscoe will miss through suspension after he was sent-off in extra-time against Boston. Our favourites from last week’s blog 1) Rowing gets exciting. 2) Big finishes: lovely piece of slow-motion fan footage of Aden Flint’s rabona in Bristol City’s 8-2 win against Walsall on Saturday. Flint scored a hat-trick, which also included this. And sound the scorcher klaxon: it’s a halfway line strike from Scotland! 3) Many of you may have seen Kevin Naiqama’s amazing assist to James Tedesco in the NRL recently, but it turns out Naiquama’s effort has an equally impressive precedent in the 2008 Australia v New Zealand centenary match. 4) “There’s only two outcomes: roll away on two wheels, or roll away on four wheels to the hospital.” And the same applies to this blink-and-you’ll-miss-it piece of biking dare-devilry. 5) Jesper Hansen experiences the most excruciating bad luck at the Tour de Romandie after he is knocked off his bicycle by the medical car. 6) Well-known for his open favouritism towards the Chicago White Sox, commentator Hawk Harrelson seems entirely unimpressed when Seattle’s Mike Cameron tied the MLS record in 2002, hitting four consecutive home runs. An absolute masterpiece of utter, utter disinterest. Spotters’ badges: RobBarwick, Barman Pete, WarsawMorton, CocoTheMonkey, BlackCaeser, itsintheairandout, GrahamClayton Guardian YouTube football channel Do subscribe, if you fancy. And the Guardian YouTube sport channel Do subscribe, if you fancy. |