2018 German Grand Prix, Practice
Across the first two practice sessions it was the Red Bulls which set the fastest overall lap, marginally ahead of Mercedes with the Red Bull cars also appearing to have the fastest race pace, around 0.2 seconds quicker than the race pace of Mercedes' and Ferrari's, although Mercedes and Ferrari would rarely reveal their full potential during practice sessions. This meant that despite Red Bull being fastest Mercedes and Ferrari were still considered favourites for the Grand Prix.


2018 German Grand Prix, Practice
However Red Bull driver Max Verstappen still thought that his team would be able to compete with the Mercedes and Ferraris over the course of the race weekend, meanwhile Hamilton also prophesied that Sebastain Vettel and Ferrari would be the team to beat. Further back Renault and Stoffel Vandoorne both complained that they had poor first and second practice sessions with Vandoone calling it his "worst Friday for a long time." Williams however had a positive day with the team pleased with the benefits brought on by their new front wing.


2018 German Grand Prix, Practice
Whereas the first two practice sessions were dry, final practice took place in heavy rain and as a result only nine drivers set a lap time as the heavy rain would cause the session to provide little useful data. The session ended with Charles Leclerc quickest in his Sauber.


2018 German Grand Prix, Qualifying
As per the regulations, qualifying consisted of three parts, lasting 18, 15 and 12 minutes in length and entitled Q1, Q2 and Q3 respectively, with five drivers being eliminated after each of the first two sessions. The drivers who made it into Q3 would have to start the race on the tyres they had used to set their fastest lap time in Q2.


2018 German Grand Prix, Qualifying, Qualifying report
Qualifying started in overcast conditions with an air temperature of 21 °C (70 °F), a relatively cool track temperature of 27 °C (81 °F) and high humidity. Although the track was dry enough for slick tyres the track was still damp in places, this along with the rain earlier in the day meant that a high level of track evolution was expected. There was also a high chance of rain latter in the session.


2018 German Grand Prix, Qualifying, Qualifying report, Q1
During the first part of qualifying, Kimi Räikkönen set the fastest time for Ferrari. Esteban Ocon, Pierre Gasly, Brendon Hartley, Lance Stroll and Stoffel Vandoorne were eliminated as they finished in the bottom five of the classification. World Championship contender Lewis Hamilton set a time fast enough to progress into Q2, but suffered a hydraulics issue later in the session. He attempted to bring the car back into the pit lane, but after communication with his race engineer, he was forced to stop his car on track. This meant that he would be unable to drive for the remainder of qualifying, effectively leaving him 14th on the grid.


2018 German Grand Prix, Qualifying, Qualifying report, Q2
Because Hamilton could not get his car back to the pits it meant that he would be unable to participate in Q2, it was also expected that Daniel Ricciardo would not run in Q2 as he would be starting from the back of the grid regardless of where he qualified. This meant that two of the five drivers who would get eliminated in Q2 were determined before the session had gotten underway. Q2 started uneventfully, however around eight minutes into the session Marcus Ericsson made a mistake at the Sachs curve spinning into the gravel trap.


2018 German Grand Prix, Qualifying, Qualifying report, Q2
As he made it out of the run-off area, he left some gravel on the track. This caused the red flag to be waved after several drivers complained about the gravel on the track. After the gravel had been cleared there were still seven minutes of the session left. At the session end positions eleven to fifteen were taken by Alonso, Sirotkin, Ericsson, Hamilton and Ricciardo, meaning that they were eliminated from qualifying. All of the drivers who had gotten into Q3 had set their times on the ultrasoft tyres meaning they would all have to start on that tyre.


2018 German Grand Prix, Qualifying, Qualifying report, Q3
As usual in Q3 there was time for 2 attempts to set the fastest lap time. Kimi Räikkönen was the first person to set a lap time with 1:11.880, which was a qualifying track record. But Sebastian Vettel broke that time almost immediately setting a time of 1:11.539. The session ended without interruption or major errors with Vettel in first followed by Valtteri Bottas, Räikkönen, Max Verstappen, Kevin Magnussen, Romain Grosjean, Nico Hülkenberg, Carlos Sainz, Charles Leclerc and Sergio Pérez in that order.


2018 German Grand Prix, Qualifying, Post qualifying
Sebastian Vettel described his qualifying lap as one of his "best moments" in Formula One with his pole making him the favourite for the race. Charles Leclerc was also pleased with his qualifying position of ninth place after he suffered from brake problems in qualifying with Kevin Magnussen also pleased with his qualifying which gave Haas their best ever qualifying result in fifth and sixth. After spinning in Q2, Marcus Ericsson said he was disappointed with his qualifying but also said that he thought they would be able to get into the top ten for the race.


2018 German Grand Prix, Qualifying, Post qualifying
Another driver who thought they could get into the points after a disappointing qualifying was Esteban Ocon who would start the race in fifteenth after he only got one session of dry running in practice limiting his preparation for qualifying with Stoffel Vandoorne and Lance Stroll both also putting their poor qualifying performances down to bad balance in their respective cars. Toro Rosso also suffered from a disappointing qualifying, however they were optimistic heading into the race stating that they had some of the best long run pace from the other midfield teams.


2018 German Grand Prix, Race
The race was scheduled to start at 15:10 local time (13:10 UTC) and was scheduled to last 67 laps with an upper time limit of 2 hours per the 2018 regulations.


2018 German Grand Prix, Race, Race report
The race started in dry conditions although there was a high chance of rain later in the race. As they went through turn 1 it was Sebastian Vettel who led for Ferrari followed by Valtteri Bottas and Kimi Räikkönen. By the start of the second lap Vettel led Bottas by 1.5 seconds, meanwhile Lewis Hamilton had climbed to thirteenth but Daniel Riccciardo had failed to make up any ground from nineteenth. On lap three Räikkönen informed his team over his radio that he was starting to get some rain on his visor.


2018 German Grand Prix, Race, Race report
Of the front runners Räikkönen was the first to make a pitstop on lap 14 switching onto the soft tyres (the middle tyre of the three on offer). On the same lap Hamilton overtook Kevin Magnussen to take fifth. The race leaders kept in formation until lap 26 when the race leader, Vettel, made his pitstop and rejoined in fourth place before Bottas pitted himself on the following lap promoting Vettel back into third behind Räikkönen.


2018 German Grand Prix, Race, Race report
With the leaders on lap 29 the race saw its first retirement in the form of Ricciardo, the Australian pulling over between turns 10 and 11 with what appeared and later transpired to be power loss, however this did not disrupt the rhythm of the race as his car was recovered quickly. On the same lap Ricciardo's teammate Max Verstappen also made his first pit stop, this meant that it was Räikkönen who led followed by Vettel, Hamilton (yet to make his compulsory pitstop) and Bottas.


2018 German Grand Prix, Race, Race report
However, after a couple of laps Vettel slowed down after complaining of overheating tyres from being with a couple of seconds from Räikkönen and on lap 39 they switched positions on the run down to turn 6 at the same time as Bottas' race engineer telling him over the radio that they expected it to start raining in eight minutes (around 5 laps) time and on the same lap Hamilton made a pitstop onto the ultrasoft tyres.


2018 German Grand Prix, Race, Race report
On lap 44 it started to rain and on the following lap Fernando Alonso and Charles Leclerc came into the pits to put on the intermediate tyres and Pierre Gasly changed to a set of full wet tyres. Two laps later Verstappen also made a pitstop onto the intermediate tyres. On lap 46 Vettel mounted the kerb at the final corner and lost a small portion of his front wing.


2018 German Grand Prix, Race, Race report
Then on lap 52, braking into turn 12, Vettel locked the rear brakes and went straight on into the barriers, taking himself out of the race, this caused a safety car so that they could recover Vettel's car. As a result of the safety car Valtteri Bottas decided to make a pitstop on lap 53, however because of the late call Mercedes didn't have the tyres ready and therefore Bottas was in his pitbox for almost 20 seconds (pitstops times are usually 2–3 seconds).


2018 German Grand Prix, Race, Race report
On the same lap Hamilton was also told to pit, he started to enter the pitlane but aborted the pitstop after a miscommunication with his engineer, Hamilton then cut back on to the track essentially cutting across the final corner. Räikkönen then made a pitstop on the following lap onto the ultra soft tyres handing the race lead to Hamilton and second to Bottas. On lap 52 it stopped raining and Sergey Sirotkin pulled over to the side of the track to retire and on lap 54 his teammate Lance Stroll retired in the pits with a brake failure.


2018 German Grand Prix, Race, Race report
On lap 58 the race resumed and although Hamilton retained the lead fairly easily through turn 1 Bottas attacked Hamilton going into turn 7 with what ex-F1 driver turned analyist Jolyon Palmer considered an unusually high level of aggression from Bottas, however Hamilton managed to hold him off. An investigation also started into Carlos Sainz for overtaking while under safety car conditions. On lap 61 Bottas was told that he wasn't allowed to try and overtake Hamilton, behind Bottas was Räikkönen around 1.2 seconds back followed by Verstappen another 1.5 seconds behind.


2018 German Grand Prix, Race, Race report
On the following lap there was confirmation that Sainz would be given a 10-second time penalty for overtaking behind the safety car. Meanwhile, Romain Grosjean charged through the pack making up 4 places in the final 10 laps. The race was won by Hamilton with Bottas and Räikkönen completing the podium. Although Sainz was tenth at the finish line he was demoted to twelfth following the application of his ten-second penalty.


2018 German Grand Prix, Race, Post race
Approximately 90 minutes after the race finished Lewis Hamilton was summoned to the stewards for crossing the line between the pit entrance and the track when he aborted his pitstop on lap 53 which, according to the international sporting code, is prohibited. A five-second penalty was considered by pundits as the most likely penalty as was given to Kimi Räikkönen at the 2016 European Grand Prix for a similar incident, this would have dropped him to second. However, after about 15 minutes the stewards gave Hamilton a reprimand meaning he got to keep his race win.


2018 German Grand Prix, Race, Post race
The stewards justified their lack of time penalty by saying that because Hamilton cut across the pit entry line in such a way that he did not present a danger to anyone and because the change of direction was carried out safely a reprimand would best reflect the severity of the infringement of the rules.


2018 German Grand Prix, Race, Post race
Hamilton described his race win as a "dream" and said that he felt that this was a potential turning point in his championship campaign. Sebastian Vettel, meanwhile, admitted that the crash which took him out of the race was his fault, but he said that overall he was happy with how the weekend had progressed as it appeared that Ferrari still had the quickest car, something which Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff also picked up on.


2018 German Grand Prix, Race, Post race
Another driver who had a strong performance was Nico Hülkenberg who finished in seasons best position of fifth, a result which he admitted he was very happy with, his teammate Carlos Sainz finished a disappointing twelfth, however on the whole Renault were pleased with their result.


2018 German Grand Prix, Race, Post race
Another team with mixed fortune were the Haas cars, Romain Grosjean and Kevin Magnussen were among those who switched to intermediates and back again during the rain period and although Grosjean managed to get through the field from tenth to sixth in the closing laps his teammate Magnussen was unable to replicate this finishing eleventh, with team principal Guenther Steiner appearing to be neither pleased nor disappointed with the result.


2018 German Grand Prix, Race, Post race
Brendon Hartley was also pleased with his result following a difficult first half of his 2018 season. His teammate, Pierre Gasly however suffered from a poor strategy call causing him to finish fourteenth, although the team were neither pleased nor disappointed with their result team boss Franz Tost said that the weekend gave them optimism for future Grands Prix after the team showed strong pace. Force India were also very pleased with their performance with Sergio Pérez finishing seventh, one place ahead of Esteban Ocon who had started a disappointing fifteenth but finished eighth.


2018 German Grand Prix, Race, Post race
Red Bull had a mixed day with Daniel Ricciardo retiring but with Max Verstappen finishing in fourth, although there was a chance for them to finish on the podium Verstappen said that he felt positively about how the weekend had progressed. Sauber also had a mixed day with Marcus Ericsson finishing in the points but teammate Charles Leclerc had a disappointing race coming last of the finishers in fifteenth.


2018 German Grand Prix, Race, Post race
Williams and McLaren both had bad weekends, although both Williams' cars were running relatively well, poor reliability meant that both cars were forced to retire, the second and third retirements for the car all season, at McLaren meanwhile Fernando Alonso also had to retire with mechanical problems and although teammate Stoffel Vandoorne did manage to finish the race he still had a poor weekend with the team's sporting director Gil de Ferran stating that he felt that the car and both drivers had the ability to finish in the points.


2018 German Grand Prix, Championship standings after the race
In the drivers' Championship, Lewis Hamilton took first place from Sebastian Vettel, further back Valtteri Bottas overtook Daniel Ricciardo for fourth place. Sergio Pérez and Carlos Sainz swapped positions with Perez climbing to tenth from twelfth and Sainz dropping two positions. Romain Grosjean jumped two positions to thirteenth knocking Pierre Gasly and Charles Leclerc down one position each to fourteenth and fifteenth respectively. Marcus Ericsson also took seventeenth place from Lance Stroll with the rest of the positions being unchanged.


2018 German Grand Prix, Championship standings after the race
In the constructors Championship the only changes in the standings were Mercedes who took the lead from Ferrari and Force India who took fifth place from Haas.


2018 German Indoor Athletics Championships
The 2018 German Indoor Athletics Championships (German: Deutsche Leichtathletik-Hallenmeisterschaften 2018) was the 65th edition of the national championship in indoor track and field for Germany. It was held on 17–18 February at the Helmut-Körnig-Halle in Dortmund – the eleventh time the venue had hosted the championships. A total of 24 events, 12 for men and 12 for women, were contested plus four further events were held separately. It was to serve as preparation for the 2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships.


2018 German Indoor Athletics Championships
Several national championship events were staged elsewhere: 3 × 800 m and 3 × 1000 m relays were held on 25 February at the Sporthalle Brandberge in Halle, while racewalking events were hosted in Erfurt on 2 March. Indoor combined events were not held that year as the event did not find an organiser.


2018 German Indoor Athletics Championships
Konstanze Klosterhalfen of TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen set a German indoor record in the women's 3000 metres, clocking 8:36.01 minutes.


2018 German Masters
The 2018 D88 German Masters was a professional ranking snooker tournament, that took place from 31 January to 4 February 2018 in Berlin, Germany. It was the thirteenth ranking event of the 2017/2018 season.


2018 German Masters
Anthony Hamilton was the defending champion, but he lost 1–5 to Jimmy Robertson in the first round.


2018 German Masters
Mark Williams won his 20th professional ranking title and his second of the season, defeating Graeme Dott 9–1 in the final.


2018 German Masters, Prize fund
The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:


2018 German Masters, Prize fund
The "rolling 147 prize" for a maximum break stood at £5,000.


2018 German Masters, Qualifying
These matches were played between 19 and 22 December 2017 at the Barnsley Metrodome in Barnsley, England. All matches were best of 9 frames. Ali Carter was a 2017 German Masters finalist, but he was beaten 5–3 by Wang Yuchen.


2018 German Open
The 2018 German Open (also known as the 2018 German Tennis Championships) was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It was the 112th edition of the German Open Tennis Championships and part of the ATP World Tour 500 series of the 2018 ATP World Tour. It took place at the Am Rothenbaum in Hamburg, Germany, from July 23 through 29, 2018.


2018 German Open, Doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:


2018 German Open (badminton)
The 2018 German Open, officially the Yonex German Open 2018, was a badminton tournament which took place at Innogy Sporthalle in Germany from 6 to 11 March 2018 and had a total purse of $150,000.


2018 German Open (badminton), Tournament
The 2018 German Open was the sixth tournament of the 2018 BWF World Tour and also part of the German Open championships which has been held since 1955. This tournament was organized by German Badminton Association and sanctioned by the BWF.


2018 German Open (badminton), Tournament, Venue
This international tournament was held at Innogy Sporthalle in Mülheim, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.


2018 German Open (badminton), Tournament, Point distribution
Below is a table with the point distribution for each phase of the tournament based on the BWF points system for the BWF World Tour Super 300 event.


2018 German Open (badminton), Tournament, Prize money
The total prize money for this tournament was US$150,000. Distribution of prize money was in accordance with BWF regulations.


2018 German Open (table tennis)
The 2018 German Open was the third event of the 2018 ITTF World Tour. It was the second of six top-tier Platinum events on the tour, and took place from 22–25 March in Bremen, Germany.


2018 German Open (table tennis)
China's Ma Long won the men's singles title for a fifth time, making him the most successful player in the tournament's history.


2018 German Open – Doubles
Ivan Dodig and Mate Pavić were the defending champions, but chose not to participate together this year. Dodig played alongside Jean-Julien Rojer, but lost in the quarterfinals to Ben McLachlan and Jan-Lennard Struff. Pavić teamed up with Oliver Marach, but lost in the final to Julio Peralta and Horacio Zeballos, 1–6, 6–4, [6–10].


2018 German Open – Singles
Leonardo Mayer was the defending champion, but lost in the final to Nikoloz Basilashvili, 4–6, 6–0, 5–7. This was Basilashvili's first ATP World Tour title, as well as the first ATP title won by a Georgian player since Alexander Metreveli.


2018 German government crisis
The 2018 German government crisis, sometimes referred to as Asylstreit (asylum quarrel), was a government crisis affecting the Fourth Merkel cabinet, which began in June 2018 and effectively ended in July 2018.


2018 German government crisis, Background
Before the formation of a coalition government in March 2018, immigration policy had become an issue that prevented Angela Merkel obtaining a workable majority, with the Free Democratic Party declining to join a coalition and all potential coalition partners calling for stricter migration controls.


2018 German government crisis, Background
The coalition government agreement, made between Christian Democratic Union (CDU), its Bavarian sister party the Christian Social Union (CSU), and the Social Democratic Party (SPD), was not ratified by SPD members until 3 March 2018, more than five months after the September 2017 German Federal elections. The coalition agreement indicates that the parties intended to modify policies in relation to refugees and family reunification. "The previous government (also a CDU/CSU/SPD grand coalition) had suspended the right of refugees with a 'limited protection status' to bring their families over. The new coalition deal says this will be limited to 1,000 people per month. On top of that, the number of asylum-seekers taken in altogether is to be capped at between 180,000 and 220,000 per year."


2018 German government crisis, Incidents, June 2018
In June 2018, the coalition government, especially the CDU/CSU sister parties, quarreled over the specifics of asylum policies. After the interior minister Horst Seehofer (CSU) had announced a "master plan" on asylum policies containing 63 points - of which 62 were reportedly agreed between Seehofer and chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) - differences arose on the question of the rejection of asylum seekers already registered in other EU countries.


2018 German government crisis, Incidents, June 2018
After Seehofer threatened "national measures", meaning the closure of the borders for such asylum seekers, Merkel requested two weeks for talks on a "European solution" and convened an EU asylum policy summit on migration policies in the night of 28/29 June. The result of the summit was seen as a "vague" success for Merkel. The Visegrád Group, represented by the Hungarian prime minister, claimed that the EU was beginning to accept its proposals for dealing with asylum seekers.


2018 German government crisis, Incidents, June 2018
Among other things, it was agreed that European governments are allowed to "take all necessary internal legislative and administrative measures" to prevent refugees and migrants from crossing Europe's internal borders. The Guardian called this "an apparent lifeline for Merkel". While Merkel claimed that she had reached agreements with Greece and Spain as well as commitments of 14 states on deportations of registered migrants, the Visegrád Group among them, the governments of the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland subsequently denied that there were new agreements.


2018 German government crisis, Incidents, June 2018
It was also reported that there were personal differences between Merkel and Seehofer, the latter reportedly saying: "I can’t work with this woman any more!"


2018 German government crisis, Incidents, July 2018
After the EU summit, German chancellor Angela Merkel faced resistance by the Bavarian CSU party over the result of the summit, and interior minister Horst Seehofer announced a "declaration" Sunday 1 July. Seehofer threatened to order "national measures" and reject migrants who are registered in other EU countries. It was reported that he considered talks with Merkel in Berlin on 30 June 2018 on the summit results as "ineffective" and "useless", stating that Merkel's plan would create new "pull factors" for asylum seekers to come to Europe. He also rejected a proposal by Merkel to accommodate asylum seekers who are already registered in EU countries in so-called "anchor centers" (Ankerzentren), which would allow quicker deportations.


2018 German government crisis, Incidents, July 2018
Whilst Bavarian minister president Markus Söder stated that the summit result would point "in the right direction", the party leaders held a meeting in the CSU party headquarters in Munich on Sunday and voiced criticism of Merkel's plan. Merkel stated that she wants to avoid a breakup of the government and the historical parliamentary group with the Bavarian sister party.


2018 German government crisis, Incidents, July 2018
On the evening of 1 July, interior minister Horst Seehofer reportedly offered the CSU party leadership his resignation over the conflict with Angela Merkel, but chose to stay in office for the time being, after party board members as Alexander Dobrindt convinced him to stay. New talks were agreed between CDU and CSU delegations for 1700 CET on 2 July in Berlin. Seehofer stated ahead of the talks: "I'm not going to get dismissed by a chancellor who's only chancellor because of me."


2018 German government crisis, Incidents, July 2018
Later in the evening of 2 July, an agreement was made between the CDU/CSU sister parties. It contains the introduction of Transitzentren (transit centres) which allow quick deportations of asylum seekers already registered abroad without entering the country, and in specific cases the rejection of such people directly at the German border. To avoid that there is only a national approach, agreements with the European neighbours are also included. Seehofer announced that the agreement allows him to stay in office as Minister of the Interior. After the agreement between the sister parties, talks with the coalition partner SPD followed. Leading SPD politicians said that they had "many questions" about the agreement.


2018 German government crisis, Incidents, July 2018
By 9 July, it was being reported that the ruling coalition had achieved a level of stability, leaving the government able to negotiate bilateral deals with other European countries. Meanwhile, talks commenced with Austria and Italy in an effort to close the Mediterranean migration routes from Africa to Europe.


2018 German motorcycle Grand Prix
The 2018 German motorcycle Grand Prix was the ninth round of the 2018 MotoGP season. It was held at the Sachsenring in Hohenstein-Ernstthal on 15 July 2018.


2018 German motorcycle Grand Prix, Classification, MotoGP
Franco Morbidelli was replaced by Stefan Bradl after the first practice session due to injury.


2018 Gerry Weber Open
The 2018 Gerry Weber Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor grass courts. It was the 26th edition of the event and part of the ATP World Tour 500 series of the 2018 ATP World Tour. It took place at the Gerry Weber Stadion in Halle, Germany, between 18 and 24 June 2018.


2018 Gerry Weber Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2018 Gerry Weber Open, Doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:


2018 Gerry Weber Open – Doubles
Łukasz Kubot and Marcelo Melo were the defending champions and successfully defended their title, defeating Alexander and Mischa Zverev in the final, 7–6(7–1), 6–4 in a repeat of the previous year's final.


2018 Gerry Weber Open – Singles
Roger Federer was the defending champion, but lost to Borna Ćorić in the final. This was Ćorić's first ATP 500 title. With Federer's loss, Rafael Nadal regained the world No. 1 ranking.


2018 Geylang International FC season
The 2018 season is Geylang International's 23rd consecutive season in the top flight of Singapore football and in the S.League. Along with the S.League, the club will also compete in the Prime League, the Singapore Cup and the Singapore League Cup.


2018 Geylang International FC season, Key events, November 2017
On 28/11/2017, it was reported that there has been a rift between some Geylang International players and the club's management.


2018 Geylang International FC season, Transfers, Pre-season transfers, Out
Note 1: Ricardo Sendra was initially signed by Perseru but was released before the season start.


2018 Geylang International FC season, Transfers, Pre-season transfers, Retained
Note 2: Yuki Ichikawa was initially released after the season but subsequently re-signed for 2018.


2018 Ghanaian FA Cup
The 2018 Ghanaian FA Cup (also called the MTN FA Cup for sponsorship reasons) is the 40th edition of the Ghanaian FA Cup, the knockout football competition of Ghana. The competition was however called off as a result of the dissolution of the GFA in June 2018.


2018 Ghanaian FA Cup, Round of 64
Bebeto 0 - 0 (4 - 3 P) Heart of Lions


2018 Ghanaian FA Cup, Round of 64
Bis Paradise 1 - 1 (5 - 4 P) Nzema Kotoko


2018 Ghanaian FA Cup, Round of 64
DC United 0 - 0 (5 - 4 P) Brong Ahafo Stars


2018 Ghanaian FA Cup, Round of 64
Likpe Heroes 0 - 0 (3 - 5 P) WAFA


2018 Ghanaian FA Cup, Round of 64
Asante Kotoko 0 - 0 (6 - 5 P) Bepong Storm


2018 Ghanaian FA Cup, Round of 32
The draw for the round of 32 was held on 5 June 2018.


2018 Ghanaian FA Cup, Round of 32
Note: All remaining matches called off as a result of a directive from the government of Ghana.


2018 Ghanaian Premier League
The 2018 Ghanaian Premier League was the 62nd season of top professional association football in Ghana. The season was initially scheduled to begin on 11 February 2018, but was postponed to 4 March 2018, and later postponed indefinitely. It was then scheduled to begin on 17 March 2018. The league kicked off on 17 March with a match between Inter-Allies vs Bechem United in Tema.


2018 Ghanaian Premier League
The Premier League was later cancelled in June 2018 by government directive following the Number 12 Expose corruption scandal within Ghana Football Association.


2018 Ghanaian Premier League, Standings
Last updated 6 June 2018 (championship suspended following government directive).


2018 Ghanaian new regions referendum
A referendum on creating new regions was held in Ghana on 27 December 2018. Voting took place in the 47 districts that would potentially become part of new regions which would be created by splitting four of the existing regions. The proposed splits were:


2018 Ghanaian new regions referendum
All proposed new regions were approved, with 'yes' votes above 99% in all regions and turnouts ranging from 80% to 90%.


2018 Ghazi Amanullah Khan Regional One Day Tournament
The 2018 Ghazi Amanullah Khan Regional One Day Tournament was a List A cricket competition that took place in Afghanistan between 10 and 27 July 2018. It was the second edition of the competition to be played with List A status, following the announcements by the International Cricket Council (ICC) in February and May 2017. Six teams competed; Amo Region, Band-e-Amir Region, Boost Region, Kabul Region, Mis Ainak Region and Speen Ghar Region. Speen Ghar Region were the defending champions.


2018 Ghazi Amanullah Khan Regional One Day Tournament
Following the group stage, Speen Ghar Region and Boost Region finished first and second respectively, and faced each other in the final. Boost Region won the match by five wickets to win the tournament.


2018 Gibraltar Darts Trophy
The 2018 Gibraltar Darts Trophy was the seventh of thirteen PDC European Tour events on the 2018 PDC Pro Tour. The tournament took place at Victoria Stadium, Gibraltar from 8–10 June 2018. It featured a field of 48 players and £135,000 in prize money, with £25,000 going to the winner.


2018 Gibraltar Darts Trophy
Michael Smith was the defending champion after defeating Mensur Suljović 6–4 in the 2017 final, but he lost 6–5 to Jermaine Wattimena in the second round.


2018 Gibraltar Darts Trophy
Michael van Gerwen won the title for a third time by defeating Adrian Lewis 8–3 in the final.


2018 Gibraltar Darts Trophy, Prize money
Prize money will count towards the PDC Order of Merit, the ProTour Order of Merit and the European Tour Order of Merit, with one exception: should a seeded player lose in the second round (last 32), their prize money will not count towards any Orders of Merit, although they still receive the full prize money payment.


2018 Gibraltar Darts Trophy, Qualification and format
The top 16 entrants from the PDC ProTour Order of Merit on 11 May will automatically qualify for the event and will be seeded in the second round.


2018 Gibraltar Darts Trophy, Qualification and format
The remaining 32 places will go to players from five qualifying events – 18 from the UK Qualifier (held in Milton Keynes on 18 May), eight from the West/South European Qualifier (held on 30 May), four from the Host Nation Qualifier (held on 7 June), one from the Nordic & Baltic Qualifier (held on 25 May) and one from the East European Qualifier (held on 24 February).


2018 Gibraltar Open
The 2018 ManBetX Gibraltar Open was a professional ranking snooker tournament, that took place from 7–11 March 2018 in Gibraltar. It was the seventeenth ranking event of the 2017/2018 season.


2018 Gibraltar Open
Shaun Murphy was the defending champion, but due to back and neck problems he withdrew prior to the tournament.


2018 Gibraltar Open
Ryan Day captured his second career ranking title, both won in the 2017/2018 season. He did so with a 4–0 win in the final against Cao Yupeng.


2018 Gibraltar Open, Prize fund
The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:


2018 Gibraltar Open, Prize fund
The "rolling 147 prize" for a maximum break stood at £25,000


2018 Gibraltar Open, Amateur pre-qualifying
These matches were played in Gibraltar on 7–8 March 2018. All matches were best of 7 frames.


2018 Gimcheon Open ATP Challenger
The 2018 Gimcheon Open ATP Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the fifth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Gimcheon, Korea between 7 and 13 May 2018.


2018 Gimcheon Open ATP Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2018 Gimcheon Open ATP Challenger – Doubles
Marco Chiudinelli and Teymuraz Gabashvili were the defending champions but chose not to defend their title.


2018 Gimcheon Open ATP Challenger – Doubles
Ruan Roelofse and John-Patrick Smith won the title after defeating Sanchai and Sonchat Ratiwatana 6–2, 6–3 in the final.


2018 Gimcheon Open ATP Challenger – Singles
Thomas Fabbiano was the defending champion but chose not to defend his title.


2018 Gimcheon Open ATP Challenger – Singles
Yoshihito Nishioka won the title after defeating Vasek Pospisil 6–4, 7–5 in the final.


2018 Ginetta GT4 Supercup
The 2018 Michelin Ginetta GT4 Supercup is a multi-event, one make GT motor racing championship held across England and Scotland. The championship features a mix of professional motor racing teams and privately funded drivers, competing in Ginetta G55s that conform to the technical regulations for the championship. It forms part of the extensive program of support categories built up around the BTCC centrepiece. It is the eighth Ginetta GT4 Supercup, having rebranded from the Ginetta G50 Cup, which ran between 2008 and 2010. The season commenced on 1 April at Brands Hatch – on the circuit's Indy configuration – and concludes on 30 September at the same venue, utilising the Grand Prix circuit, after twenty-two races held at eight meetings, all in support of the 2017 British Touring Car Championship season.


2018 Ginetta Junior Championship
The 2018 Simpson Race Products Ginetta Junior Championship is a multi-event, one make motor racing championship held across England and Scotland. The championship features a mix of professional motor racing teams and privately funded drivers, aged between 14 and 17, competing in Ginetta G40s that conformed to the technical regulations for the championship. It forms part of the extensive program of support categories built up around the British Touring Car Championship centrepiece.


2018 Ginetta Junior Championship
It is the twelfth Ginetta Junior Championship, commencing on 8 April 2018 at Brands Hatch – on the circuit's Indy configuration – and concluding on 30 September 2018 at the same venue, utilising the Grand Prix circuit, after 25 races held at ten meetings, all in support of the 2018 British Touring Car Championship.


2018 Girabola
The 2018 Girabola was the 40th season of top-tier football in Angola. The season ran from 10 February to 2 September 2018.


2018 Girabola
The league comprised 16 teams, the bottom three of which were relegated to the 2019 Provincial stages.


2018 Girabola
Primeiro de Agosto won their third title in a row, qualifying to the 2018–19 CAF Champions League.


2018 Girabola
On an exceptional basis, on account of the Angola Cup not being contested this season, Petro de Luanda, the runner up, qualified to the 2018–19 CAF Confederation Cup.


2018 Girabola, Teams
A total of 16 teams contested the league, including 13 sides from the 2017 season and three promoted from the 2017 Segundona - Cuando Cubango FC, Domant FC and Sporting de Cabinda.


2018 Girabola, Teams
On the other hand, Progresso da Lunda Sul, ASA and Santa Rita de Cássia were the last three teams of the 2017 season and will play in their respective provincial leagues seeking qualification for the 2018 2nd division qualifiers. Clube Desportivo Primeiro de Agosto were the defending champions from the 2017 season.


2018 Girabola, Changes from 2017 season
Relegated: ASA, Progresso da Lunda Sul, Santa Rita de Cássia Promoted: Cuando Cubango FC, Domant FC, Sporting de Cabinda


2018 Girabola, J.G.M. withdrawal
In late April, J.G.M. submitted a withdrawal request to the Angolan Football Federation citing financial reasons. The request was granted. As a result, all points won in games against J.G.M. were withdrawn.


2018 Girabola, FIFA penalties
In May, FIFA has instructed the Angolan Football Federation that Kabuscorp should forfeit 6 points as a result of being in default to their former star player Rivaldo. In a weekly report issued by the Angolan federation, it is further stated that the club may be banned from official competition in case the claimant files a new complaint.


2018 Girabola, FIFA penalties
In June, FIFA again ruled that Kabuscorp forfeits 6 points in the League for being in default with TP Mazembe in the 2014 deal with DRC midfielder Trésor Mputu.


2018 Girabola, FIFA penalties
In July, FIFA ruled that Progresso Associação do Sambizanga forfeits 6 points in the League for being in default with Ghanaian striker Raphael Kwaku Obeng.


2018 Giravanz Kitakyushu season, Squad
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2018 Girls' EuroHockey Youth Championships
The 2018 Girls' EuroHockey Youth Championships will be the 10th edition of the Girls' EuroHockey Youth Championships. It will be held from 15 to 21 July 2018 in Santander, Spain at the Ruth Beitia Sports Complex.


2018 Girls' EuroHockey Youth Championships, Qualified teams
The following teams participated in the 2018 EuroHockey Youth Championship:


2018 Girls' EuroHockey Youth Championships, Format
The eight teams will be split into two groups of four teams. The top two teams advance to the semifinals to determine the winner in a knockout system. The bottom two teams play in a new group with the teams they did not play against in the group stage. The last two teams will be relegated to the Youth Championship II.


2018 Girls' EuroHockey Youth Championships, Results, Fifth to eighth place classification, Pool C
The points obtained in the preliminary round against the other team are taken over.


2018 Girls' U17 Volleyball European Championship
The 2018 Girls' Youth European Volleyball Championship was the thirteenth edition of the Girls' Youth European Volleyball Championship, a biennial international volleyball tournament organised by the European Volleyball Confederation (CEV) the girls' under-17 national teams of Europe. The tournament was held in Bulgaria from 13 to 21 April 2018.


2018 Girls' U17 Volleyball European Championship
A total of twelve teams played in the tournament, with players born on or after 1 January 2001 eligible to participate.


2018 Girls' U17 Volleyball European Championship
Same as previous editions, the tournament acted as the CEV qualifiers for the FIVB Volleyball Girls' U18 World Championship. The top six teams qualified for the 2019 FIVB Volleyball Girls' U18 World Championship as the CEV representatives.


2018 Girls' U17 Volleyball European Championship, Awards
At the conclusion of the tournament, the following players were selected as the tournament dream team.


2018 Girls' U17 Volleyball European Championship Qualification
This is an article about qualification for the 2018 Girls' U17 Volleyball European Championship.


2018 Girls' U17 Volleyball European Championship Qualification, Pool standing procedure
Match won 3–0 or 3–1: 3 match points for the winner, 0 match points for the loserMatch won 3–2: 2 match points for the winner, 1 match point for the loser


2018 Girls' U17 Volleyball European Championship Qualification, Qualification
The winners of each pools and the best three second placed teams qualified for final round. Because There are three teams pools only three, the second placed teams will cut the result which they play with the fourth ranked teams before consider the qualified teams.


2018 Girls' Youth NORCECA Volleyball Championship
The 2018 Girls' Youth NORCECA Volleyball Championship was the eleventh edition of the bi-annual volleyball tournament. It was held in Tegucigalpa National Gymnasium, Tegucigalpa, Honduras from 25 August to 2 September among eight countries. The United States won the tournament and qualified for the 2019 FIVB Girls' World Championship along with Canada. United States player Jessica Mzurik won the Most Valuable Player award.


2018 Girls' Youth NORCECA Volleyball Championship, Qualification
A total of 9 teams qualify for the 2018 Girls' Youth NORCECA Volleyball Championship. In addition to Honduras who qualified automatically as hosts, the other 8 teams qualify based on top 5 teams from the NORCECA U 18 Continental Ranking and the 3 Zonal Champions from the AFECAVOL, ECVA and CAZOVA, U-18 Zonal Championships. Mexico withdrew from the tournament and the event continued with only 8 teams.


2018 Girls' Youth NORCECA Volleyball Championship, Pool standing procedure
Match won 3–0: 5 match points for the winner, 0 match points for the loserMatch won 3–1: 4 match points for the winner, 1 match point for the loserMatch won 3–2: 3 match points for the winner, 2 match points for the loser


2018 Girls' Youth South American Volleyball Championship
The 2018 Girls' Youth South American Volleyball Championship was the 21st edition of the Girls' Youth South American Volleyball Championship, organised by South America's governing volleyball body, the Confederación Sudamericana de Voleibol (CSV). The tournament will be held in Valledupar, Colombia from 8 to 12 July 2018.


2018 Girls' Youth South American Volleyball Championship
A total of eight teams played in the tournament, with players born on or after 1 January 2002 eligible to participate.


2018 Girls' Youth South American Volleyball Championship
Same as previous editions, the tournament acted as the CSV qualifiers for the FIVB Volleyball Girls' U18 World Championship. The top three teams qualified for the 2019 FIVB Volleyball Girls' U18 World Championship as the CSV representatives.


2018 Giro Rosa
The 29th running of the women's Giro d'Italia, or Giro Rosa, was held from 6 to 15 July 2018. Raced over ten stages, it is considered the most prestigious stage race of the women's calendar. It was the 14th event of the 2018 UCI Women's World Tour. Two-time winner Anna van der Breggen was the defending champion. However she elected not to defend her title, choosing instead to focus on preparing for a bid to win her first title at the Road World Championships.


2018 Giro Rosa, Teams
The 24 UCI Women's Team competing and associated dossard numbers.


2018 Giro Rosa, Classification leadership table
In the 2018 Giro d'Italia Femminile, five different jerseys were awarded. The most important was the general classification, which was calculated by adding each cyclist's finishing times on each stage. Time bonuses were awarded to the first three finishers on all stages with the exception of the time trials: the stage winner won a ten-second bonus, with six and four seconds for the second and third riders respectively.


2018 Giro Rosa, Classification leadership table
Bonus seconds were also awarded to the first three riders at intermediate sprints; three seconds for the winner of the sprint, two seconds for the rider in second and one second for the rider in third. The rider with the least accumulated time is the race leader, identified by a pink jersey. This classification was considered the most important of the 2017 Giro d'Italia Femminile, and the winner of the classification was considered the winner of the race.


2018 Giro Rosa, Classification leadership table
Additionally, there was a points classification, which awarded a cyclamen jersey. In the points classification, cyclists received points for finishing in the top 10 in a stage, and unlike in the points classification in the Tour de France, the winners of all stages – with the exception of the team time trial, which awarded no points towards the classification – were awarded the same number of points. For winning a stage, a rider earned 15 points, with 12 for second, 10 for third, 8 for fourth, 6 for fifth with a point fewer per place down to a single point for 10th place.


2018 Giro Rosa, Classification leadership table
There was also a mountains classification, the leadership of which was marked by a green jersey. In the mountains classification, points towards the classification were won by reaching the top of a climb before other cyclists. Each climb was categorised as either second, or third-category, with more points available for the higher-categorised climbs; however on both categories, the top five riders were awarded points. The fourth jersey represented the young rider classification, marked by a white jersey. This was decided the same way as the general classification, but only riders born on or after 1 January 1995 were eligible to be ranked in the classification.


2018 Giro Rosa, Classification leadership table
The fifth and final jersey represented the classification for Italian riders, marked by a blue jersey. This was decided the same way as the general classification, but only riders born in Italy were eligible to be ranked in the classification. There was also a team classification, in which the times of the best three cyclists per team on each stage were added together; the leading team at the end of the race was the team with the lowest total time. The daily team leaders wore red dossards in the following stage.


2018 Giro d'Italia
The 2018 Giro d'Italia was the 101st edition of the Giro d'Italia, one of cycling's Grand Tour races. The race started in Jerusalem on 4 May, with a 9.7 km (6 mi) individual time trial followed by two additional stages within Israel. After a rest day, there were 18 further stages in Italy before the tour reached the finish in Rome on 27 May.


2018 Giro d'Italia
The race was won by Team Sky's Chris Froome, the first British rider to win the race. In winning, Froome completed a hat-trick of consecutive Grand Tour victories, becoming the first rider since Bernard Hinault to hold all three Grand Tour titles simultaneously.


2018 Giro d'Italia
His victory was highlighted by an audacious 80 km solo breakaway to win the mountainous stage 19; attacking the small group of leaders including reigning champion Tom Dumoulin on the Cima Coppi of the 2018 Giro, the graveled climb of the Colle delle Finestre, he continued to extend his lead over the Sestriere and to the summit finish of Bardonecchia and overturned a more than three minute deficit to take both the pink jersey, the Cima Coppi prize and the mountains classification. The solo win, and the simultaneous implosion of long-time race leader Simon Yates, who lost more than 30 minutes on the day having lost contact on the first climb of the day, was described as "one of the most extraordinary days in Giro d’Italia history".


2018 Giro d'Italia, History
The Giro Big Start, touted as one of the most expensive sporting events in Israel's history, was largely financed by Canadian-Israeli mogul Sylvan Adams with the help of Israel's Tourism and Transportation Ministries. The 21-stage race began with a 10-kilometer time trial in Jerusalem, followed by a 167-kilometer race from Haifa to Tel Aviv, and a 229-kilometer race from Beersheba to Eilat. They were the first stages of any Grand Tour event ever that have been held outside Europe.


2018 Giro d'Italia, History
The 2018 Giro d'Italia Israel start was held to pay tribute to Italian cyclist Gino Bartali, a three-time winner of the Giro d’Italia. Bartali helped rescue hundreds of Italian Jews during the Holocaust and was recognized by Yad Vashem in 2013 as Righteous Among the Nations.


2018 Giro d'Italia, History
The race was won by Team Sky's Chris Froome, who therefore held all three Grand Tour titles simultaneously and became the first British cyclist to win the overall classification in the Giro. Froome crashed during a recon ride ahead of the prologue and lost time consistently over the first two weeks. In the final week, however, he won a stage that ended with the climb of Monte Zoncolan, then took back several minutes on all his rivals in Stage 19 with a ride described as "one for the history books". He ended up defeating the defending champion, Tom Dumoulin, by 46 seconds.


2018 Giro d'Italia, Teams
All 18 UCI WorldTeams were automatically invited and were obliged to attend the race. Four wildcard UCI Professional Continental teams were also selected. Each team started with eight riders (one less than in the previous year).


2018 Giro d'Italia, Teams
Lotto–Soudal chose to compete under a different name from the rest of the season: they became Lotto Fix ALL, using the name of a product made by Soudal, their normal sponsor.


2018 Giro d'Italia, Pre-race favorites
The main pre-race favorites were reigning Tour de France and Vuelta a Espana champion Chris Froome (Team Sky), defending champion Tom Dumoulin (Team Sunweb) and Fabio Aru (UAE Team Emirates). Other general classification contenders were Miguel Ángel López (Astana), Thibaut Pinot (Groupama–FDJ), Wout Poels (Team Sky), Simon Yates and Esteban Chaves (both Mitchelton–Scott), George Bennett (LottoNL–Jumbo), Louis Meintjes (Team Dimension Data), Michael Woods (EF Education First–Drapac p/b Cannondale), Davide Formolo (Bora–Hansgrohe), Rohan Dennis (BMC Racing Team) and Domenico Pozzovivo (Bahrain–Merida).


2018 Giro d'Italia, Pre-race favorites
Sprinters at the Giro included Elia Viviani, Jakub Mareczko, Niccolo Bonifazio, Danny van Poppel, Sacha Modolo, Sam Bennett, Jens Debusschere and Ryan Gibbons.


2018 Giro d'Italia, Classification leadership
In the Giro d'Italia, four different jerseys are awarded. The first and most important is the general classification, calculated by adding each rider's finishing times on each stage. Riders receive time bonuses (10, 6 and 4 seconds respectively) for finishing in the first three places on each stage. Smaller time bonuses are also given to the top three riders at the last intermediate sprint on each stage (3, 2 and 1 seconds respectively). The rider with the lowest cumulative time is awarded the pink jersey (Italian: maglia rosa), and is considered the winner of the Giro d'Italia.


2018 Giro d'Italia, Classification leadership
Additionally, there is a points classification. Riders win points for finishing in the top placings on each stage or by being within the first cyclists to reach intermediate sprint locations along each mass-start stage. Flat stages award more points than mountainous stages, meaning that this classification tends to favour sprinters. The leader of the points classification wore the cyclamen jersey.


2018 Giro d'Italia, Classification leadership
There is also a mountains classification, for which points were awarded for reaching the top of a climb before other riders. Each climb was categorised as either first, second, third or fourth-category, with more points available for the more difficult, higher-categorised climbs. For first-category climbs, the top eight riders earned points; on second-category climbs, six riders won points; on third-category climbs, only the top four riders earned points with three on fourth-category climbs. The leadership of the mountains classification was marked by a blue jersey. The Cima Coppi, the race's highest point of elevation, awards more points than the other first-category climbs, with nine riders scoring points. At 2,178 metres (7,146 ft), the Cima Coppi for the 2018 Giro d'Italia is the Colle delle Finestre.


2018 Giro d'Italia, Classification leadership
The fourth jersey represents the young rider classification. This is decided the same way as the general classification, but only riders born after 1 January 1994 are eligible. The winner of the classification is awarded a white jersey. There are also two classifications for teams. In the Trofeo Fast Team classification, the times of the best three cyclists per team on each stage are added up; the leading team is one with the lowest total time. The Trofeo Super Team is a team points classification, with the top 20 riders of each stage earning points for their team.


2018 Giro d'Italia, Classification leadership
The first additional award is the intermediate sprint classification. Each road stage has two sprints – the Traguardi Volanti. The first 5 riders across the intermediate sprint lines are awarded points (10, 6, 3, 2 and 1 points respectively); the rider with the most points at the end of the race wins the classification. Another classification – the combativity prize (Italian: Premio Combattività) – involves points awarded to the first riders at the stage finishes, at intermediate sprints, and at the summits of categorised climbs. There is also a breakaway award (Italian: Premio della Fuga).


2018 Giro d'Italia, Classification leadership
For this, points are awarded to each rider in any breakaway smaller than 10 riders that escapes for at least 5 kilometres (3.1 mi). Each rider is awarded a point for each kilometre that the rider was away from the peloton. The rider with the most points at the end of the Giro wins the award. The final classification is a "fair play" ranking for each team. Teams are given penalty points for infringing various rules. These range from half-point penalties, for offences that merit warnings from race officials, to a 2000-point penalty, for a positive doping test. The team that has the lowest points total at the end of the Giro wins the classification.


2018 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11
The 2018 Giro d'Italia was the 101st edition of the Giro d'Italia, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The first half of the Giro began on 4 May in Jerusalem, Israel, with an individual time trial, and ended with Stage 11, a hilly stage to Osimo, occurring on 16 May; the second half of the tour started at Osimo on 17 May and finished in Rome on 27 May.


2018 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 1
4 May 2018 – Jerusalem to Jerusalem, 9.7 km (6.0 mi) (ITT)


2018 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 1
The first rider departed at 13:50 local time (UTC+03:00). The route started alongside the David Citadel Hotel, headed south and then west to the first timecheck, which was at the 5.1 km (3.2 mi) mark. The riders then turned back east and passed the Knesset. The route passed through a tunnel after 7.3 km (4.5 mi), and passed Mamilla Pool about 400 m (1,300 ft) from the finish line, with a short climb in the last few hundred metres before the finish.


2018 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 2
5 May 2018 – Haifa to Tel Aviv, 167 km (104 mi)


2018 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 3
6 May 2018 – Beersheba to Eilat, 229 km (142 mi)


2018 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Rest day 1
During the morning, the riders and support staff transferred across the Mediterranean Sea, from Eilat in Israel to Catania in Sicily. This involved up to an hour of bus travel, and a further three hours by aircraft.


2018 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 4
8 May 2018 – Catania to Caltagirone, 202 km (126 mi)


2018 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 5
9 May 2018 – Agrigento to Santa Ninfa, 153 km (95 mi)


2018 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 6
10 May 2018 – Caltanissetta to Mount Etna, 169 km (105 mi)


2018 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 6
The riders departed from Caltanissetta, heading east to Enna and then turning south to Piazza Armerina. The race then continued east through Ramacca and Paternò. The route turned north through Belpasso and continued through Ragalna, where the 15 km (9.3 mi) Category 1 climb of Mount Etna began, to the astrophysical observatory at an altitude of 1,736 m (5,696 ft).


2018 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 7
11 May 2018 – Pizzo to Praia a Mare, 159 km (99 mi)


2018 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 8
12 May 2018 – Praia a Mare to Montevergine, 209 km (130 mi)


2018 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 8
The race departed northwest along the coast to Sapri, then heading inland and west to Licusati. The route again reached the coast after heading northwest to an intermediate sprint at Agropoli, and continued along the coast to another intermediate sprint at Salerno. From Salerno, the route began a gentle climb to Bellizzi Irpino. The race then continued onto the second category 17 km (11 mi) climb, through Mercogliano and Ospedaletto d'Alpinolo, to the finish at an altitude of 1,260 m (4,130 ft).


2018 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 9
13 May 2018 – Pesco Sannita to Gran Sasso, 225 km (140 mi)


2018 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 9
The riders will depart heading west and then northwest to Isernia, and continue into a second category 9 km (5.6 mi) climb, to an altitude of 1,252 m (4,108 ft), at Roccaraso. After descending north, the race has intermediate sprints at Popoli and Bussi sul Tirino, before a 14 km (8.7 mi) second category climb to 1,190 m (3,900 ft) at Calascio. The race then continues climbing northwest into the first category 26 km (16 mi) climb, to the finish line at 2,135 m (7,005 ft), at Campo Imperatore.


2018 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 10
15 May 2018 – Penne to Gualdo Tadino, 244 km (152 mi)


2018 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 11
16 May 2018 – Assisi to Osimo, 156 km (97 mi)


2018 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21
The 2018 Giro d'Italia was the 101st edition of the Giro d'Italia, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The first half of the Giro began in Jerusalem, Israel on 4 May with an individual time trial; the second half's Stage 12, a hilly stage starting from Osimo, occurred on 17 May. The race finished in Rome on 27 May.


2018 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 12
17 May 2018 - Osimo to Imola, 214 km (133 mi)


2018 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 13
18 May 2018 - Ferrara to Nervesa della Battaglia, 180 km (110 mi)


2018 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 14
19 May 2018 - San Vito al Tagliamento to Monte Zoncolan, 186 km (116 mi)


2018 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 14
The stage departed north, through Dignano, to the 2.75 km (1.71 mi) Category 3 climb of the Monte di Ragogna. The descent was followed by an intermediate sprint at Forgaria nel Friuli. The route then turned east, then north and finally west to the 4.55 km (2.83 mi) Category 3 climb to Avaglio and a descent east through Caneva. An intermediate sprint followed at Paularo, which was immediately followed by the 4.4 km (2.7 mi) Category 2 climb of the Passo Duron.


2018 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 14
After a descent to Sutrio, the riders climbed the 7.6 km (4.7 mi) Category 3 route to Sella Valcalda in Ravascletto. The race then descended through Comeglians and began the 10.1 km (6.3 mi) Category 1 climb of Monte Zoncolan, east from Ovaro, to 1,730 m (5,680 ft) at the finish line.


2018 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 15
20 May 2018 - Tolmezzo to Sappada, 176 km (109 mi)


2018 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 16
22 May 2018 - Trento to Rovereto, 34.2 km (21.3 mi) (ITT)


2018 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 16
A number of riders were penalised for drafting during the stage including Fabio Aru and Diego Ulissi who finished in the top ten.


2018 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 17
23 May 2018 - Riva del Garda to Iseo, 149.5 km (92.9 mi)


2018 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 18
24 May 2018 - Abbiategrasso to Prato Nevoso, 196 km (122 mi)


2018 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 19
25 May 2018 - Venaria Reale to Bardonecchia, 185 km (115 mi)


2018 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 20
26 May 2018 - Susa to Cervinia, 214 km (133 mi)


2018 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 21
27 May 2018 - Rome to Rome, 115 km (71 mi)


2018 Giro dell'Emilia
The 2018 Giro dell'Emilia was the 101st edition of the Giro dell'Emilia road cycling one day race. It was held on 6 October 2018 as part of the 2018 UCI Europe Tour in category 1.HC.


2018 Giro dell'Emilia
The race was won by Alessandro De Marchi of BMC Racing Team, ahead of Rigoberto Urán and Dylan Teuns.


2018 Giro dell'Emilia, Teams
Twenty-five teams of up to seven riders started the race:


2018 Glasgow Trophy
The 2018 Glasgow Trophy was a professional tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the first edition of the tournament which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Glasgow, United Kingdom, between 28 April and 6 May 2018.


2018 Glasgow Trophy, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2018 Glasgow Trophy, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants
The following player received entry into the singles main draw using a protected rating:


2018 Glasgow Trophy – Doubles
Gerard Granollers and Guillermo Olaso won the title after defeating Scott Clayton and Jonny O'Mara 6–1, 7–5 in the final.


2018 Glasgow Trophy – Singles
Lukáš Lacko won the title after defeating Luca Vanni 4–6, 7–6(7–3), 6–4 in the final.


2018 Global Awards
The 2018 Global Awards ceremony was held on Thursday, 1 March 2018 at London's Eventim Apollo. It started at 7:30 pm and was shown live on Capital TV and Heart TV. It was also available to watch on the Capital FM Website, on all the socials and on the radio. The Capital FM Global Awards radio schedule was as follows: Backstage on Capital Drive Time from 4pm GMT until 7pm GMT and then JJ, live from backstage from 7pm GMT chatting to the guests.


2018 Global Awards
Performances and special appearances from Sam Smith, Rita Ora, Kasabian, Martin Garrix, Andrea Bocelli and Liam Payne.


2018 Global Awards
Roman Kemp, Rochelle Humes and Myleene Klass hosted the ceremony.


2018 Global Awards, Nominees and winners
The list of nominees was announced in December 2017. Winners are listed first, in bold.


2018 Global Cebu F.C. season
The 2018 season was Global Cebu's 2nd season in the Philippines Football League (PFL), the top flight of Philippine football. In addition to the PFL, the club also competed in the Copa Paulino Alcantara. The club finished last in the PFL, winning only once in their 25 matches. The club also forfeited five matches.


2018 Global T20 Canada
The 2018 Global T20 Canada (also known as Canada Dry Global T20 Canada for sponsorship reasons) of the Global T20 Canada, was a 20-over cricket tournament played in Canada. It was the first edition of the tournament and ran from 28 June to 15 July 2018. Six teams took part, with all the matches played at the Maple Leaf Cricket Club in King City, Ontario.


2018 Global T20 Canada
A player draft took place on 3 June 2018. Approximately 1,600 players registered for the draft, with 600 of those from Canada. Ahead of the draft, the following ten international cricketers were named as marquee players: Shahid Afridi, Dwayne Bravo, Chris Gayle, Chris Lynn, Lasith Malinga, David Miller, Sunil Narine, Andre Russell, Darren Sammy and Steve Smith. Smith played in the opening match of the tournament and Warner played in the second match of the tournament, both played their first representative matches since being found guilty of ball-tampering during the third Test match between South Africa and Australia in March 2018.


2018 Global T20 Canada
In the final, Vancouver Knights defeated Cricket West Indies B Team by seven wickets to win the tournament.


2018 Global T20 Canada, Teams and squads
The following teams, squads and coaches were announced for the tournament:


2018 Global T20 Canada, League stage
The full fixtures were confirmed on 13 June 2018. The first round took place from 28 June to 7 July, the second round took place from 8 to 11 July and  playoffs from 12 to 15 July 2018. Times shown were Eastern DST.


2018 Go Bowling 250
The 2018 Go Bowling 250 was a NASCAR Xfinity Series race held on September 21, 2018 at Richmond Raceway in Richmond, Virginia. Contested over 250 laps on the .75-mile (1.21 km) D-shaped short track, it was the 27th race of the 2018 NASCAR Xfinity Series season, and the first race of the Playoffs. This was also the last race for Dale Earnhardt Jr., who had already retired from full-time racing in the previous year.


2018 Go Bowling 250, Practice, First practice
Christopher Bell was the fastest in the first practice session with a time of 22.341 seconds and a speed of 120.854 mph (194.496 km/h).


2018 Go Bowling 250, Practice, Final practice
Cole Custer was the fastest in the final practice session with a time of 22.538 seconds and a speed of 119.798 mph (192.796 km/h).


2018 Go Bowling 250, Qualifying
Christopher Bell scored the pole for the race with a time of 22.691 seconds and a speed of 118.990 mph (191.496 km/h).


2018 Go Bowling at The Glen
The 2018 Go Bowling at The Glen is a Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race held on August 5, 2018 at Watkins Glen International in Watkins Glen, New York. Contested over 90 laps on the 2.45-mile (3.94 km) road course, it was the 22nd race of the 2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series season. Chase Elliott scored his first career win in this race after holding off a hard-charging Martin Truex Jr. who was the defending winner from last year. This was the final race for Brian France as the CEO of NASCAR, as he was arrested for DUI hours after the race occurred. Jim France was the CEO starting at Michigan.


2018 Go Bowling at The Glen, Report, Background
Watkins Glen International (nicknamed "The Glen") is an automobile race track located in Watkins Glen, New York at the southern tip of Seneca Lake. It was long known around the world as the home of the Formula One United States Grand Prix, which it hosted for twenty consecutive years (1961–1980), but the site has been home to road racing of nearly every class, including the World Sportscar Championship, Trans-Am, Can-Am, NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, the International Motor Sports Association and the IndyCar Series.


2018 Go Bowling at The Glen, Report, Background
Initially, public roads in the village were used for the race course. In 1956 a permanent circuit for the race was built. In 1968 the race was extended to six hours, becoming the 6 Hours of Watkins Glen. The circuit's current layout has more or less been the same since 1971, although a chicane was installed at the uphill Esses in 1975 to slow cars through these corners, where there was a fatality during practice at the 1973 United States Grand Prix. The chicane was removed in 1985, but another chicane called the "Inner Loop" was installed in 1992 after J.D. McDuffie's fatal accident during the previous year's NASCAR Winston Cup event.


2018 Go Bowling at The Glen, Report, Background
The circuit is known as the Mecca of North American road racing and is a very popular venue among fans and drivers. The facility is currently owned by International Speedway Corporation.


2018 Go Bowling at The Glen, Practice, First practice
Erik Jones was the fastest in the first practice session with a time of 1:10.467 and a speed of 125.165 mph (201.434 km/h).


2018 Go Bowling at The Glen, Practice, Final practice
Chase Elliott was the fastest in the final practice session with a time of 1:10.832 and a speed of 124.520 mph (200.396 km/h).


2018 Go Bowling at The Glen, Qualifying
Denny Hamlin scored the pole for the race with a time of 1:10.260 and a speed of 125.534 mph (202.027 km/h).


2018 Go Bowling at The Glen, Media, Television
NBC Sports covered the race on the television side. Rick Allen and Steve Letarte called in the regular booth for the race; Motor Racing Network broadcaster Mike Bagley called from the Esses, Dale Earnhardt Jr. had the call from Turn 5, and Jeff Burton called from Turns 6-7. Dave Burns, Marty Snider and Kelli Stavast reported from pit lane during the race.


2018 Go Bowling at The Glen, Media, Radio
Motor Racing Network had the radio call for the race, which was simulcast on Sirius XM NASCAR Radio.


2018 GoPro Grand Prix of Sonoma
The 2018 GoPro Grand Prix of Sonoma was the 17th and final round of the 2018 IndyCar Series season. The race was held on September 16 at Sonoma Raceway in Sonoma, California. 2014 Indy 500 winner Ryan Hunter-Reay qualified on pole position, and took victory in the 85-lap race.


2018 GoPro Grand Prix of Sonoma
This also marked the last IndyCar Series race at Sonoma, as in 2019, the season finale will be held at the WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca.


2018 GoPro Grand Prix of Sonoma
It was also the final race for Verizon Communications as the series sponsor, as NTT took over as title sponsor for 2019.


2018 GoPro Grand Prix of Sonoma, Results, Race
Notes: Points include 1 point for leading at least 1 lap during a race, an additional 2 points for leading the most race laps, and 1 point for Pole Position.


2018 Goiás gubernatorial election
The 2018 Goiás gubernatorial election was held in October 2018, and elected the Governor and Vice Governor of Goiás and 41 State Deputies.


2018 Goiás gubernatorial election
Governor Marconi Perillo was re-elected in the 2014 Brazilian general elections, but resigned to run for the Federal Senate and is barred from running for his fifth non-consecutive term because of Brazilian electoral law and the Constitution, as he was re-elected in the previous election, and Lieutenant Governor José Eliton took over the State Government by the end of the year.


2018 Gold Coast Suns season
The 2018 Gold Coast Suns season was the Gold Coast Suns' 8th season in the Australian Football League. They also fielded a reserves team in the NEAFL.


2018 Gold Coast Suns season, AFL, Senior personnel
After round 20 in the 2017 season, senior coach Rodney Eade was sacked. In October 2017 it was announced that former Port Adelaide premiership player and Sydney assistant coach Stuart Dew had signed a three-year deal to become the new senior coach at Gold Coast.


2018 Gold Coast Suns season, AFL, List changes
At the end of the 2017 season, the Suns announced that they had delisted five players, including three rookie-listed players. Early in the trade period, half-back Adam Saad requested a trade to Essendon, and the Suns attempted to trade him for Essendon's first-round draft pick. When Essendon instead traded that pick to Greater Western Sydney for Devon Smith, the Suns instead received Essendon's second round pick for the 2018 draft. Fremantle player Lachie Weller requested a trade to the Suns, but Fremantle wanted their number 2 pick in the 2017 draft in exchange.


2018 Gold Coast Suns season, AFL, List changes
To avoid trading away their very early pick, Gold Coast exchanged a number of draft picks with West Coast to secure their first round pick in the 2018 draft, but Fremantle didn't budge and would only accept the number 2 pick. On the last day of the trade period the Suns accepted the trade, also receiving pick 41 from the Dockers. The Suns also managed to secure Harrison Wigg from Adelaide and Aaron Young from Port Adelaide.


2018 Gold Coast Suns season, AFL, List changes
One of the biggest trades of the 2017 trade period was that of two-time Brownlow medallist Gary Ablett. Ablett had originally asked to be traded from the Suns to Geelong, his original team, in 2016, but no agreement could be reached. He requested a trade again in 2017, and Gold Coast attempted to secure a player from Geelong's best 22 in exchange, but again nothing could be settled on.


2018 Gold Coast Suns season, AFL, List changes
On the last day of the trade period the Suns accepted a deal where they would receive pick 19 (a selection Geelong got as compensation for losing Steven Motlop) and Geelong's second round pick in the 2018 draft while losing Ablett, pick 24 and their fourth round pick in the 2018 draft.


2018 Gold Coast Titans season
The 2018 Gold Coast Titans season was the 12th in the club's history. The Titans completed the NRL's 2018 Telstra Premiership in 14th place, out of 16 teams, and did not qualify for the finals.


2018 Golden Globe Race
The 2018 Golden Globe Race was an around-the-world sailing race which started on 1 July 2018 from Les Sables-d'Olonne, France. The 2018 competition was the second edition and celebrated the 50th anniversary of the original Sunday Times Golden Globe Race. It featured yachts similar to those used at that time. Except for safety equipment, no modern technology was allowed.


2018 Golden Globe Race, Retro sailing
Entrants are limited to sailing similar yachts and equipment to what was available to Sir Robin Knox-Johnston, the winner of the original race in 1968–69. That means sailing without the use of modern technology such as satellite based navigation aids. Safety equipment such as EPIRBs and AIS are carried, however the competitors are only allowed to use the technology in an emergency.


2018 Golden Globe Race, Retro sailing
Competitors could apply to have their class of boat approved, providing it was in accordance with the following rules:


2018 Golden Globe Race, Retro sailing
Twenty-two classes were approved, with one exception to the rules made for a wood-epoxy Suhaili replica (the Suhaili being the yacht that Knox-Johnston sailed in 1968).


2018 Golden Globe Race, Route
The race started on 1 July 2018 in Les Sables-d'Olonne and will lead around the world eastward, leaving Cape of Good Hope, Cape Leeuwin and Cape Horn to port. There will be several "film gates" along the route, where the skippers can be interviewed as they sail past without stopping and where they can pass over films and letters.


2018 Golden Globe Race, Entrants
18 entrants from 13 different countries who entered the race. Of those, six chose the class-compliant but relatively modern Rustler 36. A further 17 had expressed interest but never started.


2018 Golden Globe Race, The race
The race started at 10:00 GMT on 1 July 2018, with the competitors passing a rolling gate between the Suhaili and the Joshua, two yachts that competed in the 1968 race. Sir Robin Knox-Johnston, who sailed on the Suhaili and won that race, fired the starting cannon.


2018 Golden Globe Race, The race
Of the 18 entrants, Francesco Cappelletti did not start the race and officially withdrew on 5 July. He plans to sail around the world independently and the race organisers are tracking his progress. Ertan Beskardes retired on 5 July, after deciding that being unable to communicate with his family removed the enjoyment from the race. Kevin Farebrother retired on 15 July at the Canary Islands mark, after becoming disillusioned by solo sailing and lack of sleep. Two days later, Nabil Amra retired at the same area on 17 July due to broken windvane gear. Antoine Cousot stopped at the Canary islands to repair his windvane gear, demoting him to the 'Chichester' class (one stop). Istvan Kopar put in to the Cape Verde islands on 23 July, planning to replace his windvane, but in the event proceeded without assistance.


2018 Golden Globe Race, The race
Antoine Cousot retired at the end of August due to a broken windvane and injuries. Philippe Péché made one stop ('Chichester' class) on 11 August following the failure of his tiller, but retired from the race two weeks later on 25 August.


2018 Golden Globe Race, The race
Are Wiig was dismasted on 17 August 400 nautical miles off Cape Town.


2018 Golden Globe Race, The race
Abhilash Tomy was dismasted and injured on 22 September. Gregor McGuckin elected to abandon his boat after being dismasted and was rescued with Abhilash.


2018 Golden Globe Race, The race
On 5 December 2018, Susie Goodall's boat was pitch-poled (flipped end-over-end), dismasted, and swamped during a storm while in the Southern Ocean around 2,000 nautical miles (3,700 km; 2,300 mi) west of Cape Horn. She was rescued by the cargo ship Tian Fu on 7 December.


2018 Golden Globe Race, Golden Globe Race 2022
The 2022 edition of the Golden Globe Race will have 20 entrants in the Suhaili class and 10 entries in the Joshua Class. The events start in a UK port on 26 July 2022 when GGR entrants assemble ahead of a SITraN Challenge Race bound for a port in France, starting on Sunday 31 July 2022. The GGR Race Village will open in France on 6 August 2022. The Golden Globe Race will start from a port in France on Sunday 21 August 2022. This date commemorates the anniversary of Bernard Moitessier setting off in the original Sunday Times Golden Globe on 22 August 1968.


2018 Golden Globe Race, Golden Globe Race 2022
The 2022 race has attracted 22 entrants from 12 countries. There are 7 British, 3 Australian, 2 French, 2 American, 2 South African, 1 Austria, 1 Canada, 1 Irish, 1 Italia , 1 Maltese, 1 New Zealander and 1 Norwegian.


2018 Golden Globes (Portugal)
The 2018 Golden Globes (Portugal) were held on 21 May 2018 and were broadcast by SIC. The show was presented by César Mourão.


2018 Golden Joystick Awards
The 2018 Golden Joystick Awards was the 36th edition of the Golden Joystick Awards, an annual awards event that honored the best video games of that year. The event was hosted by comedian Danny Wallace, and took place at the Bloomsbury Big Top in London on November 16, 2018.


2018 Golden Movie Awards
The 2018 Golden Movie Awards  is an annual African award ceremony that seeks to honour individuals for their outstanding performance in  movies they featured in as characters in the year under review. The ceremony was held at the  Movenpick Ambassador Hotel in Accra. It was a star-studded event at the Movenpick Ambassador Hotel, which hosted filmmakers from Ghana, Nigeria, Uganda, and Ivory Coast for the 2018 Golden Movie Awards Africa. This year’s edition was hosted by popular Nigerian comedian AY and actress Joselyn Dumas.


2018 Google data breach
The 2018 Google data breach was a major scandal in late 2018 when Google engineers discovered a software leakage within the Google+ API used in the social media network. As over five million user's data was compromised. This led to the immense news coverage on consumer privacy levels within Google+ and the shutting down of the Google+ consumer social network on 2 April 2019.


2018 Google data breach
The harvesting of personal data was first noticed by Google+ producers in March 2018  during a review of its operations following the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal. The bug was immediately fixed however led to approximately 500,000 Google+ private users data being open to the public. Google did not disclose this information to the social network's consumer database. On 8 October 2018, the article Google Exposed User Data, Feared Repercussions of Disclosing to Public was published by The Wall Street Journal. Following this, in August 2019 Google made a simultaneous blog post announcing the shutting down of Google+ as there was low consumer use and technological challenges.


2018 Google data breach
Within November 2018, another data breach was found within a Google+ API software update. The bug was fixed within a week and there was no evidence that any third-party developer compromised the system. However, approximately 52.5 million non-public profile fields were exposed to alternative apps that requested access to individuals Google+ ID, and created access to other profiles that had shared information with each other.


2018 Google data breach
Due to these data breaches, consumers called for greater consumer protection in online media and Google moved the Google+ social media shut down date to 2 April 2019, with legacy Google+ API's being shut down on 7 March 2019.


2018 Google data breach, Overview of Google+
In June 2011, Google+ was launched as an invite-only social network and then become a public database later in that year. Google+ was managed by Vic Gundotra, Google's senior vice president of engineering. Similar to Facebook, Google+ acted as a social media database for posting photos and creating status's on individual feeds yet included the key features including Circles, Hangouts and Sparks.


2018 Google data breach, Overview of Google+
Circles were created to allow consumers to personalise their social groups by sorting friends into different categories. Once allowed into a Circle, the person can be allowed to see particular content and be restricted from others. Therefore, users can regulate access of information in their individual spaces. Hangouts included video chatting and instant messaging between consumers. The other key feature of Google+ was Sparks; where Google tracked your past searches using keywords to find news and content related to a user's interests.


2018 Google data breach, Overview of Google+
Along with being a social network, Google+ was produced to be the social layer of Google and its many apps and hence was used within other Google Profiles such as YouTube, Gmail and others. Google+ had over 2 billion user accounts within its interface as it gave access to many Google apps including Gmail and Google Drive. However, less than 400 million consumers were actively using the social media aspect, with 90% of these users using the social network for five seconds. Hence, Google+ did not have a large amount of consumer interaction within the social media network.


2018 Google data breach, Overview of Google+
Along with the data breaches, Google+ saw limited consumer interaction with apps and low social media usage and so, the social network was shut down on 2 April 2019.


2018 Google data breach, Characteristics of the data breach
In January 2018, a formal assessment of third-party developers and app access to Google accounts was created named Project Strobe. Through this project, privacy platforms were examined and tightened as consumers were concerned of data privacy. Google Project Strobe constructs a review on consumer's profiles, identifying what parts of a profile third-party developers are able to access. Many third-party apps use Google+ as a service to improve communication, working life and online experience. In March, the analysis of Application Programming Interfaces (API) showed a data breach within the Google+ People API where external apps acquired access to Profile fields that were not marked as public.


2018 Google data breach, Characteristics of the data breach
Google found that there was no evidence of any user's personal information being misused. A detailed analysis identified that 500,000 Google+ accounts were included in this data breach which was capable of allowing 438 external apps without authorisation to private users names, emails, addresses, occupations, gender and age. This information was able to be accessed by third-party apps between 2015 and 2018. There was no evidence found that any of this information was misused, and Google is not able to confirm which particular users profile data was accessible or impacted. There was no evidence found that any third-party app developers were aware of this profile leakage and abused this.


2018 Google data breach, Characteristics of the data breach
In November 2018, a software update created another data breach within the Google+ API. The bug impacted 52.5 million users where, similarly to the past data breach, apps were able to access Google+ profiles without consent displaying name, email address, occupation and age. Apps were not able to access information relating to financial, national identification numbers or passwords. Google+ blog posts, messages and phone numbers also remained inaccessible if displayed as private information. Dissimilar to the last data breach, access was granted for six days before Google+ gained knowledge of the data leakage and was able to rectify the problem. Google+ found no evidence of misused data by third-party developers and consumers were Access was granted for six days before Google+ was able to rectify the problem, however they found no evidence of misuse and an announcement of the leakage was made to Google+ consumers.


2018 Google data breach, News coverage
The publishing of ‘Google Exposed User Data, Feared Repercussions of Disclosing to Public’ by the Wall Street Journal on October 8, 2018 outlined the initial data breach, describing how Google+ had not originally disclosed the issue. They advised the public that the data breach had occurred between 2015 and 2018 through a leakage in the API software where third-party apps were able to access private information. There is no federal law that requires Google to inform their consumers of data breaches.


2018 Google data breach, News coverage
Google+ originally did not want to disclose the information in fear of comparison to Facebook's data leakage and loss of consumer confidence. In response to the article, Google announced the permanent shut down of all consumer functionality in August 2019. After the second data leakage this date was accelerated and moved to April 2019.


2018 Google data breach, News coverage
Alongside the Wall Street Journal, considerable amounts of coverage was made on each data breach by newspapers around the world discussing consumer's privacy levels. On 8 October 2018, a Google Blog post described the first data leakage and the shutdown of Google+, written by Ben Smith, the Vice President of Engineering within Google. Following the second data breach, Google Blog posted an article written by the Vice President of Product Management, David Thacker, on December 10, 2018. This article indicated that Google+ APIs would be shutting down within the next 90 days and the acceleration of the closing of Google+. Both articles provide a detailed explanation of each data breach, the ramifications for Google+ and ensured consumers on the privacy and reliance on Google of consumer data.


2018 Google data breach, Responses on Google+ and Google
In response to the data breach, enterprise consumers were notified of the impact of the bug and given instructions on how to save, download and delete their data prior to the Google+ shut down. The issues were analysed by Google's Privacy and Data Protection Office, finding that there was no misuse of consumer's profiles data. However, Google decided that Google+ was not being used in abundance as a social media network and hence the network should be shut down.


2018 Google data breach, Responses on Google+ and Google, Immediate ramifications
Preparing for the Google+ social network, Google created a 10-month period for consumers to download and migrate their profile's data. Google+ users could save Google+ photos, videos, events, posts, circles and communities. Events created in Google+ and birthdays of relevant people in Google+ circles will be deleted off Google Calendar. Photos and videos backed up to Google Photos will not be deleted. Google+ widgets will no longer be available and have since been removed from all blogs.


2018 Google data breach, Responses on Google+ and Google, Immediate ramifications
After the 10-month period consumer content will be deleted and Google will not save Google+ content apart from particular content needed for law, regulation, legal processes, legal obligations, or government requests. As the social network had a substantial number of consumers, the process of deleting this data will take a few months and is in progress. On 4 February 2019 consumers were no longer able to create new Google+ profile. Google shut down Google+ APIs on 7 March 2019 to ensure that developers do not remain reliant on these APIs prior to the Google+ shutdown. As of 2 April 2019, Collections and Circles still existed but are continually being phased out.


2018 Google data breach, Responses on Google+ and Google, Immediate ramifications
As of 7 March 2019, Google+ APIs have been shut down including REST API, Web API, Android SDK, Domains API and Pages API. Developers that used these Google+ APIs have removed these as otherwise their applications would break. Google has offered alternative APIs for these developers including Google Sign-In and Google People API.


2018 Google data breach, Responses on Google+ and Google, Share Price Impact
Google is the principal entity owned by its parent company Alphabet Inc. After the data breach, Alphabet Inc share prices fell by 1% to $1,157.06 on 9 October 2018 after an earlier drop of $1,135.40 that morning being the lowest price since 5 July 2018. After the publication of The Wall Street Journal article, share prices dropped as low as 2.1% in two days on 10 October 2018. Share prices steadily increased from this point and were able to rectify this share price drop and meet the 8 October 2018 share price on 5 February 2019.


2018 Google data breach, Responses on Google+ and Google, Rebuilding Google+
Google will rebuild Google+ as a corporate enterprise network. This network will be known as Google Currents and will be used by G suite consumers. The name has been recycled from the previous Google magazine platform, Google Currents, which is now known as Google News. The network will incorporate new features including 'tags'. Tags have been built for employees to be able to be involved in relevant organisation conversations if they follow a certain tag. Managers will be able to monitor conversations between employees, and interact through the social media network.


2018 Google data breach, Responses on Google+ and Google, Rebuilding Google+
Leaders posts will also be given priority within the business's posts and events and will be given more visibility across the network. This network will have differing security and privacy settings. Apps will require requested access to other Google platforms where only email functionality enhancing apps will be allowed after heightened security regulations. Google Play will now assess which apps can ask for permission to access the users SMS data; where only the default app for telephone distribution is able to make requests.


2018 Google data breach, Responses on Google+ and Google, Rebuilding Google+
Prior to the data breaches, apps were able to request access to all of a consumer's data simultaneously. Within the new privacy setting, each app will need to request individual permission for each aspect of a consumer's profile, and the consumer will have to grant this to create access. New posts will now only be accessed within the domain however this can be made Public. Profiles can no longer be publicly searched and discovered.


2018 Google walkouts
The Google Walkouts occurred on November 1, 2018 at approximately 11 am. The walkout had a large number of participants. The employees demanded five concrete changes from the company: an end to forced arbitration; a commitment to end pay inequality; a transparent sexual harassment report; an inclusive process for reporting sexual misconduct; and elevate the Chief of Diversity to answer directly to the CEO and create an Employee Representative. A majority of the known organizers have left the company since the walkout and many continue to voice their concerns. Google agreed to end forced arbitration and create a private report of sexual assault, but has not provided any further details about the other demands.


2018 Google walkouts, Background
This walkout was initially intended to be "day without women" and later evolved when a larger number of attendees accumulated. There were seven main organizers that asked for an end to sexual harassment, discrimination, and systematic racism. An organizer, Tanuja Gupta, worked in a group called "Googlers for Ending Force of Arbitration" which aided in the growth of momentum towards the sexual assault issue.


2018 Google walkouts, The walkout
On November 1, 2018, more than 20,000 Google employees engaged in a worldwide walkout to protest the way in which the company handled cases of sexual harassment, and other grievances. The protest came one week after a New York Times report named Andy Rubin (and other executives accused of sexual misconduct) who was paid a $90 million severance package. The core organizers were Claire Stapleton, Tanuja Gupta, Meredith Whittaker, Celie O'Neil-Hart, Stephanie Parker, Erica Anderson, and Amr Gaber. The walkout was organized in less than three days and lasted for a half hour.


2018 Google walkouts, The walkout
Hi . I’m not at my desk because I’m walking out in solidarity with other Googlers and contractors to protest sexual harassment, misconduct, lack of transparency, and a workplace culture that’s not working for everyone. I’ll be back at my desk later. I walked out for real change.


2018 Google walkouts, The walkout
The main demand was the act of transparency from a company, the presence of an employee representative, and the public filings of each sexual assault case. There were many signs held up during the course of the protest. One said "What do I do at Google? I work hard every day so the company can afford $90,000,000 payouts to execs who sexually harass my co-workers", another said "Don't be evil".


2018 Google walkouts, Retaliation and union busting
The Tech Workers Coalition provided a retaliation hotline during the Google Walkouts for employees who faced retribution for their participation.


2018 Google walkouts, Retaliation and union busting
Two of the Google Walkouts organizers, Claire Stapleton and Meredith Whittaker, claimed that Google retaliated against them following the Google Walkouts by attempting to force them out or demote them. They organized a sit-in on May 1, 2019, International Worker's Day. By July 2019, four of the seven organizers, including Stapleton and Whittaker, had left the company.


2018 Google walkouts, Retaliation and union busting
In late 2019, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) opened an investigation into the firing of four Google employees over their efforts to unionize. In late 2020, following the investigation, the NLRB filed a complaint stating that the fired workers were not responsible for any wrongdoing and accusing Google of "terminations and intimidation in order to quell workplace activism". It also accused Google of unlawful surveillance for accessing the employees' calendars and other internal documents. The administrative hearing for the case is scheduled for April 12, 2021.


2018 Google walkouts, Retaliation and union busting
In late 2019, the New York Times reported that Google had hired IRI Consulting, a company that provides anti-unionization services.


2018 Google walkouts, Impact and outcome
Some of the demands made were met or partly met. Many of Google's responses included the reiteration of commitment to past diversity objectives and the improvement of the process to report harassment. The two resolutions that came closest to the employees' demands were the publishing of sexual assault cases, although the company opted for a private, internal report rather than a public one, and increased transparency of sexual assault. In February of 2019 Google announced the end of forced arbitration for employees for all claims.


2018 Gosport Borough Council election
The 2018 Gosport Borough Council election took place on 3 May 2018 to elect members of Gosport Borough Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections. The election saw the Liberal Democrats gain four seats: two from Labour, and one each from the Conservatives and UKIP. This reduced the Conservative Majority to one, remaining in control of the council, whilst UKIP lost their sole seat, in the Rowner and Holbrook ward.


2018 Gosport Borough Council election, Voter ID trial
Gosport was one of five boroughs in England operating a 'voter ID' trial, whereby voters had to bring a form of identification with them in order to vote. There was some criticism of the pilot by local politicians ahead of the vote, and in the event 44 people were unable to vote as a result of the trial. The Electoral Commission concluded from the study that 'our findings suggest that the 2018 local elections in Gosport were not significantly affected by the voter ID pilot in either its impact on voters or on the administration of the poll. However, it is important to be cautious when drawing conclusions from this pilot about the impact of any wider application of voter ID.'


2018 Governor General's Awards
The shortlisted nominees for the 2018 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were announced on October 3, 2018, and the winners were announced on October 30.


2018 Grambling State Tigers football team
The 2018 Grambling State Tigers football team represents Grambling State University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Tigers are led by fifth-year head coach Broderick Fobbs and play their home games at Eddie Robinson Stadium in Grambling, Louisiana as members of the West Division of the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC).


2018 Grambling State Tigers football team, Previous season
The Tigers finished the 2017 season 11–2, 7–0 in SWAC play to win the West Division. They defeated Alcorn State in the SWAC Championship Game, receiving the conference's bid to the Celebration Bowl where they lost to North Carolina A&T.


2018 Grambling State Tigers football team, Preseason, SWAC football media day
During the SWAC football media day held in Birmingham, Alabama on July 13, 2018, the Tigers were predicted to win the West Division.


2018 Grambling State Tigers football team, Preseason, Presason All-SWAC Team
The Tigers led all SWAC schools by having 15 players selected to Preseason All-SWAC Teams.


2018 Gran Piemonte
The 2018 Gran Piemonte was the 102nd edition of the Gran Piemonte (known as Giro del Piemonte until 2009) single-day cycling race. It was held on 11 October, over a distance of 191 km, starting in Racconigi and ending in Moncalieri.


2018 Gran Piemonte, Teams
Eighteen teams were invited to take part in the race. These included twelve UCI WorldTeams and six UCI Professional Continental teams.