White Snow

White Snow () is a 2020 Russian biographical sports drama film directed by Nikolay Khomeriki.
The film is based on real events that happened at the 1997 FIS Cross-Country World Cup. For the first time in the history of the competition, a man or woman skier Yelena Vyalbe played by Olga Lerman won five out of five gold medals in all events entered.
It is scheduled to be theatrically released on March 4, 2021 by CaroRental.
Plot.
The film tells about a girl named Lena Trubitsyna from Magadan, Soviet Union, who has become a successful sportswoman and participates in the World Ski Championships.
In 1997, at the World Ski Championships in Trondheim, Norway and for the first time in the history of World Championship skiing, a skier, Russian Yelena Vyalbe, won five gold medals out of five possible.
Returning the awards to Russia, Vyalbe goes on a tour of Norway. There she learns more about the Norwegian monarchy, as she is interested in the history of the royal family. The king learns about Vyalbe in Norway and invites her to the royal palace. The conversation is about the merits of skiing. The king is of course a ski enthusiast and invites Vyalbe to coach the Norwegian ski team.
Vyalbe suddenly remembers the whole past through a flashback that starts from the very beginning and ends with a momentous day in Trondheim.
Production.
The concept of the film is based on a large-scale biopic set in the winter ski mountains of Russia and Estonia. The filmmakers presented a film about historical and legendary records in cross-country skiing, recorded in the history of sports by the Russian athlete Yelena Vyalbe. Since February 1997, at Granåsen Ski Centre in Trondheim, Norway, at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1997, one of the most striking events in the history of Russia and the world of sports took place: a woman won gold in all five cross-country skiing competitions. Yelena Vyalbe was a simple resident of Magadan.
However, the audience witnessed the preservation of sportsmanship and perseverance as the Russian skier gained recognition from Norway. The skier was the only woman to set such a sports record. The filmmakers have known Vyalbe since the 90s as a beacon of Russian pride. They bought "White Snow" for the screens, which, in their opinion, is part of the collective consciousness of Russia as a whole. According to director Nikolay Khomeriki, «I was hooked in this story that through the story of one strong man the story of the whole country is being told...».
From the production of the film company EGO Production - "White Snow" is a reliable retelling of events, permission for which was given by Yelena Vyalbe herself. Today Yelena Vyalbe is the president of the All-Russian public organization "Russian Ski Racing Federation", head of the Russian Ski Sports Association, multiple world and Olympic champion. When "White Snow" was in production, Vyalbe provided support at all stages of filming, including script adjustments and even advice to actresses who played challenging roles in real-life skiing conditions.
Especially for the filming of the film, Atomic and Fischer made skis of the 1997 design.
Filming.
Principal photography began in 2020, the film was shot in the ski mountains of Magadan, Moscow, Russia and Tallinn, Pärnu, Estonia.
A professional sports team of 26 people took part in the filming of the film in the town of Kirovsk, Murmansk Oblast - members of the Russian national skiing team, winners of the World Cup stages, winners of the World Ski Championships, champions and prize-winners of the Russian Championship, an international judge.
The champion's granddaughter Yelena Vyalbe at the age of 8 played Angelina Vyalbe in the children's role.
Release.
"White Snow" was the opening film of the 18th international festival "". The event took place in December 2020 in the town of Vyborg. In total, the competition program included eleven full-length feature films.
The film premiered in Russia on March 4, 2021, the Russian distributor is the film company "CaroRental".


Finlay Mickel

Finlay Mickel (born 6 December 1977) is a Scottish skiing coach and former downhill skier who competed in World Cup competitions 2000–2009 and the 2006 Winter Olympics.
Downhill skier.
Mickel was born on 6 December 1977 in Edinburgh, Scotland. He was educated at Stewart's Melville College. He first appeared in the World Cup in Lake Louise, Canada in November 2000. His best result in the World Cup was 10th in the Wengen downhill event in Switzerland, in January 2006.
On 5 February 2005, he finished eleventh in the Men's Downhill event at the World Championships held in Bormio, Italy. This was the best result by a British man in the history of the World Championships, and the best in any major competition since Martin Bell finished eighth in the downhill at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary.
In the Olympic Games in Turin in 2006 he finished 25th in the downhill event and 22nd in the super G event.
Injuries and retirement.
Mickel sustained several injuries during his career including a fractured left ankle, ruptured right Achilles tendon, a right ankle fracture and a fracture to his right tibia plateau. Although he recovered from each of these setbacks, after being a member of the British Alpine ski team for 12 years, he announced his retirement from the sport in May 2009 at the age of 31.
He took up a coaching position with the Scottish Alpine Team.


Squash Colombia Open

The Squash Colombia Open is a squash tournament held in Cartagena, Colombia in February. It is part of the PSA World Tour.


Sorgenti di Firenze Trekking

The Sorgenti di Firenze Trekking (SOFT, Florence Springs Walking) is a system of hiking trails that has twenty-two secondary trails that are connected to it in Tuscany.
In the valley of the Mugello, you can walk for days along the Apennines Florentine.
In the course of the first ring, walkers can be housed in "places step" where there are public shelters in villas, farmhouses, former country schools, monasteries, camping or travel companies. The stopping place is almost always in small villages or in places attractive, accessible by car.
The twenty-two secondary routes offer the possibility of a days-on-end of hiking, each highlighting a particular theme of environmental, historical and artistic routes.


Brianna Davey

Brianna Iris Davey (born 13 January 1995) is an Australian footballer in both the Association football (soccer) and Australian rules football codes. In soccer, she was a goalkeeper for the national women's team the Matildas and played in the W-League for Melbourne Victory and Melbourne City. In 2016, she transitioned from soccer to Australian rules football, and was one of two initial marquee recruits for the Carlton Football Club in the AFL Women's (AFLW). She won the inaugural Carlton best and fairest award and was named in the 2017 AFL Women's All-Australian team. Davey served as Carlton captain from 2018 to 2019 before being traded to the Collingwood Football Club. She was appointed Collingwood co-captain alongside Steph Chiocci in 2021, and won the league best and fairest award for the 2021 season.
Association football career.
Club.
Davey was initially an Australian rules football player until discovered kicking a ball at age 13 by a soccer scout while on a family holiday. Instantly discovered to have a talent as goalkeeper, Davey made inroads early and made Victorian representative and elite squads. Signed to Melbourne Victory Women as a fifteen-year-old as back-up keeper to Matildas captain Melissa Barbieri in Season 2010–11, she made three appearances in the short 11 match season. Having done enough to prove to head coach Vicki Linton that she was already as talented as the ageing Barbieri, Linton cut Barbieri and installed Davey as the number one choice. She went on to be the standout keeper for the first half of Season 2011–12 of the W-League.
In August 2013, Davey agreed to play for Swedish Damallsvenskan club Linköping FC during the Australian off-season. Linköping coach Martin Sjögren required a replacement for Sofia Lundgren, who had a back injury. On signing Davey Sjögren described her as "probably the world's most talented goalkeeper".
On 20 August 2015, after five years with Victory, Davey signed a contract with intra-city rivals Melbourne City, becoming the first ever goalkeeper for their newly created W-League side.
International.
Davey has represented Australia in the Young Matildas, often facing-off for the starting position with Brisbane Roar prodigy Casey Dumont.
After being involved in national team camps for over a year, Davey made her international debut for the Matildas in a 4–0 friendly victory over Haiti; keeping a clean sheet.
After a four-month residency programme, national coach Alen Stajcic surprisingly dropped Davey from Australia's 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup squad. Resurgent veteran Melissa Hudson (née Barbieri) was recalled at Davey's expense.
Australian rules football career.
After missing the World Cup squad, Davey began playing with the St Kilda Sharks in the Victorian Women's Football League in the 2015 winter. Despite not having played Australian rules football since her early junior days, she was quickly recognised as one of the top midfielders in the competition, also capable of playing as a key defender. She played for the in exhibition women's matches in 2015 and 2016, having been the top pick in the 2015 mini-draft held to allocate players for the matches.
AFL Women's.
After having played both codes in parallel for two years (soccer in summer and Australian rules football in winter), Davey committed to Australian rules football, signing as a marquee player for Carlton in the inaugural AFL Women's competition. In January 2017, she was announced as the co-vice-captain of Carlton, alongside Madeline Keryk. She made her debut in round 1, 2017, in the club and the league's inaugural match at IKON Park against . At the end of the season, Davey received her team's nominations for both the AFLW Players’ Most Courageous Award and the AFLW Players’ Most Valuable Player Award, and was also listed in the 2017 All-Australian team. She was awarded the club's inaugural best and fairest award in a ceremony in April 2017.
Carlton signed Davey for the 2018 season during the trade period in May 2017. She was appointed the team's captain for the 2018 season, taking over for inaugural captain Lauren Arnell. In round 2 she suffered a serious knee injury that was later confirmed to be a season-ending ruptured anterior cruciate ligament.
Davey returned to Carlton in 2019 and captained them side to a Grand Final appearance against Adelaide, which was subsequently lost.
In April 2019, Davey was traded to Collingwood.
In March 2020, Davey was selected for a 2017–19 retrospective 22under22 squad. In December, it was announced that Davey would co-captain Collingwood alongside inaugural captain Steph Chiocci in 2021. She won the 2021 AFLPA MVP award, beating Fremantle's Kiara Bowers by six votes. She led the league for most handballs per game and was in the top ten for disposals and inside 50s. Davey was also selected as Collingwood's best and fairest for the 2021 season, as well as the AFL Women's best and fairest.
AFLW Statistics.
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! 23
! 3
! 1
! 215
! 201
! 416
! 75
! 94
! 0.1
! 0.1
! 9.3
! 8.7
! 18.1
! 3.3
! 4.1
! 33
Personal life.
Davey's partner is fellow AFLW player Tilly Lucas-Rodd.


National (curling)

The National, currently referred to as the Boost National for sponsorship reasons, is a Canadian curling tournament. It is one of the six events that are part of the Grand Slam of Curling tour, and one of its four "majors".
The event features 15 men's and 15 women's teams. The top 14 teams on the World Curling Tour's Order of Merit qualify, plus a "sponsors exemption". The 15 teams are divided into three groups of five teams, and each team plays the other four teams in their group in a round robin. The top eight teams overall advance to a single elimination playoff. This format has been in place since 2015. From 2007 to 2014, the event had three pools of six teams each.


Greyhound racing

Greyhound racing is an organized, competitive sport in which greyhounds are raced around a track. There are two forms of greyhound racing, track racing (normally around an oval track) and coursing. Track racing uses an artificial lure (now based on a windsock) that travels ahead of the dogs on a rail until the greyhounds cross the finish line. As with horse racing, greyhound races often allow the public to bet on the outcome.
In many countries greyhound racing is purely amateur and solely for enjoyment. In other countries, particularly Australia, the Republic of Ireland, Mexico, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States, greyhound racing is part of the gambling industry and similar to horse racing.
Animal rights and animal welfare groups are critical of the welfare of greyhounds in the commercial racing industry. A greyhound adoption movement spearheaded by kennel owners has arisen to assist retired racing dogs in finding homes as pets, with an estimated adoption rate of over 95% in the US.
History.
Modern greyhound racing has its origins in coursing. The first recorded attempt at racing greyhounds on a straight track was made beside the Welsh Harp reservoir, Hendon, England, in 1876, but this experiment did not develop. The industry emerged in its recognizable modern form, featuring circular or oval tracks, with the invention of the mechanical, or artificial, hare in 1912 by an American, Owen Patrick Smith. O.P. Smith had altruistic aims for the industry to stop the killing of the jack rabbits and see "greyhound racing as we see horse racing". In 1919, Smith opened the first professional dog-racing track with stands in Emeryville, California. The Emeryville arena was torn down in February 1920 to make way for the construction of a modern racetrack using the mechanical lure, described in the press as the "automatic rabbit." The first race at the new park was on Saturday, May 29, 1920.
The certificates system led the way to parimutuel betting, as quarry and on-course gambling, in the United States during the 1930s.
The oval track and mechanical hare were introduced to Britain, in 1926, by another American, Charles Munn, in association with Major Lyne-Dixson, a Canadian, who was a key figure in coursing. Finding other supporters proved rather difficult, however, and with the General Strike of 1926 looming, the two men scoured the country in an attempt to find others who would join them. Eventually they met Brigadier-General Critchley, who introduced them to Sir William Gentle. Between them they raised £22,000, and like the American 'International Greyhound Racing Association' (or the I.G.R.A.), they launched the Greyhound Racing Association holding the first British meeting at Manchester's Belle Vue Stadium. The industry was successful in cities and towns throughout the UK – by the end of 1927, there were forty tracks operating.
Middle-class reformers were outraged, and the working-class delighted, with the emergence in the late-1920s of Greyhound racing as an entertaining new sport and betting opportunity. At first it seemed modern, glamorous, and American, but the middle class lost interest when working-class audiences took over. The working class appreciated the nearby urban locations of the tracks and the evening times of the meetings. Betting has always been a key ingredient of greyhound racing, both through on-course bookmakers and the totalisator, first introduced in 1930. Like horse racing, it is popular to bet on the greyhound races as a form of parimutuel betting.
Greyhound racing enjoyed its highest UK attendances just after the Second World War—for example, attendances during 1946 were estimated to be around 75 million based on an annual totalisator turnover of £196,431,430. The industry experienced a decline beginning in the early 1960s, after the 1960 UK Betting and Gaming Act permitted off-course cash betting. Sponsorship, limited television coverage, and the later abolition of on-course betting tax have partially offset this decline.
Today.
Commercial greyhound racing is characterized by several criteria (varying depending on country) and can include legalized gambling, the existence of a regulatory structure, the physical presence of racetracks, whether the host state or subdivision shares in any gambling proceeds, fees charged by host locations, the use of professional racing kennels, the number of dogs participating in races, the existence of an official racing code, and membership in a greyhound racing federation or trade association.
In addition to the eight countries where commercial greyhound racing exists, in at least twenty-one countries dog racing occurs, but has not yet reached a commercial stage.
Medical care.
The medical care of a racing greyhound is primarily the responsibility of the trainer while in training. All tracks in the United Kingdom have to have a veterinary surgeon and veterinary room facilities on site during racing. The greyhounds require annual vaccination against distemper, infectious canine hepatitis, parvovirus, leptospirosis, and a vaccination to minimize outbreaks of diseases such as kennel cough. All greyhounds in the UK must pass a pre-race veterinary inspection before being allowed to take part in that race.
The racing industry (in several countries) actively works to prevent the spread of doping cases. Attempts are being made to recover urine samples from all greyhounds in a race, not just the winners. Greyhounds from which samples cannot be obtained for a certain number of consecutive races are subject to being ruled off the track in some countries. Violators are subject to criminal penalties and loss of their racing licenses by state gaming commissions and a permanent ban from the National Greyhound Association. The trainer of the greyhound is at all times the "absolute insurer" of the condition of the animal. The trainer is responsible for any positive test regardless of how the banned substance has entered the greyhound's system.
Retirement.
Generally, a greyhound's career will end between the ages of four and six – after the dog can no longer race, or possibly when it is no longer competitive. The best dogs are kept for breeding and there are industry-associated adoption groups and rescue groups that work to obtain retired racing greyhounds and place them as pets. In the United Kingdom, the Greyhound Board of Great Britain (GBGB) have introduced measures to locate where racing greyhounds reside after they have retired from racing and as from 2017 records have been available to the public. There have been isolated cases of controversy, such as greyhounds sold to research labs during 2013.
Several organizations, such as British Greyhounds Retired Database, Greyhound Rescue West of England, Birmingham Greyhound Protection, GAGAH, Adopt-a-Greyhound and Greyhound Pets of America, and the Retired Greyhound Trust try to ensure that as many of the dogs as possible are adopted. Some of these groups also advocate better treatment of the dogs while at the track and/or the end of racing for profit. In recent years the racing industry has made significant progress in establishing programs for the adoption of retired racers. In addition to actively cooperating with private adoption groups throughout the country, many race tracks have established their own adoption programs at various tracks.
By country.
Australia.
Greyhounds Australasia was formed in 1937 (as the Australian and New Zealand Greyhound Association) and consists of governing bodies in Australian states and New Zealand, which regulate greyhound welfare and living conditions. Most racing authorities in Australia have organized and funded Greyhound Adoption arms, which house dozens of greyhounds a month, as well as partly supporting private volunteer organisations.
Each Australian state and territory has a governing greyhound racing body. In recent years racing in New South Wales has been subject to scrutinisation that led to a bill being passed through the government of the state New South Wales in 2016, banning greyhound racing from the middle of 2017 but the ban was reversed in late 2016, albeit with several new restrictions on the industry.
Ireland.
Greyhound racing is a popular industry in Ireland with the majority of tracks falling under the control of the Irish Greyhound Board (IGB) which is a commercial semi-state body and reports to the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. The vast majority of greyhounds racing in the UK are imported from Irish breeders (estimated 90%).
In the greyhound industry Northern Irish tracks are considered to be in the category of Irish greyhound racing and the results are published by the IGB. They do not come under the control of the Greyhound Board of Great Britain.
An independent 2014 review of the Irish Greyhound Board criticized the body's corporate governance, its handling of animal welfare issues, and poor financial performance which has been somewhat addressed with a new 'Strategic Plan 2018-2022'.
Mexico.
There is one greyhound racing track in Mexico. It is part of the Caliente Casino in Tijuana.
New Zealand.
Racing in New Zealand is governed by the New Zealand Racing Board (NZRB) in accordance with the Racing Act 2003.
United Kingdom.
Greyhound racing is a popular industry in Great Britain with attendances at around 3.2 million at over 5,750 meetings in 2007. As of 2020, there are 21 registered stadiums regulated by the Greyhound Board of Great Britain and accredited by UKAS. There are an additional four independent tracks in Britain. They all use a parimutuel betting tote system and on-course betting.
On 24 July 1926, the first oval track greyhound race took place at Belle Vue Stadium. This marked the first modern greyhound race in Great Britain. Greyhound racing as a whole in the UK peaked in 1946, but has been in decline since the opening of betting shops in 1961, despite a small revival of popularity in the late 1980s.
United States.
In the United States, greyhound racing is governed by state or local law. Greyhound care is regulated by the National Association of State of Racing Commissions and the American Greyhound Council (AGC). The AGC is jointly run by the National Greyhound Association. The states of Arkansas and West Virginia have active year-round racing industries. Iowa has a seasonal greyhound racing season from March until October. Fifteen states without live racing allow simulcast betting on greyhound races in other states. Between 2001 and 2011, the total amount gambled on greyhound racing nationwide declined by 67%.


5. Liga (Slovakia)

The 5. Liga is the fifth-tier football league of Slovakia. It currently consists of 16 groups.
Bratislava region:
ZsFZ:
SsFZ:
VsFZ:


Phil Moss

Phil Moss (born 5 October 1971) is an English-born Australian association football manager and former player who was most recently assistant coach of Sydney FC.
Early life.
Moss was born in London, England to Jewish parents and arrived in Australia as a child. His younger brother, Jonathan later became a first-class cricketer.
He attended Sydney Church of England Grammar School from 1984–1989.
Career.
Playing career.
Moss came through the ranks at Manly United before making his first grade debut at 17, and enjoyed a season at the Central Coast Coasties in 1997, ironically alongside his new colleague, in Mariners Head of Sports Science Andrew Clark. Moss then made his mark in the old National Soccer League under Graham Arnold as a defender come midfielder at Northern Spirit via a short spell at Eastern Suburbs, before ultimately returning to his old stomping ground.
Moss represented Australia in football at the 1997 Maccabiah Games. At the games opening ceremony a bridge he was about to step onto collapsed, killing several members of the Australian team and injuring a number of others including his brother Jonathan.
Coaching career.
At Cromer Park, Moss was player coach briefly before taking the reins as Head Coach, and steering the club toward the NSW Premier League.
Before entering as a coach at State League level, Phil had coached Dee Why Football Club in 1996, who were at the time a Premier League team in the Manly Warringah Football Association competition. It was here that he made his mark winning the Grand Final, beating Pittwater RSL (2-1), winning the MWFA Cup (knockout competition), then winning the MWFA sixaside competition and even taking the team to defeat Manly United's first grade squad in an exhibition match on Cromer Park's number one field.
Moss served for two years as an assistant coach with the Olyroos. He assisted Graham Arnold during the successful qualification campaign for the 2008 Beijing Olympics with the Olyroos.
After serving served as Graham Arnold's assistant at the Mariners from July 2010, Moss was appointed the new manager of the Central Coast Mariners on 14 November 2013. He succeeded Graham Arnold, who was signed by J.League team Vegalta Sendai. Prior to his appointment, Moss had held the assistant coaching role at the Mariners for three seasons; over this time the club won one championship, one premiership and made the grand final in two of the three seasons of his tenure.
Under Moss, the Mariners managed third-placed finish in the A-League. After defeating Adelaide United in the elimination finals, the Mariners were eventually eliminated by the Western Sydney Wanderers in the semi-finals.
On 6 March 2015, Moss was sacked by the Mariners.
Moss later took legal action against the Mariners on the basis of wrongful dismissal, having been dismissed just seven months into a three-year contract, with Moss claiming the balance of his $150,000 salary plus breach-of-contract damages. He eventually received approximately $500,000 from the Mariners; this sum is believed to be the biggest payout over a coach's sacking in A-League history.
Moss joined Sydney FC as assistant coach in June 2017. He left in June 2018.


Aaron Liffchak

Aaron Liffchak (born 18 June 1985), London is a rugby union footballer who previously played at prop for Saracens, London Welsh and London Scottish. He also represented England Students and played for England at Under 18 and Under 16 levels.
Early life.
Liffchak was born on 18 June 1985 and attended Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School for Boys, Barnet playing both for the school and for several representative sides including England at both under 18 and under 16 level. He then combined participation in the Saracens academy system with studying at the University of Hertfordshire, who he represented while playing for England Students.
Playing career.
Saracens 2002–2007.
Liffchak joined the Saracens Academy system directly from school and having developed through the Saracens Academy system, he began to take part in the main squad in the 2004–05 season, taking part in Saracens 'A' team sides.
The following season saw Liffchak make his first team debut against London Irish on 9 October 2005, one of four first team outings.
The 2006–07 season saw Liffchak make his Guinness Premiership debut amongst six first team appearances in all competitions.
The 2007–08 season has seen Liffchak making further first team appearances.
London Welsh 2007–2009.
Liffchak joined London Welsh on loan in November 2007 and signed a contract with them to the end of the 2008/09 season.
London Scottish 2011–2018.
Liffchak joined London Scottish in July 2011 and signed a contract with them to the end of the 2012/13 season.
, Liffchak was working as Assistant Director of Sport and Director of Rugby at Mill Hill School.


Loughborough Brush F.C.


New Zealand National Hockey League

The New Zealand National Hockey League, known also by the sponsored name Ford National Hockey League, was the New Zealand's national field hockey championship.
The competition features players from New Zealand's national hockey teams, the Black Sticks Men and Women.
The most recent champions are Capital in the men's tournament, and North Harbour in the women's.
History.
The first season of both the men's and women's Ford National Hockey League took place in 2000, and has been held annually since. The most successful team in both the men's and women's competition is Auckland, with both teams having won 5 titles apiece.
2019 will mark the end of the Ford NHL, with Hockey New Zealand restructuring the tournament into the National Hockey Championship in 2020.
Men's Tournament.
Men's Teams.
The following are the men's teams at the 2019 National Hockey League:
Women's Tournament.
Women's Teams.
The following are the women's teams at the 2017 National Hockey League:


Western Division GAA Board

The Western Divisional Board of the North American Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) colloquially San Francisco GAA is the governing body of hurling, camogie, and Gaelic football in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is affiliated to the North American Board.
Since its inception, its games have been played at various venues throughout the city of San Francisco on municipal fields rented from the city, such as Beach Chalet playing fields in Golden Gate Park, and Boxer Stadium at Balboa Park. From 2009 onward, its games were held at Páirc na nGael, a facility that was renovated and leased by the GAA on Treasure Island.
The playing season runs from mid-April until late August. Local San Francisco championship winners advance to the NACB Playoffs that take place over Labor Day weekend every year. The playoffs rotate between cities like Chicago, Boston, Denver, Philadelphia and San Francisco. They were previously held in San Francisco in 1993, 1997, and 2001. The Continental Youth Championships return to San Francisco in 2009 and will be played at Páirc na nGael, as will the adult national finals in 2010.
Clubs.
Men's Football
Hurling
Ladies Football
Camogie
Youth
Páirc na nGael.
Páirc na nGael was opened on Sunday, December 7, 2008 by GAA President Nickey Brennan prior to the Vodafone GAA All-Star football game starring the top inter-county Gaelic footballers in Ireland. It contains three regulation sized Gaelic fields for hurling and football spanning covering the space of three city blocks. Páirc na nÓg is the name of the youth field further to the east on the island adjacent to the home grounds of the Golden Gate Rugby Club. Páirc na nGael's development was funded by financial and labor donations from the Irish community in San Francisco, and a donation from the GAA in Ireland. A disused adjacent elementary school building was later remodeled to become a community centre and function room and funding for this was secured from the Irish Government.


2003 24 Hours of Le Mans

The 71st 24 Hours of Le Mans () was an automobile endurance race held for Le Mans Prototype and Grand Touring cars from 14 to 15 June 2003 at the Circuit de la Sarthe at Le Mans, France before approximately 220,000 people. It was the 71st edition of the 24 Hour race, as organised by the automotive group, the Automobile Club de l'Ouest (ACO) since 1923. Unlike other events, it was not a part of any endurance motor racing championship. A test day was held seven weeks prior to the race on 4 May.
A Bentley Speed 8 shared by Dane Tom Kristensen, Italian Rinaldo Capello and Englishman Guy Smith started from the pole position after Kristensen set the fastest overall lap time in the second qualifying session. The team won the race, two laps ahead of the sister Bentley of Mark Blundell, David Brabham and Johnny Herbert in second place. It was Capello and Smith's first Le Mans victory and Kristensen's fifth. This was the sixth overall victory for Bentley, and their first since the 1930 edition. The overall podium was completed by Champion Racing's Audi R8 of JJ Lehto, Emanuele Pirro and Stefan Johansson, which won the Le Mans Prototype 900 (LMP900) category from Audi Sport Japan Team Goh's entry driven by Seiji Ara, Jan Magnussen and Marco Werner.
A Noël del Bello Racing Reynard 2KQ-LM driven by Jean-Luc Maury-Laribière, Christophe Pillon and Didier André won the Le Mans Prototype 675 (LMP675) class, 32 laps ahead of the second-placed RN Motorsport DBA4 03S-Zytek car of John Nielsen, Casper Elgaard and Hayanari Shimoda. The Veloqx Prodrive Racing team of Jamie Davies, Tomáš Enge, Peter Kox won the Le Mans Grand Touring Sport (LMGTS) class in a Ferrari 550-GTS Maranello, securing Ferrari its first GT win since the 1981 race. Corvette Racing completed the category podium positions a further ten laps behind in second and third with their two C5-Rs. Porsche took the first six positions in the Le Mans Grand Touring (LMGT) category with an Alex Job Racing (AJR) 911-GT3 RS of Sascha Maassen, Emmanuel Collard and Lucas Luhr winning on the team's debut appearance at Le Mans.
Background and regulation changes.
The 2003 24 Hours of Le Mans was the 71st edition of the race and took place at the Circuit de la Sarthe from 14 to 15 June. The automotive journalist Charles Faroux proposed the race to Georges Durand, the president of the Automobile Club de l'Ouest (ACO), and the industrialist Emile Coquile for a test of vehicle reliability and fuel-efficiency, which was first held in 1923. The 24 Hours of Le Mans is considered one of the world's most prestigious motor races and is part of the Triple Crown of Motorsport.
After the 2002 race, the ACO reduced the overall amount of horsepower for the Le Mans Grand Touring Prototype (LMGTP), Le Mans Prototype 900 (LMP900), Le Mans Prototype 675 (LMP675), Le Mans Grand Touring Sports (LMGTS) and LMGT (Le Mans Grand Touring) categories by 10 per cent. It allowed carbon fibre chassis to be introduced in the LMGTS class and permitted original automatic and semi-automatic gearboxes to be retained in a homologated road vehicle entered in the LMGTS and LMGT categories. Air restrictors were installed on every engine and boost pressures were altered in an attempt to create a parity of performance within all four categories. Drivers were told at a public meeting that they were barred from putting two wheels of a car over the white line denoting the boundaries of the circuit and onto the kerbing; otherwise, they would incur a stop-and-go penalty that would increase in severity if the transgression was repeated.
Entries.
The ACO received 72 applications (31 for the Prototype classes and 41 for the Grand Touring categories) by the deadline for entries on 20 February 2003. It granted 50 invitations to the race and entries were divided between the LMP900, LMGTP, LMP675, LMGTS and LMGT classes.
Automatic entries.
Six automatic entry invitations were earned by teams of two cars that won their class in the 2002 24 Hours of Le Mans or in the 2002 American Le Mans Series (ALMS) season-closing round, the Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta, designated a qualifying race by the ACO as part of an agreement with the ALMS. As entries were designated for teams, the squads were not allowed to change their cars from the previous year to the next. They were permitted to change category provided there was no change in the make of car and the ACO consented to the switch. The teams who received an automatic entry based on victory in their class at the 2002 24 Hours of Le Mans were Audi Sport Team Joest in both of the LMP categories, Corvette Racing for the LMGTS class and The Racer's Group (TRG) in the LMGT category. Audi Sport North America and Corvette also earned berths for securing victories in their respective classes at the Petit Le Mans and Alex Job Racing in the LMGT category. However, Audi chose not to accept its automatic invitations after the manufacturer announced the withdrawal of its factory operations and forwent its defense of the overall victory.
Entry list.
On 25 March 2003, the selection committee of the ACO announced the full 50-car entry list for Le Mans, plus six reserves. The field was composed of an equal number of Prototype and GT cars, representing 22 different makes of car (14 in the GT classes and 8 in the Prototype categories). After a protest was raised by Larbre Compétition owner Jack Leconte and alpine skier Luc Alphand over their respective teams being allocated one entry, Michel Cosson, the president of the ACO, said that entries selected appeared to be of high quality and the automotive group wanted the field to be heterogeneous. He stated it was not the right way to select entries for the race, but he disliked those who sought to spoil the excitement of the event.
Bio-ethanol car.
Team Nasamax, an operation based in Sittingbourne, England, entered the first renewable-fuelled sports prototype racing car at the Le Mans event to increase awareness of renewable fuels. The car, called the Reynard 01Q, ran a Cosworth V8 turbocharged engine on bio-ethanol fuel, which does not release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere because it is produced from crops. The car's fuel systems and inlet air system were modified to allow for the efficient combustion of fuel. An alternative exhaust system was built and the housing and vanes on the turbocharger were altered.
Testing.
A mandatory pre-Le Mans testing day split into two daytime sessions of four hours each was held at the circuit on 4 May, involving all 50 entries as well as all six reserve cars. The weather was clear and dry. Bentley was fastest with a lap of 3 minutes, 34.820 seconds set by Tom Kristensen in the 7 Speed 8 in the final minutes of testing. Jan Magnussen was the fastest of the privateer Audi R8s for Team Goh in second place and the No. 7 Bentley was third. The Audi Sport UK and the Champion Racing entries were fourth and fifth. Late in testing, Frank Biela lost control on a patch of oil laid by a Pagani Zonda at the Porsche Curves, crashing into a barrier at and damaging the right-rear corner of the Audi Sport UK car. The No. 26 RN Motorsport DBA4 03S-Zytek car led in LMP675 with a 3 minutes, 47.708 seconds lap, followed by the No. 29 Noël del Bello Racing Reynard 2KQ-LM and the No. 27 Intersport Racing MG-Lola EX257vehicles. Tomáš Enge's No. 88 Prodrive Ferrari 550-GTS Maranello recorded the fastest lap in LMGTS at 3 minutes, 57.180 seconds, the sister No. 80 car of Kelvin Burt placed second and Jérôme Policand completed a top-three sweep of Ferraris in the class in the No. 72 Luc Alphand Aventures entry. Jörg Bergmeister's No. 81 TRG Porsche 911 GT3-RS led the LMGT category at 4 minutes, 8.636 seconds and the No. 93 Alex Job Racing (AJR) car of Sascha Maassen was second.
Qualifying.
Eight hours of qualifying divided into four two-hour sessions were available to all the entrants on 11 and 12 June. During the sessions, all entrants were required to set a time within 110 per cent of the fastest lap set by the fastest vehicle in each of the four categories to qualify for the race. The weather was overcast and humid, and teams focused on car setup. Bentley led early on with a flying lap from Mark Blundell's No. 8 car, followed by Kristensen and Johnny Herbert, who went faster. Ultimately, Blundell went to the top with a lap of 3 minutes, 35.321 seconds. Kristensen's No. 7 vehicle was a quarter of a second slower in second and Jan Magnussen was the fastest Audi privateer in third. Jan Lammers' No. 15 Racing for Holland Dome S101 improved on each of his timed laps to finish fourth, and JJ Lehto of Champion Racing was fifth. John Nielsen carried RN Motorsport's DBA4 03S-Zytek car to provisional pole position in LMP675 with a time of 3 minutes, 45.243 seconds, eight seconds ahead of the Intersport and Automotive Durango SRL teams. A lap of 3 minutes, 55.613 seconds set with five minutes to go put Oliver Gavin's No. 50 Chevrolet Corvette C5-R at the top of the LMGTS category, demoting Enge's Prodrive Ferrari to second. Johnny O'Connell's No. 53 car was third after setting a lap in the final ten minutes. AJR's Porsche of Maassen topped the timing charts in LMGT, almost three seconds faster than Timo Bernhard's TRG car and another seven-tenths ahead of Marc Lieb's No. 87 Orbit entry. Separate spins from Chris McMurry, Kevin Buckler, Peter Kox and Andrew Bagnall did not disrupt the session.
Wednesday night's qualifying session was held with lower asphalt temperatures and teams performed scheduled simulation runs to see how their cars would behave on heavy fuel loads and worn tyres under darkness in its final 75 minutes. A lack of slower traffic and better grip allowed Kristensen to displace Blundell as the fastest overall and twice improve the overall fastest lap to 3 minutes, 32.843 seconds, followed by David Brabham's sister No. 8 Bentley in second and Biela's No. 10 Audi third. Emanuele Pirro put the No. 6 Audi fourth as Lammers fell to fifth. Marco Werner's Team Goh Audi ran into a gravel trap; he continued driving. In LMP675, Nielsen improved the RN Motorsport Zytek car's lap by a second to 3 minutes, 44.343 and increased its advantage over the Intersport team to almost ten seconds. 75 minutes into the session, the Team Bucknum Racing Pilbeam-JPX MP91 car had an engine fault at Indianapolis corner and laid oil on the track. Marshals took 20 minutes to dry the spilled oil and qualifying resumed. Enge's Prodrive Ferrari led from the start in the LMGTS class. He improved on Corvette Racing's lap from the first session to a 3 minutes, 53.278 seconds. Maassen in the AJR Porsche remained at the top of the LMGT category after a session-long battle with Bernhard. Bagnall lost control of the Seikel Motorsport Porsche and got beached in a gravel trap. David Warnock's PK Sport car sustained track rod damage in a collision with a Prototype in the Dunlop Chicane.
Thursday's first qualifying session was stopped after seven minutes because of an accident. Jamie Campbell-Walter spun a Lister Storm LMP car after hitting a bump on the exit of the Dunlop Esses. He crashed backwards against a left-hand side barrier at the Dunlop Curve at . The impact was measured at , and marshals and safety teams spent ten minutes extricating Campbell-Walter from the car, removing a section of carbon fibre bodywork trapping his legs and put him into an ambulance. The Lister Storm LMP car was later withdrawn due to a lack of spare parts. Later, Ian Khan's Thierry Perrier Porsche engine failed and laid oil on the circuit at the Dunlop Chicane. Robin Liddell was caught out, hit the oil and spun into a gravel trap. At the same time, Roland Bervillé spun, hit a barrier with his front-right hand corner and broke the rear wing on the T2M Motorsport car, temporarily stopping the session. Herbert's No. 8 Bentley led the session with a lap of 3 minutes, 35.126 seconds but remained second on the provisional grid. Magnussen used lower air temperatures to improve the Team Goh Audi's lap and pass Lammers for third at the close of the session. Lehto bettered the Champion Racing's entry to stay fourth. Although the RN Motorsport Zytek car did not better its lap, it remained on provisional pole in LMP675, while the Intersport Lola vehicle improved by more than five seconds to remain in second in class. Enge's lap from the second session kept him at the top of LMGTS as Darren Turner in the sister Prodrive Ferrari overtook the No. 50 Corvette for second. AJR continued to lead the LMGT class due to its lap from the previous day.
The final session was used to test cars under race conditions and saw more incidents. Thomas Erdos in the Graham Nash Motorsport Saleen S7-R stopped on his out-lap in a gravel trap at the Dunlop Chicane, requiring recovery from trackside marshals. Gavin Pickering's Rachel Welter WR-Peugeot car stopped at the exit of the pit lane with bodywork flailing from it. Kristensen allowed his co-drivers Rinaldo Capello and Guy Smith to become familiar with the No. 7 Bentley, which led the session and secured the pole position through Kristensen's lap from the second session. Herbert improved the sister No. 8 Bentley's lap on his second attempt by one-tenth of a second; it remained in second overall due to slower traffic delaying Herbert. Audi were unable to challenge but Biela improved the Audi Sport UK team's fastest lap to take third and Magnussen qualified the Team Goh car fifth; they were separated by Lammers' Racing for Holland Dome car. Intersport's MG-Lola car went faster but it was not fast enough to displace the RN Motorsport Zytek car, which was impaired by a broken throttle linkage, from the top of the LMP675 category and was two seconds slower. The GT categories remained mostly the same with the second session lap of Enge's No. 88 Prodrive Ferrari in LMGTS class again not being improved upon as his teammate Turner moved to within four-tenths of a second. Porsche took the first three positions in the LMGT category, with Lucas Luhr's AJR car resetting the category lap record to a 4 minutes, 6.984 seconds and Bernhard's TRG entry was four-hundredths of a seconds behind in second.
Qualifying results.
Pole position winners in each class are indicated in bold The fastest time set by each entry is denoted in gray.
Notes:
Warm-up.
The drivers took to the track at 09:00 Central European Summer Time () for a 45-minute warm-up session in overcast and cool weather. Bentley continued to be fastest overall as Blundell's No. 8 car recorded a lap of 3 minutes, 35.319 seconds. He was 2.615 seconds faster than the No. 7 Bentley in second place. The Audi Sport UK R8 was third, Champion Racing was fourth and the Racing for Holland Home car rounded out the top five. RN Motorsport's Zytek car continued to lead in LMP675, as the No. 50 Corvette led the LMGTS field and the TRG Porsche led in LMGT. Shortly after the session commenced, Romain Dumas' Team Nasamax Reynard had an ignition problem caused by a heat leak at the right of the engine's cylinder bank, significantly damaging its engine compartment and required a significant change of car components.
Race.
Start.
Thunderstorms were forecast, and despite an earlier heavy rain shower, the weather at the start of the race was clear. The air temperature approached . Approximately 220,000 people attended the event. The two Bentley Speed 8s underwent checks to their ride heights, Ray Mallock rectified a faulty gearbox that leaked oil in the No. 64 Saleen S7-R, and Kondo Racing replaced the No. 9 Dome S101's V8 engine after a water leak. The French tricolour was waved by the founder of the ALMS Don Panoz at 16:00 Central European Summer Time to signal the start of the race, led by the starting pole sitter Capello's No. 7 Bentley. 49 cars planned to take the start following the withdrawal of the Lister Storm LMP, but the No. 25 Gerard Welter WR LMP02 was in the pit lane with a mechanical fault. Capello maintained the lead and Lammers' Racing for Holland car passed Magnussen's Team Goh Audi for third. At the end of the first lap, Gavin brought the No. 50 Corvette into the pit lane with a throttle linkage problem that lost the car 26 minutes and dropped it to last overall. Lammers fell from second to sixth when the three privateer Audis passed him as Bentley quickly pulled away from the rest of the field. Herbert briefly took the lead from Capello before making the No. 8 Bentley's first pit stop of the event on lap 10. Meanwhile, Intersport's Lola-MG vehicle moved to the front of LMP675 after the RN Motorsport Zytek developed car trouble and AJR led the LMGT category.
The first hour of the race ended with the first crash as the No. 91 TVR Tuscan T400R of Richard Stanton was hit from behind by a Gerard Walter WR LMP02 car in the Porsche Curves, sending him into the outside concrete barrier at the exit to the complex. The impact broke the Tuscan's right-rear suspension, stranding Stanton at the complex of turns. The car was retired after repairs made to its differential by Stanton to make it drive-able for a return to the pit lane proved unsuccessful. Not long after, Capello locked the No. 7 Bentley's brakes going into the right-hand Mulsanne Corner and he slowed to stop the car from spinning into a gravel trap. He held off Herbert in a large amount of slower traffic until Herbert passed him to retake the lead on the 23rd lap. Kristensen relieved Capello in the No. 7 Bentley and retook the overall lead from Lehto's Audi R8 three laps later. Brabham's sister No. 8 car was called into the pit lane to have a loose door frame fixed in a ten-second stop. Casper Elgaard had been the fastest driver in LMP675 at the time, returning the RN Motorsport Zytek to the lead of the class. Audi Sport UK instructed Birla to enter the pit lane on lap 28. He was prevented from doing so by a Panoz prototype vehicle to his right and was required to complete an additional lap. The R8 slowed with a lack of fuel through Mulsanne Corner and it was retired at the side of the track after Biela's attempt to weave and keep the car running on its starter failed.
In the third hour, Kristensen almost made contact with Jean-Marc Gounon's Courage Compétition Judd exiting the pit lane. Beppe Gabbiani's Racing for Holland car hit Kelly Collins' No. 50 Corvette at Arnage corner and both cars spun. Brabham's No. 8 Bentley passed Werner's Team Goh Audi R8 for second at the Dunlop Curve though Werner used slower traffic to retake the position. Brabham returned to second when Werner entered the pit lane as the RN Motorsport Zytek car lost the lead of the LMP675 class to Noël del Bello Racing's Reynard car of Didier André as its alternator was changed. Safety cars were deployed after 3 hours and 40 minutes to slow the race because oil was laid by an unknown car between the Mulsanne and Indianapolis turns. This prompted several cars to make pit stops and brought much of the field closer. In the main LMP categories, the safety cars separated the field, leaving the Bentleys more than 2 minutes and 17 seconds of each other, 50 seconds ahead of Werner's Team Goh Audi and another 50 seconds in front of Stefan Johansson's Champion Racing car. The lead of LMGT changed as Emmanuel Collard's AJR Porsche was forced into the pit lane with a malfunctioning gearshift, allowing Buckler's TRG vehicle to take the category lead until Bernhard made an unscheduled pit stop to replace a heavily slipping clutch. The No. 88 Prodrive Ferrari of Jamie Davies came to the pit lane for a two-minute stop to rectify a water leak, ceding the lead to the sister No. 80 car of Kelvin Burt.
Night.
As night fell, the lead of the LMP675 category switched from the No. 29 Noël del Bello Racing's Reynard vehicle to the Intersport Racing MG-Lola car, which later had an anxious moment when driver Duncan Dayton spun at the PlayStation chicane. He managed to retain the lead in the class. Soon after, Tom Coronel's St Team Orange Spyker C8 Double-12R stopped at the entry to the pit lane with a clutch failure. He exited the car to push it beyond a white line denoting where his pit crew could provide assistance. Coronel was then told by a trackside marshal that he was not permitted to push the car any further and it dropped out of reach of completing the laps necessary for classification. At the front of the field, the gap between Smith and Capello's No. 7 Bentley and Blundell and Herbert's sister No. 8 car was 33 seconds. Third position was the Champion Racing Audi R8 of Pirro and Seiji Ara's Team Goh entry was fourth. The LMGTS category was a close battle between the Prodrive pair of Kox and Anthony Davidson, as both cars set next to identical lap times during the seventh hour. Ron Fellows' No. 53 Corvette equalled their pace until the Ferraris responded by increasing their speed. In the eighth hour, Davidson spun into a gravel trap at the PlayStation chicane. The resulting pit stop to change the No. 80 Prodrive Ferrari's tyres and a precautionary check lost Davidson two laps and third place in LMGTS to Fellows.
Eighth place overall became a multi-car battle between David Saelens' Panoz, the Courage Compétition of Gounon and Christophe Tinseau's Riley & Scott Mk III C-Ford; all three drivers were within 20 seconds of each other. Tinseau bowed out of the battle after a routine pit stop, leaving Saelens and Gounon 18 seconds apart. On lap 116, Herbert's No. 8 Bentley made a pit stop; a miscommunication between the mechanic holding a jack and a rear tyre fitter lost him ten seconds. 19 laps later, Lammers' Racing for Holland car lowered a 15-second gap through its faster pace to pass Olivier Beretta's Riley & Scott Ford in the final third of the lap for fifth overall. Soon after, Beretta picked up a puncture from hitting debris on the dirty side of the Mulsanne Straight at and slowed en route to the pit lane. The second-place car in the LMGTS category, the No. 50 Corvette of Fellows, was hindered by a suspected alternator belt failure and entered the pit lane. Mechanics found it was a broken pulley operating the vehicle's oil pump. They replaced the support and the battery, enabling Fellows to rejoin the circuit fourth in class. Kristensen's No. 7 Bentley had a 1-minute and 40-second pit stop to have minor damage at the front of the car repaired; he retained the overall lead over Brabham's sister No. 8 car. Luhr's No. 83 AJR Porsche succumbed to raised oil and water temperatures caused by a sharp rock penetrating its radiator. It spent 24 minutes and five laps having its radiator replaced and Luhr ceded the LMGT class lead to Kazuyuki Nishizawa's No. 77 Team Taisan Advan car.
Magnussen spun at the Ford chicane and damaged the front suspension on Team Goh's Audi R8. He drove the car to the pit lane and mechanics took 8 minutes and 53 seconds to make repairs. The car rejoined in fourth place with Werner driving. Noël del Bello Racing had an anxious moment when driver Jean-Luc Maury-Laribière spun into a gravel trap at the Dunlop Curves. He recovered with assistance from trackside marshals without losing the LMP675 class lead. Soheil Ayari's No. 18 Courage vehicle overtook Scott Maxwell's No. 12 Panoz LMP01 Evo car for ninth overall and pulled away. All three of the top cars in LMGT were within a lap of each other, led by Johnny Mowlem's No. 94 Risi Competizione Ferrari after Team Taisan Advan made a pit stop to replace the driver's-side door. Mowlem held it until his car's engine failed on the Mulsanne Straight and ceded the lead of the class to Lieb's Orbit Porsche. Werner's Team Goh Audi R8 twice drove into its garage for repairs to its engine control unit and lost 10 minutes and 14 seconds. Werner rejoined 3 minutes and 20 seconds in front of Andy Wallace's No. 15 Racing for Holland car. As the race approached its halfway point, the No. 7 Bentley of Smith lapped two to five seconds faster than Blundell's No. 8 car and increased the vehicle's overall lead to 1 minute and 20 seconds.
Morning to early afternoon.
In the 12th hour, the second-placed car in LMGTS, Davidson's No. 80 Prodrive Ferrari had a right-front wheel bearing fault at and was sent into a barrier at the end of the Mulsanne Straight. He extricated himself from the car and was tended to by trackside marshals. Davidson was transported by ambulance to the infield medical centre for circuit doctors to examine him. They found he had sustained bruising and a head concussion from hitting his head against a door; he was taken to Centre Hospitalier Le Mans for a brain scan. The Ferrari's retirement elevated the No. 50 Corvette C5-R of Gavin to second in LMGTS. Prodrive asked Kox in the No. 88 Ferrari to enter the pit lane for a precautionary brake check. Not long after, a low voltage indicator warning and no radio communication to the No. 8 Bentley's pit stall prompted Blundell to make a pit stop for a replacement battery, losing the car two laps to the sister No. 7 entry. The lead of LMGT continued to be closely fought with the No. 93 AJR Porsche heading the field until a front splitter problem forced it into the pit lane for four minutes, giving the position to Lieb's Orbit vehicle. Because of the mechanical attrition affecting the Porsche 996s in the LMGT category, only two Porsches remained in contention for a victory and Ferrari was unable to challenge the marque. Front suspension problems for the No. 12 Panoz car and an engine failure curtailing the No. 4 Riley & Scott Mk III C's race promoted the No. 88 Prodrive Ferrari to tenth overall.
Luhr and Maashen's No. 93 AJR Porsche was able to fight with Lieb and later Leo Hindery's No. 87 Orbit car and eventually retake the lead of the LMGT category it had lost when it entered the pit lane for car repairs. An hour and 20 minutes later, Lammers picked up a left-rear puncture, losing control of the No. 15 Racing For Holland car under braking. He spun several times backwards into a gravel trap at Indianapolis corner and damaged a rear wheel. The car was pushed back onto the circuit by track marshals and Lammers drove to the pit lane to repair the damage. At the same time, Gunnar Jeannette's No. 11 Panoz LMP01 Evo car locked up and made light contact with the tyre barrier at Arnage corner. Further up the field, Brabham made an unscheduled pit stop in the No. 8 Bentley to undergo a second battery replacement. The change took 3 minutes, 32 seconds and the car returned to the race in second overall. Not long after Collins' No. 50 Corvette bowed out of the battle for the LMGTS lead to have its transmission bearing replaced and it was completed in 15 minutes. Lehto's Champion Racing R8 could not take advantage of the No. 8 Bentley's mechanical impairments and lost one additional lap after a spin. At the start of the 18th hour, Saelens in the No. 12 Panoz car lost grip through Mulsanne corner and made left-front contact with a tyre barrier at high speed. Saelens was unhurt but the damage to the car forced its retirement.
The No. 93 AJR Porsche of Maassen entered the garage with loss of voltage corrected by changing the alternator in six minutes. Maassen returned to the track still leading the LMGT category. Soon after, Wallace's No. 15 Racing for Holland Dome had a flat battery that dropped the car from fifth to eighth overall. Gabbiani's sister No. 16 car had its front-left tyre delaminate and carbon fibre debris was launched from the car's front-left corner. Safety cars were required for the second time as the track needed cleaning and prompted several cars to make pit stops. Beretta's No. 11 Panoz car was the main beneficiary from the safety car period and he passed Jonathan Cochet's No. 13 Courage C60 vehicle on the Mulsanne Straight for fifth overall. Towards the end of the 20th hour, the LMP675 class leading Noël del Bello Reynard slowed with a misfiring engine but the car's 35-lap advantage kept it in the category lead. The No. 15 Racing for Holland car of John Bosch returned to seventh when Ayari's No. 18 Courage C60 began leaking fluids at its rear and entered the pit lane for a 22-minute repair. With the first four positions stable, attention focused on the battle for fifth place between the No. 11 Panoz LMP01 Evo and the No. 13 Courage C60 cars. The No. 99 XL Racing Ferrari of Gaël Lasoudier had an rear engine bay fire at the PlayStation Chicane, causing the deployment of the safety cars for the third time in the race.
Finish.
As the safety car period ended, Max Papis in the No. 11 Panoz LMP01 Evo car caught and passed Stéphan Grégoire's No. 13 Courage C60 vehicle at Tetre Rouge corner. Fellows overtook his Corvette Racing teammate Collins in the final third of the lap for second in LMGTS. Collins retook the position from Fellows two laps later until they made pit stops for fuel, tyres and a change of driver. O'Connell relieved Fellows and returned to second by having a faster stop than Andy Pilgrim. The No. 17 Pescarolo Courage 60 car of Jean-Christophe Boullion's had a flash fire when fuel ignited during a pit stop. An intervention from the team's mechanics to extinguish the fire allowed him to continue driving. The Champion Racing Audi of Johansson stalled during a pit stop for tyres, fuel and a driver switch with co-driver Pirro. The fault was rectified by replacing the car's battery at the right-hand corner of its cockpit. It rejoined the track still in third place and ahead of Ara's Team Goh Audi. Lammers' No. 15 Racing for Holland Dome car in seventh caught and overtook Gounon's No. 13 Courage Compétition C60 vehicle on the race's final lap to claim sixth overall for his team. In the meantime, Tristan Gommendy crashed at the Indianapolis corner. He drove the No. 16 Racing for Holland car into the pit lane to retire.
Unhindered in the final hours of the race, Smith took the chequered flag for the No. 7 Bentley, two laps ahead of the No. 8 Bentley of Brabham. Audi, in their first defeat at Le Mans since the 2000 edition, were a further three laps behind in third to win the LMP900 class with Champion Racing's R8 and Team Goh took fourth. It was Smith and Capello's first Le Mans victory and Kristensen's fifth. Kristensen became the first driver in history to win the 24 Hours of Le Mans four times in a row. He also equalled Derek Bell's record of five victories and was one behind Jacky Ickx's all-time record of six wins. It was Bentley's sixth overall Le Mans victory and its first since the 1930 race. Prodrive held their ten-lap lead in the LMGTS category, earning Enge, Kox and Davies their first class victories and the first for Ferrari in a GT class since the 1981 edition. Corvette Racing completed the class podium with the No. 50 ahead of the No. 53. Porsche took the first six places in the LMGT class with AJR taking the category win on the team's first visit to Le Mans. Orbit Racing and Thierry Perrier were the final two category podium finishers in second and third. Noël del Bello Racing, unchallenged since the night, were victorious in the LMP675 class, 31 laps ahead of the RN Motorsport Zytek and 84 laps in front of Rachel Welter's WR LMP01.
Race classification.
The minimum number of laps for classification (70 per cent of the overall winning car's race distance) was 264 laps. Class winners are denoted with bold.


Mok Gar

Mok Gar () is one of the five major family styles of Southern Chinese martial arts. It was developed by a Shaolin monk named Monk Mok Ta Shi () as an inheritance of the Southern Shaolin Fist in Guangdong province in China.
It gained fame three generations later, in the Qing Dynasty, with Mok Gin Kiu/Mo Qing Chiu/Mo Ching Chiao (莫清矯; also known as Mok Sau Cheung/ Mo Ta Chang) who learned the art from a monk named Wai Jen, and also had supposedly learned from a famous kicker, Choy Kao Yee. Mok's reputation was so high after defeating many other boxers that the style, formerly known as Southern Shaolin Quan, was renamed for the Mok family (Mok Gar). Mok Ching Kiu then taught the art to his son, Mok Ding Yue and three other students in which all four of them became their own distinct style of the art. Different generations through Guangdong boasted masters such as Mo Lin Ying, Mo Fifth Brother and Mo Ta Fen.
The Hung Gar lineage from Wong Fei Hung has influences of Mok Gar from his fourth wife Mok Kwai-lan, who after the death of Wong Fei Hung ran his medical clinic and school until her death many years later.
At present there are said to be two branches of Mok. The first is a direct lineage from Mok Qing Chiu and the other traces to Mak Shing Mo.
Techniques.
Mok Gar emphasizes clinch fighting techniques and also powerful low kicking techniques. Mok Gar fighters fight so close, it is said they fight chest to chest, cheek to cheek, breath to breath. Some of the kicks from this style include:
Guo Men Jiao (Pass the Gate Kick), Zhi Jie Ce Jiao (Direct Side Kick), Pao Jiao (Hurling Kick), She Jiao (Absorbing Kick).
Mok Gar training also includes a full range of weapons training. Special stances include Mu Ren Chan (Wooden Man Stance), and Pian Shen Ma (Deflecting Stance). Mok Gar techniques are based on simplicity and using maximum leverage. These techniques are used for a smaller, weaker person to combat someone who is bigger and stronger.
Some forms include Zhong Quan, Lau Gar Kuen, a "borrowed" form from the Lau Gar style, and Lian Tui Quan.


Miss England I

Miss England I was the name of the first of a series of speedboats used by Henry Segrave and Kaye Don to contest world water speed records in the 1920s and 1930s.
Design and construction.
"Miss England" was built for Henry Segrave in 1928, in an attempt to retrieve the Harmsworth Trophy from the American Gar Wood. Gar Wood's series of "Miss America" boats were using multiple high-powered aero-engines to establish an apparently unbeatable record. Segrave had already used multiple aero-engines in his land-speed record setting Sunbeam, but "Miss England" used a single Napier Lion engine and relied on an advanced planing hull design.
The hull was of an advanced lightweight construction, which some designers, including Gar Wood, regarded as too light and flexible. Wood made many sportsmanlike contributions to his competitor, particularly sharing his experience of propellor and rudder design - he wanted a close race with a worthy opponent.
Racing career.
"Miss England" raced successfully against Gar Wood's "Miss America VII" in Miami in 1929. It had been a successful trip for Segrave, having also taken the land speed record in "Golden Arrow", and he was knighted on his return.
A record for single-engined boats of was established. The racing success though was due to Segrave's brave driving and some mechanical problems for Miss America. However Miss England was always outclassed by the far more powerful and faster American boats.
Survival today.
"Miss England I" survives to this day and is on display in the Science Museum, London


Roliball

Roliball (Pinyin Tàijí Róulìqiú, Taiji Bailong Ball, “ball of the white dragon of taiji” – original Chinese name) is a kind of sport with a racket and ball through the net. Equipment consists of the racket with a silicone membrane and the rubber ball with a sand. The goal of the game is to land the ball on the opponent's side and prevent him from falling on your own half of the field. Rival in the game can be two players (multiplay single) or two pairs of players (pairs of the same sex - multiplay double, pairs of mixed sex - multiplay mixed).
Origin and development.
Roliball originated in 1991 in China, Shanxi Province, Jinzhong City. Initially it was developed as a method of rehabilitation of injured athletes. A new rehabilitation method was invented by the professor of physical culture and sports Bai Rong.
Since its inception and until the mid-2000s, roliball has developed mainly in China. During this period, the basic complexes of exercises with a racket and ball and the methodology of the training process were created.
The development of roliball in the other countries was facilitated by the creation of the European Association of taichi bailong ball (TBBA) in 2005, in Germany, by Xiaofei Sui, one of the pupils of professor Bai Rong. The main activity of the Association is the development of this kind of sport in the Europe countries, training of coaching staff, annual training courses, organization of the competitions.
The fastest rate of development of the roliball is in China, Hungary, Russia, Germany, Ukraine, the Netherlands, Portugal, Italy.
International Assembly of the Roliball (unofficial world championship) is held since 2012 every 2 years in the homeland of this sport in Jinzhong, China. In 2014, representatives from 11 countries took part in the competition, in 2016 - from 13 countries.
European Roliball Championship is held every 2 years since 2006 under the aegis of the TBBA.. It has been held 4 times in Germany (2006, 2009, 2011, 2013), 1 time in the Netherlands (2015) and 1 time in Russia (2017).
National Championships are held in Hungary two time a year since 2012 and in Russia biennially since 2016.
Rules of the game.
Dimensions of the site for the single game are 5.18 m wide and 11.88 m length.
Dimensions of the site for the double game are 6.10 m wide and 11.88 m length.
In the middle of the site the net is stretched at a height of 1.75 m.
The goal of the game is to score more goals for the opponent.
Each set is played up to 15 points scored by one of the players. If both players have scored 14 points, the game is played until one of the opponents has an advantage in 2 points, but not more than 20 points.
To win the match, the player must win 2 sets. If each player won one set, they play the third set to determine the winner. The third set is played up to 10 points. The winner is the player who get 10 points first.
The field of each side is divided in the middle by a line into 2 zones: front (first zone) and rear (second zone). The serve is made from the second zone. An interstice during the serve into the front zone is an error and give the point to the opponent.
Each player performs two serves in turn. The player can serve at any point on the opponent's court, but keeping the basic principles of the roliball technique: the ball must describe the arc-shaped trajectory during the flight.
While receiving the ball hitting and slaps are forbidden - the ball should be taken along the tangent trajectory and return to the opponent on a circular trajectory. It is also forbidden to hold the ball on the racket, to receive and give the ball by a flat racket.
Attack, when the ball is sent along a downward trajectory, is allowed only from the second zone. Attack from the front zone is forbidden.
The ball that falls on the boundary line of the site is considered to have fallen into the area.
The ball touched the net during the flight and flown over to the opponent's side is considered to be sent correctly.
The ball flew away the opponent's field is considered to be sent out and brings the point to the opponent. If the ball flew beyond the line of the opponent's side, but at the same time touched the opponent's racket, then the point is awarded to the player who performed the reception.
Mistakes that bring the point to the opponent are:
Difference between the pair game and the single is that in the process of drawing the ball on the one half of the field it is allowed to make no more than one transfer to the partner.
Equipment.
The basic set of sports equipment for roliball includes a racket and a ball.
Racket.
The size of the racket is from 47 cm to 54 cm. The racket weighs from 100 to 200 g and depends on the material of the rim. The rim of the rackets can be made of plastic, aluminum, carbon and carbon fiber.
The surface of the racket is made of a silicone membrane. In modern rackets, the membrane is exchangeable. Depending on the tension force four different types of the membrane can be distinguished: from very soft with a slack more than 5 mm to a rigid, without slack - a professional coaching racket. The sagging level of the membrane corresponds to the athlete's level of training and the discipline of the roliball.
Ball.
Ball for the roliball contains the sand, so it does not bounce off the racket during reception in the game, but allows smooth joining to it.
The ball weighs 50-55 g, diameter is about 65 mm. Balls for the roliball are made of rubber, plastic or leather. The most common balls are inflatable rubber balls, which are used for competitions.


Race of Remembrance

Race of Remembrance is the brain child of Jon Earp, Mission Motorsport volunteer and a Welsh Air Ambulance pilot.
The race raised money for the Mission Motorsport charity, affiliated with Help for Heroes. Mission Motorsport are appointed by the British Army Motorsport Association, and operating in direct support of the Defence Recovery Capability, Mission Motorsport provides respite, rehabilitation, vocational support and training to those affected by military operations within the framework of Motorsport. Mission Motorsport concentrate on getting injured service personnel back into civilian life after injuries sustained on active duty.
An array of professional drivers showed their support of the charity, these include Tom Onslow-Cole Paul O’Neil, Dan Welch, Calum Lockie, Elliott Cole along with Mission Motorsport founder Major James Cameron and Jon Earp. Appearances also include ex professional footballer Luther Blissett and Radio Le Mans commentator John Hindhaugh.
The race was hosted by Anglesey Circuit and was also donated free by the track owners for the duration of the event.
The race paused at 10:45am on 9 November 2014 for a remembrance service held in the pit lane by army chaplain Reverend David Banbury. The 8 hour endurance race was the first in history to pause for a remembrance service midway through the race.
A documentary about the race - and the work of Mission Motorsport - "Race of Remembrance with Mazda" is to be broadcast on Sky 2, Sky Sports 1, 3 & 4 and Sky Sports F1 from Monday 23 February 2015. Presented by Richard Parks, produced by Princess Productions for Mazda UK.
Class structure 2014.
Class A) Up to 2000cc (multi valve)
Class B) Up to 2000cc (2V per cylinder) or 1800cc (multi valve)
Class C) Up to 1800cc (2V per cylinder) or 1600cc (multi valve)
Class D) Below 1600cc (2V per cylinder) or 1400cc (multi valve)
Class structure 2017.
Class A) Up to 1600cc
Class B) Citroen C1 Challenge
Class C) Caterham
Class D) Up to 1800cc
Class E) Up to 2000cc
Class F) Invitation


Hapoel Petah Tikva (handball)

Hapoel Petah Tikva is a handball team from the city of Petah Tikva, Israel.
Hapoel is one of the oldest handball clubs in the country, the most successful period was in the late-1960s and early-1970s when the team won 3 championships.
The last time Petah Tikva played in the top division was in the 1996-97 season, they finished 12 out 14 and did not manage to win the relegation playoff.
In August 1997 Hapoel merged with Maccabi Petah Tikva and played as Ironi Petah Tikva for 12 seasons in the top division. In September 2009 the merger was over as the supporters of Hapoel reformed their team.
Titles.
LIGA LEUMIT Champions 2014/2015
 THE ISRAELI BERNER CUP 2014/2015


Yuliya Chekalyova

Yuliya Vladimirovna Chekalyova (, also romanized Yulia Tchekaleva, born 6 February 1984) is a Russian cross-country skier who has competed since 2004.
Career.
Her best World Cup finish was 11th in a 15 km event in Russia in 2007.
At the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2007 in Sapporo, she finished 16th in the 10 km and 22nd in the 30 km events.
Chekalyova is married to Alexey Kuritsyn, with whom she has a son, Matvey, born in 2012.
On 1 December 2017 she was disqualified from the 2014 Winter Olympics, her results (including sixth place in the relay) were annulled, and she was banned for life from the Olympic games as a result of a positive doping test.
Cross-country skiing results.
All results are sourced from the International Ski Federation (FIS).


Pablo Tabachnik

Pablo Ariel Tabachnik (born November 20, 1977 in San Juan, Argentina) is an Argentinian table tennis player. He competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics with Oscar Gonzalez. He is a three-time Olympian (2000, 2004, and 2008).


2020 in ice sports

Ice hockey.
2020 world ice hockey divisions.
Note: The Division II – Groups A & B, and Division III – Groups A & B tournaments were cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Note: The Top Division, Division I – Groups A & B, and Division II – Group A tournaments were cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Speed skating.
June 18 - In Germany Matthias Grosse is appointed as president of the national German speed skating association, (DESG) until September 2020. This is seen by media as controversial as partner of drug banned speed skater Claudia Pechstein.
Short track speed skating.
June — During a training camp in France, the Dutch Lara van Ruijven hospitalized in intensive care due to an immune system disorder. Her situation became critical and was fighting for her life.


Samantha Ricketts

Samantha Ricketts is an American, former collegiate All-American, right-handed hitting pro softball first basemen originally from San Jose, California. She is the current head coach of Mississippi State softball team. She played her college career for the Oklahoma Sooners softball team from 2006-09, where she set the then career RBI record and was named a two-time Second Team NFCA All-American. In the 2009 National Pro Fastpitch Senior Draft, she was selected 12th overall and played two seasons for the Akron Racers. She is the sister of softball athletes Keilani Ricketts and Stephanie Ricketts.
Coaching career.
Mississippi State (asst.).
On July 21, 2014, Ricketts was hired as an assistant coach for the Mississippi State softball program.
Mississippi State.
On July 22, 2019, Ricketts was announced as the new head coach of the Mississippi State softball program.


Rink hockey World Club Championship

The CIRH Roller Hockey World Club Championship is a discontinued worldwide competition for the best roller hockey teams in the world. This competition was held for the first time in 2006, at Luanda, Angola and for the second and last time in 2008, at Reus, Spain. The competition was sanctioned by the International Rink Hockey Committee.


Avoidable contact

In the sport of automobile racing, most series have strict penalties for "avoidable contact". In such an incident, two or more vehicles collide in a way so as to make notable damage. The race officials then review the incident, and provide a verdict on whether the contact was avoidable. If the judgement is that it was avoidable, the instigator of the collision will be penalized. Usually, this consists of driving all the way through pit lane into his pit box and then being forced to idle for up to a minute, depending on the severity of the damage.
Penalties.
In the IndyCar Series' rulebook, avoidable contact is listed under Rule 9.3.3: "The primary responsibility for avoiding contact with a Competitor resides with the overtaking Competitor and the secondary responsibility resides with the Competitor(s) being overtaken. A Competitor who fails to demonstrate their responsibility and initiates a maneuver that results in contact with another Competitor may be penalized." IndyCar often docks points from the drivers' championship for offenders; for example, in 2015, Hélio Castroneves lost eight points for avoidable contact with Scott Dixon at the Grand Prix of Indianapolis, and earlier in the year, Ryan Hunter-Reay lost five points and was also placed on probation for forcing Simon Pagenaud off the track and into Hunter-Reay and Sébastien Bourdais at the Indy Grand Prix of Louisiana.
In Formula One, drivers would receive grid penalties; for example, after the 2010 Korean Grand Prix, Adrian Sutil was awarded a five-place grid penalty for the next race, the , after colliding with Kamui Kobayashi during the race.


The Dukes (TV series)

The Dukes is a 30-minute Saturday morning animated series based on the live-action television series "The Dukes of Hazzard" which aired on CBS from February 5 to October 29, 1983. The series was produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television, producer of the original series. 20 episodes were produced.
Plot.
The series features the Duke boys and their cousin Daisy in an automobile race around the world against Boss Hogg, Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane, and Rosco's dog Flash in a duel for the prize money which the Dukes hope to use to keep the family farm from being foreclosed by Boss Hogg. Actually, Boss Hogg wants the money and the land for himself so he, Rosco, and Flash plans various schemes to keep the Dukes from winning. Most of the adventures are read from a post card by Uncle Jesse Duke to his pet raccoon Smokey.
The first season took place during the period of the live-action series' temporary replacement of the original actors with similar characters, Coy and Vance Duke, after Tom Wopat and John Schneider walked out over a dispute about royalties from related merchandise. Thus, the first season of this animated series featured Coy and Vance. Bo and Luke eventually replaced Coy and Vance in Season 2 Episode 1 (14): "Boss O'Hogg and the Little People" after Tom and John simultaneously returned to the live series following the end of the dispute near the end of the fifth season. This episode also featured a new introduction and voice over that reflected the change in characters.
The series followed no particular logical geographic path; for instance, consecutive episodes feature appearances in Venice, Morocco, the Arctic Ocean, London, Greece, India, Uzbekistan, Hong Kong and Scotland.
Cast.
Note: Live-action co-stars Waylon Jennings (narrator/"balladeer"), Ben Jones (Cooter Davenport), Sonny Shroyer (Deputy Enos Strate), and Rick Hurst (Deputy Cletus Hogg) did not appear in this cartoon version.
Episodes.
Season 2 (1983).
Starting in the very first episode of this season, Tom Wopat and John Schneider return as Luke and Bo in the regular Dukes of Hazzard series, and take over for Coy and Vance in the cartoon.
Home media.
On December 7, 2010, Warner Archive released "The Dukes: The Complete Series" on DVD in region 1 as part of their Hanna-Barbera Classics Collection.


Donald B. Beary

Donald Bradford Beary (4 December 1888 – 7 March 1966) was a vice admiral of the United States Navy. His career included service in both World War I and World War II and a tour as President of the Naval War College. He commanded a wide variety of ships and organizations, and is particularly noted for his leadership during World War II in establishing and directing a large-scale U.S. Navy training program and for his pioneering and highly successful work as a commander of U.S. Navy underway replenishment forces.
Naval career.
Beary was born on 4 December 1888 in Helena, Montana. He entered the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, in 1906 and graduated in 1910. His first assignments were aboard three armored cruisers, from 1910 to 1911, from 1912 to 1914, and during 1914. He then attended Columbia University in New York, New York, from 1915 to 1917, and received a master of science degree in electrical engineering from the university in 1917.
World War I.
After the United States entered World War I on 6 April 1917, Beary served in the Atlantic on convoy duty and in antisubmarine warfare against German submarines, commanding the armed yacht from 1917 to 1918 and then the destroyer in 1918. He received the Navy Cross in 1918 for distinguished service as commanding officer of "Remlik" and "Lamson" in the Atlantic campaign.
Interwar.
A lieutenant commander by the end of World War I, Bearys first post-war assignment was duty at the U.S. Navy Bureau of Navigation from 1919 to 1921. He then commanded three destroyers, in 1921, from 1921 to 1922, and from 1922 to 1923. From 1923 to 1924 he served ashore at the United States Department of the Navy in Washington, D.C., in the Division of Fleet Training, Navy Operations. He then returned to sea with duty aboard the battleship from 1925 to 1927, seeing service in the Second Nicaraguan Campaign.
From 1928 to 1930, Beary taught at the United States Naval Academy. He then served on the staff of the Commander-in-Chief, United States Asiatic Fleet, from 1931 to 1934, seeing service on the Yangtze Patrol. From 1934 to 1935, he was assigned to duty with the Chief of Naval Operations in Washington, D.C. He then served on the staff of the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, in 1936.
Beary went back to sea in 1937 as executive officer of the battleship , serving aboard her until 1938, when he was promoted to captain. He then was commanding officer of the light cruiser from 1938 to 1939 before returning to duty at the United States Naval Academy, serving a second tour as an instructor there from 1939 until 1941. On 1 October 1941, he became commanding officer of both the troop transport and Transport Division 19.
World War II.
"Mount Vernon" was in the Atlantic Ocean as part of a convoy steaming from Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, bound for Cape Town, South Africa, when the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, brought the United States into World War II on 7 December 1941. She proceeded via the Cape of Good Hope and the Indian Ocean to Singapore, arriving there on 13 January 1942. In port until 16 January 1942, she landed desperately needed reinforcements and evacuated refugees despite frequent Japanese air raids, herself coming under air attack. She then operated in the Indian Ocean and Southwest Pacific until March 1942 to move additional reinforcements from the Middle East to Southeast Asia and evacuate refugees from Australia. Beary received the Bronze Star Medal in 1943 for meritorious achievement in these operations, and was especially cited for his conspicuous professional ability, leadership, and organization during "Mount Vernon"s stay in Singapore.
In July 1942, Beary became Commandant of Naval Operations Base Iceland. On 10 February 1943 he was promoted to rear admiral and took command of the United States Atlantic Fleets Fleet Operational Training Command, which organized and trained ships crews, upon its establishment on 14 March 1943. As its commanding officer, he oversaw the creation and operation of a number of navy training establishments along the United States East Coast, at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and on Culebra Island off Puerto Rico, including a number of Anti-Aircraft Training Centers; the Anti-Aircraft Training Afloat Program aboard the antiaircraft training ship ; the Combat Information Center Group Training Center in Norfolk, Virginia; the Anti-Submarine Warfare Unit in Norfolk; the Fleet Sonar School in Key West, Florida, and the Minecraft Training Center at Little Creek, Virginia. In all, he directed the training of more than a million officers and men and supervised the shakedown or refresher training of about 5,000 ships and craft. He received the Distinguished Service Medal in February 1945 for this service.
On 1 October 1944, Beary took command of Service Squadron 6, a revolutionary new mobile underway replenishment element of the Service Force, United States Pacific Fleet, dedicated to support of the U.S. Third and Fifth Fleets in the Pacific. He proved particularly gifted in maintaining logistic support to the fleet despite the vast distances involved in the Pacific Theater and the complex and demanding task of keeping the fleets' combat forces supplied while underway for their frequent operations, including during the Battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa. His achievements in Service Squadron 6 were recognized by two awards of the Legion of Merit, both in 1945, for exceptional and meritorious conduct.
During the ceremony in which Japan surrendered to the Allies on board the battleship on 2 September 1945 to end World War II, Beary served as a dignitary on the staff of United States Army General of the Army Douglas MacArthur.
Post-World War II.
After World War II, Beary held various commands, serving as administrator of the U.S. Naval Shipping Control Authority; commandant of the 12th Naval District in 1946; commander of Naval Base San Francisco; commander of Western Sea Frontier; and commander of Pacific Reserve Fleet.
On 1 November 1948, having reached the rank of vice admiral, Beary returned to the Naval War College as its president. During his presidency, he sought to broaden the views of students by bringing business authorities and leaders to meet with them in roundtable discussions, laying the groundwork for the college's Global Strategy Discussions of the 1950s and Current Strategy Forum of today.
Beary remained the war college's president until 28 May 1950. He retired from the navy on 1 October 1950.
Personal life.
Beary was married to Alice L. Beary (1889-1953). They had one daughter, Alice B. Beary Meschter (1920-2006).
Beary was a decorated marksman and a member of the Navy Gun Club.
Death.
Beary died on 7 March 1966 at the U.S. Naval Hospital in San Diego, California. He was interred alongside his wife at the United States Naval Academy Cemetery and Columbarium with full military honors.
Namesake.
The U.S. Navy destroyer escort (later frigate) (later FF-1085), in commission from 1972 to 1994, was named in Bearys honor.


Nine-pin bowling World Championships

The nine-pin bowling World Championships was a biennial nine-pin bowling competition organized by the World Ninepin Bowling Association (WNBA NBC). The World Championships was started in 1953 and until 1959 took place every two years. The next one was held in 1962 with the assumption of alternating with the European Championships every two years. In 1966, this concept was abandoned and thereafter the championships were biennial until 2004.
Since 2005, the competition has been divided. Team's are held in odd years, while Single's in even years.
The following list shows when new events were added for the first time:
List of hosts.
List of hosts by number of championships hosted.


Ran Torten

Ran Jacob Torten (also "Ram" and "Ron," and "Tortan"; רן טורטן; December 14, 1966) is an Israeli former Olympic competitive sailor. He was born in Israel, and is Jewish.
Sailing career.
In 1986, Torten and his brother Dan Torten came in sixth in the 470 World Championships.
He competed for Israel at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea at the age of 24 in Sailing, with his brother. In the Men's 470 Class Two-Person Dinghy they came in 18th. When he competed in the Olympics he was 5-11.5 (182 cm) tall and weighed 154 lbs (70 kg).
Sailors at the Olympics are judged by the best six of their seven races. One of the brothers' races, their fifth—as they were 10th in the standings—fell on Yom Kippur (the holiest day on the Jewish calendar), and the delegation instructed them to not compete. They ignored the Israeli National Olympic Committee's instructions, sailed to a # 9 finish, were thrown off the Israeli team, and were sent back to Israel the following day. Uri Afek, the Israeli delegation head, said, "Everyone knew no Israelis compete on Yom Kippur," but the brothers said they were not racing but rather sailing for their own enjoyment. The brothers' appeals against the disciplinary committee's decision was rejected by the District and Supreme Court. They were suspended by the Israeli Sports Association for a period of five years, but the Israeli High Court overturned that decision.


Mezair (dressage)


Annick Dumont

Annick Dumont (born 14 February 1962 in Montreuil) is a French figure skating coach. She coaches in Champigny, alongside Pierre Trente. Among her current and former students are two time European Figure Skating Championships bronze medalist Stanick Jeannette, Gabriel Monnier, Jérémy Prévoteaux, Vincent Restencourt, two time French champion Laëtitia Hubert, four time French silver medalist Frédéric Dambier, Alban Préaubert and Florent Amodio.
She was married to Didier Gailhaguet and was referred to as Annick Gailhaguet.
Dumont is a skating consultant for French television alongside the sports journalist Nelson Monfort.


2020 Formula Renault Eurocup

The 2020 Formula Renault Eurocup was a multi-event motor racing championship for open-wheel, formula racing cars held across Europe. The championship featured drivers competing in 1.8 litre Formula Renault single-seat race cars that conform to the technical regulations of the championship. The 2020 season was the 30th and final Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 season organised by Renault Sport, as starting from 2021 it will merge with the Formula Regional European Championship. The series visited nine circuits around Europe. The championship was won by Victor Martins, with ART Grand Prix taking the teams' title.
Teams and drivers.
In September 2019, ART Grand Prix announced its intention to compete in the championship for the first time since 2003. Their bid was successful, with the team joining eight other teams from 2019. On 3 July 2020 it was announced that Global Racing Service had withdrawn from the season due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Calendar.
The provisional calendar for the 2020 season was announced on 11 September 2019.
On 15 May 2020, Renault Sport unveiled a new 10-round calendar, after multiple postponements and cancellations due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The revised calendar included races at Magny-Cours for the first time since 2010, as well as a return to Imola and Zandvoort, where the series had last raced in 2004 and 2000 respectively. The rounds at Monaco, the Hungaroring and Silverstone were not rescheduled and were absent from the revised calendar. On 25 September 2020, it was announced that the series would support the 2020 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix at Imola to make up for the loss of the Monaco round.
Championship standings.
Points were awarded to the top 10 classified finishers.
Drivers' championship.
Notes:
Teams' championship.
For teams entering more than two cars only the two best-finishing cars are eligible to score points in the teams' championship.
Notes:


2005 American Le Mans Series

The 2005 American Le Mans Series season was the 35th season for the IMSA GT Championship, with it being the seventh under the American Le Mans Series moniker. It was a series for Le Mans Prototypes (LMP) and Grand Touring (GT) race cars divided into 4 classes: LMP1, LMP2, GT1, and GT2. It began March 19, 2005 and ended October 16, 2005 after 10 races.
Schedule.
The schedule change from 2004 to 2005 was minimal, with only one event being added to the existing schedule. The Grand Prix of Atlanta returned once more, once again shortly after the 12 Hours of Sebring.
Season results.
Overall winner in bold.
† - The #8 B-K Motorsports entry failed to finish but completed enough laps to score points.
Teams Championship.
Points are awarded to the top 10 finishers in the following order:
Exceptions were for the 4 Hour Monterey Sports Car Championships was scored in the following order:
And for the 12 Hours of Sebring and Petit Le Mans which award the top 10 finishers in the following order:
Cars failing to complete 70% of the winner's distance are not awarded points. Teams only score the points of their highest finishing entry in each race.


2003 24 Hours of Daytona

The 2003 Rolex 24 at Daytona was a Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series 24-hour endurance sports car race held on February 1–2, 2003 at the Daytona International Speedway road course. The race served as the first round of the 2003 Rolex Sports Car Series. The race saw the debut of the Daytona Prototype as the new top class of the series. However, the new cars proved only marginally faster than the lower classes and suffered frequent mechanical failures during the race, allowing a car from the GT class to take overall victory. Overall victory and victory in the GT class went to the No. 66 Porsche 996 GT3-RS from The Racer's Group, driven by Kevin Buckler, Michael Schrom, Jörg Bergmeister, and Timo Bernhard. The Daytona Prototype class was won by the No. 88 Multimatic MDP1 from Multimatic driven by Scott Maxwell, David Brabham, and David Empringham. The SRP II class was won by the No. 5 Lola-Nissan from Team Seattle/Essex Racing, driven by Ross Bentley, Don Kitch Jr., Joe Pruskowski, and Justin Pruskowski. Finally, the GTS class was won by the No. 24 Mosler MT900 from Perspective Racing, driven by Jérôme Policand, Michel Neugarten, João Barbosa, and Andy Wallace.
Race results.
Class winners in bold.


2002 24 Hours of Daytona

The 2002 Rolex 24 at Daytona was a Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series 24-hour endurance sports car race held on February 2–3, 2002 at the Daytona International Speedway road course. The race served as the first round of the 2002 Rolex Sports Car Series. The overall winner and winner of the SRP class was the No. 27 Doran Lista Racing Dallara SP1 driven by Didier Theys, Fredy Lienhart, Max Papis, and Mauro Baldi. The SRP II class was won by the No. 8 Rand Racing/Risi Competizione Lola B2K/40 driven by Anthony Lazzaro, Bill Rand, Terry Borcheller, and Ralf Kelleners. The GTS class was won by the No. 3 Rocketsports Racing Jaguar XKR driven by Paul Gentilozzi, Scott Pruett, Michael Lauer, and Brian Simo. The GT category was won by the No. 66 The Racer's Group Porsche 996 GT3-RS driven by Kevin Buckler, Michael Schrom, Jörg Bergmeister, and Timo Bernhard. Finally, the AGT category was won by the No. 09 Flis Racing Chevrolet Corvette driven by Craig Conway, Doug Goad, Andy Pilgrim, and Mike Ciasulli.
Race results.
Class winners in bold.
External links.
Official Results
Car Information & Images


Kolmonen

Kolmonen or III divisioona is the fourth level in the league system of Finnish football and comprises 104 Finnish football teams. The III divisioona was introduced in 1973 and in the mid-1990s became known as the Kolmonen ("Number Three" in English and "Trean" in Swedish).
The competition.
There are 104 clubs in the Kolmonen, divided in 9 groups of 10 to 12 teams each representing a geographical area. During the course of a season (starting in April and ending in October) each club plays the others twice, once at their home ground and once at that of their opponents. The top team in each Kolmonen group is promoted to Kakkonen and the two lowest placed teams are normally relegated to the Nelonen.
Administration.
Football Association of Finland (SPL).
The Football Association of Finland (, SPL; , FBF) administered the Kolmonen from 1973 until 1995. There were 9 sections which were divided on a regional basis with between 10 and 12 teams in each.
District Football Associations.
Since 1996 the administration of the Kolmonen has been delegated to the 12 district authorities of the SPL. Responsibilities for the 10 sections are divided as follows:
Teams within the Kolmonen are eligible to compete in the Suomen Cup and the Suomen Regions' Cup. The clubs are normally listed in an abbreviated form and their full names can be viewed by referring to the List of clubs or the relevant District Association.


Amy Kvilhaug

Amy Kvilhaug is an American softball coach who is the current head coach at Boston College.
Coaching career.
Boston College.
On July 2, 2019, Kvilhaug was announced as the new head coach of the Boston College softball program.
Head coaching record.
Sources: