Latest - Experienced New Zealand driver Scott Dixon has been eliminated from this year's IndyCar title race.
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The six-time series champion could only manage 13th in the penultimate race of the season at Laguna Seca in California.
Dixon remains fourth overall, but is now 72 points behind frontrunner Alex Palou - a margin too great to make up in the season finale at Long Beach in a week's time.
Fellow New Zealander Scott McLaughlin finished one spot ahead of Dixon in 12th.
American Colton Herta won at Laguna Seca ahead of Palou, with Frenchman Romain Grosjean third.
Lawson extends DTM lead
Young New Zealand driver Liam Lawson has opened up a 10 point lead in the German touring car championship after the sixth round in the Netherlands.
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Lawson, 19, took the series lead after finishing third in the opening race in Assen and extended it further by finishing second overnight.
The Ferrari driver finished half a second behind Mercedes' Lucas Auer of Austria.
"Towards the end I still tried to close up to Lucas Auer, but he was simply too fast. Nevertheless, I am really happy with the outcome of this weekend. Being the leader in the championship is just great," Lawson said.
The penultimate round is at Hockenheim next month.
Liam Lawson will first turn his attention to Formula 2, with round six in Sochi this weekend.
Chelsea and Manchester United keep pace with Liverpool
Chelsea's dominant second-half performance earned a 3-0 win at Tottenham Hotspur thanks to goals by Thiago Silva, N'Golo Kante and Antonio Rudiger as the Blues moved joint top of the Premier League.
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The emphatic scoreline did not look likely in the first half as the hosts shaded it, but Chelsea took complete control after the break to send out an ominous warning in the title race.
The Blues have an identical record to Liverpool with the two sides on 13 points from five games, both having scored 12 goals and conceded one.
Manchester United are also level on points with Chelsea and Liverpool after Jesse Lingard scored a stunning late goal and David de Gea saved a stoppage-time penalty as United beat West Ham United 2-1 in London.
Brighton & Hove Albion secured a 2-1 home win over Leicester City thanks to a controversial penalty and a Danny Welbeck header that put them fourth in the Premier League despite Jamie Vardy's 150th goal in his 250th game for the Foxes.
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Former England striker passes away
Jimmy Greaves, one of England's most prolific strikers and Tottenham Hotspur's record goalscorer, has died at the age of 81, the Premier League club said.
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Greaves, who suffered a stroke six years ago, scored 266 goals for Tottenham between 1961-1970 and his 37 league goals in the 1962-63 season remains a club record.
He began his career with Chelsea and netted 124 league goals for the London club between 1957 and 1961.
Greaves scored 44 goals in 57 internationals for England, making him the country's fourth-highest scorer behind Wayne Rooney, Bobby Charlton and Gary Lineker.
He played in England's three group games at the 1966 World Cup before getting injured. He was replaced in the team by Geoff Hurst who famously scored a hat-trick in the 4-2 final win over West Germany at Wembley.
Greaves missed out on a winner's medal because they were only awarded to the 11 players who played in the final, although he belatedly received one in 2009.
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Belgians denied at world champs
Filippo Ganna broke Belgian hearts at the road cycling world championships in Flanders as he retained his individual time trial title by beating local favourite Wout van Aert.
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The Italian lagged behind Van Aert at both intermediate checks but he managed his effort better on the pancake-flat 43km course to clock 47 minutes 47 seconds.
Van Aert finished 5.37 seconds behind with another Belgian, Remco Evenepoel, picking up the bronze medal 43.34 seconds off the pace.
Four-times time trial world champion Tony Martin of Germany, who said he would retire after the championships, finished sixth.
New Zealand's Tom Scully finished 23rd overall, 3:10 mins behind Ganna.
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Swedish golfer holds on in the Netherlands
Sweden's Kristoffer Broberg held on for a three-shot victory at the European Tour's KLM Open after shooting a level-par 72 in the final round at the Bernardus Golf Course in Cromvoirt, Netherlands.
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Broberg's victory had looked like a formality after he began the day eight shots clear of the field but the 35-year-old struggled for rhythm, making bogeys on the third, 12th and the 14th holes to finish 23-under for the tournament.
Matthias Schmid, who shot five birdies on the front nine, looked set to catch Broberg but a double bogey on the par-three 13th cost the German dear as he ended with a six-under 66 to finish second.
"Happy right now but the game wasn't there today. I struggled all day but I'm happy to pull it off," said the Swede after winning his second title on the European tour, six years after his first.
New Zealand's Ryan Fox finished in a share of 15th place at 11-under par after closing with a four-under 68.
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Bagnaia claims second straight MotoGP win
Ducati's Francesco Bagnaia survived a late charge from world championship leader Fabio Quartararo to win the San Marino Grand Prix and claim a second straight MotoGP victory.
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Pole-sitter Bagnaia led by 2.7 seconds at one stage before Quartararo closed the gap in the final laps, cutting the Italian's advantage to two-tenths of a second.
Rookie Enea Bastianini of Avintia Ducati enjoyed a superb race to secure a debut podium finish after starting 12th on the grid. Repsol Honda's Marc Marquez finished fourth.
Quartararo, who initially struggled to keep pace with the Ducatis of Bagnaia and Jack Miller, overtook the Australian into second place with 14 laps to go but failed to go past Bagnaia, who also won in Aragon last week. A fading Miller finished fifth.
Former world champion Valentino Rossi finished a disappointing 17th for Petronas Yamaha and reigning world champion Joan Mir of Spain came sixth on his Suzuki.
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