Latest - New Zealand driver Scott Dixon has claimed pole position for next week's Indianapolis 500.
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It is the fifth time that Dixon has claimed pole in North America's great race... his only win coming in 2008 when he started at the front.
He had a 4 lap average speed of 377km/hour, the second fastest qualifying speed in Indy500 history behind Arie Luyendyk in 1996.
Dixon's Chip Ganassi teammate Alex Palou is beside him on the front row of the grid along with Rinus VeeKay.
Dixon has also finished second three-times at Indianapolis.
"This is Stage 1," Dixon said. "Obviously doesn't mean nothing come next Sunday. We're starting in the right spot. We haven't had a good record in keeping in the right spot, but we'll definitely be trying come next Sunday."
Fellow New Zealander Scott McLaughlin was 26th fastest.
Black Ferns Sevens win in France
The Black Fern Sevens have won the Toulouse round of the World Series.
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In the final they beat Australia 21-14.
Risi Pouri-Lane, Alena Saili and Kelly Brazier score the tries which were all converted by Pouri-Lane.
Captain Sarah Hirini was named player of the final.
Earlier New Zealand beat Fiji 24-14 in thE semi-finals and Brazil 41-0 in the quarter-finals.
New Zealand, who have only played two tournaments finished fifth in the standings on 57 points with winners Australia on 80.
The New Zealand men finished ninth after beating Scotland 42-7 with Fiji beating Ireland 29-17 in the final.
With two rounds remaining Argentina top the men's standings.
Good regatta for Dame Lisa Carrington
Dame Lisa Carrington has finished the opening Canoe Sprint World Cup regatta in the Czech Republic with a gold and bronze medal.
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Competing in her first international event since the Olympics, Carrington won gold yesterday in the K1 500 in a time that was just a second outside the world's best.
She won by almost two seconds from Slovenian Anja Osterman.
On the final day Carrington and Alicia Hoskin teamed up to finish third in the K2 500.
The pair were less than a second behind Poland with Germany second.
Ashton Reiser and Olivia Brett was ninth in the K2 Mixed 500.
The New Zealand team will compete in the second World Cup regatta in Poland later this week.
Black Caps bowlers in the wickets
The Black Caps are 40 without loss in their second innings, a lead of 135 runs over Sussex in their tour match in Hove.
Earlier Sussex made 247 in their first innings with Matt Henry, Jacob Duffy, Colin de Grandhomme and Ajaz Patell all taking two wickets.
At stumps on day three Tom Latham was on 20 and Will Young 20.
The first Test against England starts at Lord's on June 2.
Italian takes stage 16
Giulio Ciccone went solo in the finale to win the 16th stage of the Giro d'Italia, a 177-km mountain trek between Rivarolo Canavese and Cogne, as Richard Carapaz retained the overall lead.
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Italian Ciccone attacked from a group of breakaway riders four kilometres into the final climb, a 22.4-km effort at an average gradient of 4.3%, and never looked back.
Ciccone, who wore the Tour de France yellow jersey for two days in 2019, had plenty of time to celebrate his career third Giro stage win before crossing the line one minute 31 seconds ahead of Santiago Buitrago of Colombia.
Ecuador's Carapaz survived an early scare when he was involved in a pile-up but he escaped unscathed and was pulled back into the peloton by his Ineos-Grenadiers team mates.
It was then a comfortable ride for the 2019 champion, who retained a nine-second overall lead over Australian Jai Hindley as the top contenders kept their powder dry.
Monday is a rest day on the Giro.
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City into A-League final
Jamie Maclaren struck two minutes into extra-time to take Melbourne City into an A-League grand final meeting with Western United next week as the defending champions handed Adelaide United a 2-1 defeat in their playoff semi-final.
Maclaren, the A-League's leading scorer during the regular season, completed the come-from-behind win after Zach Clough had given Adelaide the lead in spectacular fashion before Marco Tilio levelled to take the game into extra-time.
City will play Western United at Melbourne's Rectangular Stadium on May 28 following Saturday's win by John Aloisi's side over Melbourne Victory in their semi-final.
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NZ drivers off the pace
New Zealand drivers Marcus Armstrong and Liam Lawson have finished off the podium in the latest round of F2 racing in Barcelona.
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Brazilian Felipe Drugovich won both yesterday's sprint race and this morning's Feature race.
Armstrong was seventh in the feature race and Lawson ninth.
Drugovich leads after four rounds with 86 points.... Lawson is fourth on 37 and Armstrong fifth on 36.
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Toyota win again
World championship leader Kalle Rovanpera completed a hat-trick of wins for Toyota and extended his overall advantage with victory in the Rally of Portugal.
The victory in the gravel event left the 21-year-old Finn, who won the two previous rallies in Sweden and Croatia, 46 points clear of Hyundai's Thierry Neuville at the top of the standings after four rounds.
Toyota's Elfyn Evans finished second, 15.2 seconds behind, for the Welshman's best result of the campaign with Hyundai's Dani Sordo completing the podium.
Rovanpera also won the final Power Stage for five bonus points, with Sordo second and Neuville third. Hyundai's Ott Tanak took two extra points and Evans one.
Rovanpera has 106 points to Neuville's 60.
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