Latest - Former Australian netball international Natatlie Medhurst has announced her retirement from the sport.
Nat Medhurst in action against the Silver Ferns. Photo: Photosport
The 36 year old goal attack recently had a baby and had intended returing to the sport but due to COVID-19 state border restrictions and a condensed season she was unable to re- join the Collingwood side for the Australian domestic competition.
"There was a glimmer of light to play this season and whilst I worked so hard to get myself fit and ready to take the court, it unfortunately did not come to fruition," she said.
"In the end despite being cleared to play, the possibility of having an exemption to travel and separating my family was not something I was okay with doing."
Medhurst earned 86 Test caps, winning three World Cup titles and a Commonwealth Games gold medal.
"I never dreamt that I would play netball at the elite level and I have achieved so much more than I ever thought I could be capable of."
Medhurst will remain involved in sport and is taking up a role with Commonwealth Games Australia as a community engagement manager.
Serena tested in advancing to final four
Six time US Open champion Serena Williams was forced to dig deep to secure a quarter-final win over unseeded Bulgarian Tsvetana Pironkova keeping alive her latest bid for a record-tying 24th Grand Slam singles title.
Photo: Photosport / Chris Symes
Williams struggled with Pironkova's slice forehand early and was at risk of her earliest U.S. Open exit in 14 years until she used her experience to find a way back and win 4-6 6-3 6-2
Up next for the 38-year-old Williams, who has been pushed to three sets in her last three victories, will be either Belgian 16th seed Elise Mertens or former world number one Victoria Azarenka of Belarus.
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Tour de France teams racing on knife edge
Four Tour de France teams, including that of defending champion Egan Bernal, are racing on a knife edge after one of their members tested positive for the coronavirus amid confusion over how exclusion rules will apply.
The rules state that should two members of a team test positive within a seven-day period, the whole outfit will be excluded from the race.
There's confusion among the Tour de France field about rules around coronavirus. Photo: AFP
Yet a source with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters that organisers may backtrack and reset the day-count after consultation with the French government.
Apart from Bernal's Ineos-Grenadiers, the other teams who had one staff member test positive for the coronavirus are AG2R-La Mondiale, Cofidis and Mitchelton-Scott.
Half of each team was tested last Sunday and the other half last Monday and they will be tested again next Sunday and Monday in the same way.
This means that if any of the positive tests were from last Monday then the team risks exclusion should they have another positive test on Sunday.
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Koepka to miss US Open
The two time champion Brooks Koepka will miss next week's U.S. golf Open due to his ongoing knee injury.
American golfer Brooks Koepka. Photo: PHOTOSPORT
Koepka, who won the tournament in 2017 and 2018, has been plagued by a knee problem all season and skipped this year's FedExCup playoffs.
The 30-year-old American, who has won four majors, could still have a chance to add to his tally this year at the Masters, which are taking place in November after being postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Meanwhile eight of the world's top 10 women's golfers will compete in this week's ANA Inspiration, with the player who keeps her cool amid the searing heat in California likely to walk away with the trophy in the season's second major championship.
A brutal heatwave is set to sweep through the Mission Hills Country Club in Rancho Mirage with temperatures expected to soar as high as 45 degrees Celsius this weekend.
The Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) has allowed the use of carts due to conditions.
-Reuters
Ferrari one off to mark 1000th F1 race
Ferrari's cars will race in a special one-off livery at this weekend's Tuscan Grand Prix, the team's 1,000th Formula 1 world championship race.
Ferrari's livery for the Tuscan Grand Prix Photo: Supplied: Ferrari
The cars will be dark red, which the team say is a reproduction of the first Ferrari F1 car, the 125 F1 from 1950.
Drivers Charles Leclerc and Sebastian Vettel will wear race suits in the same colour, while fans will be allowed to attend for the first time this year.
Mercedes will paint the safety car in red as a tribute to Ferrari's standing.
In addition, Mick Schumacher, the son of Michael Schumacher, Ferrari's and F1's most successful driver, will do a demonstration run on race morning in his father's final championship-winning car, the F2004.
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