Latest - Boca Juniors have installed devices that make their training pitches shake as a way of preparing youngsters to play at a home ground famous for rocking under the feet of their raucous fans.
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Boca's Bombonera stadium is known to vibrate when supporters bounce up and down together at big matches but the experience can be unsettling for younger players, the club's former midfielder and current vice-president Juan Roman Riquelme said.
"It doesn't happen anywhere else. It's the only stadium that moves," he said in a video on the club's social media channels. "You can be out there and feel the pitch moving."
Boca recently installed a series of pneumatic devices that pound the pitches of their training ground. The devices are linked to social media accounts so when fans hit 'like' the club transforms that into movement at the training ground.
Buenos Aires-based Boca have 4.5 million followers on Twitter, 6.4 million on Instagram, and 8.7 million on Facebook.
Boca are one of the biggest teams in South America, with some of the most passionate fans. The club was home to players such as Diego Maradona, Carlos Tevez and Claudio Caniggia.
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Forwards return for Warriors
Forwards Matt Lodge and Jazz Tevaga are back in the Warriors' squad for the traditional Anzac Day contest against the Storm in Melbourne on Monday.
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Lodge missed the loss to the Sydney Roosters on Sunday as he recovered from a side strain, however he's been cleared to return for his 88th career appearance and his first Anzac Day outing for the Warriors.
Tevaga is also back, named on an extended bench after serving a two-match suspension for a dangerous contact offence in the Brisbane win.
Lodge and Tevaga significantly bolster a pack which was short of four experienced campaigners for the encounter with the Roosters.
This will be the 12th Anzac Day match between the two clubs on a day when the Michael Moore Trophy will also be at stake.
The Storm have put together a run of 11 straight victories over the Warriors since their last defeat at Mount Smart Stadium in 2015.
They've also won the last five Anzac Day encounters since the Warriors won 16-10 at AAMI Park in 2014.
Loe retires from rowing
Two-time world rowing champion Olivia Loe has announced her retirement from the sport.
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Loe first gained national selection in 2010 competing at the Junior World Championships.
She made the elite squad in 2017 joining up with Brooke Donoghue in the double sculls.
They went unbeaten in 2017 including winning the World Championship title in the USA.
Loe and Donoghue won silver a year later and gold in 2019.
Between 2017 and 2019 the pair won 20 of 22 international races.
In 2021, after a delay with the Tokyo Olympics, Loe was selected in the Women's quadruple scull gaining 8th Place.
Dutch coach suffers heart attack
The Netherlands men's cricket coach Ryan Campbell is in intensive care in a hospital in the UK after suffering a heart attack.
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The 50-year-old Australian led the side on their recent tour of New Zealand.
He is reported to be in a coma.
Campbell has been the coach of the Netherlands since 2017.
The former wicketkeeper had a lengthy career with Western Australia and played two ODI's for his country.
Ronaldo won't play today
Manchester United forward Cristiano Ronaldo will not play against Liverpool in the Premier League later today following the death of his newborn son yesterday.
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Ronaldo and his partner Georgina Rodriguez, who announced in October last year they were expecting twins, said that one of the two babies had died.
"Family is more important than everything and Ronaldo is supporting his loved ones at this immensely difficult time," United said in a statement on the club website.
"As such, we can confirm that he will not feature in the match against Liverpool at Anfield on Tuesday evening and we underline the family's request for privacy."
United are fifth in the Premier League table, three points adrift of fourth-placed Tottenham Hotspur, ahead of their trip to Anfield to take on second-placed Liverpool.
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Cycle star says he was sexually groomed
British Cycling says its safeguarding team had reached out to Bradley Wiggins after the five-times Olympic champion alleged that he was sexually groomed by a coach when he was 13.
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Wiggins, 41, made the claims in an interview with Men's Health UK magazine and said the abuse had an impact on him as an adult. He did not name the coach.
"I was groomed by a coach when I was younger -- I was about 13 -- and I never fully accepted that," Wiggins, who won the Tour de France in 2012, said.
British Cycling said: "We are deeply concerned by the matter raised by Sir Bradley Wiggins and our safeguarding team has made contact with him today to offer our full support.
"We would encourage anybody who has suffered abuse or has concerns about the welfare of others -- regardless of when the incident took place -- to utilise the support offered."
Wiggins, who won eight Olympic medals in all before retiring from the sport in 2016, added that he did not mention the ordeal earlier because he had a difficult relationship with his stepfather.
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Khan robbed at gunpoint
British boxer Amir Khan said he had been robbed at gunpoint in London but that both he and his wife were unharmed in the incident.
"Just had my watch taken off me at gun point in East London, Leyton," Khan wrote on Twitter. "I crossed the road with Faryal (Makhdoom), luckily she was few steps behind me.
"2 men ran to me, he asked for my watch whist having a gun pointed in my face. The main thing is we're both safe."
The 35-year-old, who won lightweight silver at the Athens Olympics in 2004 and is a former unified light-welterweight champion, suffered a comprehensive defeat to Kell Brook in February and said retirement was "something to think about".
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