C’est un grand soulagement de trouver le chemin de la victoire contre lui aujourd’hui, a-t-il confié avec un massive sourire.

Le 13e favori, 19e à l’ATP, a battu l’athlète qui compétitionne sous bannière neutre en deux manches de 6-3 et 7-6 (7/5) et 1 h 38.

La présence du Québécois en quarts de finale s’avère être le meilleur résultat canadien en easy depuis que le tennis a fait son retour aux JO en 1988.

Wow, je ne savais même pas, s’est-il exclamé en toute franchise. Il n’a pas caché qu’il begin à rêvasser à un podium, mais il se fait un devoir de ne pas faire l’erreur de se projeter trop loin.

Cette victoire, ici à Roland-Garros, contre Medvedev en plus, signifie beaucoup pour moi. Ce n’est pas seulement une easy victoire. C’est aussi très bon pour le tennis canadien et pour nos possibilities de médaille. Je suis très content material. L’aventure proceed.

Une première manche interrompue

Il a dû faire preuve de focus en première manche. Avec un retard de 0-2, le Montréalais, qui a passé une partie de son enfance dans la région de Québec, a orchestré une remontée avant que Dame Nature joue les trouble-fête. Une forte pluie a interrompu les hostilités pendant une trentaine de minutes. À son retour sur le terrain, il a repris là où il avait laissé pour s’emparer de la manche face à la 4e tête de série et 5e au classement mondial.

La deuxième manche a été très serrée. Les adversaires ont chacun remporté leur service à six reprises avant de devoir départager le tout au bris d’égalité.

Auger-Aliassime affrontera maintenant le Norvégien Casper Ruud, 6e tête de série.

Le Canadien s’était incliné d’entrée de jeu au premier tour des Jeux olympiques de Tokyo, en 2021.

Une autre victoire en double mixte

Mercredi a été une journée faste dans l’aventure olympique d’Auger-Aliassime. Après sa victoire en easy, il a réussi à passer en demi-finales du double mixte avec sa compatriote Gabriela Dabrowski.

Les Canadiens ont remporté leur duel contre les Américains Coco Gauff et Taylor Fritz, 3es têtes de série, par la marque de 7-6 (7/2), 3-6 et 10-8.

Au bout d’un match de presque deux heures, Auger-Aliassime et Dabrowski ont décroché la victoire au tremendous bris d’égalité.

Ils menaient 4-1, mais les Américains ont comblé le retard, prenant même les commandes 8-6. Auger-Aliassime et Dabrowski ont toutefois gardé leur sang-froid et ont clos le débat quelques minutes plus tard.

Dans le carré d’as, jeudi, les raquettes canadiennes ont rendez-vous avec les Tchèques Katerina Siniakova et Tomas Machac.

BEIRUT, Lebanon, and TEL AVIV, Israel — Israel says its forces killed a high Hezbollah commander in a focused strike within the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital of Beirut, in retaliation for a lethal weekend rocket assault within the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights.

In a press release late Tuesday, Israel’s army mentioned “Israeli Air Power fighter jets eradicated the Hezbollah terrorist group’s most senior army commander and the top of its Strategic Unit, Fuad Shukr ‘Sayyid Muhsan,’ within the space of Beirut.”

Calling him a “right-hand man” to Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah, the assertion mentioned Fuad Shukr was chargeable for operations together with the assault that killed 12 youngsters and youngsters and wounded a number of individuals on Saturday in Majdal Shams, within the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights.

Hezbollah, a Lebanese militia and political motion supported by Iran, has denied involvement in Saturday’s Majdal Shams assault.

In a press release launched on Wednesday, Hezbollah mentioned Shukr was current within the constructing through the time of the assault, however didn’t verify his dying. Israel didn’t say the way it decided the Hezbollah commander was killed or present proof of his dying. Hezbollah has not commented on Tuesday’s strike in Beirut or whether or not Shukr died.

Hours after the assault in Beirut, Hamas mentioned its high political chief Ismail Haniyeh was killed in a focused raid in Iran. Haniyeh was in Tehran for the inauguration ceremony of latest Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian.

Hamas accused Israel of killing Haniyeh whereas Israeli officers mentioned they’d “no remark” when requested in regards to the Tehran assault.

In Beirut, the Israeli assault prompted a big explosion, leaving an residence constructing partially collapsed. Police closed off the roads and an ambulance wailed its strategy to the realm. Individuals had been shouting, “My household was inside, my household is inside!” as they ran towards the explosion.

Israel had made it clear that it will retaliate for Saturday’s rocket assault it blamed on Hezbollah. “Hezbollah crossed the crimson line,” Israeli Protection Minister Yoav Gallant wrote on X Tuesday.

The strike got here because the worldwide group has been urging restraint from either side, fearing that an escalation on the Israel-Lebanon border might spark an all-out conflict.

Israeli army spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari mentioned: “Our goal will not be for conflict, however we’re well-prepared for it.”

He added that Israel is “in steady dialogue” with the USA and its army, “particularly tonight.”

America says Israel has a proper to defend itself in opposition to threats from Hezbollah, whereas diplomacy can be wanted to resolve conflicts within the area.

“Israel has a proper to defend itself and I unequivocally assist Israel’s proper to stay safe and to defend the safety of Israel,” Vice President Harris mentioned after touchdown in Atlanta for an election marketing campaign journey.

“What we all know specifically is it has a proper to defend itself in opposition to a terrorist group, which is precisely what Hezbollah is. However all of that being mentioned, we nonetheless should work on a diplomatic resolution to finish these assaults and we are going to proceed to do this work,” she mentioned.

On Monday, White Home nationwide safety spokesperson John Kirby instructed reporters, “We do not wish to see the conflict escalate” and “to see a second entrance” open up between Israeli forces and Hezbollah. “What we wish to do and what we’re nonetheless centered on is discovering a diplomatic resolution right here to scale back the tensions,” he mentioned.

U.S. diplomats consider the easiest way to defuse the Israeli-Hezbollah battle is to succeed in a cease-fire between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas in Gaza.

Israel and Hezbollah have been buying and selling hearth because the conflict in Gaza started on Oct. 7 of final 12 months, after the Hamas-led assault on Israel. The Israel-Hezbollah combating has largely remained confined to targets close to the border.

In January, Hamas chief Saleh al-Arouri was killed in a strike in Beirut that was extensively blamed on Israel, however that the Israeli army didn’t verify or deny.

Kat Lonsdorf and Hadeel Al-Shalchi reported from Tel Aviv, Israel; Jane Arraf and Jawad Rizkallah reported from Beirut.

Workforce USA swimmer Katie Ledecky received one other medal on Thursday making her the most-decorated U.S. lady in Olympic historical past and additional solidifying her place in swimming historical past as one of many Biggest Of All Time.

The Bethesda native reached that milestone as a part of the 4x200m relay the place the foursome took residence silver. A day earlier, Ledecky earned gold within the 1500m freestyle — crushing her opponents.

If you happen to missed that race, Ledecky left everybody else within the pool meters behind, you may catch the highlights right here. (Sadly, the highlights do not embody the truth that the cameraman actually needed to zoom out to get the opposite swimmers within the shot by the top of the race.)

Her 2024 Paris Olympics efficiency broke the Olympic file for quickest race within the ladies’s 1500m freestyle occasion. It might be bittersweet for the earlier holder of that file, besides… properly, that was additionally Ledecky.

That bought us questioning… what number of different data does Katie Ledecky maintain?

Here is an inventory of Katie Ledecky’s medals, data, superlatives and different spectacular swimming accomplishments.

What number of Olympic medals does Katie Ledecky have?

Ledecky made her Olympic debut in 2012 on the London Olympics, then went on to swim within the 2016 Rio Olympics and the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Paris is her fourth Olympic look.

In that point, Ledecky has received a whopping 13 Olympic medals, together with Wednesday’s 1500m victory and Thursday’s relay. Wednesday’s race was her eighth gold medal. Here is the breakdown:

• 2012 London: Gold medal, 800m freestyle (her solely occasion that Olympics)
• 2016 Rio: Gold medal, 200m freestyle
• 2016 Rio: Gold medal, 400m freestyle
• 2016 Rio: Gold medal, 800m freestyle
• 2016 Rio: Gold medal, 4x200m freestyle relay
• 2016 Rio: Silver medal, 4x100m freestyle relay
• 2020 Tokyo: Gold medal, 800m freestyle
• 2020 Tokyo: Gold medal, 1500m freestyle
• 2020 Tokyo: Silver medal, 400m freestyle
• 2020 Tokyo: Silver medal, 4x200m freestyle relay
• 2024 Paris: Bronze medal, 400m freestyle
• 2024 Paris: Gold medal, 1500m freestyle
• 2024 Paris: Silver medal, 4x200m freestyle relay

The one different feminine swimmer to match Ledecky in gold medals is Jenny Thompson, the U.S. swimmer who competed in 1992, 1996 and 2000.

Thompson and Ledecky are neck-and-neck for many gold medals from a feminine Olympic swimmer from any nation.

When Ledecky medaled within the 4x200m freestyle relay on Thursday, her 13 medals put her in that prime tier alongside Thompson, Dana Torres and Natalie Coughlin.

Michael Phelps nonetheless holds the file for many Olympic medals of all time, with a whopping 23 Olympic golds, in keeping with NBC Olympics.

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Ledecky holds world data in two occasions, and has damaged world data over a dozen instances, in keeping with NBC Olympics.

And bear in mind how her 1500m freestyle race broke her personal Olympic file? That is occurred a majority of the time Ledecky has damaged a swimming file.

In whole, Ledecky owns the 20 quickest instances within the ladies’s 1500m freestyle occasion’s historical past. And it is no marvel, since she does issues like profitable her preliminary warmth by 17.83 seconds.

Ledecky additionally holds the world file within the 800m freestyle occasion.

Has anybody ever crushed Katie Ledecky?

With regards to world championships and the Olympics, Katie Ledecky is, so far, unbeaten within the the 800m freestyle and within the 1500m freestyle.

In Tokyo, Australian Ariarne Titmus beat Ledecky within the 400m freestyle by about half a second. Titmus additionally beat Ledecky, and Canada’s Summer time McIntosh, within the 400m freestyle in Paris on Saturday.

In keeping with NBC Olympics, Katie Ledecky “is comfortably the best distance swimmer of all time, no matter gender.” No swimmer comes near her file in occasions above 400m.

Not a superlative, however nonetheless cool

For her, frankly, astonishing swimming accomplishments, President Joe Biden awarded Katie Ledecky the Presidential Medal of Freedom earlier this yr.

It is the best civilian honor in the USA, and Ledecky joined the likes of Nancy Pelosi, Michelle Yeoh and Al Gore when she obtained the award in Might.

And in different cool Ledecky info, NBC Sports activities did the mathematics and discovered that she’s swum over 37 million meters in her lifetime — round 23,000 miles.

Meaning in the event you add up Ledecky’s time swimming — as an age group swimmer as a toddler, throughout her observe time occasions, in her world championship races, her time within the Olympics and her coaching — she has swum about so far as the circumference of the Earth.

Put one other means, Katie Ledecky may have swum one-tenth of the way in which to the moon by now.

U.S. swimming star Katie Ledecky shares what goes into a mean day.

On the 2024 Paris Video games there may not have been an occasion with a extra apparent favourite than Katie Ledecky and the ladies’s 1500m freestyle. The long-distance specialist owns the 19 quickest occasions within the occasion’s historical past and gained the 1500m in its debut in Tokyo. In a race that usually goes viral for photographs of Ledecky being to date in entrance of her opponents that they’re out of body, it wasn’t a query of if she’d win the race however by how a lot.

Ledecky completed with a time of 15:30.02, an Olympic file and ten seconds higher than the subsequent finisher, for her eighth profession Olympic gold medal to tie swimming nice Jenny Thompson for essentially the most Olympic gold medals by an American ladies. She additionally tied Thompson, Natalie Coughlin, and Dara Torres for essentially the most medals all time (12) by any U.S. girl in historical past.

The gap swimmer mirrored on the accomplishment after the race. “I attempt not to consider historical past very a lot,” she stated, “I do know these names, these folks I am up with. They’re folks I appeared as much as after I first began swimming. So it is an honor to be named amongst them. I am grateful for them inspiring me. There are such a lot of nice swimmers which have helped me get to this second.”

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In a shock and signal of what was to return, Coughlin was available to formally open the swim session with “les trois coups” (a ritual going down earlier than occasions at Paris 2024).

The race began as deliberate — on the 500m mark Ledecky was .11 seconds forward of her personal world file. She took over the world file in 2013 and has reset it one other 5 occasions.

On the 500m level, the race for second was thrilling although. France’s Anastasia Kirpichnikova, Italy’s Simona Quadarella and Germany’s Isabel Gose had been in a digital three-way tie.

With 400m remaining, Ledecky had fallen behind her world-record tempo by six seconds however was nonetheless forward of the Olympic-record tempo. In a present of true dominance, she persistently averaged lap occasions within the 31-second vary. In the meantime, Kirpichnikova held a snug second place whereas Quadarella and Gose battled for bronze.

Because the bell for the ultimate lap rang, Ledecky was properly out in entrance, the one query was may she earn a brand new Olympic file. The gang was roaring for the space nice as she touched the wall. The 15:30.02 time was her eighth-fastest time in her profession on the distance.

In the long run, France’s Kirpichnikova held on for silver whereas Germany’s Gose claimed bronze with a time of 15:41.16.

Ledecky already gained bronze within the ladies’s 400m freestyle. Her subsequent alternative to earn a medal will likely be within the ladies’s 4x200m freestyle relay on Thursday. If she accomplishes that, it might be her thirteenth profession Olympic medal, which might make her essentially the most adorned feminine U.S. Olympian in historical past. She would solely be behind Michael Phelps (28) general.

Ledecky’s subsequent alternative for a person medal would be the ladies’s 800m freestyle. The preliminary heats happen on Friday, August 2nd, with the ultimate set for Saturday, August third.

Dancehall star spent a decade in jail after he was discovered responsible in 2014 of killing Clive “Lizard” Williams, a verdict that was overturned earlier this yr

Snoop Dogg examined out his tremendous “lung energy” as he hit the pool for a particular lesson with swimming legend and Olympian Michael Phelps.

The hip-hop icon placed on a swimming cap and goggles for a one-on-one grasp class from Phelps, a 23-time gold Olympic medal winner, in a particular video in celebration of the 2024 Paris Olympics.

“In terms of one in every of my lifetime objectives, there’s just one man I can consider — Mr. 23-time, OG, the GOAT,” Snoop stated.

“You see me and MP, we return just like the backstroke. Now MP, how does one get quick within the pool?” he requested.

Phelps stated two issues are key: wingspan and lung energy.

“You simply described me! You stated wingspan, lung energy — I positively have nice lung energy,” Snoop, recognized for his songs about smoking marijuana, stated with amusing.

“And I do have a swimmer’s physique. Look, our our bodies are comparable, man,” he stated standing facet by facet with Phelps. “We may very well be twins!”

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The 2 legends acquired into the water with Phelps displaying Snoop the correct freestyle arm actions.

Snoop then confirmed off his freestyle — the swimming stroke, that’s.

When it was Phelps’ flip, Snoop watched with admiration, yelling, “OK flipper!”

The 2 then tried to freestyle in sync.

“Mike, you make this look too straightforward. You see I’m in gold medal situation,” Snoop stated, visibly panting. “And he’s nonetheless in gold medal situation as we communicate!”

“Shout out to the Phelps household and to the group that’s going to offer me some oxygen proper now,” he joked on the finish of the clip.

The boys’s 200-meter breaststroke, 100-meter freestyle, 200-meter butterfly and 800-meter freestyle will all happen Tuesday on the Olympics. 

Snoop has been lively on the Olympics. He carried the Olympic flame by means of the streets of Saint-Denis, a suburb north of Paris, this month, and he’s additionally a particular NBC Olympics correspondent for the Video games. 

NEW YORK – The Jamaica Court docket of Attraction ordered Vybz Kartel and his three codefendants to be freed after the ailing dancehall star spent years behind bars.

In a unanimous determination Wednesday, the courtroom determined in opposition to a retrial within the homicide of Clive “Lizard” Williams, whose physique was by no means discovered. 

The beautiful determination signifies that Vybz Kartel, Shawn Campbell, Kahira Jones, and Andre St. John shall be launched after years behind bars.

“We conclude that the curiosity of justice doesn’t require a brand new trial to be ordered,” the courtroom learn. 

The courtroom stated Wednesday, that there was adequate proof to recommend that Kartel wouldn’t be capable of full a probably longer sentence if there have been to be a retrial.

The courtroom cited the “psychological and monetary results that it could have on the appellants,” referring to Kartel’s well being.

His protection has cited the extreme lockdown situations he is been in since 2011. They’ve described his holding as a brick cell with no air circulation, no water, and a bucket for a bathroom.

“His neck was swollen, when you consider a shirt that’s about 18.5 inches within the neck space, you could not shut the collar on his neck and that is how dangerous it’s on this second,” his protection described to FOX 5. “His face is definitely swollen. And one different factor. He all the time wears glasses; on this situation, that causes his eyes to protrude.”

In 2023, a sworn medical affidavit from Kartel’s personal physician notified authorities that his Graves’ Illness and coronary heart situation had been getting worse, and that if he didn’t get surgical procedure quickly, it might be deadly. 

The report obtained completely by FOX 5 NY detailed his battle with thyroid illness. 

Why was Vybz Kartel in jail?

Vybz Kartel, formally referred to as Adidja Palmer – and his three co-defendants have been behind bars in a Jamaican jail since their arrests in 2011, and subsequent 2014 conviction, for the homicide of Clive “Lizard” Williams, whose physique was by no means discovered. 

The conviction got here from a largely circumstantial case primarily based on video and cellphone information from his BlackBerry Torch and a discredited witness.

All through the years, he is proclaimed his innocence and fought to have the conviction thrown out. 

Kartel’s conviction was quashed this spring, and the British Privy Council gave the Jamaican courtroom the possibility to determine on a retrial or outright acquittal, that means there could be no additional prosecution. 

For many of his time in jail, Kartel had reportedly been battling Graves’ Illness beneath situations his lawyer says are “inhumane.”

Attorneys representing the defendants made an attraction again in 2020, however the convictions had been upheld.

The attraction was then pushed to the United Kingdom-based Privy Council, Jamaica’s remaining courtroom of attraction, in 2024, which overturned the convictions as a consequence of juror misconduct.

Regardless of the large win, their combat for freedom has hung within the steadiness. The Privy Council, in impact, kicked the case again to the Jamaican Court docket of Appeals to make the last word determination. 

FOX 5 NY will proceed to deliver unique perception because the case strikes in the direction of conclusion. Verify again for updates. 

From rap legend to lap legend, there was no doggie paddling within the shallow finish of the pool when Olympic particular NBC correspondent Snoop Dogg acquired into water with the G.O.A.T., Michael Phelps.

In a enjoyable promotional video for the 2024 Summer season Olympic Video games in Paris, Snoop lived out one in all his lifelong swimming desires, made doable by the one and solely Olympics icon. Cited by Snoop because the O.G., the keeper of 28 Olympic medals — 23 of that are gold — thrilled to happy to see the musician flaunt his freestyle stroke within the pool.

In fact, it wasn’t as straightforward as Phelps made it seem.

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Snoop Dogg and Michael Phelps get able to swim

Snoop arrived on the personal indoor pool ready, representing Group USA with a custom-made pink, white, and blue swimming gown. Phelps was additionally prepared, sporting a sporty navy jacket and a white high emblazoned with the U.S. flag.

“See, me and M.P., we return just like the backstroke,” Snoop informed cameras.

He requested Phelps about the important thing to gaining velocity within the water, to which Phelps mentioned it was all about wingspan and lung energy.

“I positively have lung energy,” Snoop joked. “And I do have a swimmer’s physique.”

The boys stood aspect by aspect to display their “twin”-like physiques.

Snoop does the freestyle stroke

The pair stripped all the way down to their swimsuits and positioned their swimming caps on their heads, although, in contrast to Phelps, Snoop declined to make use of a pair of goggles. The rapper then went beneath the water earlier than breaking out into an arm-over-arm freestyle stroke, changing into winded when he reached the opposite finish of the pool.

“Swimming’s robust, huh?” Phelps laughed.

“It’s!” Snoop responded.

When it was Phelps’ flip to swim underwater, Snoop known as his show “gangsta.”

Snoop placed on his goggles for the second lap, and the boys kicked off the pool’s aspect and swam concurrently. The “Drop It Like It’s Sizzling” singer remarked that Phelps made the game look all too straightforward, realizing that lung energy was no joke so far as aggressive swimming went.

Nonetheless, Snoop was as proud as punch, high-fiving the athlete when efficiently finishing their swim.

“As you see, I’m in gold-medal situation,” an out-of-breath Snoop informed NBC Sports activities. “And he’s nonetheless in gold-medal situation … as we converse.”

The boys smiled as Snoop gave a shoutout to the Phelps household, “and to the group that’s gonna give me some oxygen proper now.”

Michael Phelps to the 2024 Olympic swimmers

The legendary Phelps retired following the 2016 Video games in Rio de Janeiro, however that hasn’t stopped him from remaining a visual presence within the sport, becoming a member of NBC’s swimming protection within the Metropolis of Mild and supporting his fellow athletes. In a July 27, 2024, sit-down with NBC Information correspondent Lester Holt, he mentioned he held excessive hopes for Katie Ledecky, Kate Douglass, Jack Alexy, and Hunter Armstrong.

“It’s sort of actually anybody’s ball sport,” mentioned Phelps.

He added what he thought was the “best factor” in regards to the present lineup of aggressive swimmers.

“You actually see the youthful technology that’s stepping up,” Phelps continued. “It doesn’t matter in the event that they’re racing Katie Ledecky; it doesn’t matter in the event that they’re racing Caeleb Dressel; they assume they will beat them, and that’s the sort of angle and the mentality we have to have once we’re going up and racing the very best on the planet.”