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      Air of inevitability blows in as Scottie Scheffler seizes control of the Open

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 5 days ago - 20:17

    • Dominant Scheffler moves four clear of the field

    • Li Haotong and Matt Fitzpatrick lead pursuit

    Scottie Scheffler still had 20 holes of this Open Championship still to play. History tells us leads can evaporate in just one. Dense rough, links bunkers, the scale of pressure attached to the oldest major. Open calamity is written in folklore. The ghost of Jean van de Velde still lingers. And yet, the bookmakers had Scheffler at only 1-8 to lift the Claret Jug. The fat lady had cleared her throat. Twenty holes. What sporting planet is this?

    It is possible to run out of adjectives for Scheffler. Unflappable, remarkable, relentless. Nobody will ever match the impact of Tiger Woods on golf but it really is no exaggeration to suggest Scheffler can be similarly dominant. Come Sunday evening on the Causeway Coast, Scheffler will surely be a four-time major winner and three-quarters of the way towards a career grand slam. This is only his 24th major start as a professional. In one of them, his pursuit of glory was undermined by being thrown into a police cell.

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      Tech CEO caught with company’s HR head on Coldplay kiss cam resigns

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 5 days ago - 20:03

    Andy Byron leaves startup Astronomer after he and Kristin Cabot were placed on leave over Jumbotron incident

    The married CEO who was filmed at a Coldplay concert in the US with his arms around his company’s HR head in a video that went viral has now resigned, the company Astronomer said on Saturday.

    In a post on Linkedin, the software startup said: “Andy Byron has tendered his resignation, and the Board of Directors has accepted.”

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      The moment I knew: as the curtains fell on our first performance, the electricity between us was palpable

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 5 days ago - 20:00

    At first, Australian soprano Nicole Car found her costar’s confidence curiously endearing. Later she realised they had serious chemistry, on and off the stage

    In 2015 I was making my European debut singing the role of Tatiana in Tchiakovsky’s Eugene Onegin in Berlin. I’d been offered the contract at relatively short notice and was assured by the casting director not to worry, my French-Canadian co-star was “a real charmer”. I took it with a grain of salt.

    On the first day of rehearsals, Étienne (the charmer) arrived for a brief introduction before he rushed off to debut a very big role, playing Posa in Verdi’s Don Carlos.

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      There is one universal sex tip. It is simple, teachable and obvious

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 5 days ago - 20:00

    How do we get better at discussing sexual satisfaction when our genitals are synonymous with the word ‘unmentionables’? It takes no luck, no money and can be learned

    In the fifth season of the British cringe comedy series Peep Show about two dysfunctional flatmates, Mark tells Jeremy that, for the first time in his life, he thinks he’s getting sex right. This is thanks to new partner’s very explicit instructions. “That’s cheating,” Jeremy complains. “Anyone can please a woman if she tells you what to do. You’re not allowed to ask. That’s the whole point.”

    I’ve spent a year trying to figure out why straight women are statistically last on the list when it comes to having pleasurable sex, but that one minute of television pretty much sums it up.

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      ‘How did I feel giving the baby away? I never thought of it like that’: inside a weekend retreat for surrogate mothers

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 5 days ago - 20:00

    They don’t do it for money, and pregnancy takes a toll. So why do women lend their wombs to carry a baby for strangers they’ve met online?

    As I walk out of Hobart airport’s small arrivals hall, I immediately spot the person I’m looking for. My contact, Mollie D’Arcy, is standing at the exit, heavily pregnant. Her baby bump isn’t the only giveaway – she’s holding up a laminated sign in hot pink writing, sticky taped to a retractable light sabre toy. It reads, “Surrogates on Tour.”

    It’s mid-September 2024 and D’Arcy is this year’s Surrogacy Sisterhood Retreat organiser and captain. Since its inception in 2018, it’s the first time this event, a roving annual weekend away for surrogates past and present, has made it to Tasmania.

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      Oleksandr Usyk v Daniel Dubois: undisputed heavyweight championship – live updates

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 5 days ago - 19:58

    The stakes could hardly be higher. On Saturday night at Wembley Stadium, Oleksandr Usyk and Daniel Dubois will square off once again, this time with every major heavyweight title on the line and a crowd of 90,000 watching from the stands.

    It’s been nearly two years since their first encounter in Wroclaw, where Usyk weathered a contentious low blow and stopped Dubois in the ninth round. That bout ended with more questions than answers. Was Dubois denied a fair shot by referee Luis Pabon’s ruling? Or did Usyk simply prove, as he has time and again, that he’s one of the sport’s most complete fighters?

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      Masked rioters attack highway and clash with police in Limoges, France

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 5 days ago - 19:52

    Overnight violence leaves nine police wounded, say authorities, who suspect a gang turf war

    Dozens of masked assailants wielding metal bars, mortars and molotov cocktails attacked cars on a highway and clashed with police early on Saturday in the city of Limoges in central France, officials said.

    The overnight clashes left nine police wounded, according to authorities, who said they suspected a gang turf war.

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      Third person arrested after violent clashes outside Essex hotel for asylum seekers

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 5 days ago - 19:14

    Police detained man, 33, on Saturday on suspicion of violent disorder and criminal damage

    A third person has been arrested after violent clashes outside a hotel housing asylum seekers in Essex, police said.

    Eight police officers were injured in what started as a peaceful protest outside the Bell hotel in Epping on Thursday evening.

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      In the crazed transfer trolley dash, the next glossy off-the-shelf solution is all the rage | Jonathan Wilson

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 5 days ago - 19:00

    Early moves in the market are revealing about the state of the Premier League title contenders and their priorities

    The transfer window at this stage is essentially fan fiction. What if Dr Frankenstein had turned up at Pemberley and conducted a waspish romance with Elizabeth Bennet? What if Akela was not just a wolf but a werewolf? What if famous and attractive Tennis Player X were having a fling with famous and attractive Tennis Player Y? And what if Arsenal actually signed a centre-forward?

    There hasn’t yet been time for reality to intervene. It’s like the day after the World Cup draw when everything exists in a realm of pure perfection and you can imagine the platonic ideal of each country facing off, unsullied by form, injury or disputes over bonuses.

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