🗞 Aussies going wild in Europe

July 04, 2021

G'day sports fans,

Classic quote: "I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars …the rest I just squandered." - George Best

In today's edition of Sport Journal:

🇦🇺 Another round of upsets

🏉 Origin teams announced

🇦🇺 Aussies going wild in Europe

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🇦🇺 AFL

Watch all the best highlights from a brilliant round of football

Another round of upsets has added even more spice to the run home, with a new ladder leader, the premiers' reign all but over and another perennial contender looking shakier than ever.

Melbourne has tumbled from the top of the ladder after its surprise defeat against Greater Western Sydney, with the Demons looking suddenly shaky up forward.

Richmond has fallen out of the eight after its loss to Gold Coast and will have to pull off a monumental comeback to mount a realistic charge for a fourth premiership in five years.

Meanwhile, West Coast's issues with winning away from Perth have become a major problem after a thrashing at the hands of Sydney. (AFL)

🇦🇺 Around the state leagues: Gun mids return from injury, Maurice Rioli magic on show (AFL)

🤕 Taylor Walker could miss next week's game after suffering a neck injury against Brisbane.

🤕 Aaron Naughton landed heavily in a marking contest late in the second quarter of the Bulldogs' 29-point victory over the Kangaroos, and the concussion symptoms he picked up from the blow will ensure he has to sit out the match against John Longmire's side.

🏉 NRL

📄 Blues Origin III team: Freddy names TWO Origin debutants as Moses wins race to No.7 spot.

Mitchell Moses will make his State of Origin debut on Wednesday week after winning the race to the NSW No.7 jumper, which was left vacant due to Nathan Cleary’s shoulder injury. (NRL)

📄 Maroons Origin III team: Fifita faces ban as Holmes gets crusher reprieve.

Titans star David Fifita will have to beat a one-game ban at the NRL judiciary to take his place in the Queensland side but Valentine Holmes will avoid suspension for his crusher tackle on Kalyn Ponga.

❌ ‘Gutted’ NRL boss ‘disappointed’ in Dragons, warns of ‘significant’ sanction after Covid breach

NRL CEO Andrew Abdo is “gutted” over the latest Covid breach and says the Dragons players involved will receive a “significant sanction” if all allegations are proven true.

⚽️ Football

👩‍👦 Pushy mum alert; Veronique, a.k.a Adrien Rabiot's (French International) mum, reportedly told Mbappe's father his son was "arrogant", adding: “It is embarrassing how he struck that, for a player of his level. He hit it too lightly. I hope you are going to scold him.”

🥅 Lionel Messi scored a free-kick and set up two goals to inspire Argentina to a 3-0 win over Ecuador and set up a Copa America semi-final against Colombia. The last time they won the tournament was in 1993.

🦅 Crystal Palace have appointed Patrick Vieira to succeed Roy Hodgson as the Premier League club's manager.

🌍 World Sport

What a day for Aussies in Europe:

⛳️ Australia's Lucas Herbert won the Irish Open by 3 shots, for an impressive wire-to-wire win (in a field that included some big names, like Rory McIlroy & Shane Lowry). The win qualifies him for the Open Champions ship in two weeks time. The AU$790k winners purse is not the be sniffed at either.

🚴🏼‍♀️ Australia's Ben O'Connor produced a brilliantly composed ride to win stage nine of the Tour de France but fell short of taking the yellow jersey.

The AG2R Citroen rider conquered the bruising mountainous finish in Tignes and is second behind defending champion Tadej Pogacar in the overall standings.

🏀 The Milwaukee Bucks reached the NBA Finals for the first time since 1974 by overcoming the Atlanta Hawks to win the Eastern Conference title.

They will play Western Conference victors the Phoenix Suns in the final.

The first game in the best-of-seven series will take place in Phoenix from 11am AEST on Wednesday.

🏀 Three players from NBL21 have been named in the Australian Boomers team for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic games. (NBL)

🏉 Semi Radradra has done just about everything across the two rugby codes. Now, the former Parramatta Eels flyer turned Flying Fijian can put the Olympic Games on his resume too. (Fox)

🏎 Red Bull's Max Verstappen dominated at his team's own track for the second time in a week to take control of the drivers' championship.

Verstappen's victory in the Austrian Grand Prix was his fourth in five races and moves him into a 32-point lead over title rival Lewis Hamilton.

The Mercedes driver had a troubled race and finished fourth behind team-mate Valtteri Bottas and McLaren's Lando Norris.

🌭 Our boy, Joey Chestnut will try to beat his own world record today, eating more than 75 hot dogs in 10 minutes.

  • 13x champ

  • 5 straight titles

  • Avg. win by 18+ hot dogs

"I'm hoping I can find that perfect rhythm…76, 77 sounds doable."

🐴 Racing

🙋🏻‍♀️ Jamie Kah’s ability to shut-out the hype around her dominant and imminent record Victorian season has helped the star jockey “rise above” the pressure, trailblazer Clare Lindop says.

Kah will head to Sandown on Wednesday needing one win to create Victorian racing history.

A Flemington double on Saturday saw Kah move to 99 winners this season.

Brett Prebble holds the record (99 1/2), which the champion jockey set in the 1999-00 season. (racenet)

“I really hope she cracks the 100 soon because I know the pressure of the media attention gets you a little bit,” Lindop said.

🗞 Back on Wednesday!

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