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England pacer Freya Davies marries her longtime partner Andy Blood; pics go viral

Table of Contents On Saturday, April 19, England’s pace sensation, Freya Ruth Davies, added a beautiful chapter to her personal story by marrying her longtime partner, Andy Blood, a talented hockey player representing Horsham Hockey Club. Freya Davies embarks on a new journey with Andy Blood The wedding, set against the stunning springtime backdrop of […]

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England pacer Freya Davies marries her longtime partner Andy Blood; pics go viral

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On Saturday, April 19, England’s pace sensation, Freya Ruth Davies, added a beautiful chapter to her personal story by marrying her longtime partner, Andy Blood, a talented hockey player representing Horsham Hockey Club.

Freya Davies embarks on a new journey with Andy Blood

The wedding, set against the stunning springtime backdrop of Southend Barns in Sussex, reflected both warmth and intimacy. Surrounded by close family and friends, the couple shared a celebration that was as elegant as it was heartfelt. Freya later captured the joy of the occasion with a radiant Instagram post on May 3, simply captioned: “19.04.25 Married AF,”

The ceremony at Southend Barns reflected Freya and Andy’s grounded, authentic bond. As two athletes from different sports, their union symbolized the merging of passion, discipline, and shared values. The atmosphere was intimate yet uplifting, with heartfelt speeches, genuine smiles, and the soft charm of the countryside surrounding them.

Andy Blood and Freya Davies (Image Source: Instagram)

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Freya’s Instagram post, featuring a glowing photograph and a caption as unapologetically real as her cricket, offered fans a glimpse of her life away from the spotlight, a day filled with joy, vulnerability, and sincere celebration.

A bowler of class for England cricket

On the field, Freya Davies is a portrait of discipline and precision. Known for her smooth action and trademark outswingers, she has earned a reputation as one of England’s most dependable white-ball bowlers. In ODIs, she has taken 10 wickets at a respectable average of 31.10, with a tidy economy of 4.41, stats that only begin to reflect her true value. In T20Is, she’s bagged 23 wickets across 25 innings, boasting a standout four-wicket haul and an economy of 6.84. Her commitment on the field is matched by the grace she carries off it, a quality now beautifully echoed in her life with Andy.

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Asian Athletics

Records were broken, history was made as new champions emerged. That was the Indian athletics’ story from the track and field arena of the Gumi Civic stadium in South Korea on Thursday. In a scintillating show at the Asian championships, the country’s athletes claimed three gold, two silver and a bronze in different events to […]

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Avinash Sable set the ball rolling by winning the men’s 3000m steeplechase, which was followed by Jyothi Yarraji’s sensational gold in the women’s 100m hurdles. The third top podium finish came in the women’s 4x400m relay, powered by the Indian quartet of Jisna Mathew, Rupal Chaudhary, Kunja Rajitha and Subha Venkatesan. The men’s 4x400m relay team took silver and Ancy Sojan and Shaili Singh ensured a 2-3 finish in the women’s long jump final.

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Sable’s last-lap burst

The day started with Asian Games gold medallist Sable ending the country’s 36-year-long wait for a gold medal in the men’s 3000m steeplechase in the continental meet. Sable clocked a season-best 8:20.92s. He had won silver in the Doha edition in 2019. Sable became the first Indian man since Dina Ram in 1989 to win continental gold in this event.

In a tactical race, the 30-year-old Indian surged ahead in the last lap, picking up pace to overtake Japan’s Yutaro Niinae (8:24.41s) just before the first hurdle. Qatar’s Zakaria Elahlaami (8:27.12s) finished third.

“The pace of the race was slow. It was about preserving your energy for the last. Going into the race, I was confident about my chances since I had prepared well for the event. The wet and rainy conditions increased the difficulty level but I managed to execute my plans,” Sable said after his race.

Jyothi, Asia’s finest

Jyothi became the first Indian to win back-to-back gold in the women’s 100m hurdles at the Asian meet. She crossed the finish line in a new continental record of 12.96s. The Hangzhou Asian Games silver medallist sailed over the last two hurdles effortlessly to move ahead of her rivals – Japan’s Yumi Tanaka and China’s Wu Yanni – both of whom clocked an identical 13.07s.

On her way to gold, Jyothi improved the long standing continental record of 12.97s, set in 1998 in Fukuoka, Japan by Yun Feng. The time of 12.96s was Jyothi’s season best. “I am happy to have broken the 13 seconds barrier again. It’s a good start to my season. It was a tough race as I wasn’t the quickest off the blocks. I trailed them (Tanaka and Wu) for most part of the race. In the final stretch, I was able to clear the hurdles. It helped me,” Jyothi said.

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Gaines challenges ex

A feud started between former NCAA swimmer and activist Riley Gaines and former ESPN and MSNBC Keith Olbermann when he quoted an X post from Education Secretary Linda McMahon praising Gaines for her hard training and that she “would have clearly won if she had been competing against women.” 0

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Josh Hazlewood's indirect message to players leaving teams to prepare for WTC 2025 final

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Josh Hazlewood's indirect message to players leaving teams to prepare for WTC 2025 final

After the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 was suspended for a week due to military conflict on India-Pakistan border, there were speculations that Australian players may not return for the remainder of the season. While Delhi Capitals (DC) Mitchell Starc opted out after Dharamsala game was cancelled midway, Josh Hazlewood returned after recovering from shoulder injury and made an impact in the playoffs. While a few World Test Championship (WTC) final-bound players left, especially South Africans, Hazlewood chose to stay and wrecked Punjab Kings (PBKS) batting lineup in Qualifier 1 on May 29. In the post-match press conference, Hazlewood said that it is better to prepare by bowling in the IPL to get the intensity right rather than joining the camp.

“…I’ve got to be bowling, you know wherever I am in the world, I’ve got to be bowling getting ready for that game (WTC final) anyway,” said Hazlewood after RCB reached their fourth IPL final with an eight-wicket win against PBKS.

“There’s no better place than I think out in the middle, obviously you’ve got to bowl more, more hours of training from time to time to build up for a Test, but to get that intensity right up, there’s no better place than the IPL,” he added.

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Hazlewood stuck to Test match approach

Hazlewood had not played a game since April 27. He revealed that he bowled like the way he does in Test cricket in Qualifier 1. He was happy with his performance after coming back from shoulder injury.

“I don’t bowl too much differently in Test match cricket than tonight,” said the veteran pacer.

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“(I have) worked really hard the last few weeks on the shoulders to get back and got some good overs into it the last sort of 10 days, and yeah it is feeling good to be back…

“…So, I was happy with tonight, the wicket helped obviously didn’t it? Not having to bowl fast yorkers or anything like that. So yeah it is feeling good to be back.”

With the new ball, Hazlewood got the wicket of captain Shreyas Iyer followed by his Australian teammate Josh Inglis. He returned to dismiss Azmatullah Omarzai and bowl out PBKS for 101.

Hazlewood has missed four games for RCB this season. Despite that, he has 21 wickets from 11 games at an average of 15.80. His economy rate is 8.30 runs per over.

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As 'Pretty Little Baby' Goes Viral, Connie Francis Is Joining TikTok

With a forgotten song becoming an unlikely hit, the 87-year-old singer is happy to be back in the spotlight. Sixty-four years ago, Connie Francis recorded “Pretty Little Baby” as one of dozens of songs in a marathon recording session that yielded three albums within two weeks. It did not, at the time, feel like a […]

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As 'Pretty Little Baby' Goes Viral, Connie Francis Is Joining TikTok

With a forgotten song becoming an unlikely hit, the 87-year-old singer is happy to be back in the spotlight.

Sixty-four years ago, Connie Francis recorded “Pretty Little Baby” as one of dozens of songs in a marathon recording session that yielded three albums within two weeks. It did not, at the time, feel like a song that had the makings of a hit, so it landed on the B-side of the 1962 single “I’m Gonna Be Warm This Winter” that was released in Britain. Since then, it was more or less overlooked.

Then came TikTok and its canny ability to resurrect decades-old songs for a new generation.

Over the last few weeks, “Pretty Little Baby” has been trending on the social media app — it has been featured as the sound in more than 600,000 TikTok posts and soared to top spots in Spotify’s Viral 50 global and U.S. lists — bolstered by celebrities and influencers, like Nara Smith, Kylie Jenner, and Kim Kardashian and her daughter North, who have posted videos of themselves lip-syncing to it.

The ABBA singer Agnetha Fältskog used the song for a clip on TikTok in which she said Ms. Francis had long been her favorite singer. And the Broadway actress Gracie Lawrence, who is currently playing Ms. Francis in “Just in Time” — a play about Bobby Darin, Ms. Francis’s onetime romantic partner — also posted a video of herself lip-syncing to it, in her 1960s costume and hair.

The song’s current popularity is an unexpected twist to Ms. Francis’s long and illustrious career. In 1960, she became the first female singer to top the Billboard Hot 100 and, by the time she was 26 years old, she had sold 42 million records and had two more singles top the Billboard charts. But this particular song, which she recorded in seven different languages, remained so obscure that Ms. Francis, 87, told People magazine that she had forgotten ever recording it.

Amid the frenzy of the unexpected attention, Ms. Francis is trying to figure out how to turn this sudden attention into opportunities for herself. She and her publicist, Ron Roberts, enlisted Mr. Roberts’s son to help them set up a TikTok account for her and, in a phone interview on Thursday, she said she had been mulling the idea of emerging from retirement to do some kind of show in the next few months.

This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.

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Top athlete forced to choose between OnlyFans and Olympics after he's suspended from competing

Paddle UK has issued a statement after he made a spicy page in January Kurts Adams Rozentals, a British canoeist with dreams of competing at the Olympics, has been suspended by governing body Paddle UK after “allegations” surrounding his posts on TikTok and Instagram. Back in April, Paddle UK kicked Kurts out of its World […]

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Top athlete forced to choose between OnlyFans and Olympics after he's suspended from competing

Paddle UK has issued a statement after he made a spicy page in January

Kurts Adams Rozentals, a British canoeist with dreams of competing at the Olympics, has been suspended by governing body Paddle UK after “allegations” surrounding his posts on TikTok and Instagram.

Back in April, Paddle UK kicked Kurts out of its World Class Programme, a fast track to the Olympics, pending a deeper investigation into his online presence. Though the investigation is still being carried out, with specific details yet to be revealed, Kurts Adams Rozentals believes it’s because he’s on OnlyFans.

“I have been posting videos that are consciously made to be edgy in order to drive conversions to my ‘spicy content page’, to fund this ultimate dream of going to the Olympics,” he told BBC Sport after a viral Instagram post.

With 74k followers on Instagram, 39 videos and over 100 photos on OnlyFans, he claims to have pulled in £100,000 since starting his account back in January 2025. When Paddle UK suspended him in April, he recalls freezing as his goals of becoming an Olympian were thrown into the air.

“I kind of froze and I couldn’t believe the words I was hearing because this is what I put my life into this is everything I do,” Kurts, who competes in the individual canoe slalom, added. “My personality at this point, my identity, is sport, and I want to be a professional athlete chasing my Olympic dream.”

Speaking to the BBC, a representative for Paddle UK explained how Kurts Adams Rozentals’ ban was not disciplinary action, but an interim action “designed to protect all parties” and to “safeguard other athletes, staff, and volunteers due to the nature of the allegation.”

“Paddle UK is committed to ensuring a safe and open environment for all, and interim action under the Athlete Disciplinary Policy is only taken where necessary and proportionate,” the governing body added.

Why did Kurts Adams Rozentals start an OnlyFans?

Each athlete on Paddle UK’s World Class Programme receives a grant of £16k to pay for training, equipment, and preparation, so you might be wondering why Kurts Adams Rozental felt the need to start OnlyFans in the first place.

“I don’t know how much you need, but it’s certainly not £16,000,” he explained. “When you have to cover rent, travel, food… and most athletes who train full-time are all living in London. They’re very fortunate to have parental backing – I wasn’t. I never had the ability to move to London because of financial struggles, so I was always doing the travel from the East Midlands, where I live, to London, back-and-forth, back-and-forth.”

When asked what he would do if forced to pick between OnlyFans and the Olympics, he noted how it was the “hardest decision” of his life.

He explained: “I came to the realisation about why I started doing this last winter after years of struggle, years of living on the edge, my mum working 90 hours a week, having bailiffs at the door.

“I’m going to find a way where we don’t have to struggle, where my mum can enjoy her life and I’m able to put everything into this sport because when you’re thinking about how to pay the rent this month and you’re standing at the start line, that’s not very conducive [to performing well].

“It’s a tough decision but unless something changes in the way athletes are paid I don’t see a way of working with Paddle UK.”

Kurts wouldn’t even be the first Olympian to be making huge money on the x-rated platform, with gold medallist Jack Laugher on OnlyFans alongside Noah Williams, Robbie Manson, Alysha Newman, and Luana Alonso.

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Arthur Fils Shirtless Triumph

Arthur Fils, the rising star of the tennis world, made headlines at Roland Garros with his jaw-dropping victory celebration. In a match that kept fans on the edge of their seats, Fils faced off against Jaume Munar in a thrilling five-setter following his win against Nicolas Jarry in the opening round. But it wasn’t just […]

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But it wasn’t just Fils’ performance on the court that had everyone talking. The moment of glory came when Fils clinched the victory and decided to remove his shirt in a bold and iconic celebration that will be remembered for years to come.

The young athlete’s move not only showcased his confidence and charisma but also solidified his presence as a force to be reckoned with in the world of tennis. Fils’ fearless attitude and undeniable talent have undoubtedly marked him as a rising star to watch in the upcoming tournaments.

As the tennis world buzzes with excitement over Fils’ memorable celebration, fans and critics alike are left in awe of the young player’s fearless and electrifying performance at Roland Garros.