Former Italy goalkeeper and World Cup winner Gianluigi Buffon has retired from football aged 45. Buffon brings an end to a 28-year career that saw him lift the World Cup in 2006 along with 10 Serie A titles with Juventus and Ligue 1 with Paris St-Germain. He ends his career where it began in 1995, at Parma, now a Serie B club.
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Tiger Woods says the PGA Tour is at a “critical point” after joining the Tour’s policy board – as it was also announced no future changes can be approved without player consent.
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Liverpool have named Virgil van Dijk as their new captain and Trent Alexander-Arnold as vice-captain following the exits of Jordan Henderson and James Milner. Henderson spent eight years as skipper following Steven Gerrard’s departure in 2015 but vacated the armband when he moved to Saudi Pro League side Al Ettifaq
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Max Verstappen was in imperious form as he came from sixth on the grid to win the Belgian Grand Prix. The Red Bull driver’s eighth consecutive victory in the final race before the summer break extended his championship lead to 125 points. Verstappen led Sergio Perez home to a Red Bull one-two Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc took third ahead of Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton.
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Max Verstappen caught and passed McLaren’s Oscar Piastri to win an incident-packed wet sprint race at the Belgian Grand Prix. Piastri, who started second behind Verstappen, took the lead as a result of stopping for a change to intermediate tyres as soon as the race was started following five laps behind the safety car. Alpine’s Pierre Gasly was a surprise third.
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