Day Six Highlights | European Athletics Championships | Roma 2024 - YouTube - conclusion of competition

Gold Medalists 4x100m relay ITA m pole vault Duplantis SWE m 1500m Ingebrigtsen NOR m long jump Mihambo GER w 4x400m relay NED w 4x100m relay GBR w 4x400m relay BEL m 800m Hodgkinson GBR w javelin Vadlejch CZE m 10000m Lobalu SUI m Commentary:The British women excelled tonight.The Italian team did especially well overall.

Day Five Highlights | European Athletics Championships | Roma 2024 - YouTube

Gold Medalists Tamberi ITA high jump m Fortun SPA triple jump m Bol NED 400m hurdles w Warholm NOR 400M hurdles m Kambundji SUI 200m w Battocleti ITA 10000m w Hudson AUT javelin w Erm EST Decathlon m,Europe's greatest male athlete Thiam BEL won the gold in heptathlon,so deserves the title Europe's greatest female athlete.

Day Four Highlights | European Athletics Championships | Roma 2024

Gold medal winners Kaczmarek POL 400m w Doom (pronounced Dome) BEL 400m m Mumenthaler SWI 200m m Miellet FRA 3000m steeplechase m Fantini ITA hammer throw w Moser SWI pole vault w

Rebecca Sramkova vs. Jelena Ostapenko | 2024 Rome Round of 16 | WTA Match Highlights YouTube - Italy

rr Rebecca Sramkova of Slovakia vs. Jelena Ostapenko of Latvia The winner goes to the quarter finals. Note:This blog found the commentator to be biased against Ostapenko.

Jelena Ostapenko vs. Sara Sorribes Tormo | 2024 Rome Round 3 | WTA Match Highlights - YouTube - 12 May 2024 - Italy

Jelena Ostapenko of Latvia vs. Sara Torribe Tormo of Spain.The winner goes to the round of 16.

Naomi Osaka vs. Marta Kostyuk | 2024 Rome Round 2 | WTA Match Highlights - YouTube - Italy

Commentary:Naomi,the four-time major winner,has the ability to be dominant again.

Naomi Osaka vs. Clara Burel | 2024 Rome Round 1 | WTA Match Highlights - YouTube - Italy

Naomi Osaka of Japan vs. Clara Burel of France

Femke Bol's meet record holds off Americans in tough Florence 400 hurdles - NBC Sports

Wild Horses - The Rolling Stones - Milan - 21st June 2022 - video by Matt Lee

Gimme Shelter - The Rolling Stones - Milan - 21st June 2022 - with Chanel Haynes - video by Matt Lee

Mikaela Shiffrin:American Teen is Alpine's New Star

Team USA won its second alpine skiing gold medal Friday as reigning World Champion Mikaela Shiffrin,18,beat two Austrians at their own game,the slalom.Shiffrin overcame a bobble when her left ski left the snow,a mark of a skier's strength and maturity,to win the slalom gold at the youngest age in Olympic history.Austria's Marlies Schild,32,whose 35 World Cup slalom victories are the most in history and is Shiffrin's idol,took the silver,and her compatriot Kathrin Zettel won the bronze,her first ever Olympic medal after years of effort.
The precocious American Shiffrin began competing in Europe at age 16,traveling with her mother.I want to get farther than anyone's ever gotten,Shiffrin said.She's been showing the aptitude and determination to do just that.*
In speedskating,Team USA had been shut out of the medals going into Friday,consternating team members and fans alike.This was remedied in the 5,000 meter short track relay,when Russia,led by anchor Victor Ahn,won the gold and the Americans with their anchor C.R.Celski hung on for silver,as China and the Netherlands fell to the wayside and Kazakhstan lagged behind.China ended up with the bronze.Still,the US won six short track medals at Vancouver 2010 and a total of 18 in Olympic history,so a sense of disappointment in their Sochi performance remains.*
The featured videos this week are both by Madonna:"Live To Tell" and "Like A Virgin."
"Live To Tell" unfolds to a height of drama seldom reached in a music video;while "Like A Virgin" takes us to Venice,a tribute to the Italian American Madonna's European roots.