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Post by Shireblogger on Nov 1, 2017 11:22:29 GMT 1
M-SPORTM-Sport was founded in 1979 by Malcolm Wilson, to prepare his Ford Escort rally car for the World Championships. The company was, and still is, located in Cockermouth, Cumbria. Although Wilson himself was only moderately successful as a driver, his team built a reputation for engineering highly competitive rally cars. In 1996 Ford chose M-Sport as its partner in the World Rally Championship, and in 2006 and 2007 the team won the constructor's title. However, recently Ford has withdrawn its overt support for the team, leaving them to compete as a privateer team. At the Rally of Wales last weekend, M-Sport clinched the 2017 World Rally Championship Constructor's title - the first time a privateer team (as opposed to a manufacturer-sponsored team) has prevailed for at least 30 years. The team is still managed by Malcolm Wilson, and still runs Fords. But now it has almost 200 employees, has an M-Sport Poland division, and also competes in the World Rallycross Championship and the Blancpain GT Endurance Championship, where it runs Bentleys. The Rally of Wales is the British leg of the World Championship, and has previously been known as the RAC Rally and the Network Q Rally. Welshman Elfyn Evans won the race, becoming the first Welshman ever to win the British Rally, and the first Brit since Richard Burns in 2000. His co-driver, Daniel Barritt, comes from Burnley, and became the first British co-driver to win the British leg of the World Championship since Phil Mills in 2005.
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Post by Shireblogger on Nov 5, 2017 12:02:00 GMT 1
RYAN BURNETTOn 21st October, Belfast's 25 year-old Ryan Burnett beat Kazakhstan's Zhanat Zhakiyanov to claim the WBA Bantamweight world title. He adds this to the IBF Bantamweight world title that he won on 10th June after beating Bristol's Lee Haskins.
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Post by Shireblogger on Nov 5, 2017 12:08:15 GMT 1
GEORGE GROVESOne I missed. On 27th May London's 29 year-old George Groves beat Russia's Fedor Chudinov to take the vacant WBA Super-Middleweight world title at Brammall Lane, Sheffield. He retained the title on 14th October at the Wembley Arena, when he knocked-out Swindon's Jamie Cox.
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Post by Shireblogger on Nov 13, 2017 9:55:24 GMT 1
GREG TOWNLEY, ELLIOTT BROWNE, KRISTOF WILLERTON & KALLUM MULHALL2017 World Champions in the Gymnastic sport of Trampolining - Men's Tumbling Team category. The competition finished yesterday in Sofia, Bulgaria. The Trampolining World Championships have 14 medal events, and China won 7 of them. Great Britain finished 4th in the medal table (1 gold, 3 silver, 3 bronze), behind China, Russia and Belarus, although our team won more medals than Belarus. GB's other medallists:- Women's Tumbling Team: Yasmin Taite, Rachel Davies & Lucie Colebeck Women's Double Mini Team silver: Kim Beattie, Phoebe Williams & Kirsty Way Men's Synchro silver: Luke Strong & Nathan Bailey Women's Trampoline team bronze: Laura Gallager, Isabelle Songhurst & Katherine Driscoll Women's Tumbling bronze: Lucie Colebeck Men's Tumbling bronze: Elliott Browne
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Post by Shireblogger on Dec 3, 2017 18:53:15 GMT 1
ENGLAND RUGBY LEAGUE TEAMEngland were beaten 6-0 in Saturday's Rugby League World Cup final in Brisbane, by pre-competition favourites, Australia. The Rugby League World Cup has been held 15 times since 1954. Australia has 11 wins, New Zealand one (in 2008), and Great Britain three (1954, 1960 and 1972). Great Britain ceased to compete as a combined nation in 1992, since when England have been runners-up twice and fourth three times, while Wales have finished third twice. The 2017 competition was co-hosted by Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea. In the opinion of most commentators, England gave a good account of themselves. Having lost to Australia in their opening group game, England proceeded quite smoothly to the final, beating Lebanon, France, Papua New Guinea and Tonga en route. They were coached by Australian Wayne Bennett, and captained by Sam Burgess.
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