Sunday Sport: Champions and Challengers
Unhappy Liverpudlians, Happy Cavaliers. Sunday Sport The Brickyard. Todayis the day. The running of the 102nd Indianapolis 500. The 102nd Indianapolis 500 presented byPennGrade Motor Oil is the premier Verizon IndyCar Series event, to be heldtoday, Sunday of Memorial Day Weekend, at the Indianapolis Motor Speedwayin Speedway, Indiana. As always, theevent is scheduled for 500 miles (200 laps). The race was won last year by Takuma Sato, butMs. Danica Patrick is the heart's favorite this year. She won her first race at Indianapolis, andfinishes her illustrious career with this last race today. The month of May activities formally began on May 12 with thefifth running of the IndyCar Grand Prix on the combined road course. Practicefor the Indianapolis 500 began on Tuesday May 15, and time trials were held May19–20. Ed Carpenter won the pole position, his third career Indy pole. CarbDay—the traditional final day of practice, as well as the annual Pit StopChallenge and Indy Lights Freedom 100, was held Friday May 25. A real star of the show is the Indianapolis MotorSpeedway. Constructed in 1909, it is thesecond purpose built banked oval racing circuit after Brooklands and the firstto be called a 'speedway'. It has a permanent seating capacity of 257,325, withinfield seating raising the grand total capacity to an approximate 400,000. Itis the highest-capacity sports venue in the world. Considered relatively flat by Americanstandards, the track is a 2.5-mile-long (4.0 km) rectangular oval withdimensions that have remained essentially unchanged since its construction. Ithas two 5⁄8-mile-long (1,000 m) straightaways, four geometrically identical1⁄4-mile (400 m) turns, connected by two 1⁄8-mile (200 m) short straightaways,termed "short chutes", between turns 1 and 2, and between turns 3 and4. We wish the best to Ms. Patrick and to all the racerstoday. Fans of the National Basketball Association have reached asfever pitch of excitement, as the final rounds of both Conference championshipshave reached a full count. In game six on Friday, the Cleveland Cavaliers beat theBoston Celtics convincingly 109-99 to force game seven. The game will be played tonight at Boston. Last night, the Golden State Warriors performed the same featagainst the Houston Rockets, beating them 115-86, to force their own gameseven, which will be contested tomorrow night, Memorial Day, at Houston. Real Madrid performed a feat previously unthinkable in WorldSoccer. The Spanish giants retained the Uefa ChampionsLeague on Saturday night. They defeated Liverpool 3-1 in Kiev to lift thetrophy for a third successive season. Indeed, Madrid are the Champions Leaguewinners in four of the past five years. They have also won the Club World Cup in 2014, 2016 and 2017. When last night's game was tied at 1-1 Welshman Gareth Bale,well known to readers of this space, made a spectacular bicycle kick, whichinspired his team, and spurred them on to eventual victory. Bale shocked the Liverpudlian Players with theartfulness of the kick, which is even clear from the photos of the event. Congratulations to Real Madrid. Champions. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "omnisport" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/omnisport. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
