1) Go onboard with Uli Emanuele as he base jumps his way through a two metre-wide cave.
2) It’s 30 years since Boris Becker became the youngest winner of the men’s singles title at Wimbledon, and 10 years since the longest women’s singles final in Wimbledon history when Venus Williams beat Lindsay Davenport 9-7 in the third. Here’s the 2009 men’s final between Roger Federer and Andy Roddick which broke the record for number of games in a grand slam final following a thirty-game epic final set, and here’s Mahut v Isner: the 11-hour match.
3) The Ashes is upon us, and it is 10 years since England and Australia’s battle to the wire that went down as one of the greatest Test series ever played. Here’s a special Flintoff over, Jones! Bowden!, Freddie shaking Brett Lee’s hand and later explaining what he really said.
4) Andrea Pirlo and Roberto Baggio combine in long pinpoint pass, stunning control, fine finish part one. GAA side Galway serve up long pinpoint pass, stunning control, fine finish part two.
5) Cristiano Ronaldo flexes, Gary Neville rocks out, Hulk gets angry.
6) And Chile’s Matías Fernández sets the tone for their Copa América penalties win with an unstoppable opening spot-kick. Here’s Alexis Sánchez’s cheeky winner.
Our favourites from last week’s blog
1) The commentary on Danny Hart’s world championship run is something else.
2) Inspirational: two years after suffering paralysis from the waist down, mountain biker Martyn Ashdown rides again, and here’s a behind the scenes interview with the man himself.
3) Inspirational? The Port Adelaide Magpies 1988 club song and video, entitled The Magpies Expect to Win.
4) And that Federer lob.
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