✊ Three more sleeps, then football will finally be played again in the stadium on Hafenstraße! 🤩 Until then, our boys will continue to work hard. 💪
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Quick Glance: Brazil: Lula defeats Bolsonaro, albeit by a far narrower margin than predicted
- Lula defeats Bolsonaro in the first round of the presidential election, albeit by a far narrower margin than projected.
- Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has won the first round of Brazil's presidential election by a close margin.
- In the first round, polls showed challenger Lula with 50% of the vote, a far wider margin over incumbent Bolsonaro.
- According to Bruna Santos of the Wilson Center's Brazil Institute in Washington, "bolsonarism" won the first round.
Quick Glance: Brittney Griner's Russian prison sentence appeal is unlikely to result in her release.
- Brittney Griner and her attorneys have filed an appeal against her nine-year prison term in Russia.
- "Griner's defense team had emphasized similar irregularities in court testimony during the initial trial, but Judge Anna Sotnikova nonetheless handed down a sentence Boikov described as "unprecedentedly punitive," according to the Times.
- "[Griner's attorneys] can argue what they like, but there weren't procedural violations — at least according to the judge," Aron Solomon, Esquire Digital's chief legal analyst, stated.
- Griner will be held in a Russian prison in Moscow for the duration of her appeals process, which her lawyers anticipate will take about three months.
Quick Glance: Russia holds 400 passenger planes hostage in global sanctions battle
- According to Cirium, Russian airlines have refused to return more than 400 planes and a slew of aircraft parts that they leased from Western corporations, prompting the leasing companies to file $10 billion in insurance claims.
- Sanctions forced Western airlines to cancel their leases and return their planes.
- AerCap is not the only leasing company that has been impacted.
- Because Russia has allowed domestic companies to attempt to create spare components for the jets, it is conceivable that the planes will contain parts that have not been subjected to thorough scrutiny by Western organizations.
Quick Glance: Griner's lawyer says the WNBA player received a doctor's note for cannabis use.
- Brittney Griner, WNBA star, appeared in a courtroom just outside Moscow, Russia, on Thursday.
- Brittney Griner of the Phoenix Mercury takes a break on the floor during the second half of a WNBA basketball game against the Seattle Storm on Sept.
- Brittney Griner of the United States shoots during a preliminary round women's basketball game against Nigeria on July 27, 2021, in Saitama, Japan.
- Brittney Griner of the Phoenix Mercury, left, observes practice with teammate Diana Taurasi on Thursday, May 10, 2018, in Phoenix.
Quick Glance: Brittney Griner wished her wife luck on her bar test following a drug trial in Russia.
- Brittney Griner held up a collage of family photos from a locked cell outside the Russian courtroom where her trial is taking place.
- "Good luck on the bar exam," Griner responded.The Biden administration has stated that it is working diligently to bring Griner home and has been in contact with the Russian authorities to help secure her release.
- ""There isn't a day that goes by that I don't think about Brittney Griner," she added.
Quick Glance: Brittney Griner writes to Biden, pleading for aid to get out of Russian jail.
- In a handwritten letter handed to the White House on Monday, WNBA star Brittney Griner, who has been jailed in Russia since February, made a direct request to President Joe Biden for his assistance in liberating her and other Americans detained abroad.
- Griner's representatives shared passages from the letter, in which the professional basketball player expressed "terrified" that she would never leave Russia."I'm missing my wife!"
- Griner's wife, Cherelle Griner, told CNN last week that the basketball player has been forced to travel for court hearings in a small cage for hours at a time.
Quick Glance: Brittney Griner, WNBA star, is on trial in Russia on a drug charge.
- The charge d'affaires at the US embassy in Moscow, Elizabeth Rood, said in a statement on Friday that the embassy was allowed to talk with Griner in the courtroom.
- "The Russian Federation has wrongfully detained Brittney Griner," Rood stated, adding that "the U.S. government, from the highest levels, is working hard to bring Brittney and all wrongfully detained U.S. nationals home safely."
- He stated that the fate of Griner's trial would be decided by the court.
- Cherelle Griner stated that her wife's trial is already rigged against her.
Quick Glance: Brittney Griner's Fight for Liberty
- Prints of the Brittney Griner cover are available here.
- The release of Trevor Reed from Russia raises new concerns about Brittney Griner's detention.
- Before a July 26 court hearing outside Moscow, an officer removes Griner's shackles.
- Griner is exhausted and anxious while in custody.
Onstoppable! Tunisian trailblazer Ons Jabeur makes more history at Wimbledon -- is the best yet to come?
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🚨 Ons Jabeur is one step closer to a historic maiden Grand Slam final. The Tunisian wins the first set against Tatjana Maria 6-2
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Simona Halep has conceded the first set against Elena Rybakina 3⃣-6⃣
Can she get closer to a maiden Grand Slam final?
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Quick Glance: Quote of the Day: Simona Halep anticipates a "interesting" Wimbledon women's final
- Rybakina has reached her maiden Wimbledon final, where she will play Ons Jabeur in a first-ever clash.
- In her post-match press conference, Halep discussed Rybakina and Jabeur's clash of styles and predicted a "interesting" Wimbledon women's final, which Halep said she will surely watch.
- It's going to be exciting.
- Halep's assessment is sound, as she currently has a 2-1 WTA head-to-head edge over both Rybakina and Jabeur following Thursday's defeat.
Quick Glance: Tennis Wimbledon: Iga Swiatek loses to Alize Cornet
- Iga Swiatek hadn't lost a match since February.
- However, she was inexperienced with the Wimbledon grass.
- Swiatek was defeated 4:6, 2:6 in the third round by Alize Cornet, the same destiny as Serena Williams eight years earlier.
- Swiatek had decided not to play on grass after winning the French Open, and she canceled her participation in the Berlin tournament.
- "I'm like a good wine - and in France, good wine always ages well," Cornet remarked, offering words of consolation to Swiatek, who will face loss for the first time since February.
Score one for moms everywhere!
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