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Don’t be surprised if Novak Djokovic in just a few years will make his comeback as one of the world's biggest sports names.

It is not the first time a world champion has been knocked out for not doing what the politicians ordered him to do. Right now, many are very satisfied - but in hindsight, the process against Nole will be seen as grotesque and completely unreasonable. And people will be ashamed of the racist undertones and lies that the political circus is currently driven by.

Muhammad Ali was also not doing what the politicians demanded. The boxer would not allow himself to enlist in the U.S. Army and take part in the Vietnam War. And the punishment was harsh and unfair: a sentence of five years in prison. He was deprived of his boxing license, his World Cup belts - people would not even recognize his name. That was in 1967.

But just three years later, the world looked different. The mood of the people was reversed. There were huge demonstrations against the Vietnam War and the racially divided USA.

Muhammad Ali had thrown his Olympic gold medal into the river after an episode in his hometown Louisville. He had walked into the town's fine restaurant with the medal around his neck and ordered two cheeseburgers.

- We do not serve negroes…
- And I do not eat them! Just give me two cheeseburgers…

The Olympic champion was kicked out of the restaurant just because he was black. And in Vietnam, blacks accounted for a quarter of the casualties, even though they accounted for only 12% of the U.S. population.

The US Supreme Court overturned Muhammad Ali's prison sentence, he was acquitted of all charges. He made a rock-solid comeback when the Champion of the World got his boxing license back.

He was right! He sure was the Greatest, even when he went an impressive 32 laps against the Parkinsons. Billions of viewers saw the sport's biggest icon stand with the torch and with trembling hands light the Olympic flame at the opening ceremony in Atlanta. That was in 1996.

Muhammad Ali died in 2016, 74 years old.

Sunday morning was great! The weather was cool (mid 60's) with no rain in the forecast. On my way to the county park, I was able to shoot a photo of the morning sun just over the treetops lighting up the fog.

It had a shimmering effect as the humidity dissipated.



I was the first one at the model helicopter field and got 3 flights before anyone else arrived. Eight flights total so the morning was productive for me!

Two-time Olympian and two-time major tournament tennis champion Shuai Zhang was competing against Hungarian Amarissa Tóth in the WTA Tour's Hungarian Grand Prix.
(Women's Tennis Association)

Playing on clay, Zhang hit a shot that kicked up chalk on a line that would have given her a point. The judge ruled it out, the umpire agreed, but they looked at themselves as to question the decision. When Zhang appealed to the judges to take a closer look, her opponent Tóth walked over to the spot and wiped away the mark with her foot and giggled.

Shaken by the judges decision and Amarissa covering the mark, Zhang decided to pull out of the match. She received boos from the crowd and mocked by her actions.

It's been years since I followed tennis, but I believe with a questionable call like that, the judge should have given her a replay.

In the 1970's John McEnroe would have insisted it!

will this years olympic games be a farce ????,,
why is this the case ,,,well how can transgender athletes compete on a level playing field ????
..world records have always been in two categories ,,ie ,,,mens and womens ,
men competing in womens track and field events will always have a huge advantage ,,that is because the body mass and structures dictate this ,,
the results at the end of the games will show this to be true no doubt about that ,,
i do not have any misgivings about transgender ,,, do as you please in my book ,,but leave sport to what it is and always has been ,,,,,,,

A beer snake, or cup snake, is the stacking of numerous plastic beer cups to form a "snake." Beer snakes are most commonly found at sporting events that are played out over many hours.

Sorry for the word block, but D!ck Butkus, was a linebacker for the Chicago Bears and considered one of the greatest NFL players. It's reported he died in his sleep at age 80.

Butkus was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1979. It was an easy pick, because it’s hard to imagine writing the history of the game without Butkus.


(Photo By Barry Staver/The Denver Post via Getty Images)


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For most athletes, Jesse Owens' performance one spring afternoon in 1935 would be the accomplishment of a lifetime. In 45 minutes, he established three world records and tied another.
Owens won four gold medals in the 1936 Olympics.

But that was merely an appetizer for Owens. In one week in the summer of 1936, on the sacred soil of the Fatherland, the master athlete humiliated the master race.

Owens' story is one of a high-profile sports star making a statement that transcended athletics, spilling over into the world of global politics. Berlin, on the verge of World War II, was bristling with Nazism, red-and-black swastikas flying everywhere. Brown-shirted Storm Troopers goose-stepped while Adolf Hitler postured, harangued, threatened. A montage of evil was played over the chillingly familiar Nazi anthem: "Deutschland Uber Alles."

This was the background for the 1936 Olympics. When Owens finished competing, the African-American son of a sharecropper and the grandson of slaves had single-handedly crushed Hitler's myth of Aryan supremacy.

He gave four virtuoso performances, winning gold medals in the 100- and 200- meter dashes, the long jump and on America's 4x100 relay team. Score it: Owens 4, Hitler 0.

A remarkably even-keeled and magnanimous human being, Owens never rubbed it in. Just as sure as he knew fascism was evil, he also knew his country had a ways to go too in improving life for African-Americans.

"When I came back to my native country, after all the stories about Hitler, I couldn't ride in the front of the bus," Owens said. "I had to go to the back door. I couldn't live where I wanted. I wasn't invited to shake hands with Hitler, but I wasn't invited to the White House to shake hands with the President, either."


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Why sailing is noble...


Sailing is noble because it destroys nothing, consumes nothing and displaces nothing. It doesn't kill, disturb or pollute; it alters no natural order. Sailing doesn't divide but connects, without even leave a trace; that's why sailing is infinite, just like the wind and the sea, and that's what makes sailing for ever noble. "Vivere non est necesse; navegare necesse est!" - Pompeius Magnus.

Tonight the Atlanta Braves won the 'World' Series, beating Houston 4 games to 2.
It was only the second time that the Atlanta Braves won the championship.

I was happy to watch the cheating Houston a**hole Astros go down in flames.
I hope the Astros never win another World Series, until every one of their teammates, who
were on their cheating team, are no longer on the Astros.