Oscar Piastri may no longer be a first-season rookie on the Formula One grid but he still gets a thrill from lining up alongside the likes of Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso, admitting in an interview with AFP that "it's cool" to race against them."I grew up watching Lewis and Fernando on TV in the early 2010s," he told AFP. "I didn't watch the start of Fernando's career because I wasn't alive but it's cool to race against those guys.
Ronnie O’Sullivan was praised for his sportsmanship during his quarter-final defeat by Stuart Bingham at the World Snooker Championship.
Two-time world champion Kento Momota bowed out of international badminton on Thursday without hitting a shuttlecock, after his Japan side lost to Malaysia in the Thomas and Uber Cup quarter-finals in China's Chengdu.- Low-key exit - Momota's Japanese men's team lost 3-1 to Malaysia in Chengdu on Thursday in a tense best-of-five tie.