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Friday, July 28, 2017

Sports quiz of the week: losers, dogs, fights and a world record at 10am

Who celebrated defeat? Who won without winning? And who was unlucky? • Premier League at 25: the big quiz Which football manager said: "It’s very important to lose in pre-season" – after losing? Pep Guardiola Zinedine Zidane Jürgen Klopp José Mourinho Last week Lucky Whitehead said his dog had been kidnapped. What other misfortune befell the Cowboys receiver this week? His electric fence broke and he was trapped in his house for three days He was struck by lightning twice in one night His family won the lottery but he didn’t join the syndicate He was falsely used of shoplifting and released by the Cowboys Why was Turkey manager Fatih Terim sacked this week? He said watching his team was "like staring at a cow for 90 minutes" He called the head of the Turkish football association "a six-foot scowl" He signed up to be a commentator for the next World Cup He was filmed fighting at a restaurant In which country might Magdalena Eriksson of Sweden line up against her girlfriend, Pernille Harder of Denmark, in a final? England The Netherlands France Australia What was Diego Costa up to this week while his Chelsea team-mates were in Singapore for pre-season training? Taking his pet dog Bella for a ride on a jet ski in Brazil Trekking to Everest Base Camp Doing an internship for an architecture magazine in London Sparring with Conor McGregor before his fight against Floyd Mayweather Who said: "It’s 10am. It’s quite early for a world record"? Bill Kilgore Katie Ledecky Adam Peaty Tom Daley Cricket could be making a return to the Olympics in 2024. The sport has only featured at the Games once, in 1900. Which two teams took part in the tournament? England and Australia USA and Canada Great Britain and France Greece and Scotland Chris Froome won his fifth Tour de France title in Paris on Sunday. How many stages did he win in this year’s race? None One Two Four What links 1973, 1993 and 2017? The Tour de France was won by a Briton Real Madrid broke the world transfer record England hosted and won the Women's Cricket World Cup A British golfer won the Open Branden Grace shot the lowest ever score at a major when he hit a 62 at the Open last Saturday. Where did he finish on the final leaderboard on Sunday afternoon? First In the top three In the top 10 In the top 50 Continue reading...


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