and four la liga titles. the ballon d 0r winner for this season had a year left on his contract, abd is set to move to saudi arabia. formula one world champion max verstappen will be the man to beat in the spanish grand prix which gets underway in the next hour. the dutch driver, who has a commanding lead in the drivers championship, qualified fastest ahead of spain s carlos sainz and britain s lando norris. despite qualifiying in fifth, seven time champion lewis hamilton will start in fourth after pierre gasly recieved a 6 point penalty. charles leclerc will start from the pits over problems with his car in qualifying. my last lap wasn t the dream lap. i was second basically all the way until turn ten, i had a snap and lost. so once i got it on the other side, i m just really grateful to be up there and be up in the fight and have that pace, so the team did really well to improve the car and we ve just got to push hard tomorrow for the result. australian fast bowler josh hazlewoo
ballon d 0r, fifa world player of the year, uefa player of the year. so she is widely regarded as one of the greats of the game. it will be interesting to see off the nine and a half months out what form she is in. but at a time when there are so many acl stories and season ending injuries of players, it s good to see a star player coming back but i suspect chelsea fans would have hoped it would be another week away. thank you very much, chelsea against barcelona. after the shock departure of defending champion and seven time winner ronnie 0 sullivan yesterday at the world championships in sheffield today attention focuses to those who did make it though to the semi finals. belgian luca brecel who beat 0 sullivan is taking on sijiahui in the first of those. these are live pictures from the crucible where they re in the early stages of this first semi final. luca brussel has taken the first frame. si jiahui, who s just 20 is the first crucible debutant to get to the semis
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