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Marc Bernal is back in the conversation, and Barcelona want him to know it. The La Masia product missed three hundred forty five days after a serious knee injury derailed what was shaping up to be a breakthrough senior season, but both club and country have been sending clear signals that their faith in him hasn't wavered one bit. The kid's future at Camp Nou looks very much intact.
Shifting to the IPL, where the captaincy carousel is spinning fast. Rishabh Pant has stepped down as skipper of Lucknow Super Giants after they finished dead last in the two thousand twenty six season, and Hardik Pandya's turbulent run leading Mumbai Indians appears finished too, with the five-time champions ending second from bottom. Two of the biggest names in Indian cricket, both looking for a fresh start.
And over in Paris, Oleksandra Oliynykova is making noise at Roland Garros in more ways than one. The twenty five year old Ukrainian is turning heads with a wildly creative game built on moonballs, slices, and sudden aggression, but she's equally determined that her Grand Slam journey cannot be separated from her advocacy for Ukraine. On and off the court, she is impossible to ignore.
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