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Josh Kerr has rewritten history. The British middle-distance runner shattered a twenty-seven-year-old men's mile record at the Diamond League meeting in London on Saturday, clocking three minutes, forty-two point six six seconds. That is a mark that stood since nineteen ninety-nine, and Kerr just erased it in front of his home crowd.
Across the Atlantic and over to golf, Ryan Fox of New Zealand is turning heads at the two thousand twenty-six Open Championship. The Kiwi fired a stunning eight-under sixty-two to grab the clubhouse lead, one of the most remarkable rounds in Open history. Fox has been a consistent force on the DP World Tour, but this puts him squarely on the global stage in the biggest way possible.
And in rugby, Scotland survived a genuine scare before pulling clear of Fiji at Murrayfield in the Nations Championship. The Scots eventually secured a bonus-point victory, but Fiji made them work every single minute of it, showing the world this is not the same Fijian side that folds under pressure. Scotland will want to be sharper next time out.
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