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Jess Fishlock: Euro 2025 qualification will not decide her future
“If I could just fly in for camps and have holidays in between things might be different.
“It’s not just about ‘can you go for another campaign’, it’s everything in between that, that’s difficult.
“Another campaign is another two years of everything in between that and do I want to do that is the question.
“Right now, it’s like I’m leaning towards I don’t want to do that, but like I said, things can change in a heartbeat in football.
“We could go through all this, it could be major heartbreak and I could be stubborn, I know that about myself.
“We could go through this, and it could be everything I’ve always wanted and I could be like, ‘I’m not going to beat this’.
“And so we’ve got to take each day and each game and each emotion and give it the respect that it needs and go from there really.”
Fishlock started her career at Cardiff City, making her debut at the age of 16.
She made her Wales debut in 2006 and has since gone on to play for clubs in the Netherlands, Australia, Scotland, Germany, France and in the US at her current side Seattle Reign.
A mural of her was painted in July in the Llanrumney area of Cardiff where she grew up and Fishlock says her achievements so far in football have still not sunk in.
“Yeah, I would have laughed at you [if you had said I would have a mural].
“There’s no way, there’s no chance, we’re not going to have that much pedigree.
“People who have lived in Llanrumney for years, people who know our family, people who take their kids down there.
“You don’t realise really and I never thought that would be the reach of my career.
“It was never a thought process that this is what it could be or this is what the end might look like, it was just always about me doing something that I loved and then whilst doing something that I love, fighting for better environments and better treatment and more respect.
“It’s a little bit surreal really.”
The final episode of Iconic: The Rise of the Women in Red will be broadcast on BBC Radio Wales and BBC Sounds at 18:30 on Monday 21 October.
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Why Verstappen’s Move on Norris is More Controversial than it Seems – F1 US GP Race Reaction
Ferrari completely took over the podium at the 2024 US Grand Prix, with Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz snatching up a 1-2 finish. But the real show-stealer was the incident between Max Verstappen and Lando Norris, which lead to Norris gaining a +5s penalty, meaning Verstappen took 3rd place. Coupled with a Hamilton DNF, there’s certainly a lot to get through, so Alex Kalinauckas and Mark Mann-Bryans caught up in the paddock after the race to go over the most important points from this year’s US GP.
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Shakhtar Donetsk: How Ukrainian club are dealing with stark realities of war
When Ukraine voted for independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, Dynamo Kyiv emerged as the country’s footballing powerhouse, winning 11 of the first 13 Ukrainian Premier League titles.
Shakhtar’s first title came in 2002 but, since Palkin’s arrival in 2004, they have become Ukraine’s major force at home and abroad, winning the league 15 times and the Uefa Cup in 2009.
Being prolific in the Brazilian market helped. Between 2005 and 2009 Fernandinho, Jadson, Willian, Ilsinho, Elano and Luiz Adriano arrived and thrived in Donetsk, with only the departed Elano not featuring in the Uefa Cup-winning side.
Douglas Costa and Alex Teixeira joined the following year as Shakhtar’s recruitment continued to deliver, complementing those South American acquisitions with talents closer to home such as Armenia’s Henrikh Mkhitaryan.
“When we stayed in Donetsk it was quite easy to do this transfer policy,” explains Palkin. “We had peace in our country, an unbelievable football infrastructure and for us to sign any talent from any country was very easy.
“When we bring in a player, when he sees what kind of stadium we have, our training camp, the city, everybody signs the next day.
“Our success was in making decisions quite quickly. A lot of times we won [despite] competition from Manchester United, Arsenal, a lot of top European clubs, because we made decisions very quickly when we detected talents and made a decision to buy.”
In August 2009, with Beyonce performing on the opening night, Shakhtar unveiled their state-of-the-art, 52,000-capacity Donbas Arena. Just months after their historic continental triumph, the club were establishing themselves as one of the most competitive in Europe both on and off the field.
The stadium was also a key venue in the 2012 European Championship, hosting Spain’s semi-final win over Portugal. But two years later, it was empty.
In July 2014, six Shakhtar players refused to return to Donetsk following a friendly in France after pro-Russian rebels took control of the city. Among them were Costa, Teixeira and Fred.
They eventually returned once Shakhtar took the decision to relocate more than 600 miles west to use Kyiv as a training base, while playing games in Lviv.
There were, however, a handful of former players who wished to remain in Donetsk under the DPR, including former captain Viktor Zvyagintsev, who was on a Ukraine government website listing people it accused of terrorism by association with separatist rebels.
“When we left Donetsk it was very difficult,” explains Palkin, who last visited eight years ago. “We lost our local fans, we lost our beautiful stadium, because at that moment it was one of the best stadiums in Europe. We lost our city, we lost our [training] camp.
“The situation became tougher and tougher. It is today almost impossible to communicate with people that are there.”
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Ronnie O’Sullivan pulls out of third successive tournament as he withdraws from Northern Ireland Open at last minute
RONNIE O’SULLIVAN has pulled out of the Northern Ireland Open.
The seven-time world champion made the move due to medical reasons.
The Belfast event started yesterday.
But O’Sullivan‘s withdrawal marks the third straight tournament he has missed out on.
It comes after he sat out the British Open and the Wuhan Open.
The World Snooker Tour confirmed the news on Sunday.
As a result of the withdrawal, his first-round opponent, Long Zehuang, was handed a bye into the round of 32.
The Rocket had lost three previous Northern Ireland Open finals to Judd Trump between 2018 and 2020.
O’Sullivan had also withdrawn from last year’s event due to medical reasons.
The world No5 has not played competitively since being knocked out of the first round of the English Open on 17 September – which saw him harshly brand himself “useless” and “embarrassing”.
O’Sullivan has hinted at retirement several times this year.
He recently announced a new side hustle by opening a snooker academy in Saudi Arabia.
O’Sullivan also revealed how he would have pursued a career in motorsport if he never pursued a career in snooker.
You can find all the latest updates on the Northern Ireland Open by reading SunSport’s snooker blog HERE.
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Skate America: Great Britain’s Lewis Gibson and Lilah Fear win gold in Grand Prix event
Great Britain’s Lewis Gibson and Lilah Fear won gold in the ice dance at Skate America in the first ISU Grand Prix of the season.
The pair beat defending ISU world champions Madison Chock and Evan Bates from the United States by a fraction of a point in Allen, Texas, while Spain’s Olivia Smart and Tim Dieck finished third.
In January, Gibson and Fear won silver for a second consecutive year in the ice dance at the European Figure Skating Championships.
“We were so proud to be up there on the podium. It was definitely a heartwarming moment, especially to be surrounded by our amazing team-mates,” said Fear of the other two pairs she trains alongside.
Gibson and Fear led after the rhythm dance and finished second in the free dance for an overall score of 206.38 points, with Chock and Bates second on 205.63.
The six-leg Grand Prix series continues on Friday with Skate Canada in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
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