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Thirteen-year-old Yu Zidi won a second Asian Games swimming gold by taking the 200m individual medley in a Games-record 2:06.10 in Tokyo, just 0.4 seconds shy of the world record; she also claimed the opening-day 200m butterfly for her first major gold. Yu had previously become the youngest swimmer to win a World Championships medal, bronze at age 12 as part of China’s 4x200m freestyle relay.
Kinley Rasmus went 2-for-3 with an RBI and a run as Southeast defeated Northwest 4-2 in an LLWS elimination game, and she broke the Little League World Series record for most hits by a girl with her second hit of the night. Southeast built an early lead, added two more runs in the third, and extended to 4-1 in the fourth before Northwest plated a late run. Southeast advances to face the winner of Great Lakes vs. Metro.
Angel Reese grabbed a career‑high 26 rebounds to break the WNBA single‑game record, while also setting the league’s single‑season rebounding mark at 458 as the Dream beat the Sparks; she added 11 points, 3 assists, and 3 steals, helping Atlanta strengthen its playoff push.
Angel Reese pulled down a WNBA-record 26 rebounds and added 11 points to register a 27th double-double as the Atlanta Dream beat the Los Angeles Sparks 78-71. Her 26 boards broke Chamique Holdsclaw’s 2003 mark, and she entered the season rebounding total with 458, seven more than A’ja Wilson’s 2024 pace. The performance capped a 4-0 West Coast trip for Atlanta and underscored Reese's ongoing dominance on the glass.
Angel Reese set both a single-game and season rebounding record as the Atlanta Dream defeated the Los Angeles Sparks.
Caitlin Clark kept rewriting WNBA history as Indiana Fever beat the Atlanta Dream, becoming the fastest player in league history to reach 600 career assists and delivering five straight 20+ point games with 5+ assists. In an 11-game span she’s averaging 26.3 PPG and 9.4 APG—the only player with 26+ PPG and 9+ APG in that stretch—and, through 31 games this season, is on pace for milestones like 700 career assists and a potential single-season assist-record pace.
More than 20,000 Television Academy members will vote through Aug. 26 as final Emmy ballots open; Apple TV+ leads nominations with The Pitt and Hacks contending for the top drama and comedy prizes, and the night could rewrite history across categories—two lead actors could tie the all-time acting-win mark on the same night, a limited series could become the first to win twice, and multiple shows could trigger a rare three-peat or first-time wins as the ceremony approaches on Sept. 14.
Ella Langley's breakup anthem Choosin' Texas is the biggest hit of 2026 so far, dominating streaming, radio, and even surpassing records set by Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston. The piece credits its cross-genre appeal, Miranda Lambert co-writing, a playful video, and Langley's relatable, low-key persona for driving mass, yet fragmented, popularity across today’s pop culture landscape. It also highlights Langley’s ACM sweep and album success as signs of a country-to-mainstream breakout.
Felix Auger-Aliassime forced a fifth-set decider against Djokovic at Wimbledon—the first time anyone has done so against Djokovic at Wimbledon and Nadal at Roland Garros—before losing in a 6-7, 6-3, 3-6, 7-6, 6-7 (4-10) match. The defeat ends his Wimbledon run and keeps his Grand Slam title pursuit alive, with the US Open on the horizon.
Australian star Sam Kerr is returning to the NWSL with Gotham FC on a contract through 2030, aiming to extend her regular-season goal record and chase more all-competition records as Gotham rebuilds into a trophy-winning club under coach Juan Carlos Amorós. Kerr’s NWSL roots span Sky Blue, Western New York Flash and Chicago, and she cites Gotham’s growth and her wife Kristie Mewis’s input as key factors in her decision, with a likely debut at the Queens Classic at Citi Field.
A sweeping heat wave pushed temperatures to new highs across central and eastern Europe, with Denmark recording 98.6°F, Basel 101.8°F, and the Czech Republic’s Doksany at 105.4°F, triggering infrastructure stress in Germany, hospital strain in Paris, evacuations in nursing homes, and widespread public health warnings; a World Weather Attribution study links the extreme heat to climate change, noting such events are now far more likely than in the past.
Harry Kane is delivering a world‑class World Cup run that reinforces his status as England’s all‑time top scorer (81 goals in 116 caps) while pushing toward key milestones (potential 120 caps) and underscoring his rare mix of goals, leadership and longevity. His stellar Bayern Munich form (146 goals in 147 appearances) and near‑certain Golden Boot talk amplify the case that he could become England’s greatest ever striker—though international trophies remain the missing piece. A deep World Cup run could elevate him from modern great to an all‑time legend for England.
France is enduring an unprecedented heatwave with at least 18 fatalities, including two children found dead in a car in Vaucluse. 54 departments are on red alert as temperatures soar—Paris could hit 40°C, with several cities setting June heat records. More than 450 records were broken or tied nationwide, and nighttime temperatures remained unusually warm. Three elderly deaths occurred in Gironde, and 13 people drowned over the weekend. Authorities have formed an interministerial crisis unit to coordinate responses as heat risk continues.
Day 2 of the 2026 Indy Pro Swim Series delivered fast times and several notable highlights: Gretchen Walsh won the women’s 100m fly in 55.00, Ilya Kharun took the men’s 100m fly in 50.61, Kate Douglass led the women’s 200m breast in 2:21.65, Denis Petrashov won the men’s 200m breast in 2:09.16, Katharine Berkoff set a Pro Swim Series record in the 50m back with 26.98, Quintin McCarty claimed the men’s 50m back in 24.45, Emma Weyant won the women’s 400 IM in 4:35.77, Sydney Schoeck posted a career-best 4:39.42, and William Mulgrew won the men’s 1500m free in 15:07.68 ahead of Bobby Finke.”,
Kylian Mbappe scored twice as France beat Senegal 3-1 in their World Cup 2026 opener, becoming France’s all-time top scorer with 58 goals and the country’s World Cup record scorer with 14 goals (youngest to reach that tally), surpassing Just Fontaine’s 13. He remains two goals behind Miroslav Klose’s overall World Cup record, and his goals across three World Cups make him the only player to score two or more in five different World Cup matches.