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Bianca Bustamante has spent most of her young lifetime preparing for the moment she’s currently speeding through. Growing up in the Philippines, she first did laps in a go-kart at the age of three, and since the age of five has been racing and competing—for the past two years as a McLaren driver in the F1 Academy, a women-only racing series created to increase access and opportunity in a sport where both those things have traditionally been in short supply. (Just announced: Reese Witherspoon’s p…
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It’s been a mixed start to the new year for our April cover star, Coco Gauff. The reigning US Open champion had a fantastic run at the Australian Open before going down in the finals, as Aryna Sabalenka avenged that tough loss in New York, but Gauff has stumbled a bit since, losing to Katarina Siniakova in the round of 32 in Qatar and to Anna Kalinskaya in the quarterfinals in Dubai (where she also had an extended standoff with the chair umpire over a flawed line call—for the record, Gauff was r…
2 months ago
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First things first: It’s not a Slam! Sunday’s live-streamed showdown between 22-time Grand Slam champion Rafael Nadal and two-time Slam champion (and second-ranked player in the world) Carlos Alcaraz might be amazing, and should be entertaining—but as it’s being held inside an arena at Las Vegas’s Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino and not part of Wimbledon or the Australian, French, or US Opens, it has as much to do with an actual Slam as Animal Planet’s Puppy Bowl has to do with the Super Bowl.
Th…
3 months ago
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“There was no plan—it was just one thing, and then something else turned up,” Chris Blackwell is telling me. “It all happened by chance. I mean… I was teaching waterskiing at Half Moon Hotel [along the north shore of Jamaica]—I had my own boat, and I got the concession from the hotel, and I was enjoying myself a lot.”
Isn’t that always how legendary careers start—with someone chasing their own shambolic unicorn to wherever it might lead? I’m sitting at a battered wooden picnic table overlooking…
3 months ago
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The sporting world woke this morning to shocking and seismic news: Seven-time Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton will be leaving Mercedes—his team since 2013—to join Ferrari, driving alongside Charles Leclerc, starting with the 2025 season. The move—long-rumored in Formula 1 paddocks—would see current Ferrari driver Carlos Sainz moving onward to make room for Hamilton.
Why is this a big deal? If you’re a devoted F1 fan—and/or a Drive to Survive devotee—you know that Hamilton’s career, while…
3 months ago
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The first-ever Las Vegas Grand Prix race weekend got off to an inauspicious start late on Thursday night: Eight minutes into the first practice session on the track, something akin to a manhole cover—sealed over by asphalt—was pulled loose by the massive downforce power of the cars’ purpose-built aerodynamics, and hit Carlos Sainz’s Ferrari car while it was traveling at more than 200 mph. “He said, ‘I hit something,’ and we were quite scared about him because he was struggling to breathe,” the d…
6 months ago
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Since 1995, Chan Marshall, a.k.a. Cat Power, has released 11 full-length albums—eight of them featuring her own songs and three consisting of covers of other artists’ work—toured the world, soundtracked Chanel shows for her friend Karl Lagerfeld, acted opposite Jude Law, played a postal worker in a Doug Aitken MoMA installation, and received the sort of critical acclaim musicians and artists dream of. One year ago, when given the opportunity to play one night at London’s legendary Royal Albert H…
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Let’s save some time here: Is there any real need, in the year 2023, to explain that meditation is good for you? That a regular practice of sitting still and quiet and clearing the mind, in one way or another, amidst a world filled with more and more distractions, from the micro to the macro, each of them seemingly demanding our attention 24/7, is probably helpful, welcome, soothing, beneficial, and all the other good things?
You’ve tried it, yes? I sure have. No, I’ve more than tried it—I’ve do…
7 months ago
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Think of the new Netflix film about David Beckham as a UK-centric, documentary version of Friday Night Lights: Come for the football, stay for the soap-opera-level drama—or vice versa, as per your preference.
Directed by Fisher Stevens—yes, if you didn’t already know, the hapless Hugo from Succession has also had a wildly successful career as a writer, producer, and Oscar-winning documentary director—Beckham is a four-hour, four-part, no-holds-barred examination of a simple London-born kid who g…
7 months ago
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It wasn’t yesterday’s rollercoaster comeback—and the straight-sets score might make it look like it was easy, which it certainly wasn’t—but it seemed like nothing was about to get between Novak Djokovic and the US Open title in New York. With both Djokovic and Daniil Medvedev battling fatigue and exhaustion amidst epic, closely fought rallies (including an 104-minute second set in which, at one point, Medvedev served for the set at 6-5), it was Djokovic who came out on top, 6-3, 7-6, 6-3.
Upon w…
8 months ago
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It’s been an Open for the ages—and for the Americans, with Coco Gauff and Ben Shelton locking in their places in the semifinals on Tuesday, and 17th-seeded Madison Keys joining the club last night with her upset (and lopsided) win over ninth-seeded Marketa Vondrousova. Tonight, the women play both semifinal matches, starting at 7pm ET, with Gauff, the sixth seed, squaring off against 10th-seeded Karolina Muchova, followed by Keys vs. second-seeded (and new world number one) Aryna Sabalenka.
What…
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