Five things to know from last week
Arc de Triomphe!Torquator Tasso (DEU) pulled a 70-1 upset win ridden by Rene Piechulek (DEU) in the 100th edition of the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe, one of the the most horse races in the world. Torquator Tasso, Grosser Preis von Baden winner, won ahead of Breeder’s Cup Turf Champion Tarnawa (IRL), and St Leger winner Hurricane Lane (IRL). In the US, Kentucky Derby winner Medina Spirit (USA) won the Awesome Again Stakes in Santa Anita, Calfornia, again under John Velázquez (PUR).
Exciting bikes. Reining six-time World Superbike Champion, Jonathan Rea (NIR), fell down in Race 1 and the Superpole Race of the World Superbikes Championship Portuguese Round, allowing Toprak Razgatlıoğlu (TUR) to increase his Championship lead, by winning an exciting first race, ahead of Scott Redding (ENG). Toprak fell down in Race 2, allowing Rea to take the win and decrease the gap. Michael van der Mark gave BMW its first win since 2013, by taking the Superpole Race. Meanwhile in the Speedway GP, Artem Laguta (RUS) secured his first Individual World Title, ahead of Bartosz Zmarzlik (POL), who won the last round on home ground. In America, Marc Márquez (ESP) won the Moto GP race at Austin for a seventh time.
Sweet home, Alabama! Darrell ‘Bubba’ Wallace Jr (USA) became the first black driver to win a NASCAR Cup race since Wendell Scott (USA) did it in 1963. Wallace won in Talladega, Alabama – his native state. The race had to be run on Monday and was rained out before the third stage even started.
Epic Paris-Roubaix. The 2021 Paris-Roubaix cycling race will be one to remember. Under very muddy conditions, débutant Sonny Colbrelli (ITA) won ahead of Florian Vermeersch (BEL) and Mathieu van der Poel (NED) on a Final sprint at the Vélodrome André-Pétrieux. Gianni Moscon (ITA), who tried to win with an escape, finished fourth, 44 seconds behind. Wout van Aert (BEL) fell down and eventually recovered to finish seventh. Lizzie Deignan (ENG) won the first edition of the Féminin race, more than one minute ahead of Marianne Vos (NED), silver medalist at the World Championship one week before.
The fourth time was good. Hassan Yazdani (IRI) was finally able to beat David Taylor (USA) in their fourth wrestling match, winning gold in the Men’s Freestyle 86kg final of the Wrestling World Championships in Oslo, Norway. Taylor had beaten Yazdani in the Final seconds of their Olympic gold medal match. Amir Hossein Zare (IRI) also avenged his Tokyo 2020 loss in the 125kg by winning gold against Geno Petriashvili (GEO), with Olympic Champion Gable Stevenson (USA) absent. Sensational Abasgadzhi Magomedov (RUS) won the 61 kg category in his World Champinship debut.

José Guillermo Gidley (USA) had a life-threatening crash at the 2014 Daytona 24 Hours. It took him two years to regain mobility. Last week he won the GT World Challenge America race at Sebring an impressive comeback at 51 years of age. ‘Memo’, who was born in a sailing boat in Mexican waters, recalled part of his journey in this interview four years ago.