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Kimi Antonelli
FORMULA 1 · THIS ACTUAL WEEK

Kimi Antonelli won the Italian Grand Prix from nineteenth on the grid

The penalty was meant to cost him the afternoon. He treated it as a slightly longer commute.

PHOTO: KUYPER / CC BY-SA 4.0 / WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

Caitlin Clark
THE BIG ONE · THIS ACTUAL WEEK

The United States beat Italy by three points at the basketball World Cup

The Americans scored ninety-four on Friday and fifty-five on Sunday, so somewhere in Berlin there is a very quiet team meeting.

PHOTO: JOHN MAC / CC BY-SA 2.0 / WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

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