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@ozgrerdogdu else has ever jumped. Duplantis is truly a pole vaulting legend in the making.

Few athletes can claim to be as dominant in their discipline as Mondo Duplantis, the pole vault star who has broken the world record a staggering seven times. His latest record of 6.23 meters, achieved at last year’s world championships, is seven centimeters higher than anyone else has managed in the history of the sport, a testament to his supremacy in the pole vault over the past four years. Duplantis’ medal haul is also impressive, boasting an Olympic gold and four world championship titles – two indoor and two outdoor – with his sights set on further Olympic success in Paris later this year. And as for world records, Duplantis promises that he’s not done yet. “I think in the near future, I hope to just raise it up as little as I can because I think that’s all I need to do for a world record,” he tells CNN Sport’s Amanda Davies. “I know that I can jump higher. I know that I have higher heights in me. “I know what I need to do to get into those 6.30-type marks … I want to be dominant in the sport because I know that’s what I’m capable of, trying to win every competition and get the most out of myself at every meet that I’m at. “If I’m able to jump high, jump a world record, then that’s just a cherry on top.” Sporting pedigree runs in the Duplantis family: his father was a former top pole vaulter and his mother a heptathlete who competed for Sweden. He has been pole vaulting for almost as long as he could walk, taking his first steps in the sport as a three-year-old in his parents’ backyard in Lafayette, Louisiana, where a runway, bar and crash mat were installed for him and his siblings to use.

@GkNvl Djokovic is an incredible player and person, well-deserving of the Laureus award.

Djokovic was awarded his Laureus award by NFL great Tom Brady after a remarkable 2023 season where he won three out of the four grand slams. The pair have grown close over the years and Brady praised his friend for not only being an “amazing player and talent” but “a great man, too.” “[He] has great integrity,” Brady told CNN, standing alongside Djokovic. “I think what you’ve seen over all these years, the competition always, in my view, brings out the best in people and it certainly has brought out the best in him.” Despite turning 37 later this year, Djokovic said he has no plans of slowing down and is not close to contemplating retirement. The focus, he said, is very much on the next tournament, rather than looking back on his achievements. “I feel like it’s so important to always remind yourself to be in the present moment, really to appreciate, to acknowledge, to remember where you came from, the journey, the path, also the people that surround you,” Djokovic said. “Every single week there’s something new happening and new events. So I think I will truly be able to appreciate everything that we have accomplished really, only post-career, to be honest. “Because while you’re still active … it’s what’s the next task? What’s the next challenge? “You have only maybe a few days or a week max where you’re contemplating on a great success.”

@DieGndz Jamal Murray's buzzer-beater secures comeback win for Nuggets, leading 2-0 in series.

Jamal Murray hit a stunning 15-foot buzzer-beater over the outstretched arm of the 6’10” Anthony Davis to cap a sensational 20-point comeback and give the Denver Nuggets a 101-99 Game 2 win over the Los Angeles Lakers. The unlikely victory opens up a 2-0 first round series lead for the defending champions as the teams now prepare to head to LA for the next two games at the Lakers’ Crypto.com Arena. Murray, who has developed a reputation over the years for stepping up his game during the playoffs, fell into the Nuggets bench and was mobbed by his teammates as Ball Arena erupted. Remarkably, Murray had a horrendous start to the game, making just three of his first 16 shots before going 6-for-8 and notching 14 of his 20 total points in the fourth quarter, including the game winner. “Man, I just want to give all the credit to my teammates, coaches,” Murray said on TNT Sports. “I told my teammates when I was struggling: ‘I’m going to look for y’all.’ Every single one of them told me to keep shooting. ‘Keep shooting. Be aggressive, keep shooting.’ “Even when I was throwing up that bullsh*t floater, they told me to stay aggressive and keep looking for it, keep hunting it. I had the ball with a few seconds left and I knew once I made a couple, the next one should go down as well. “You miss four or five in a row, you miss six or seven in a row, everybody is telling you to keep shooting, you’re missing bad on some of them. Then you miss 10, 11 in a row, 12 in a row and then it’s like: ‘Man, should I change something? Should I look at something else?’

@LeticinhaCortez expressed excitement at the opportunity to win his 25th grand slam title at the French Open.

Novak Djokovic said he’s “looking forward” to the chance of winning a record-breaking 25th grand slam singles title at the French Open this year. Speaking to CNN’s Amanda Davies after winning a joint-record fifth Laureus World Sportsman of the Year trophy on Monday, Djokovic said he has visualized the moment of becoming the most successful singles player – men’s or women’s – in history. The Serbian superstar has won 24 grand slam singles titles to date – the most of any man – and currently shares the all-time record with Margaret Court. He will have the chance to break the record when the French Open starts on May 20. “You take nothing but the win, that’s the mentality. You kind of visualise yourself achieving that already. So I’ve been, you know, really looking forward to it,” Djokovic said. “Of course I’m not the only one that wants to grab that title but I look forward to it. I like competing with different generations. You have the young guys who are coming up … they’re all incredibly hungry and fit and fast. “But I use my adaptability to adjust my tactics and my game to them and understand really what it takes, you know, what it takes to stay at the top and compete with these guys and try to win more titles.”

@gz05 The 76ers collapsed against the Knicks, losing after giving up eight points in last 27.1 seconds.

Embiid and 76ers collapse against Knicks, Cavs cruise past Magic The Philadelphia 76ers snatched defeat from the jaws of victory against the New York Knicks on Monday, somehow giving up eight points in the final 27.1 seconds to lose 104-101 in one of the most remarkable playoff finales Madison Square Garden has ever witnessed. Leading 101-96 with 47 seconds remaining, the 76ers looked on course to level the series until one of the all-time worst playoff capitulations. After Sixers guard Kyle Lowry missed the second of his two free throws, the Knicks came down the floor and Jalen Brunson saw his three-point attempt bounce fortuitously off the front of the rim and in. The 76ers then turned the ball over from the inbounds play as Tyrese Maxey was stripped by New York forward Josh Hart, before Donte DiVincenzo eventually nailed another three-pointer to give the Knicks a 102-101 lead.

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@ozgrerdogdu Samantha Hannah traveled Australia and New Zealand, reflecting on her past and life experiences.

Samantha Hannah was traveling through Australia and New Zealand, soaking up new places and experiences, while simultaneously reflecting on her past and considering her life so far. It was late 2017. Samantha, from Perth, Scotland, was 31. Her brother had passed away unexpectedly a couple of years previously. “I wanted to go out and live my life as much as possible now he couldn’t,” Samantha tells CNN Travel. Samantha’s brother had left her a little money. “So I quit my job, and I spent that money on a ticket to go to Australia,” says Samantha.  “And then I moved to New Zealand for a bit and was just trying to figure out what I wanted to do with my life.” Samantha had always loved comedy and she’d worked the UK comedy circuit for a little bit in her mid-20s. Now –as she checked into hostels and spent evenings with fellow backpackers in Aussie pubs, or hiking beautiful New Zealand scenery – Samantha kept considering, in the back of her mind, the idea of potentially returning to the stage. But if Samantha was going to go back to comedy, she wanted to do it differently this time round. She wanted to come back with a one hour show, one with a strong concept she believed in wholeheartedly. In the meantime, whenever Samantha checked social media to see what was happening back home, yet another friend seemed to be announcing an engagement on Facebook. Or posting an ultrasound photo on Instagram. Or sending an excited WhatsApp message with a photo of dangling keys, in front of a newly purchased home. Samantha was happy for all her friends, but she also marveled at how everyone had suddenly grown up, while she was single, unemployed and traveling, with no fixed address.

@DieGndz profile to show he was in Bali.

“I wasn’t quite sure what I was going to do at that point, whether I wanted to stay in London, move back to New Zealand,” Toby tells CNN Travel. “I spent six months in Bali, learning to surf, just trying to work it out.” As he considered the future, Toby adjusted his Tinder settings to expand out of west London and include Wellington, New Zealand – partly because he worked in analytics, and was intrigued by how the Tinder algorithm worked. And partly because Toby was wondering what it might be like to be single in his old college town. He quickly found the Wellington dating pool to be full of people he vaguely knew – friends of friends or old college acquaintances. Samantha, with her “fun, different bio” announcing her comedy show plans and husband-hunting intentions, stood out. Toby recalls Samantha’s profile also mentioning “traveling, and that she really liked melon.” And she listed her college, which was in the UK. “So I guessed she was maybe English,” recalls Toby. “Also, I thought she was cute.” As they started exchanging messages, Samantha and Toby realized that although they were on opposite sides of the world, they were each living in cities the other was very familiar with – Samantha had spent years living in London, while Toby knew Wellington well. “We enjoyed the irony,” says Samantha. “We could also relate to what each other was up to pretty easily, which made for a good conversation,” adds Toby. “Sammy was missing parts of London, I was missing parts of NZ.”

@GkNvl over some travel tips and recommendations for their trip.

That first day, they exchanged hundreds of messages back and forth. The connection – and the ease – was obvious right away. Samantha mentioned some of her friends were coming over to join her soon, and that the group were going to travel around New Zealand. Toby instantly sent over a list of recommendations of places they should go. Then Samantha shared funny stories of the “horrific dates” she’d endured on her husband-hunting quest. Toby sympathized – he’d been on plenty of bad dates himself. Then, a couple of days after they’d first connected, Samantha was messaging Toby while out at a bar. Several glasses of wine in, she decided to spontaneously call him. “It was the first time we’d ever spoken,” Samantha recalls. She was standing outside a pub, amid crowds of drinkers, when Toby answered. His face, surprised then happy, popped up on Samantha’s phone screen. But then, almost instantaneously, a fight broke out next to Samantha and she decided to intervene and try to break it up. “So I quite literally picked up the phone to a Scottish accent shouting, ‘Leave it, he’s not worth it,’” recalls Toby. “It wasn’t a serious fight,” explains Samantha. “Just a silly scuffle. But yes, I helped break it up.” Civilian duty done, Samantha turned her attention back to the video call. It wasn’t a long chat, but it was “fun” to see Toby’s face, and it didn’t feel like chatting to a stranger. As for Toby, when answered the call he’d felt “nervous excitement.” But almost immediately, chatting with Samantha became “just easy.”

@LeticinhaCortez Toby surprised Samantha with a breakfast bagel when she might be hungover, which she thought was smooth.

Toby figured that when New Zealand morning rolled around, Samantha might be a bit hungover, so he organized a breakfast bagel to be sent to her hostel, a move she thought was “real smooth.” And so their back and forth continued. Samantha’s friends arrived and the group started exploring New Zealand, finding themselves in Napier, the city where Toby had spent much of his childhood, and where his parents still lived. “My parents own a fish and chip shop there,” Toby told Samantha. “You should pop in and say hi to them.” That would be a bit rogue, Samantha thought, but it might also be a fun anecdote for the comedy show. She told him they’d plan to swing by. Meanwhile, Toby mentioned to his parents that Samantha might call into the cafe, struggling to describe who she was to him. “Because what were Sammy and I? It was two, three weeks deep,” says Toby. “We weren’t exactly dating. We were just chatting. Chatting a lot.” In the end, he just described Samantha as a “friend from out of town.” And she was easy for Toby’s parents to spot. Samantha and her friends “stuck out like a sore thumb”, as Samantha puts it. “I’m from the UK. There’s a very different standard of dress there than in New Zealand. New Zealand’s very casual – like, you go to the fish and chip shop most people don’t have shoes on,” she says. Samantha and her friends arrived in full hair and make up, wearing heels. “We got very, very dressed up,” she says. Toby’s mother instantly guessed Samantha must be the friend Toby had mentioned. Toby’s father took a photo of Samantha and her friends looking quizzically at the menu. The whole thing was quite surreal, made only more so by the fact that Samantha had now met Toby’s parents before she’d actually met Toby in person. After the stop off in Napier, Samantha’s friends were continuing their travels, but Samantha was at a crossroads. She wanted to meet Toby in “real life” and started considering how she could make that happen. She didn’t necessarily think she’d achieved her husband-hunting goal, but Samantha had an inkling her connection with Toby might be something special. Toby felt the same way. He was an analyst, someone who worked in statistics – and the statistics seemed to suggest this was a no ordinary dating app match. “We’d been chatting a heck of a lot,” he says.

@gz05 On my profile, I said I'm writing a show and started saying yes to everyone.

While based in New Zealand capital Wellington, Samantha downloaded dating app Tinder “and started saying yes to everyone.” She announced her intentions on her dating profile, explaining she was writing a show and warning potential matches that “any Tinder interaction may be used for material.” Samantha figured the more dates she went on, with as many men as possible, the more fodder she’d have for her comedy show – and, theoretically, the higher the likelihood she might find a potential husband in the fold. Not long into her quest, Samantha swiped right on a guy called Toby. She liked that he had a picture with a dog and “looked like he traveled a lot.” He also “seemed like he had a personality.” His bio – the little summary dating app users write about themselves – was “funny and original.” The only fly in the ointment – while this guy Toby was seemingly from New Zealand, when he matched with Samantha, he wasn’t living there. “Congrats on your match 12000m away,” Toby wrote to Samantha. “How’s that hubby hunting going for you?” An unexpected match Like Samantha, in late 2017 Toby Hunter was going through a transitional period. Originally from Gisborne, New Zealand, he’d grown up in Napier, gone to college in Wellington and then, in his mid-20s, moved across the world to London. Now he was 30, recently out of a long term relationship and unsure whether to stay in the UK or return home.

@DieGndz final minutes of the game when a shot from Barcelona's Frenkie de Jong crossed the goal line but was not given as a goal. Xavi and ter Stegen criticized La Liga for not having goal-line technology to avoid such controversial decisions.

Barcelona manager Xavi and goalkeeper Marc-André ter Stegen have labeled La Liga “embarrassing” for its lack of goal-line technology after the team was denied what it thought was a legitimate goal in Sunday’s 3-2 El Clásico defeat by Real Madrid. The incident occurred in the 28th minute after Real Madrid forward Vinícius Jr. had levelled the scores at 1-1 following Andreas Christensen’s early opening goal at the Bernabéu Stadium in the Spanish capital. Teenager Lamine Yamal flicked on Raphinha’s corner at the near post and appeared to catch out Real Madrid goalkeeper Andriy Lunin, who desperately shoveled the ball away from the goal, with Barca players claiming it had crossed the line. Despite Barca’s vehement protests referee César Soto’s on-field decision was that the ball had not crossed the line, with the incident then being checked by VAR. The camera angles provided by VAR were inconclusive – including one looking directly down the goal line that was blocked by Lunin’s body – meaning Soto’s original decision stood. La Liga is now the only one of Europe’s top five leagues that doesn’t have goal-line technology, with Spanish outlet Cadena Ser reporting at the start of the current season that league president Javier Tebas refused to pay the €3 million ($3.2M) it would cost to install the system. According to FIFA, goal-line technology can notify a referee within “a second” if the whole of the ball has crossed the line. “The system uses 14 high-speed cameras mounted on the catwalk of the stadium/under the roof. The data from the cameras is used to create a 3D animation to visualise the decision to the fans on TV and on the giant screen inside the stadium,” said FIFA in an explainer of the technology on its website.

@ozgrerdogdu instances during the match. The club's accusation raises concerns about bias in officiating.

Nottingham Forest has accused a Premier League refereeing official of being a fan of relegation rival Luton Town in an extraordinary social media post following the team’s 2-0 defeat by Everton on Sunday. Forest felt as though it should have been awarded penalties in three instances during the match: one for handball and one each for fouls on Forest players Giovanni Reyna and Callum Hudson-Odoi. No penalties for the three incidents were given by referee Anthony Taylor, whose decisions were backed up by video assistant referee (VAR) Stuart Attwell, the official Forest accused of supporting Luton. The defeat leaves Forest just one point above Luton, who are in 18th and the final relegation place with four matches of the season remaining. “Three extremely poor decisions - three penalties not given - which we simply cannot accept,” the club wrote on X, formerly Twitter. “We warned the PGMOL [Professional Game Match Officials Limited] that the VAR is a Luton fan before the game but they didn’t change him. “Our patience has been tested multiple times. NFFC will now consider its options.” CNN has learned that the English Football Association is investigating the post. “The Premier League was extremely disappointed to read the comments made by Nottingham Forest on social media yesterday, following its match against Everton,” the league said in a statement on Monday. “We note The FA has confirmed it will be investigating the club’s statement. It is never appropriate to improperly question the integrity of match officials, and the nature of these comments means the Premier League will also be investigating the matter in relation to the League’s Rules.” CNN has reached out to the PGMOL and Forest offering the opportunity for comment. Sky Sports pundit and former Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher agreed that the officials had got the decisions wrong but called Forest’s statement “embarrassing.”