Celebrating Sporting de Portugal and other photos of the day in sport

While in Spain the fighting for the Football League gets a huge chunk of sporting attention, in the rest of the world sports and other competitions have been the champions in the final hours. American leagues, such as the MLB, NHL and NBA, or the league celebration in Sporting de Portugal, where accidents occurred, are in some of the photos of the day.

Spotlights

Some MLB stadiums offer spectators the ability to watch the game on the field, literally alongside the players. Truist Park, where the Atlanta Braves plays, is one of the stadiums that offer this luxury, with space to eat, and in the match against the Toronto Blue Jays, some fans in the front saw how Ronald Acuna Jr. didn’t catch the ball. In the eighth game. Despite that, the Canadian national team won the match (3-5).

Ronald Acuna Jr. cannot catch the ball in the match between the Atlanta Braves and the Toronto Blue Jays.

Dale Zanin / Reuters

Excellent timing

Trampoline jumping requires a lot of focus, loads of training hours and perfect timing. For pair jumps, the difficulty doubles by two, as the jumpers have to perform acrobatic maneuvers in the same fractions of a second. One example is the jump by Russian Ekaterina Belyeva and Viktor Minibayev in the 10-meter final of the European Aquatics Championships held at the Dona Arena in Budapest.

Ekaterina Belyaeva and Victor Minibayev take a trampoline jump in Budapest.

Ekaterina Belyaeva and Victor Minibayev take a trampoline jump in Budapest.

Tamas Kovacs / AP

Boxing crowd?

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In NHL ice hockey, it is common for practically every game to see a fight between players, with their fists until they lose their verticality. Pierre-Luc Dubois, of the Winnipeg Jets, and Tyler Graovac, of the Vancouver Canucks, participated in the last-day match and the players on the bench for the Manitoba, accustomed to these fights, saw the scene silent, as if it were a boxing one. . When the disc returned to be the protagonist, the planes won without problems (0-5).

Pierre-Luc Dubois and Tyler Grauvac fight during the last-day match in the National Hockey League.

Pierre-Luc Dubois and Tyler Grauvac fight during the last-day match in the National Hockey League.

FRED GREENSLADE / AP

Durant multiplies

Waiting for James Harden, Kevin Durant took on the role of the Brooklyn Nets franchise player. Last day, the striker doubled to beat the Chicago Bulls (115-107) at United Center. ‘Durantula’ led the New York team on points (21), assists (8) and blocks (3), like those he did on Zach Lavigne.

Kevin Durant hits a block on Zach Lavigne.

Kevin Durant hits a block on Zach Lavigne.

Jonathan Daniel / Agence France-Presse

Euphoria and excess in Lisbon

By defeating Boavista last Tuesday (1-0), Sporting Portuguese won the Football League two consecutive matches after 19 years without winning the title. A success celebrated by the players at the stadium of José Alvalade and by the crowd on the streets of Lisbon, where the euphoria was so high that it required the intervention of the police.

Sporting de Portugal fans celebrate the league title in the streets of Lisbon.

Sporting de Portugal fans celebrate the league title in the streets of Lisbon.

Pedro Rocha / AP

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