Great Britain’s Georgia Hunter Bell was beaten in the 1500m in Melbourne in her first race since she was crowned women’s world indoor champion.

The 32-year-old arrived at the Maurie Plant Meet in Australia less than a week after she stormed to her first global indoor title in Poland.

But she was unable to summon her trademark finishing burst as Australian Claudia Hollingsworth, 20, made her move 200m from the finish line and clocked a winning time of four minutes 1.30 seconds, 0.22secs ahead of Hunter Bell.

“It was amazing being in a race with this level of girls and beating Georgia,” said Hollingsworth, who set a record time for the meet.

Saturday’s outdoor event marked the first of 11 World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meetings, which is the level below the Diamond League.

Elsewhere, rising Australian sprinter Gout Gout, 18, finished second in the men’s 200m, 0.05secs behind international team-mate Lachlan Kennedy, 25, who won in a time of 20.38.

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The Sweet 16 was the end of the line for the Michigan State Spartans, but it won’t be the end for head coach Tom Izzo.

“Trying to win a National Championship: plain and simple,” Izzo said in his postgame press conference when asked where he sees himself in five years after No. 3-seeded Michigan State’s 67-63 loss to the No. 2-seeded UConn Huskies on Friday night. “That’s it. Those things usually start after your last loss. Nowadays, it’s a little more screwed up, but not at Michigan State. After our last loss, we all talked about what we got to do next year and how we got to learn from this. I got to give UConn a lot of credit, but, man, we didn’t look like ourselves, certainly, and that’s got to fall on the coach. I got to get them ready to do that. I’m feeling good. We all talk about retirement, why? What the hell am I going to do?

“The minute I don’t feel good, the minute I don’t feel like I’m giving my AD or president or school every ounce of energy I have every day or that energy drops, you don’t have to worry about it, I don’t steal money. I won’t steal anybody’s time, but it’s sure as hell not going to be now. I got some things to accomplish.”

Michigan State began Friday night’s Sweet 16 matchup down 25-6 but was able to quickly narrow the gap, trailing 35-27 at halftime. The Spartans then took a 45-44 lead with 10:06 remaining in the second half. That said, UConn took the lead for good with 8:58 remaining and never looked back. Granted, Michigan State got within one point on multiple occasions within the final two minutes.

In all, while Michigan State out-rebounded UConn, 34-25, the three-ball was the great equalizer for the Huskies, who knocked down nine three-pointers, compared to the Spartans’ four three-pointers. UConn center Tarris Reed Jr. had a game-high 20 points, while fellow senior Alex Karaban had 17 points, seven rebounds and two blocks.

The Spartans, who were a No. 3 seed in the East Region of the 2026 NCAA Tournament, previously beat the No. 14-seeded North Dakota State Bison in the first round and the No. 6-seeded Louisville Cardinals in the second round. Michigan State finished the 2025-26 men’s college basketball season 27-8 overall and 15-5 in Big Ten play, good for third in the conference.

The 71-year-old Izzo, who just wrapped up his 31st season as Michigan State’s head coach, boasts a career 764-310 record, with his 764 wins ranking 20th among men’s college basketball coaches. The Spartans have made the NCAA Tournament in each of the last 28 seasons — excluding the 2019-20 season when the NCAA Tournament was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic — highlighted by eight appearances in the Final Four and winning the 2000 National Championship.

At the same time, Michigan State last made the Final Four in 2019 and last appeared in the National Championship Game in 2009. Izzo — who has coached the Spartans in some capacity since 1983 (Izzo was an assistant coach under previous Michigan State coach Jud Heathcote for 12 seasons before becoming the Spartans’ head coach in 1995) — is determined to end that drought.

“I said a couple years ago that I’ll find a way to get back there [to the National Championship]. We’ve knocked on the door twice, [but] we haven’t gotten back. We’ll get back,” Izzo expressed.

McLaren team principal Andrea Stella said: “As a community, as an F1 community, we have identified that the priority number one, apart from safety, was qualifying, and driving in qualifying to the limit of grip and to make sure that the drivers that are best at exploiting the grip, and at times even take the risks to do so, they are rewarded.

“Here in Suzuka, because we have this shortage of energy, we expose some of the limitations of the current regulations.

“Degner One is now a corner in which you almost lift and roll through the corner, and then you have to avoid going on power between Degner One and Two, because that way of using your battery would not be efficient.

“Instead, that corner has always been one that the drivers will mention in a season, like what are the most challenging corners, that’s one of those.

“At the moment, that corner is kind of, you know, you think about the battery as you go through the corner, you don’t think about gaining half a tenth just by committing to it.

“The first corner at the Spoon as well, similar concept applies between the first part and second part of the Spoon.

“I can understand that the drivers push the F1 community to fix this, such that qualifying retains the excitement, the challenge, the DNA of being the moment in which the best driver gets rewarded, especially in the places where they can make the difference with the bravery and the ability.

“It is not obvious as to how to do that, but there are some possibilities, and there are some further meetings that will happen between the teams, the FIA and F1, between now and (the next race in) Miami, so let’s see what progress we can do there.”

The two biggest offseason acquisitions by the two-time defending World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers are paying dividends already.

Edwin Diaz earned his first save in his debut and outfielder Kyle Tucker singled in the go-ahead run in the eighth inning of a 5-4 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks on Friday night.

Diaz trotted out in the ninth to the sounds of trumpeter Tatiana Tate, who tooted from the stands next to the left field bullpen. Wearing Diaz’s No. 3 jersey, she played Timmy Trumpet’s “Narcos,” the closer’s entrance song that electrified New York Mets fans before the Dodgers lured the fan favorite away on a $69 million, three-year deal.

“It’s really cool because it’s another way to keep the fans involved in the game until the ninth inning because they’re all going to be waiting for that,” infielder Miguel Rojas said. “Having Sugar in the ninth is always going to be special.”

However, fans may be hearing a recorded version of Diaz’s music next time. Tate, who has played with Stevie Wonder and Doechii, isn’t expected to be a regular presence during the season.

Díaz struck out two and walked one. He converted 28 of 31 save chances for the Mets last season.

“I always get a little bit nervous when I come into the game, but at the end of the day I was excited, too,” Diaz said. “I come in a one-run game, [which] was really big for me. I want to set it down the second day of the season, help this team to win, get the save and keep going.”

The Dodgers won back-to-back World Series championships without a true closer, although at times it was a rocky road. The last pitcher to fill that role was Kenley Jansen, who twice led the National League in saves during his spell in Los Angeles.

Now, Diaz provides dependability, a track record and a level of trust at the back of the bullpen.

“It’s going to be a lot on Sugar because he’s going to have to be under a lot of pressure,” Rojas said, “but he’s done it before. He’s the right guy for the task.”

Manager Dave Roberts initially didn’t think the Dodgers had a chance to land Diaz in free agency after the right-hander opted out of the final two years and $38 million of his contract with the Mets.

Roberts got off a 45-minute video call with Diaz and front office executives, and told his wife, “We’re going to get him.”

“It was selling ourselves and talking about how much we valued him and the culture of the team and the ownership and how we’ll do anything to win,” Roberts recalled. “He talked to his wife and convinced her moving West was a good decision.”

Another factor that played in the Dodgers’ favor, Roberts believes, is that Diaz’s younger brother, Alexis, had joined the Dodgers last May as a reliever. He is currently in the Texas Rangers organization.

“Calling him up from the minors and us treating him like a superstar, I think that kind of helped make that decision and comfort going forward,” Roberts said.

The attraction for Diaz was simple: “A lot of good players here. Everyone stays healthy, this team has a chance to win a three-peat,” he said.

Tucker went 1-for-3 with the game-winning single and a stolen base. In his debut on Thursday, the right fielder notched his first hit and first RBI in an 8-2 comeback victory. He signed a $240 million, four-year deal to leave the Chicago Cubs.

“I’m excited for them to have the opportunity to play in this environment and feel part of the family,” Rojas said. “I’m pretty sure they’re looking closely at how fun it’s been.”

Reporting by The Associated Press.