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SUNDAY November 16
Motorcycle racer Collin Veijer in Spain fourth in the final Moto2 race
2:01 PM: Motorcycle racer Collin Veijer ended his debut season in Moto2 with a fourth place in the Valencia Grand Prix. The 20-year-old Staphorster had started from seventh position in Spain.
Veijer achieved his first podium place in Moto2 a week ago during the Portuguese Grand Prix. He finished second in Portimão behind the Brazilian Diogo Moreira. He has achieved two victories in Moto3 in recent years.
The race in Valencia was won by Spaniard Izan Guevara. The Dutchman Zonta van den Goorbergh finished sixteenth. Moreira did not relinquish his leading position in the World Cup standings. The 21-year-old driver is the first Brazilian world champion in motorsport. He will switch to MotoGP in 2026.
Anouk Koevermans gives the Netherlands the lead against India
12.24: Anouk Koevermans won the first match in the group match with India in two sets against Shrivalli Bhamidipaty: 6-2 6-4. This means that the Dutch tennis players have a 1-0 lead against the host country in the Billie Jean King Cup. The Dutch team, which lost the first group match 2-1 to Slovenia, has already been eliminated.
Dutch tennis players are relegated from the Billie Jean King Cup World Group
Captain Elise Tamaëla’s team had hoped to qualify for the qualifications of the Billie Jean King Cup, just like last year. So that didn’t work. Slovenia continues as group winner. The Dutch team is relegated from the World Group, just like India. Later on Sunday, the Netherlands and India will play a singles and a doubles match against each other.
FIFA tightens measures against offensive online messages
11.25 am: World football association FIFA has tightened measures against offensive online messages against players and officials. FIFA announced this on Sunday, on the International Day for Tolerance. The association also emphasized that hatred and discrimination have no place in football.
“On the International Day for Tolerance, I want to make it clear that football must be a safe and inclusive environment, on the pitch, in the stands and online,” FIFA President Gianni Infantino said in a press release.
“Through the FIFA Social Media Protection Service (SMPS) and by deploying advanced technology and human expertise, FIFA is taking decisive action to protect players, coaches, teams and match officials from the serious harm caused by offensive online posts,” Infantino said.
FIFA writes that since the launch of the SMPS in 2022, more than 65,000 offensive messages have been reported to social media platforms, which have subsequently been reviewed and removed. Since the beginning of this year, the SMPS has received more than 30,000 messages.
Beach volleyball players Boermans and De Groot also win the second World Cup match
10.10 am: Beach volleyball players Stefan Boermans and Yorick de Groot also won their second group match at the World Cup in Australia. The Dutch duo defeated the Norwegian brothers Markus and Adrian Mol 21-18 21-17.
Boermans and De Groot, the numbers 2 in the world, were too strong for the Australians Zach Schubert and Luke Ryan (21-11 21-10) in their first match on Friday. The Dutch will play their last group match on Monday against the Norwegians Mathias Berntsen and Hendrik Mol, a brother of Markus and Adrian Mol.
Emi van Driel and Wies Bekhuis recovered from their defeat in the opening match with a victory over the Czech duo Martina Maixnerova/Kylie Neuschaeferova: 21-10 21-16. The Dutch women lost in straight sets to Vitoria De Souza and Hegeile Almeida from Brazil on Friday.
Katja Stam and Raïsa Schoon
Katja Stam and Raïsa Schoon were unable to successfully follow up their winning opening match on Saturday against the French Clémence Vieira and Aline Chamereau. The duo, who are allowed to participate in the World Cup thanks to a wild card, lost a day later to Melissa Humana-Paredes and Brandie Wilkerson from Canada: 15-21 22-24.
Numbers 1 and 2 of the group automatically qualify for the knockout phase, as do the four best numbers 3 of the twelve groups. The remaining numbers 3 play an intermediate round.
Numbers 1 and 2 of the group automatically qualify for the knockout phase, as do the four best numbers 3 of the twelve groups. The remaining numbers 3 play an intermediate round.
SATURDAY November 15th
Joris Nieuwenhuis triumphs in Strawberry Cross
4:52 PM: Joris Nieuwenhuis has won the Strawberry Cross in Merksplas, Belgium. The 29-year-old Achterhoeker crossed the finish line in the Superprestige rankings solo ahead of the Belgians Niels Vandeputte and Emiel Verstrynge. Lars van der Haar finished sixth.
It is the third victory this season for Nieuwenhuis. He previously won the Exact Cross Heerderstrand and the Rapencross in Lokeren.
Motorcycle racer Alex Marquez wins sprint race in GP Valencia
3.52 pm: Spanish motorcycle racer Álex Márquez won the sprint race of the Valencia Grand Prix in the MotoGP on Saturday. It was his second sprint victory in a row, after the Ducati rider had also won the shorter race in Portimão, Portugal last week.
Álex Márquez led the way from start to finish. Behind him, his compatriot Pedro Acosta finished second. Italian Fabio Di Giannantonio finished third at the Ricardo Tormo circuit.
Álex Márquez is second in the World Cup standings. His brother Marc Máquez, who has been missing for weeks due to an injury, is already assured of the world title in the toughest motorsport class.
The main race follows on Sunday.
Brand supreme in Merksplas cyclo-cross
2:52 PM: Lucinda Brand has already achieved her sixth victory of this cyclo-cross season in the Strawberry Cross of Merksplas, Belgium. The Dordtse from Baloise Glowi Lions left the competition behind halfway through the cross and soloed to the win.
It was Leonie Bentveld and European champion Inge van der Heijden who kept Brand company for the longest time in the cross from the Superprestige. That duo saw Aniek van Alphen pass two laps before the end and move into second place. Van der Heijden came third.
Brand has always achieved a podium position in the last 49 cyclo-cross races where she has started. So far this season she has never finished outside the top 2. At the European Championships last week she had to leave the title to Van der Heijden.
Skier Shiffrin restarts her winning streak in the World Cup
2.19 pm: Ski star Mikaela Shiffrin has convincingly won the first World Cup slalom of the season. The 30-year-old American recorded her 102nd victory in a World Cup race in Levi, Finland, the first of this season. Shiffrin suffered a long-term injury last season and missed the final victory in the slalom, an event she has mastered for more than a decade.
Shiffrin kept the Albanian Lara Colturi and the German Emma Aicher well behind him and won the slalom from Levi for the fourth time in a row. Last month she started the Olympic year with fourth place in the giant slalom in Sölden, Austria.
Shiffrin is a two-time Olympian and six-time world champion.
Bezzecchi starts from pole in the last MotoGP race this season
12.10 pm: Italian motorcycle racer Marco Bezzecchi starts from pole in the Valencia Grand Prix, the last race of the MotoGP season. The Aprilia rider clocked the best time in qualifying, both for Saturday’s sprint race and the main race, which closes the season on Sunday at the Ricardo Tormo circuit.
Bezzecchi starts on the front row ahead of Spaniard Álex Márquez (Ducati-Gresini) and his Italian compatriot Fabio Di Giannantonio (Ducati-VR46), who set the third fastest time. Spaniard Jorge Martín returns in the last race of the season after injuring himself in a fall in the Japanese Grand Prix at the end of September. His compatriot Marc Máquez, who has been assured of the MotoGP world title since the end of September, has not been in action for a month and a half due to an injury.
The sprint race is Saturday at 3 p.m.; on Sunday the riders leave at 2 p.m.
Beach duo Stam/Schoon starts the World Cup with a win
12.05 pm: Katja Stam and Raïsa Schoon won their first group match at the Beach Volleyball World Championships on Saturday. The duo, who can participate in the tournament in Adelaide, Australia thanks to a wild card, defeated the French Clémence Vieira and Aline Chamereau in two sets: 21-14 21-15.
Stam and Schoon had not achieved sufficient results to secure World Cup participation on their own. Due to Stam’s back injury, they have only been able to participate in tournaments together again since mid-September.
Two other Dutch couples already played their second match in Adelaide. World Cup debutants Mila Konink and Desy Poiesz lost again. The Brazilian couple Carol/Rebecca, contenders for the world title, were clearly too strong for the Dutch women in 21-12 21-9.
For the men, Ruben Penninga and Matthew Immers also lost in their second match. This time the Americans Chaim Schalk and James Shaw were too strong in two sets: 21-18 24-22.