Scout’s Overview
📡 🚨 Weekly Sports Radar: Cycle Polo

Cycle polo is a fast-paced team sport where players ride bicycles and use mallets to hit a ball into the opposing team’s goal. It has two main variants: grass cycle polo, played on a large field with four or five players per team, and hardcourt bike polo, a quicker, urban version played on a smaller hard surface with three players per team.

The sport originated in Ireland in 1891 and was even featured as an exhibition event in the 1908 Olympics. It gained popularity in Europe and India and has recently seen a resurgence with hardcourt bike polo growing in urban areas worldwide.

🏋 Athlete of the week: Mirra Andreeva

Mirra Andreeva is a rising Russian tennis star, known for her powerful baseline game. She made her main draw debut at just 15 years old and won her first match against a top-20 player before even turning 16.

Fun Fact: This year, she became the youngest player to win back-to-back WTA 1000 titles (at Dubai 2 weeks ago and Indian Wells this week), matching a 26-year-old Serena Williams milestone! Comically, this is how she started her speech:

“I would again like to thank myself for fighting until the end and always believing in me and for never quitting.”

She’s only 17.

🏟️ Venue of the week: Courchevel Ski Jumping Stadium

You see that big green slide? it’s where people perform Ski Jumping, and it’s at an altitude of 1300 meters. Isn’t that insane?

Courchevel Ski Jumping Stadium, or Tremplin du Praze, is a world-class ski jumping venue in the French Alps, hosting international competitions like the FIS Summer Grand Prix.

🧤 Fit Check: Norwegian Curling 2010 Olympics

Imagine wearing pajamas to work. Or imagine wearing pants like these in a sport in which athletes traditionally wear black and draw little notice outside curling circles. But the Norwegian men's team in the Vancouver Games in 2010 changed everything. Instead of basic black, they wore these very distracting and pajama-looking pants in red, indigo, and white, the colors of the Norwegian flag.

From the bench
🗞️ In case you were injured:

It’s all about the youth this week:

• 14-year-old McKenna Whitham became the youngest NWSL player in history

• 17-year-old Gout Gout, a track sensation, ran the fastest 200m in the world for 2025

• 17-year-old Lamine Yamal, a footballing sensation, is the first person to complete 100+ dribbles in all of Europe this season

🎯 In over-time:

• A Bulgarian football club held a minute's silence for a former player who supposedly passed away, only to discover he was still alive

• The LA Marathon finally has an American winner after more than 30 years

📊 Analyst’s Corner:

Global revenue from women’s sports will be over £1.8 billion in 2025:

• Last year’s revenue reached above £1 billion for the first time in history

• This year, Basketball (44%) is likely to overtake Football (35%) as the highest-revenue women’s sport

• This marks a 240% increase over four years. That’s incredible. For comparison, men’s sports in North America have grown by ~18% over the last 5 years.

• Geographically, North America is anticipated to be the largest market, contributing $1.39 billion (59% of total revenues), followed by Europe with $420 million (18%).

🏆 Sports Calendar

Here’s a look at the ongoing and upcoming sports events this week: