Scout’s Overview
📡 🚨 Weekly Sports Radar: Artistic Cycling

Artistic cycling is a competitive sport that combines gymnastics and cycling, where athletes perform acrobatic tricks, stunts, and choreography on a stationary or moving bicycle. The first recorded competition was held in 1888, and the sport gradually formalised with the development of rules and scoring systems. Today, it is governed by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), which organises the annual UCI Indoor Cycling World Championships.

To win in artistic cycling, athletes must perform a choreographed routine of tricks on a specialised fixed-gear bicycle, earning points based on 3 factors: Difficulty Score, Execution Score, and Time Limit. The rider or team with the highest final score after deductions wins the event.

🏋 Athlete of the week: Hollie Doyle

Hollie Doyle is a record-breaking British jockey known for her historic wins in elite flat racing events.

Fun Fact: In 2024, she became one of the few female jockeys in history to reach 1,000 career wins, and this year she hit 1,000 career wins in Britain- and the kicker? She’s just 28.

🏟️ Venue of the week: Snowbasin Resort

Imagine skiing above the clouds. I mean, just look at that sight. You’re looking at Snowbasin ski resort in Utah, United States. It is one of the oldest continuously operating ski resorts, having opened in 1939.

Fun Fact: Snowbasin hosted the 2002 Winter Olympic Alpine Skiing races, and is expected to do so again for the 2034 Winter Olympics.

🧤 Fit Check: Portland Timbers 2025 kit

The Portland Timbers are celebrating a half century of heritage. Whats cool about this jersey is that the design is built around the Timbers crest, featuring tree rings inspired by the crosscut of the club’s iconic log slab.

If you zoom in and count, you’ll see 50 log rings on the jersey that represent the clubs years of existence (50) being established in 1975. They jersey also has key moments like the Timbers’ first MLS season in 2011 and their 2015 MLS Cup win with special icons embedded in the design.

From the bench
🗞️ In case you were injured:

• Last week’s athlete of the week, Suryavanshi, 14, hit a century (100 runs) in the Indian Premier League this week! He has become the youngest player ever to hit a century in men's T20s

• Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney’s football club, Wrexham, made history by being the first professional team to be promoted 3 seasons in a row, now finding themselves just one division below the English Premier League

• 71-year-old Thomas Jones ran a 12.89 to beat Michael Kish (13.66) in the Penn Relays Masters Men's 100m dash. If he can do it at 71, you don’t have any excuses

🎯 In overtime:

• Alex Zverev was given a warning for unsportsmanlike conduct after using his phone to take a photo of a disputed ball mark during the tennis match

• Mao Saigo celebrated her first major golf trophy by… You guessed it: Jumping in a pond

• Kobe Bryant’s debut jersey sold for $7 million at an auction this week

📊 Analyst’s Corner:

More people than ever before are running marathons, as seen with the record-breaking number of participants expected at this year’s London Marathon. Let’s break it down by the numbers:

• 56,000+ runners expected at the 2025 London Marathon

• £1.3 billion ($1.7 billion) raised by the London Marathon since its inception

• There were 386,000 applicants in 2018

• While there are 840,000+ applicants in 2025 (more than doubled in 7 years)

• 55,646 people finished the 2023 NYC Marathon (previous record for largest ever), and the London Marathon 2025 is expected to break this record

🏆 Sports Calendar

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