Scout’s Overview
📡 🚨 Weekly Sports Radar: Rally Raid

Rally raid is a form of long-distance off-road motorsport known to be extreme. Competitors race across extreme terrains: deserts, mountains, dunes, and rocky trails, often covering hundreds of kilometres per stage and thousands over the full event.

Unlike traditional rallying, which runs on shorter closed-road stages, rally raid takes place over multi-day events where navigation and survival skills matter as much as speed. Vehicles include motorcycles, cars, trucks, quads, and UTVs, each modified to withstand harsh conditions.

The Dakar Rally, shown above, is the sport’s flagship competition, known as one of the most gruelling races in the world.

🏋 Athlete of the week: Katie Ledecky

Katie Ledecky is the most dominant distance freestyler in swimming history, as well as the most decorated female swimmer in history, winning 14 Olympic medals, ranking as the 5th most-decorated Olympian of all time. Thus, she’s regarded as the greatest female swimmer of all time. What’s crazy is she’s just 28 years old!

🏟️ Venue of the week: Tasiilaq Football Field

Tasiilaq Football Field is a football pitch in Greenland, Denmark, with an insane view. One strong kick and you’d need to go swimming to find the ball.

🧤 Fit Check: Team Mongolia 2024 Olympics

Sharp, detailed, and so different from anything you’ve seen before. Team Mongolia pulled up with one of the all-time best uniforms at the Olympics last year. With embroidered collars and boxy vests, the uniforms feature golden threadwork that reflects and shines under the sun.

From the bench
🗞️ In case you were injured:

• These Indian owners have become the first Sikh owners of an English football club, and they’ve hired the first-ever Sikh manager of an English team. Their first act as owners? Give working staff wages for the first time since May.

• A Basketball card, signed by Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant, was sold for $12.9M, making it the most expensive sports collectable card in history.

• Hawai’i kicker Kansei Matsuzawa learned how to kick a football from YouTube videos because no one in his area knew how. This week, he kicked the game-winning FG.

🎯 In overtime:

• Bikes are being stolen during this Spanish road bicycle racing tournament

• A reporter asked a player if he was happy with the win, and the player replied, saying, “I'm a Bremen player (the losing side) in case you don't know.” A moment to forget for the reporter.

• Max Verstappen can’t stop overtaking, even if it’s in golf karts

📊 Analyst’s Corner:

Across sports history, there have only been 6 athletes who’ve crossed the billion-dollar mark while being active in their sport, per Forbes:

• ⛳️ Tiger Woods - $1.72 Billion

• ⚽️ Cristiano Ronaldo - $1.24 Billion

• 🏀 LeBron James - $1.16 Billion

• ⚽️ Lionel Messi - $1.15 Billion

• 🎾 Roger Federer - $1.09 Billion

• 🥊 Floyd Mayweather - $1.08 Billion
  

🏆 Sports Calendar

We’ve got 20 more events across 17 sports for you this week: