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You go to a stadium... but your seat doesn't exist
Perfectly timed picture, rugby but on the water, $10 million payday, a court on an aircraft carrier and an athlete who broke his own record 10 times. Read now.
Pre-match briefing
Welcome back to The Gameplan! With the US Open in full swing, I couldn’t let anyone else miss this perfectly timed picture, capturing the true embodiment of tennis:
Let’s dive (literally, based on today’s sport) into Week 42 at The Gameplan.
Scout’s Overview
📡 🚨 Weekly Sports Radar: Water Rugby
Water Rugby (also known as WateRugby) is a festival-style variant of rugby created by former French international Yann Delaigue. Played on two floating pitches (40m x 35m) set up on rivers, the game keeps rugby’s core rules but adds a twist: there are no posts or touchlines, the water is the only boundary, and players must dive in to score a try.
🏋 Athlete of the week: Tommy Fleetwood
Tommy Fleetwood is a professional golfer from England who plays on the PGA Tour and European Tour. While he’s won seven times on the European tour and even gotten a medal for GB at the Olympics, until this week, he had never won a PGA Tour title.
This week, after 164 PGA Starts without a win, a record, he finally won the FedEx Cup title, earning a historic $10 million payday along with it.
🏟️ Venue of the week: The Carrier Classic Court
You’re probably thinking, “What’s so special about this one? It just looks like a normal basketball court, maybe some bonus points for being right beside the river.” Okay, now let’s zoom out a bit:
Yeah. This one IS ON AN AIRCRAFT CARRIER. WHAT?!
🧤 Fit Check: Mercedes AMG Petronas Driver Jersey
F1 and slapping sponsors left, right, and centre go hand in hand, BUT making it look somewhat good is a skill. With Adidas coming in clutch with the collar and sleeve lines, this jersey actually looks clean. Sponsor logos are exactly aligned, and not too many colours are used, with the blue popping just as it should, making the jersey neat.
From the bench
🗞️ Imagine…
Imagine walking into a stadium with a season ticket and realising your seat doesn’t even exist
Imagine censoring the name of a village on a cycling route website. The village in question is Three Cocks, in Powys, Wales.
Imagine being so good at the sport that your opponent says you’re AI-generated.
Imagine what it feels like to be this baby diving face-first into a giant bag of ballpark popcorn
📊 Analyst’s Corner:
Let’s take a look at the top 10 World Record Heights in Pole Vault:
🇸🇪 Armand Duplantis - 2025 - 6.29m
🇸🇪 Armand Duplantis - 2025 - 6.28m
🇸🇪 Armand Duplantis - 2025 - 6.27m
🇸🇪 Armand Duplantis - 2024 - 6.26m
🇸🇪 Armand Duplantis - 2024 - 6.25m
🇸🇪 Armand Duplantis - 2024 - 6.24m
🇸🇪 Armand Duplantis - 2023 - 6.23m
🇸🇪 Armand Duplantis - 2023 - 6.22m
🇸🇪 Armand Duplantis - 2022 - 6.21m
🇸🇪 Armand Duplantis - 2022 - 6.20m
Gotta love how many players are making it big in the sport! Jokes aside, this level of dominance is insane.
🏆 Sports Calendar
We’ve got 20 new events across 17 sports for you this week:
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Signing out,
Wasay (brother #2)
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