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Sky Brown, the skateboarder who is set to become the youngest British Olympian after being named in the Team GB squad – she will turn 13 just before the Tokyo Games, which start on 23 July. Brown started competing aged eight and was the first female to land a “frontside 540” trick.
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Jade Lagardère, the Belgian supermodel wife of a French media tycoon, who has been convicted of paying another woman to take her driving test. Lagardère denied the charges, saying she didn’t know her bodyguard had given driving examiners and officials €15,000 in bribes so that another woman – wearing a hijab – could take the test.
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Welsh teenager Makenzy Beard, who took up painting during lockdown in her garden shed and is to exhibit her work at the Royal Academy of Arts. The 14-year-old’s portrait of her neighbour, a Gower farmer, will be displayed at the Young Artist’s Summer Show from 13 July until 8 August.
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Lewis Hughes, 23, who has been sacked from his job as an estate agent and charged with assault for manhandling and filming Chris Whitty. Hughes and a friend were on an anti-vax march in London when they spotted England’s chief medical officer in St James’s Park. Hughes apologised for his actions, but told The Sun: “I feel very let down by Boris, for him to call me a thug. I actually voted for him as well.”
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Wimbledon’s slippery grass, which is wrong-footing many top tennis players. Andy Murray, Novak Djokovic and Nick Kyrgios are among those who’ve come a cropper, and Serena Williams had to pull out of the competition after taking a tumble. Organisers blame the rain: this has been the tournament’s wettest start for almost a decade. “I seem to be having a really nice connection with the grass,” Djokovic dryly observed.
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A 30-year-old French woman, who caused a pile-up during the first stage of the Tour de France. She grinned at the TV camera while facing away from the cyclists, before inadvertently clipping German rider Tony Martin with her gigantic “ALLEZ OPI-OMI!” — “Go granny and grandpa!” — placard. “We’re here to race our bikes, it’s not a circus,” said Martin. “Use your head or stay home.”