It is common knowledge amongst sports fans that players can hear you when you shout at a TV, and when you give them coaching advice after a bad decision, they always listen. This shouting often makes chairs useless as viewers stand up to try and get noticed.
Rafa nadal winner of the australian open 2°°9
Nadal became the first Spanish man to win the Australian Open, beating Federer 7-5, 3-6, 7-6 (3), 3-6, 6-2 in a momentum-swinging, 4-hour, 22-minute final that finished just after midnight on Sunday.
Federer, trying to equal Sampras’ record, sobbed at the trophy presentation.
“Maybe I’ll try later. God, it’s killing me,” Federer said, crying. He returned to congratulate Nadal within minutes, saying: “You deserved it. You played a fantastic final.”
It was the first Australian Open men’s final to go to five sets since Mats Wilander beat Pat Cash in 1988, the first at Melbourne Park.
Niels Albert World Champion Cyclocross 2°°9
In a race he stamped his mark on early, Niels Albert showed that he is fully back from that nasty crash in November and finished ahead of Zdenek Stybar of the Czech Republic and fellow Belgian Sven Nys.
Albert built a small lead by the end of the first lap and continued to build the gap during the course of the race. With two laps to go, he had 20 seconds on Stybar, who in turn was leading Nys by about 20 seconds. The gaps up front didn’t change much from that point until the end, as Albert was able to cruise home in relative comfort.
Defending world champion Lars Boom was right in the think of things early on, but he had to change bikes 20 minutes into the race and was unable to make up all that lost time.
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