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Dakar 2025, Stage 6: Mini ends Toyota’s winning streak, Lategan’s lead chopped
Guillaume de Mevius led a 1-2 finish for X-raid Mini on Stage 6 of Dakar Rally, as Henk Lategan’s lead in the overall standings was slashed to seven minutes.
As Dakar resumed after a rest day in Ha’il, competitors faced a 605km test en route to Al Duwadimi, but with a special 171km transfer section in the middle during which they were not timed.
Toyota driver Guy Botterill established himself as the early leader with his factory Hilux, extending his lead to 1m26s over X-raid Mini driver de Mevius as they entered the transfer section.
The South African appeared to be heading for a maiden stage win in Dakar until he suddenly lost five minutes heading to the third-last checkpoint, slipping from first to fifth in the order.
The biggest beneficiary of that drop was de Mevius, who had been closely following Botterill during the entire stage. Navigating the final 100km stretch with ease, de Mevius picked up his second career stage win in Dakar with a margin of 1m34s over team-mate Joao Ferreira.
Portuguese driver Ferreira was as much as five minutes down on the frontrunners in the opening phases of the stage, but made rapid gains as the day progressed, overhauling Overdrive Toyota’s Yazeed Al-Rajhi in the last 28km to secure the runner-up spot.

#240 X-Raid Mini JCW Team Mini: Joao Ferreira, Filipe Palmeiro
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#240 X-Raid Mini JCW Team Mini: Joao Ferreira, Filipe Palmeiro
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Dacia’s star driver Nasser Al-Attiyah also trailed Al-Rajhi at the penultimate checkpoint, but a rapid final dash propelled him to third place at the end of the stage, just 2m01s down on winner de Mevius.
Al-Rajhi, who had borrowed a spare wheel from Saood Variawa during the transfer section, eventually slipped to fifth place in the final order, behind the factory Toyota of long-time stage leader Botterill.
They were followed by two more drivers from the Toyota contingent, Overdrive’s Rokas Bociuska and factory racer Lategan.
Ford was unable to put up a fight to the faster Toyota and Mini entries on Saturday, as Mattias Ekstrom ended up 8m9s off the pace in eighth and team-mate Nani Roma finished further back in 10th. They were separated by the customer MP Sports Raptor of Martin Prokop.
Two frontrunners dropped out of contention on Saturday. Toyota’s Lucas Moraes, who had been sitting fifth in the overall rankings, who lost an hour and a half with mechanical problems after stopping just 17km into the stage.
X-raid’s top gun Guerlain Chicherit, meanwhile, was forced to retire from the stage altogether after rolling over his new petrol-powered Mini at the 16km mark.

#211 Toyota Gazoo Racing Toyota: Henk Lategan, Brett Cummings
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#211 Toyota Gazoo Racing Toyota: Henk Lategan, Brett Cummings
Photo by: TOYOTA GAZOO Racing
In the overall standings, Lategan continued to hold his grip on the top spot, but his lead has been slashed by around three minutes to 7m16s with six stages remaining.
Ekstrom sits 22m adrift in third place, while Al-Attiyah – who lost victory on Stage 5 due to a penalty for a missing wheel – is now trailing Lategan by 30m25s.
Moraes’ troubles has promoted Ford’s Mitch Guthrie Jr to fifth place, while Mathieu Serradori is up to sixth in the Century CR7.
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EPL: Fulham must move on from defeat to Manchester City — Iwobi
Alex Iwobi says Fulham must stay positive despite their 5-4 defeat to Manchester City at Craven Cottage on Tuesday.
Marco Silva’s side put up a spirited display in the encounter, and were unlucky not to get at least one point.
Iwobi started the fight back by scoring the second goal for Fulham early in the second half.
The versatile midfielder’s compatriot, Samuel Chukwueze then rose from the bench to score two more goals for the Cottagers.
Manchester City, however, held on to go home with maximum points.
Iwobi stated that they deserved more from the game.
“I feel disappointed because we didn’t get anything out of the fighting spirit that we showed, but I think we have to take the positivity from the game,” Iwobi told the club’s official website.
Fulham will be away to Crystal Palace in their next Premier League game on Sunday.
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EPL: Guardiola names team that impresses him everyday
Manchester City boss, Pep Guardiola has named the Premier League club that has impressed him so much this season.
The Spaniard said that Enzo Maresca’s side have really impressed him with the improvement they make everyday.
Speaking after Manchester City beat Fulham 5-4 in the Premier League on Tuesday night, Guardiola pointed out that a team must remain consistent to win the title.
Pep Guardiola’s side closed the gap at the top of the Premier League to just two points behind Arsenal with the victory over Fulham, but the Gunners could maintain their five points lead with a win over Brentford on Wednesday night.
“Chelsea impresses me more and more every day with Enzo [Maresca], but it’s long,” he told reporters after the win.
“Premier League is so long, many things will happen. We won six Premier Leagues, four or five when we in December, January or February we were behind.
“The team who wins the Premier League is the team who grows during the months and this is what we try to do. No injuries, it’s so long.
“But at the same time, if we push, we will be better and push ourselves and control the situations better, the emotions and we will see what happens.”
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Outrage As ‘Biological Male’ Wins World’s Strongest Woman Event in Texas (Photos)
The 2025 World’s Strongest Woman final has sparked outrage after an alleged transgender athlete won gold.
American Jammie Booker, who is accused of being a biological male, beat Great Britain’s Andrea Thompson to victory at the event in Arlington, Texas.
According to Mail Online, Thompson walked off the podium, appearing to say ‘this is bulls***,’ while Booker celebrated. The Brit has since been crowned the ‘true World’s Strongest Woman’ by her coach and some of her peers.

Rebecca Roberts, a three-time winner of World’s Strongest Woman, has sensationally claimed that no one – not even the organizers – knew about Booker’s background.
Details on the American are not clear, but the publication sighted a YouTube video – uploaded to what appears to be Booker’s YouTube channel in September 2017, with Booker saying: ‘Everyone is dying to tell their own story and I am obviously no exception to that.
‘I’m 21-year-old trans woman with a history of abuse, struggling to stay true to herself while under the rule of her religious parents.’
On Monday night, Roberts posted a picture on Instagram that read ‘Protect Women’s Sports.’ She wrote alongside the picture: ‘I hold no hate toward transgender people. Everyone deserves dignity, respect, and the freedom to live their truth.

But I cannot stay silent about something that threatens the fairness and future of women’s strength sports. Transgender women, people born male, should not be competing in the women’s category.
This isn’t about identity. It isn’t about politics. It’s about the undeniable physical differences that exist in strength-based sports… differences that don’t disappear, and that matter more here than almost anywhere else. Women’s categories were created for a reason, and if we lose that, we lose the foundation of our sport.
‘What happened this weekend wasn’t transparent. None of us knew. Not even the organisers knew. And when fairness is taken by surprise, trust in the sport begins to crack.
‘My message is simple. Trans people belong in sport, but women’s divisions must remain biologically born female-only.
‘I love this sport. I have given my life to it. And I won’t ignore something that could quietly change it forever. Congratulations to @andreathompson_strongwoman… the true World’s Strongest Woman 2025’
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