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The World Track Cycling Championships have been taking place in Glasgow, and the home crowd have had plenty to cheer. Success included Neah Evans, and her partner Elinor Barker, crowned world champions in the Madison, a team event as much about tactics as strength and speed. A crash in the race threatened to derail everything, but was Neah's previous experience as a veterinarian surgeon the difference in seeing them over the line?!

Sport and music can sometimes have an uneasy relationship, from professional athletes with questionable vocals or novelty groups releasing silly songs about winning the World Cup or drinking at the World Cup. Or both. Well with the release of their fourth album 'Grand Salami Time', The Baseball Project have proved that great music and great sport can mix. Hardly surprising though, the group is made up of two members of R.E.M, one of the best known artists of the last thirty years. Scott McCaughey, often referred to as the unofficial 5th member of REM, is also part of the Project and told us about their unique mix of beats and baseball, home runs and hit singles.

We are also at the Women's World Cup where New Zealand are preparing to host their last game, the semi final between Spain and Sweden. The co- hosts鈥� welcome will live long in the memory, as will their win over the former champions Norway in the opening match... but it has also meant an introduction to a M膩ori traditional dance called Poi.

Photo: Great Britain's Neah Evans and Elinor Barker celebrate winning gold in the women's Elite Madison race during the UCI Cycling World Championships in Glasgow, Scotland on August 7, 2023 (Credit: ADRIAN DENNIS/AFP via Getty Images)