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FIA taking steps to reduce heavy bouncing effect on F1 cars

(AP) — Formula One's teams and especially Mer-
governing body is taking cedes have struggled with
steps to reduce the bounc- cars that bounce up and down
ing effect that cars have at high speed — known in F1
struggled with this season as "porpoising" — or bottom
after several drivers com- out and bang against the track
plained about the aero- surface.
dynamic issue that causes Seven-time F1 champion
their vehicles to hop on Lewis Hamilton had severe
the track. back pains during last week-
end's Azerbaijan Grand Prix
The FIA said in a statement and climbed slowly out of
Thursday that it has decided his car after Sunday's race.
to "intervene following con- He was even doubtful he
sultation with its doctors in would recover in time for
the interests of safety of the this weekend's Canadian GP,
drivers" after the problem before saying on Monday he
persisted eight races into the will race.
season.
"The FIA has concerns in
Moving to "ground effect" relation to the immediate The FIA has given the 10 terms of their design and the that will reduce the propen-
— where the floor generates physical impact on the health teams a technical directive observed wear. sity of cars to exhibit such
aerodynamic grip — for this of the drivers, a number of on how it intends to take to phenomena in the medium
season was meant to tighten whom have reported back tackle the problem. These "The FIA will convene a tech- term," the statement said.
the competition between pain following recent events," include closer scrutiny of the nical meeting with the teams
the teams. However, several the FIA said. car's planks and skids, both in in order to define measures

French senators seek action over Champions League final mess

(AP) – French senators demanded instead. The fiasco drew worldwide with issuing a report on what hap-
Thursday that the state recognize They also questioned why surveil- attention to heavy-handed French pened said Thursday that security
responsibility and identify guilty lance video of the scene — in which policing and raised questions about measures should have been adapted
parties behind the chaos outside police pepper-sprayed fans and fami- how France manages security at big as crowds converged. Questioned by
the national stadium that marred lies — was automatically deleted, events. the senators, Michel Cadot called for
the Champions League final last and why government officials didn't exploring new ways of crowd control
month. order it handed over to investigators "The general impression of the un- at stadiums, such as mounted police
folding of the Champions League's and artificial intelligence systems to
final is a lack of preparation, up- monitor and predict crowd move-
stream lack of preparedness, lack of ments, notably ahead of the Paris
responsiveness during the events and 2024 Olympics.
questionable management after the
events," Senator Laurent Lafon, lead- The Paris police chief has admitted
ing a commission seeking explana- that the evening was a "failure" but
tions for what happened, said Thurs- he and the interior minister maintain
day. that police were responding to the
presence of tens of thousands of sup-
The automatic deletion of the sur- porters without tickets or with forged
veillance video leads to "an impres- tickets near the stadium. Witnesses
sion that there is no one responsible, and Liverpool's mayor have chal-
and since there is no one responsible, lenged the French authorities' ver-
there is no one who is guilty," he said. sion, and say French authorities are
He and another senator spoke at the seeking to shift blame.
Stade de France to sum up the com-
mission's work so far. They did not UEFA is also investigating the inci-
directly address the police violence. dents, which marred one of the big-
gest games in world sports. Real Ma-
A senior government official tasked drid beat Liverpool 1-0.

Coco Gauff reaches 1st grass-court quarterfinal in Berlin

(AP) — Coco Gauff Gauff made her break- pointing second set to beat
reached her first grass- through by making the fourth defending champion Liud-
court quarterfinal by round at Wimbledon in 2019 mila Samsonova 6-3, 6-7 (5),
beating Chinese quali- as a 15-year-old and will next 6-1 and clinch the last quar-
fier Wang Xinyu 6-0, 6-4 face Karolina Pliskova, who terfinal spot. Kudermetova
Thursday at the Berlin reached the final at the All had led 4-0 in the second set
Open. England Club last year. and then held a match point
in the 10th game before Sam-
The American 18-year-old, Top-seeded Ons Jabeur saved sonova rallied.
who reached her first Grand a set point in the second-set
Slam final at the French tiebreaker before converting Kudermetova will face No.
Open on clay this month, her fifth match point to beat 8-seeded Belinda Bencic,
cruised through the first set qualifier Alycia Parks 6-2, 7-6 who beat Anna Kalinskaya
but then had to come from a (8). 6-4, 1-6, 6-1.
break down in the second. Also, Thursday, Veronika Ku-
dermetova overcame a disap-