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Ronaldo’s goal, a record-extending 123rd in international football, maintained Portugal’s perfect start to Euro 2024 cancer in 2010, spoke of her determination after receiving her double diagnosis.

“What was the alternative? Giving up? Giving in? Stopping?” she said in March. “That’s just not an option for me … quitting is just not in my DNA.”

The 66-year-old Navratilova shared in an interview in March that her “prognosis is excellent.”

Navratilova enjoyed a long playing career in which she won 18 grand slam singles titles, 31 grand slam doubles titles and 10 grand slam mixed doubles titles. She still holds the WTA Tour’s all-time record of 167 titles.

After retiring from singles in 1994 at the age of 38, she continued playing doubles – and winning titles – into her 40s.

Ronaldo scores last-minute winner on recordbreaking 200th appearance for Portugal

Portugal star Cristiano Ronaldo scored a last-gasp winner against Iceland on the night he became the first men’s player in history to reach 200 international appearances.

Ronaldo’s goal, a recordextending 123rd in international football, maintained Portugal’s perfect start to Euro 2024 qualifying with four wins from four matches.

The 38-year-old, who made his debut for Portugal in 2003, received a Guinness World Record certificate to mark the occasion prior to kick off.

“So happy,” Ronaldo told uefa. com after the match. “It’s the kind of moment you never expect, to reach 200 caps. For me it’s an unbelievable achievement.

“To be in the Guinness World Records is amazing and to score the winning goal is even more special. So I have to say thank you to the stadium, to Iceland, the people, the fans, the stadium for having this kind of party for me.

“Also to the Portugal national team, the federation. I’m so happy. It’s a special day, I have to say thank you to all of them. They made my day. They made my night.”

Iceland’s Willum Willumsson was sent off after being shown is second yellow card with 10 minutes remaining, opening the door for a Portugal winner.

Ronaldo was made to wait to celebrate his goal after teammate Gonçalo Inácio, who provided the assist, was initially ruled to be offside, only for VAR to overturn the decision.

The Portugal captain has now scored five goals in Euro qualifying and is still playing a key role for the national team, despite a disappointing end to the World Cup in which Ronaldo was dropped to the bench in the knockout stages.

Ronaldo moved to Saudi Arabia to play for Al Nassr after the World Cup following his acrimonious departure from Manchester United, missing out on the league title in his first season at the club. (CNN)

Ashes 2023: England will go ‘harder’ at Australia - Brendon McCullum

Coach Brendon McCullum says England will go “harder” at Australia after their agonising twowicket defeat in the first Ashes Test at Edgbaston.

Ninth-wicket pair Pat Cummins and Nathan Lyon got Australia to their target of 281 with a stand of 55.

The first Test was characterised by a clash of styles - England looking to be aggressive and Australia more cautious.

“I’m sure they’ll stick to that strategy, which is great because we’ll go a little harder,” said McCullum.

England will look to level the series in the second Test at Lord’s, which begins next Wednesday.

The defeat at Edgbaston was only England’s third in 14 Tests since McCullum and captain Ben Stokes took charge at the beginning of last summer.

In their last series with Australia, down under 18 months ago, England were beaten 4-0 and

Australia won the opening Test at Edgbaston

McCullum believes England’s approach was vindicated by how close they came to beating the world Test champions.

“The way that we played validated our style of play,” said the New Zealander. “If we’d have got a little bit of the rub of the green then we might have been on the other side of it.

“The guys are proud of the efforts that they put in and I’m sure we’ll go to Lord’s with a lot of confidence.”

England declared on 393-8 after just 78 overs on the first day, their earliest declaration in an Ashes Test.

“We always want to try to take the game forward,” added

McCullum. “We want to try to seize opportunities where we think we can put opposition teams under pressure.

“Obviously you’d rather have won the game - that’s just the nature of sport sometimes. If we’d have got a little bit of the rub of the green then we might have been on the other side of it.”

In such a tight game, England were made to pay for eight missed chances in the field, four of which were errors by wicketkeeper Jonny Bairstow.

Bairstow, who missed nine months with a broken leg, has come back into the side at the expense of Ben Foakes this summer and made scores of 78 and 20 with the bat at Edgbaston.

McCullum, himself a former wicketkeeper, said there were no plans to return the gloves to Foakes.

“They were pretty tough mistakes,” said McCullum, who played 101 Tests for New Zealand.

“I’ve kept over here before, it’s not the easiest place to keep. I actually thought Jonny kept really well right throughout. If you look at the way he progressed throughout the game, he found a natural rhythm.

“We know what he offers with the bat, him coming in at seven is a real weapon for us.”