WORLD OF SPORT
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Deal of the day
Stephen Curry has agreed to a record five-year, US$201 million (Dh738m) “super-max” deal to stay at the Golden State Warriors, the richest contract in league history. The deal came immediately after the NBA’s free agency period began and was done under the league’s designated veteran player extension. Curry was eligible for the lucrative deal since he won at least one MVP award in the last three seasons. The 29-yearold point guard has claimed the MVP honour in two of the last three seasons while helping the Warriors to two NBA titles, including their most recent, a 4-1 series win over the Los Angeles Lakers.
▷▷▷ Surveillance of the day Thermal cameras aimed at catching out technological cheats will again be used at the Tour de France this year, the French sports ministry said as the world’s biggest bike race began in Dusseldorf. Cycling’s world governing body the UCI will carry out checks on riders’ bicycles using technology developed by the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA). The technology was first used at the Tour last year when no bikes failed a test. Authorities had decided to clamp down on technological fraud last season after years of rumours that some riders might be using motorised bicycles.
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Wedding of the day
Not content with battling it out with his greatest rival on the pitch, Lionel Messi redrew the battle lines with a ceremony dubbed the “wedding of the century” by Argentine media on Friday. Just hours after Cristiano Ronaldo revealed pictures of his new baby twins via a surrogate mother, Messi said “I do” to childhood sweetheart and mother of their two children Antonella Roccuzzo in his Argentine hometown Rosario. The couple’s children Thiago, 4, and Mateo, 1, had front seats at the ceremony Argentine media called it the “wedding of the century” for Rosario, the gritty northern port city where Messi, 30, and his bride, 29, met when the player was nine years old.