World of sport
Simone Biles defied a kidney stone and medical advice as she clambered off her hospital bed to stage a remarkable comeback at the World Gymnastics Championships in Doha.
The 21-year-old superstar revealed she had spent most of the previous day “crawling on the floor” in pain as her muchvaunted return after an 18-month hiatus from the sport threatened to end in agony.
Determined not to let down her United States team-mates, and shrugging off advice from doctors to rest longer, Biles not only nailed her four qualification routines for a leading total of 60.965, but potentially earned a new entry into the sport’s code of points in the process.
Biles, who first revealed her health problem in a Twitter tweet late yesterday, said: “It’s been a rough 24 hours. Yesterday I was crawling on the floor but I think my pain tolerance is better than others because I’m an athlete.
“My mum took me to the team doctor and he said we had to go to get some tests because it was over my appendix, and I went on the table and the doctor said it was a kidney stone.”
Great Britain struck gold in the women’s team pursuit at the Track World Cup in Canada.
Facing Italy in the final on day one in Milton, Laura Kenny, Katie Archibald, Elinor Barker and Ellie Dickinson took the gold medal.
Britain’s Oliver Wood took silver in the men’s scratch race, as Ukraine’s Vitaliy Hryniv won gold, with Greece’s Christos Volikakis clinching bronze.
Ryan Owens, Philip Hindes and Jason Kenny took bronze in the men’s team sprint in a time of 43.126 seconds, with Holland clinching gold in a time of 42.828 seconds.
In the men’s team pursuit, Wood, Steven Burke, Ed Clancy and Kian Emadi clinched a second bronze for Britain.
At this time of year, the colour combination of green and black works superbly well, and this pattern, called the Montaddy – a mix of the Montana Nymph and a Tadpole – is a wee beauty.
The hook is a Size 12 Kamasan B175, the tying thread black and the tail a bunch of black marabou.
The body is wound peacock herl, the thorax is green fluorescent wool and the thorax cover peacock herl
The Burnside Pool fished well at Forbes of Kingennie, and the Raemoir AC had a grand outing, with their 13 anglers releasing 90 fish, with 10 at over 5lb each.
Stewart Crockett returned a superb rainbow, which weighed 15lb, while Mike Cordiner released another fine rainbow of 10lb.
A grand total of 185 fish were recorded at the Lawfield Trout Fishery near Kilmacolm, with the trout falling to the charms of wellpresented CDCS, Buzzers, Sedges, Cormorants, Squirmies, Black Rabbits and Eggstasy worms.