This is how Charles Leclerc comments on the work done today at Imola ahead of next Sunday’s Emilia Romagna Grand Prix: “The first free practice was a bit’ complicated and we had some difficulties, while in the second one we managed to put together something better, but we still lack performance”.

“Our race pace seemed decent but Imola is a circuit on which overtaking is rather difficult– stressed the Ferrari Monegasque – and since now our weak point is the performance in qualifying, this will therefore be our priority ahead of tomorrow”.

Inverse assessment, however, from Lewis Hamilton, according to whom “the first session was positive, the balance was good and there did not seem to be much to change. And instead FP2 proved more challenging because I struggled to find consistency in performance,” said the Briton.

“We will analyze the data collected this evening but we have completed the program, including the long runs, so we have a good amount of information to work on,” Hamilton added.

Here are the words of Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe’s Slovenian Primoz Roglic, who regained the pink jersey at the end of the seventh stage of the Giro d’Italia, the Castel di Sangro-Tagliacozzo stage won by UAE Team Emirates’ Spaniard Juan Ayuso.

“I would have preferred to win but it’s still nice to be in pink again. I won’t have a lot of Tours ahead of me, so you have to take advantage of every opportunity. I know Ayuso’s characteristics well, and I knew he would give me a hard time on a finish like this. I’m not worried about the outcome of the stage.”

“It was a shame to lose Jai Hindley yesterday. Unfortunately, however, cycling is also this and there is no turning back. However, I am grateful to my team, they are doing a great job and I want to win the Giro also so I can pay them back,” Roglic added.

Great victory for Alessandro Sibilio in the 400-meter hurdles race in Doha (Qatar), the venue of the third stage of the Diamond League 2025: the athlete of the Fiamme Gialle, class of 1999, in fact won the final victory, closing the race held on Friday in 49″33, 7 hundredths ahead of Turkey″s Ismail Nezir and 16 hundredths ahead of Slovenia″s Matic Ian Gucek.

The time achieved by Sibilio is a far cry from his personal best, the 47″50 obtained in 2024 at the European Championships in Rome, which was then worth the national record as well as the continental silver medal, but it was enough to line up all of today&#8217s opponents in a race that started out difficult but ended with a decidedly convincing pace.

For Alessandro Sibilio, today’s is his first personal victory in the Diamond League: an important result that reinstates him in the elite of the discipline, a few months after the disappointment of the Paris Olympic Games, in which he did not manage to go beyond the semifinals, while instead three years earlier in Tokyo he had managed to qualify for the final, later placing eighth.

The current one is the sixteenth edition of the Diamond League, heir to the Golden League that was active from 1998 to 2009.

Doha is hosting the third stage of the season, following those in Xiameng and Shaoxing in China. The next meetings are scheduled between now and the end of August in Marrakech (May 25), Rome (June 6), Oslo (June 12), Stockholm (June 15), Paris (June 20), Eugene (July 5), Monte Carlo (July 11), London (July 19), Chorzow (July 26), Lausanne (August 20), Brussels (August 22) and Zurich (August 27 and 28).