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Sport in brief: August 1, 2025

SPEEDWAY: Ryan Douglas top-scored with 14 points and Sam Masters weighed in with 12+2 as Leicester Lions thumped King’s Lynn 60-30 on Thursday evening to win the Premiership Knock-Out Cup 105-75 on aggregate. 

Leicester led from the first tape, losing only one of the 15 heats as they stormed to their first ever silverware in top-flight British speedway. 

Nicolai Klindt was King’s Lynn’s leading scorer with 11 points.

WHEELCHAIR RUGBY LEAGUE: It’s second against third in the Super League on Saturday afternoon as Wigan host unbeaten Halifax at their Robin Park Arena. 

Table-topping defending champions Leeds put the league’s only 100 per cent record on the line against fourth-placed London Roosters while bottom club Edinburgh go in search of their first points of the season at Hull FC. 

Sheffield are not in action during this round of fixtures. 

MEN’S CYCLING: World Tour cycling resumes on Saturday with the Clasica de San Sebastian one-day race covering 213 kilometres of Spain’s Basque country and over 3,900 metres of climbing. 

Switzerland’s Marc Hirschi defends his title but three-time winner Remco Evenepoel is not on the start-list. 

Britain’s representatives include Oscar Onley, who finished fourth at the Tour de France, and 2020 Giro D’Italia winner Tao Geoghegan-Hart. 

MEN’S BOXING: The US’s Oscar Duarte and Kenneth Sims clash in a non-title light-welterweight bout in Chicago on Saturday night. Both are ranked within the WBA’s top five. 

On the undercard Regis Prograis returns to the ring after losing out to Jack Catterall for the WBO light-welterweight title last October, when he takes on Joseph Diaz. 

Prograis has won 29 of his 32 fights, Diaz has lost six of his last eight.

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