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Yahoo
12 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Shakira Announces Two More Dates in Mexico, Extending Record to 28
Shakira announced on Thursday (June 19) two new dates for the second leg of her Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran World Tour in Mexico. The first will take place on Sept. 18 at Mexico City's Estadio GNP Seguros. The second will mark her first-ever performance in the state of Veracruz, where she will perform at the Estadio Luis Pirata Fuente on Sept. 24. With the new dates, Shakira further breaks her own record of shows in Mexico on a single tour — now reaching a total of 28 on this trek. More from Billboard Rachel Zegler Serenades Crowd Outside Theater for Free in a New London Production of 'Evita' Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis to Receive Vanguard Award at The Guitar Center Music Foundation Gala & Benefit Concert Bruce Springsteen Reflects on 'Painful Days' Depicted in Upcoming Biopic 'Deliver Me From Nowhere' 'With the announcement of this new date, the Colombian singer solidifies herself as the artist with the most concerts at the iconic Estadio GNP Seguros,' promoter OCESA said in a press release. 'My beautiful Mexico! 12 shows at Estadio GNP! Thank you, thank you, and thank you again for continuing to break records with me. See you soon. I love you!!' Shakira wrote in an Instagram post, where she appears posing with a plaque of recognition from OCESA for her new milestone. The second leg of her 2025 trek in Mexico kicks off on Aug. 11 at the Estadio Caliente in Tijuana, Baja California, and continues on Aug. 14 at the Estadio Héroes de Nacozari in Hermosillo, Sonora; Aug. 17 at the Estadio UACH in Chihuahua, and Aug. 20 at the Estadio Corona in Torreón, Coahuila. After making history with seven consecutive sold-out shows at the Estadio GNP Seguros, the Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran World Tour will return to Mexico City to complete another series of five shows on Aug. 26, 27, 29, and 30, and Sept. 18, for a total of 12 performances. This will make Shakira the first artist to achieve such a number of concerts at the venue (formerly known as Foro Sol). The superstar, who has been adding dates to the tour as tickets continue to sell out, will also match Grupo Firme's record of eight shows at Estadio GNP Seguros. The band is scheduled to perform their eighth show there on June 28. The success of Shakira's monumental tour has led the 'Hips Don't Lie' singer to top Billboard's monthly Top Tours ranking for the first time, generating $32.9 million with 282,000 tickets sold in February, according to figures reported to Billboard Boxscore. The following month, she again led the chart and broke records by earning $70.6 million from 11 reported shows — more than any artist has ever generated in a single March since the ranking's launch in 2019. Shakira's tour has left an indelible mark on Latin America, drawing more than one million fans, according to OCESA. Also this year, the Barranquilla-born star was ranked No. 1 among Billboard's Best 50 Female Latin Pop Artists of All Time. Best of Billboard Chart Rewind: In 1989, New Kids on the Block Were 'Hangin' Tough' at No. 1 Janet Jackson's Biggest Billboard Hot 100 Hits H.E.R. & Chris Brown 'Come Through' to No. 1 on Adult R&B Airplay Chart
Yahoo
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Shakira breaks own record with two new shows in Mexico
Shakira announced on Thursday that she will be playing two new dates on the second leg of her Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran World Tour in Mexico. The first will take place on 18 September at Mexico City's Estadio GNP Seguros. The second will mark her first-ever performance in the state of Veracruz, where she will perform at the Estadio Luis Pirata Fuente on 24 September. With the new dates, the Hips Don't Lie superstar has broken her own record for the most shows in Mexico on a single tour - now reaching a total of 28 on this trek. "With the announcement of this new date, the Colombian singer solidifies herself as the artist with the most concerts at the iconic Estadio GNP Seguros," promoter OCESA announced in a press release. "My beautiful Mexico! 12 shows at Estadio GNP! Thank you, thank you, and thank you again for continuing to break records with me. See you soon. I love you!" Shakira wrote in an Instagram post, where she appears posing with a plaque of recognition from OCESA for her new milestone. The tour kicked off on 11 February in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and wraps in Lima, Peru, on 16 November.
New Straits Times
3 days ago
- Sport
- New Straits Times
Haikal tries to build up confidence amid 'mental scars'
KUALA LUMPUR: Haikal Nazri's fear is not about losing. His problem is psychological. The 22-year-old national men's doubles shuttler is more concerned about walking off the court physically intact. Haikal, who is still recovering from the mental scars of a major injury, said: "Every time I finish a tournament, I'm always grateful. "Why? Even if I lost and sad about it, the important thing is I'm not injured. "I'm really scared of getting injured again. To be honest, losing is better than being injured for a long period." Haikal, who partners Choong Hon Jian, was speaking from experience, after having spent five months on the sidelines following a serious hip injury. He has also expressed his gratitude to Hon Jian for not leaving him for another partner while he was recovering from the protracted injury. Haikal, in opening up on his situation, offered an insight into the mental challenges facing athletes trying to recover from long-term injuries. Since his return, world No. 47 Haikal and Hon Jian have struggled to rediscover the form that won them three World Tour titles earlier. They had suffered early exits in their last five tournaments. Haikal said he is prioritising strengthening his body and building up his confidence. However, he said fear of injury does not affect him during matches. "On the court, I don't think 'If I do this, I'll get injured'. I don't have such fear during the game," he explained. "If I lose and think back on the defeat... I try to look at the positive, which is that I am not injured." Haikal said their goal is to get back into the world's top 32. "It has been a struggle, but I hope for the next tournament, maybe in Japan or China next month, we can finally find our rhythm again."
New York Times
3 days ago
- Sport
- New York Times
Meet Paul Seixas, French cycling's schoolboy with Grand Tour-winning potential
'At first, the goal was just to test my level against the best,' says Paul Seixas, fewer than 48 hours after the Criterium du Dauphine. 'And it was way beyond expectations. To be honest, I was dreaming on my bike, and…' He puffs out his cheeks. 'Just hanging loose.' Seixas speaks like a teenager, but he does not ride like one. At just 18 years old, he finished in the Dauphine's top 10, against arguably the race's strongest field ever assembled. He still lives at home — he is still at school. Advertisement The Lyon-born rider has always been earmarked as one of the top prospects in France — but by the end of last week, Seixas demonstrated why he is considered by many as the greatest young talent in the entire peloton, with Grand Tour-winning potential. He finished tenth as a teenager in last Wednesday's time-trial, just 25 seconds behind Tadej Pogacar, while he has never finished below 15th in a climbing stage — with six top 10s to his name already. 'I'd never ridden elevation like this in my life,' he explains. 'So with my first time coming to race with some of the biggest names in the world, you always have some fears. Maybe you don't know what will happen to you? But to be up there with some of the best, it's insane.' SUPERSTAR IN THE MAKING 🤩 Yesterday, Paul Seixas became the youngest EVER rider to finish in the top 10 at a World Tour level Individual Time Trial. 👦🇫🇷 — Cycling on TNT Sports (@cyclingontnt) June 12, 2025 Sitting sixth in the general classification (GC) entering the final stage, Seixas was desperate to hold onto his top 10, despite the relaxed expectations going in. That was thrown into question by a crash at the base of the final climb, up the 9.7km Col du Mont-Cenis. 'I just turned into a robot at that moment,' he says. 'An Uno-X rider attacked, everybody moved to the right, and I just wanted to stay in my place. But some riders tried to hang and they just took my wheel with them. It was not intentional, so I was not angry, just bad luck, but I just wanted to get back on my bike and lose as little time as possible. 'I didn't even think about changing bikes because it would have taken too long. So I was thinking: 'I know there is no downhill at the top, so I'll just push on it until the finish line.'' Seixas made it, retaining enough of a time buffer to keep eighth on GC. Given the combination of the fall and the fatigue in his legs — this was his longest ever stage race — it was arguably his most impressive performance of the week. Pictures from the summit show him utterly spent, barely able to raise his head from the crash barriers he slumped against. Advertisement 'Every day I was acting as if it was the last day,' he says. 'I just told myself that I had to hang in there, that I could not stop, could not abandon, could not crack. It was in this spirit that I suffered so much. 'Before this race, I had never felt the need to sit down after a race. I had never pushed my body this much. But here I felt I was empty.' At the finish line, with journalists asking him what came next, he gave them a simple answer — sleep. In the event, he was still wired from the caffeine he had taken to get himself through the stage. That night, rest was not forthcoming. Another factor was his teammates — with the entirety of Decathlon-AG2R, one of France's most historic squads, riding for a teenager. 'It just made me want to suffer even more,' he says. 'I wanted to reward them by doing something good in the final stages.' These opportunities, at such a young age, also justify the difficult decision that Seixas had to make last year. Before signing a WorldTour contract, he faced overtures from the likes of UAE Team Emirates, Lidl-Trek, and Soudal-Quickstep, some of the top teams in the peloton. 'I think it was very simple in the end,' he explains. 'It goes way back in my career — I did three years with the junior team here, and it was after that they gave me their proposition. I was so motivated because I trusted them already, they were giving me such good advice and I felt better every year. I'm still certain it was the right decision.' Decathlon-AG2R are carefully managing the youngster — they will not throw him into his debut Tour de France next month, knowing the attention that would come with being a high-potential French talent, as well as the entirely new challenge of a three-week race, more than double the length of anything Seixas has ridden before. Advertisement 'I'm going to be patient,' he says. 'Hopefully, later in the season I will do some more big races, WorldTour races, but for the moment I will do some lower-level races. Obviously there were some good performances at the Dauphine. But I haven't had a win this season — so now I'm going to chase one, and I'm ready for it, I think.' This is still a rider learning his craft, as both a rider and a professional. He credits teammates with massively helping him off the bike, while at the Dauphine, one key area in which he felt that he improved was positioning. 'Everyone is very close in terms of level,' Seixas says. 'So that's different, because you can't just be the strongest guy, you have to be near the front. And then, during the last 50 to 60 kilometres, it's just full gas. Even on the wheel it shocked me, because you are full gas even when you are drafting, you're pushing so much.' Seixas is not from a huge cycling family. His first experiences of racing came from watching the Tour de France with his grandfather. The 2013 Tour de France, Chris Froome's first win, is his earliest cycling memory, from when he was six years old. 'And then I saw Romain Bardet and Thibaut Pinot, they were the first French guys I knew — it was a good era for them, and I think they made me have the passion,' he says. The Dauphine was Bardet's final ever road-race. The pair have developed a relationship; arguably the closest Frenchman to winning the Tour de France in the last two decades passing the torch to the nation's latest hope. The Dauphine had added significance to Seixas as his home race — growing up around Lyon on the fringes of the region, these were well-known roads. 'My grandparents live in the Alps,' he says. 'And my grandfather didn't have the chance to compete as a cyclist when he was younger, he lacked the opportunity. It was a shame, but it remained a dream for him. For him to see me doing this type of race is incredible. 'He came to the bus with me after the final stage. I was so happy to see him like this. One sentence stayed with me — he said that after the race, he felt five years younger.'
CBC
3 days ago
- Sport
- CBC
FIBA Men's 3X3 Basketball World Tour : DAY 1
Watch opening day action from the FIBA Men's 3X3 Basketball World Tour from Sükhbaatar Square in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
