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COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A man was found guilty Friday of murder and attempted murder for fatally stabbing five people and wounding four others in southern Norway when he attacked strangers with a bow and arrows and knives. The Buskerud District Court sentenced Espen Andersen Bråthen to compulsory mental health care. Three forensic psychiatric experts who assessed him concluded he has chronic paranoid schizophrenia and was mentally ill at the time of the attack on Oct. 13, 2021. Both the prosecution and the defense had called for compulsory mental health care for Andersen Bråthen. Andersen Bråthen was found guilty of 11 counts of attempted murder for shooting at people with a bow and arrows in Kongsberg, a former mining town of 26,000 people. He was carrying 62 arrows and four knives at the time of the attack. The three-judge court said the defendant had explained during the trial that started in May and lasted until June 6 “that he had decided to kill people in order to … [Read more...] about Norwegian man convicted of killing 5 in bow-and-arrow attack

Listen to this article The damp and rainy conditions of Friday had given way for the start of the first fully dry session of the Assen weekend in FP3. It would take just nine minutes for Francesco Bagnaia’s best lap from the drying FP2 session on Friday to be toppled, with Aprilia’s Maverick Vinales making the move. Click here to be a part of the largest MotoGP survey – to have your voice heard and shape the future of the sport Last year’s Assen poleman went fastest of all with a 1m32.960s, which he would improve around six minutes late to a 1m32.911s to lead his former Yamaha teammate Fabio Quartararo. Teammate Espargaro slotted into the top three and will be one of the most relieved riders on Saturday morning, after a technical infringement in FP2 led to all of his slick tyre laps being cancelled and demoting him to last on the combined timesheets and threatened his Q2 hopes. He would take over from Vinales with just under 12 minutes of the 45-minute session … [Read more...] about Assen MotoGP: Espargaro pips Quartararo in FP3 despite shunt

Listen to this article With the threat of rain looming over the Assen circuit when the pole shootout got underway, the lap record was immediately beaten by Pramac’s Jorge Martin before Bagnaia streaked clear in the closing stages to claim back-to-back pole positions. Martin’s early benchmark of 1m31.708s on his first lap put him underneath Maverick Vinales’ lap record from last year, with Quartararo 0.010s adrift in second. Click here to be a part of the largest MotoGP survey – to have your voice heard and shape the future of the sport Quartararo’s second lap was scuppered when he ran off into the gravel at Turn 1, while nobody else put Martin’s effort under threat. With just under five minutes remaining, however, Bagnaia began to light up the timing screens on the first lap of his second run on a fresh soft rear tyre. The factory Ducati rider hooked the tour together to produce a 1m31.504s to go fastest of all. Quartararo made an improvement to a 1m31.620s … [Read more...] about Assen MotoGP: Bagnaia clinches pole with new lap record

Listen to this article Soaking conditions greeted the riders at the start of the first 45-minute practice of the Assen weekend, with forecasts looking unsettled for the three days. Despite the miserable conditions, the track was a hive of activity early on as most headed out to get some wet running under their belts. Click here to be a part of the largest MotoGP survey – to have your voice heard and shape the future of the sport Suzuki’s Mir set the initial pace with a 1m50.988s, but was the first to show how tricky conditions were when he ran off under braking for Turn 1. Turn 1 would prove to be an incident point for the first half of the session, as Ducati’s Miller and Maverick Vinales (Aprilia) got crossed up under braking there and ran on, while both Gresini’s Enea Bastianini and VR46’s Marco Bezzecchi crashed upright on the anchors. Both riders were OK, but the worsening conditions forced most at half-distance to come back to pitlane. By this point … [Read more...] about Assen MotoGP: Miller leads Mir in wet first practice

Listen to this article The heavy rain that affected this morning’s session had disappeared come the start of FP2, with the track beginning to show signs of a dry line when the MotoGP field took to the circuit for the second 45-minute practice of the Assen weekend. It would take 10 minutes for Jack Miller’s best lap from FP1 to be beaten, Aprilia’s Aleix Espargaro doing the honours with a 1m42.457s. Click here to be a part of the largest MotoGP survey – to have your voice heard and shape the future of the sport Alex Rins on the Suzuki quickly deposed Espargaro with a 1m42.312s, before Alex Marquez went to the top of the order with a 1m42.115s. This stood as the benchmark for the next 10 minutes of so before KTM’s Miguel Oliveira took profit of the drier conditions to fire in a 1m40.540s. At the same time, VR46 Ducati rider Luca Marini had switched to a soft front and medium rear slick tyre set. On his first flying lap, he was 2.6s off Oliveira’s lap, before … [Read more...] about Assen MotoGP: Bagnaia tops second practice in mixed conditions

Listen to this article Despite conditions being perfect for the start of the final 45-minute practice, improvements on the combined order were few and far between for much of FP3. Friday pacesetter Bagnaia set the early pace on his factory team Ducati with a 1m20.690s on the individual session timesheet. Click here to be a part of the largest MotoGP survey – to have your voice heard and shape the future of the sport But it wouldn’t be until the final 20 minutes when the first significant mover on the combined order came courtesy of KTM’s Miguel Oliveira. The Portuguese rider lifted himself from 17th to 10th with a 1m20.554s, which also put him top in FP3, before Joan Mir on the Suzuki demoted him with a 1m20.549s on his first soft tyre time attack lap with 15 minutes to go. A few moments later, Aprilia’s Aleix Espargaro set off on his soft tyre run and lit up the timing screens. Espargaro set a new lap record with a 1m20.013s on his first effort, before … [Read more...] about German MotoGP: Bagnaia fastest in FP3 with new lap record

Listen to this article Ducati's Francesco Bagnaia will start the race from pole position as he aims to bounce back from two straight retirements that have all but ended his chances of winning the title. Fresh from his dominant performance at the Sachsenring, championship leader Fabio Quartararo will line up second on the Yamaha, while Pramac's Jorge Martin will complete the front row. Marco Bezzecchi qualified an excellent fourth for VR46 ahead of Aleix Espargaro, who remains the chief rival to Quartararo in the title fight. What time does the MotoGP Dutch Grand Prix start today? The Dutch GP will begin at 2pm local time (+2 GMT) at the TT Circuit in Assen. The race will run to 26 laps. Date : Su n day, June 26, 2022 Start time : 12:00 GMT / 13:00 BST / 14:00 CEST / 14:00 SAST / 15:00 EAT / 08:00 ET / 05:00 PT / 22:00 AEST / 21:00 JST / 17:30 IST Can’t find your country or region in the list? Check the MotoGP schedule page for the broadcast … [Read more...] about 2022 Assen MotoGP – Start time, how to watch & more

Listen to this article Coming into the Assen weekend 91 points behind Quartararo after two-successive DNFs, Bagnaia’s title hopes were boosted by an early crash for Quartararo that also forced Aleix Espargaro off track. Taking Ducati’s first Assen win since 2008, Bagnaia’s lights-to-flag victory from pole puts him 66 points behind Quartararo going into the summer break. Click here to be a part of the largest MotoGP survey – to have your voice heard and shape the future of the sport Poleman Bagnaia got the jump on the field off the line to take the holeshot into Turn 1 as Quartararo ran wide, allowing Espargaro and Jorge Martin through. Quartararo recovered third from Martin immediately at Turn 3 and scythed through on Espargaro into Turn 5. But Espargaro retaliated into the fast Turn 6 right-hander to take second back from the championship leader as Bagnaia’s lead stretched to close to a second over the first tour. Quartararo shadowed Espargaro for the next … [Read more...] about Assen MotoGP: Bagnaia storms to win, Quartararo crashes twice