Caster Semenya has won two Olympic golds and three world titles in the 800m. PA Wire
Caster Semenya has won two Olympic golds and three world titles in the 800m. PA Wire
Caster Semenya has won two Olympic golds and three world titles in the 800m. PA Wire
Caster Semenya has won two Olympic golds and three world titles in the 800m. PA Wire

Other Sport

Watch Caster Semenya obliterate Cristiano Ronaldo's core crusher score

South African two-time Olympic champion easily passed the benchmark set by the Juventus star

Jon Turner

April 07, 2020

  • English
  • Arabic

Cristiano Ronaldo laid down a challenge to his 200 million Instagram followers this week in the first edition of the Living Room Cup.

The Juventus and Portugal superstar filmed himself doing a core crusher exercise and managed to do 142 reps in 45 seconds. A very impressive effort and not entirely surprising given his immense physical fitness.

"Can you step up and beat my core crusher record?" he asked in the video caption.

Well, two-time Olympic gold medallist Caster Semenya has responded with an emphatic "yes".

The South African 800-metre runner posted her efforts to her Instagram account and managed to obliterate Ronaldo's score with 176 reps.

As well as golds at London 2012 and Rio 2016, Semenya is a three-time world champion, so if anyone could beat Ronaldo at his own game, it would be the 29-year-old track star.

Watch her smash the core crusher challenge here:

While you're here
Zayed Sustainability Prize
Milestones on the road to union

1970

October 26: Bahrain withdraws from a proposal to create a federation of nine with the seven Trucial States and Qatar. 

December: Ahmed Al Suwaidi visits New York to discuss potential UN membership.

1971

March 1:  Alex Douglas Hume, Conservative foreign secretary confirms that Britain will leave the Gulf and “strongly supports” the creation of a Union of Arab Emirates.

July 12: Historic meeting at which Sheikh Zayed and Sheikh Rashid make a binding agreement to create what will become the UAE.

July 18: It is announced that the UAE will be formed from six emirates, with a proposed constitution signed. RAK is not yet part of the agreement.

August 6:  The fifth anniversary of Sheikh Zayed becoming Ruler of Abu Dhabi, with official celebrations deferred until later in the year.

August 15: Bahrain becomes independent.

September 3: Qatar becomes independent.

November 23-25: Meeting with Sheikh Zayed and Sheikh Rashid and senior British officials to fix December 2 as date of creation of the UAE.

November 29:  At 5.30pm Iranian forces seize the Greater and Lesser Tunbs by force.

November 30: Despite  a power sharing agreement, Tehran takes full control of Abu Musa. 

November 31: UK officials visit all six participating Emirates to formally end the Trucial States treaties

December 2: 11am, Dubai. New Supreme Council formally elects Sheikh Zayed as President. Treaty of Friendship signed with the UK. 11.30am. Flag raising ceremony at Union House and Al Manhal Palace in Abu Dhabi witnessed by Sheikh Khalifa, then Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi.

December 6: Arab League formally admits the UAE. The first British Ambassador presents his credentials to Sheikh Zayed.

December 9: UAE joins the United Nations.

Is it worth it? We put cheesecake frap to the test.

The verdict from the nutritionists is damning. But does a cheesecake frappuccino taste good enough to merit the indulgence?

My advice is to only go there if you have unusually sweet tooth. I like my puddings, but this was a bit much even for me. The first hit is a winner, but it's downhill, slowly, from there. Each sip is a little less satisfying than the last, and maybe it was just all that sugar, but it isn't long before the rush is replaced by a creeping remorse. And half of the thing is still left.

The caramel version is far superior to the blueberry, too. If someone put a full caramel cheesecake through a liquidiser and scooped out the contents, it would probably taste something like this. Blueberry, on the other hand, has more of an artificial taste. It's like someone has tried to invent this drink in a lab, and while early results were promising, they're still in the testing phase. It isn't terrible, but something isn't quite right either.

So if you want an experience, go for a small, and opt for the caramel. But if you want a cheesecake, it's probably more satisfying, and not quite as unhealthy, to just order the real thing.

 

 

MATCH INFO

Fulham 0

Aston Villa 3 (Grealish 4', Hourihane 15', Mings 48')

Man of the match: Jack Grealish (Aston Villa)

On Women's Day
Other SportSport