天助阿倫素

豪雨玩殘「紅牛雙煞」、天助阿倫素奪冠做「一哥」！首屆F1南韓站昨演雨中大混戰，頭排起步的韋伯及維度爾，先後失控炒車及戰車「爆偈」，雙雙面黑「上岸」，一個痛失榜首位，一個跌出三甲；反觀法拉利「車神」阿倫素則處變不驚捧走個人今季第5冠強勢重登No.1，今站奪亞的「黑帝」咸美頓亦彈上第3，重返爭標行列。

上周六在排位賽後聲言望有「及時雨」打救的阿倫素，果然「夢想成真」！作為尾三站關鍵大戰的南韓站賽前灑下大雨，賽道積水且能見度極低，賽事延遲了15分鐘開始並需由安全車帶領起步，惟 3圈後因天氣太惡劣，車手紛紛透過無線電投訴「太大雨、根本不能作賽」，結果大會出示紅旗暫停比賽。

經過約1小時休戰後重燃烽火，但依然要由安全車引路，合共帶足17圈（比賽總圈數為55圈）才讓車手「打真軍」。儘管雨勢逐漸減弱，但濕滑路面仍造成不少意外，最終9部戰車無法完成賽事，當中包括「紅牛爭霸雙煞」韋伯和維度爾。

一直擔心雨中作賽、排次席起步的韋伯，在安全車離場後立即「出事」，其戰車於第19圈出彎時失控，右胎剷上人造草後打轉撞向護牆，再反彈出跑道時被後上閃避不及的平治車手洛辛保炒到正，兩人齊齊棄甲，讓出車手榜領頭羊位置。

原以為另一紅牛戰將維度爾半程過後仍保排頭位優勢，大有機會奪魁兼搶走榜首位置，誰料賽至第46圈，被阿倫素過彎時爬頭後，其RB6戰車更「爆偈着埋火」，維度爾慘步隊友後塵「上岸」，一分都冇。

紅牛全軍盡墨造就阿倫素成大家贏，該位西班牙「天王」再顯兩屆世界冠軍本色，混戰中保持冷靜機警，先是避過「韋伯意外」，及後在維修站雖出現失誤被咸美頓超前，但他不慌不忙乘「黑帝」跣軚「反爬頭」，最終以2小時48分20秒810力壓咸美頓及隊友馬沙掄元，歷史性成為南韓站王者；向來內斂的阿倫素衝線後亦鮮有地尖叫、傻笑，興奮之情盡表無遺！

F1今季尚餘兩站，車手榜形勢愈見緊湊，阿倫素揚威靈岩郡賽道後登上榜首，反超跌落第2的韋伯11分，咸美頓則搶走維度爾「老三」席位。尾二站賽事將於11月7日轉戰巴西聖保羅。

大四喜

Cristiano Ronaldo stole the show with a four-goal haul as Real Madrid walloped Racing Santander 6-1 at home to restore their one-point La Liga lead.

The winger struck twice in each half, with his fourth goal coming from a 55th-minute penalty, with Gonzalo Higuain and Mesut Ozil also netting.

"I am really happy because I have never scored four goals," said Ronaldo.

Earlier, a Lionel Messi brace helped Barcelona beat Real Zaragoza 2-0 as they temporarily assumed top spot.

Messi's double, however, was eclipsed at the Bernabeu at the end of a week when Manchester United's Wayne Rooney had been linked with a January transfer window reunion with Portuguese winger Ronaldo.

Rooney, of course, ultimately signed a new five-year contract but there is little doubt that Ronaldo is finally returning to the form that earned him the Fifa World Player of the Year award when playing alongside the England striker at Old Trafford in 2008.

Saturday's goals take Ronaldo's season tally to nine in the league, and 10 in all competitions after he scored in the 2-0 Champions League defeat of AC Milan on Tuesday.

Real's resounding victory, which follows 6-1 and 4-1 wins over Deportivo La Coruna and Malaga, means Jose Mourinho's side remain unbeaten in the league and have garnered a maximum 12 points from four home matches.

"Some of my team-mates were better than me but like the coach [Mourinho] says there is no reason to be euphoric," added Ronaldo, who has scored eight goals in his last three games.

"There is a long way to go in the league although being top is important."

After putting the home side in front in the 10th minute, Argentine striker Higuain turned provider five minutes later, crossing low as Ronaldo made no mistake with a simple tap-in.

Despite appearing to be offside, Ronaldo struck from close-range in the 26th minute, and he hit his hat-trick two minutes after the restart after latching on to an Angel Di Maria pass.

And when Argentine midfielder Di Maria was adjudged to have been fouled in the area in the 55th minute, Ronaldo obliged by despatching the spot-kick for his fourth.

German international Ozil completed the Real's scoring before Papakouli Diop netted a deflected consolation for the hapless visitors, who are down to 16th in the table.

Cristiano Ronaldo new BES commercial

Cris did admit that he always wanted to be a professional table tennis player, before he decided to chose football for his career....Good choice though..

127 Hours

James Franco admits portraying climber Aron Ralston in '127 Hours' was a ''very intense'' but also ''very rewarding''.

The actor - who plays Aron Ralston, a climber who freed himself from under a rock by cutting off his own arm - confesses he found shooting the movie difficult, but ultimately "very rewarding".

He said: "It was a very unique, very intense and very rewarding experience. We shot on a stage in Salt Lake City, where they had re-created a portion of the canyon that Aron was trapped. We also shot on the real location in Utah.

"On the set it wasn't like a normal set, on a normal set you can take the walls out so you can get different shots and angles that you wouldn't on a normal location. But this set didn't work that way, it was confined and it didn't really come apart."

The 32-year-old also admits it was a "great experience" working with British director with Danny Boyle on the project because of his experimental approach to movie making.

He told movie website Flicks and Bits: "Aside from it being a very unusual kind of movie and an unusual acting experience, it was a great experience just working with Danny, he really does love the search and the experimentation and finding new approaches to movie-making and he really did it throughout pre-production."

Three cinema-goers fainted at a screening of the movie at the Toronto Film Festival earlier this week due to the intensity of the self-amputation scenes.

Not only a great champion, he's a great person

 Toni Nadal:
“I am happy when Rafael plays good tennis, but I take more pleasure when people say Rafael is a very good person,” Toni Nadal, his coach an uncle said to the New York Times. “For me, it is so much more important to be a good person.”

“When Rafael was young, I thought he could be a good player but never did I want to see him be bad on the court,” his uncle said. “I wanted to make sure that didn’t happen.”

Toni Nadal is constantly reminding his nephew that his worst day on the tennis court is better than most people’s best day.

“I tell him you must be always grateful of the life, I think one of the most important things I say always to Rafael is to have a good face. Because in this life, the ball going out is not a very big problem.”

“Normally, when you are at the top, people say everything is fantastic. Probably in that moment it is what you want to hear, but it’s best to be reminded how to act properly."

“When you think you are the king of the world,” he continued, “you are really stupid in my opinion because in this life every person is important.”

做好人緊要過贏冠軍

球場上的拿度是一頭殺氣騰騰的「狂牛」，甚至予人「寸寸貢」感覺，但場外卻是個低調謙遜、有禮又友善的陽光大男孩，堪稱球壇典範。世界「一哥」擁有如此討好性格，全因有位視他如親子的教練東尼叔叔多年來悉心培養，該位「拿度成功背後的男人」一直灌輸愛徒兼姪兒：「做好人緊要過贏冠軍！」

「當Rafa（拿度）還小的時候，我就認為他能成為出色的球員，但我堅決不會讓他在場上做出壞行為。」把拿度「一手湊大」的東尼續說：「現在看見他打出了出色的網球，我很高興，只是當人們都說Rafa是一個好人時，這才令我最開心。」

執教以來分文不收的東尼叔叔，不僅協助拿度贏取無數榮譽，更多的是教懂他正確的人生態度：「我常告訴Rafa要對生活充滿感激，最重要是保持樂觀，輸波實在不是一個大問題。」東尼的良好「家教」對姪兒相當奏效，拿度表示：「有人在你狀態低沉時鼓勵你，這是十分重要……當身處高峰時總會聽到很多讚美聲音，但我更需要有人說『實話』，不斷提醒我保持得體正當的言行。」
(刊於2010年9月15日)

拿度譜寫「金滿貫」傳奇！

拿度譜寫「金滿貫」傳奇！在父母家人及女友見證下，西班牙「野獸」昨以盤數3:1擊潰祖高域，首次捧走美網錦標，憑24歲101日幼齡榮膺歷來第7位、亦為公開賽時代最年輕「4大滿貫」（全滿貫）得主，更成為繼阿加斯及嘉芙兩夫婦後，網壇（包括男、女單）史上第3位「金滿貫」（囊括4大滿貫及奧運金牌）球星，此壯舉連兩代「波神」森柏斯及費達拿也未能企及；拿度無愧「新球王」之名，但難得仍謙稱「不及費達拿偉大」。

因天雨順延一天的男單王者對決，兩位「80後」球手合演一場極具質感的高水平競賽。面對「打到上晒身」的祖高域，拿度卒遇今屆最大考驗，首次丟失一盤賽事，幸憑更出色的技、戰術多次化解危機，最終苦戰4盤後（比賽曾因雨中斷）以6:4、5:7、6:4、6:2奏凱。

今年連掃澳網、溫布頓及美網的拿度創出一大堆歷史，寫下「金滿貫」王朝盛世，難怪他致勝一刻，激動到「連滾帶爬」抱頭抽搐喘泣，然後再仰天長嘯、振臂慶祝。「這是我最出色的一個賽事，也是我人生最重要的時刻！」袋走170萬美元（約1,326萬港元）獎金的拿度，高舉個人第9座大滿貫獎座時，笑得分外燦爛和幸福，他不諱言美網封王特別開心：「在我職業生涯能取得四大滿貫，就好像發夢一樣；今次贏美網給我的感覺最特別，因為這是我唯一所欠的錦標，現在我沒有遺憾了。」

追平費達拿「全滿貫」成就的拿度，雖比對方多了一面奧運金牌（男單），但他否認自己已比「費天王」更優勝：「我覺得現在拿我倆比較是愚蠢的。我們還差很多個冠軍，數字說明了他比我更出色，他一直是我學習的榜樣。」被問及是否有信心超越費達拿16個大滿貫的豐功偉績時，「野獸」表示：「這太遙遠了，但我會繼續努力，達成不斷改進自己的目標。」

拿度奪美網令西班牙體壇盛世再添輝煌，繼國家足球隊高舉南非世界盃、單車「天王」干達杜三登環法寶座後，「野獸」成就「金滿貫」令鬥牛國舉國歡騰。西班牙首相薩帕特羅亦發訊息恭賀拿度，讚揚他是體壇傳奇。《El Pais》報則大事褒揚：「他令全國人興奮得徹夜難眠，他是冠軍、他是神話、他是傳奇！」據當地電台的一項調查顯示，受訪的1,700人中有80%相信拿度能再接再厲，成為史上最出色的網球手。
(刊於2010年9月15日)