Despite his so-so results, Zhou is a being promoted as a celebrity in China. “It isn’t just a race for me,” Zhou said ahead of the Grand Prix weekend in Shanghai. Zhou has never won a Formula 1 race.
Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, may have given up their royal duties, but not the celebrity life. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex drew a crowd of media and the wealthy on Friday as he played in a celebrity pro-am polo match to benefit Sentebale, the charity he founded in 2006 for children and young adults who live in the southern Africa countries of Lesotho and Botswana. Harry, Meghan and their friend, Argentine polo player and model Nacho Figueras, were tailed by a camera crew from the same production company that makes the soccer reality show “Welcome to Wrexham” for an upcoming Netflix miniseries that will focus on polo.
Associated Press photographers were there for all the buzz surrounding Caitlin Clark in the women’s NCAA championship game, as well as soccer action in Europe and the Formula One Grand Prix in Japan. Clark led the Hawkeyes to a second straight title game while helping to bring sellouts and boost TV ratings. In the end, though, it was South Carolina and coach Dawn Staley lifting the trophy.