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AFP Sports Agenda for Friday, May 28 (all times GMT): + Previews for Champions League final + French Open media day at Roland Garros + 12 world champions in Doha Diamond League + Bernal still leads Giro d'Italia + Practice for Italian MotoGP at Mugello FOOTBALL -- Build-up continues ahead of Saturday's Champions League final between Chelsea and Manchester City in Porto. Coverage by Andy Scott and Kieran Canning (FBL-EUR-C1-ENG-MANCITY-CHELSEA) -- World Cup 2022 qualifying Asia group: Japan v Myanmar (1020). (FBL-ASIA- WC2022-JPN-MYA) -- International friendly: Italy v San Marino in Cagliari (1845) (FBL-ITA-SMR-EURO-2020-2021-FRIENDLY) TENNIS -- Media day ahead of the French Open which begins at Roland Garros on Sunday (TENNIS-FRA-OPEN) -- World number one Novak Djokovic is top seed at the ATP event in Belgrade and faces Slovakia's Andrej Martin for a place in the final (TENNIS-ATP-SRB) -- Also, ATP tournament at Parma (TENNIS-ATP-ITA) -- WTA at Strasbourg (TENNIS-WTA-FRA) CYCLING -- Egan Bernal still leads the Giro d'Italia ahead of the shortened 19th stage, a mountainous 166km ride from Abbiategrasso and Alpe di Mera. Picture (CYCLING-ITA-TOUR) CRICKET -- Bangladesh are aiming for a series clean-sweep as they host Sri Lanka in the third and final ODI in Dhaka (0700) (CRICKET-BAN-SRI) ATHLETICS -- Twelve world champions return to Doha for second Diamond League meet of the season (1500) (ATHLETICS-DIAMOND-QAT-OLY-2020-2021) MOTORCYCLING -- Practice for Italian MotGP at Mugello (0755 and 1210) (MOTO-PRIX-ITA) GOLF -- USPGA winner Phil Mickelson is in the field in the second round of the Charles Schwab Challenge at Fort Worth, Texas (GOLF-USPGA) -- Second round of the European Tour event at Farso, Denmark (GOLF-EPGA-DEN) -- Third day of LPGA Tour Matchplay event at Shadow Creek (GOLF-USLPGA) RUGBY UNION -- French Topp 14: Stade Francais v Lyon (1945) (RUGBYU-FRA-TOP14) -- Super Rugby Trans-Tasman: Hurricanes v Western Force (0705) (RUGBYU-SUPER) BASKETBALL -- NBA play-offs, first round, third games: Brooklyn at Boston (2300) (Brooklyn leads series 2-0), New York at Atlanta (0030 Saturday) (1-1), LA Clippers at Dallas (0130 Saturday) (Dallas leads 2-0) (BASKET-NBA) ICE HOCKEY -- NHL play-offs, first round, seventh match: Minesotta at Vegas (0100 Friday) (series tied 3-3)(IHOCKEY-NHL) -- World championships in Latvia. Picture (IHOCKEY-WORLD) afp
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2021-05-28
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