A new frontier in the career of snowboarder Zoi Sadowski-Synnott at Aspen, Colorado

The 20-year-old's won the slopestyle world championships for a second time to go with her Olympic bronze in the big air, and silver and bronze in the slopestyle and big air respectively at January's X-Games.



Team New Zealand and Luna Rossa are downplaying the first four races in the America's Cup match being won by the boat with port entry to the start.

It's 2-all in the best-of-13 race series with two further races today - a light north-easterly's forecast.



The Breakers have been beaten 85-75 by Perth in the Australian Basketball League, leaving them second-to-bottom with four wins from 12.



In NRL action... the Knights beat the Bulldogs 32-16, and the Eels beat the Broncos 24-16 despite being down 16-nil at halftime.



A 14-man Melbourne Rebels have posted a 10-7 win over the Western Force in Super Rugby Australia.



Red Bull's Max Verstappen has lapped fastest on the opening day of Formula One testing in Bahrain, leaving other drivers to literally chew sand in his wake.

A sandstorm struck the kingdom mid-afternoon.

Mercedes had the most trouble, betrayed by a mutinous gearbox.