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The atmosphere around the Lotto-Soudal bus is fairly muted. Of course, it's the final breaths of the 2022, a pleasant week in the Veneto region of Italy ...

“The pandemic changed a lot of things for us. “We didn’t change philosophy, we were fighting for victory every year, still this year, we got 25 victories and we couldn’t complain.” So many, in fact, that the neo-pro has the sixth-most UCI points of all riders this season, with 2,268. But for us, it’s clear that with the team we have and with a good season that we’ve had this year the fact we are the first of the non-WorldTour guarantees us good participation in all the races next season. Young guys like Arnaud De Lie, Florian Vermeersch and Maxim Van Gils who are all succeeding, so this is what we want to continue in the future.” This fact means that for the soon-departing Lotto-Soudal boss John Lelangue, relegation is little more than a “change of logo.” “In the end, we have exactly the same programme possibilities next season as we’ve had this season, it was also the same for Alpecin-Deceuninck for the last three years. Both riders will then turn pro with the WorldTour team in 2024. For B&B Hotels, the likely arrival of Mark Cavendish should help them retain a coveted Tour de France wildcard. “I know that for us it won’t change anything,” Lelangue says. But when told it’s only the topic of relegation that’s up for discussion, the 51-year-old is placated, unfolding his arms and leaning in towards the dictaphone. The atmosphere around the Lotto-Soudal bus is fairly muted.

Punters will have a chance to win the eye-watering sum of money from Powerball draw 1380 next Thursday.

It was always out of reach for us, so to have those memories is priceless.' It's things like that that I don't take for granted,' she said to The largest ever Powerball win was set at $107million and was won by a Sydney nurse in 2019

Should advertisers be allowed to manipulate social media algorithms to get content to trend? Yossabel Chetty examines the ethics around a recent iThuba ...

According to Rivzi, the social media code of conduct indicates that if an account is advertising on behalf of a third party, the content must be clearly identifiable to an average social media user as advertising. However, if an individual user is paid to create a post on their own social media page, the words “sponsored” and “promoted” won't appear. An associate at the law firm PPM Attorneys Sadia Rivzi, explains that if social media advertising campaigns are created on Facebook, they will be marked as "Sponsored”, and if the campaign is on Twitter, the word "Promoted” will be used. Disclaimer: News24 encourages freedom of speech and the expression of diverse views. This could be a bunch of A-list celebrities tweeting hashtags such as #Fyrefest or it could be general Twitter account holders sharing information about a brand or cause that they appear to authentically support in their personal capacity. In the first instance, you can pay Twitter for your content to be promoted. A third way to ensure more users to see your content is to harness the ability of popular posts to trend by coordinating the usage of specific keywords and hashtags with a group of people with large followers. For example, one of the posts claims that there were 673 million winners created by the national lottery. The earliest post using these hashtags in 2022 appears to be the This could have been attributed to an unrelated hot-button topic playing out online or could have been a result of a group of actors amplifying posts by leveraging the Twitter algorithm to create false hype around a topic. Twitter users can choose to amplify content about competitions because they stand a chance to win a prizes. Yossabel Chetty examines the ethics around a recent iThuba campaign that paid collaborators to tweet but didn't tell anyone.

The lucky - and unlucky - numbers and how many Australians will buy a ticket. Here's your complete guide to the second-largest lottery draw ever.

In Western Australia, Hamilton Hill, Yangebub and Spearwood (6163) sold five division one winning entries. In Tasmania, Launceston and Newstead (7250) sold two division one winning entries. In South Australia, Adelaide (5000) also sold three division one winning entries. In New South Wales and the ACT, Port Macquarie (2444) sold three division one winning entries. In Queensland, Bundaberg and North Bundaberg (4670), sold three division one winning entries, as did Rural View and Slade Point (4740). In Victoria, Frankston (3199) sold four division one winning entries.