Premier Tech pulls out despite rebranding pledge Team’s participation in Vuelta was dogged by protests The main sponsor of the Israel-Premier Tech (IPT) team of the four-time Tour de France winner Chris Froome has pulled out of funding the team, despite a pledge to rebrand and distance itself from its...
Sabalenka to face Rybakina in WTA Finals decider after holding off Anisimova
World No 1 triumphs 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 in epic semi-final Rybakina battles back to defeat Pegula 4-6, 6-4, 6-3 Aryna Sabalenka will attempt to close out one of the greatest seasons of her career by winning the WTA Finals for the first time as she rekindles her rivalry with Elena...
Fall and redemption of Becker and Wiggins shows sporting glory does not deliver purpose or meaning | Cath Bishop
Books by former champions demonstrate powerfully that we should not accept abuse and suffering as ‘the price of winning’. Sport must do more Viewed through one end of the lens, the two new autobiographies from the sporting legends Boris Becker and Bradley Wiggins might seem like classic tales of the...
Can anyone challenge the Sinner-Alcaraz supremacy? ATP Finals will reveal all
The two top players are so far ahead of the opposition – every time they have both competed at an event this year, one of them has won it Days before the grand finale of the ATP season in Turin, the Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner show had already begun....
Tottenham v Manchester United buildup, Premier League and WSL news – matchday live
⚽ News, discussion and previews before the day’s action⚽ Fixtures | Premier League team news | Mail matchday live Hello and welcome to matchday live on a weekend that is sure to set the tone for the winter ahead as Europe’s top leagues prepare to break for men’s international fixtures...
England are in right shape for Chandler Cunningham-South to seize chance at No 8 | Ugo Monye
Harlequins man will have a new role against Fiji in a side likely to deploy a similar gameplan to that which felled Australia Opportunity knocks for Chandler Cunningham-South against Fiji on Saturday. He has 18 caps to his name but this will be the first time he has worn the...
Silence over Sudan: why do Manchester City’s owners get away with so much?
Two midweek matches in England had a backdrop of war and geopolitics, but only one drew large protests How would you feel if the owner of the football club you support was implicated, even as those implications are repeatedly denied, in famine, ethnic cleansing and the deaths of 1,500 men,...
James D Watson, who co-discovered DNA’s twisted-ladder structure, dies aged 97
Nobel prize winner shaped medicine, crimefighting and genealogy, but later years marred by racist remarks James Dewey Watson, whose co-discovery of the twisted-ladder structure of DNA in 1953 helped light the long fuse on a revolution in medicine, crimefighting, genealogy and ethics, has died, according to his former research lab....
‘Heroic actions are a natural tendency’: why bystander apathy is a myth
Modern research shows the public work together selflessly in an emergency, motivated by a strong impulse to help It was early morning on 1 January last year when Colin McGarva dived into a flooding river in Worcester to rescue an unconscious woman. McGarva said he didn’t think twice about the...
Canada pushes on with ‘complete depopulation’ plan to cull 400 ostriches
Country’s top court declines to block controversial cull of hundreds of birds amid fears of an avian flu outbreak Canada’s food inspection agency says it plans to begin a “complete depopulation” of hundreds of ostriches at a farm after the country’s top court declined to block the controversial cull. On...