Julia Simon holds finger to lips as she crosses line Simon found to have spent €2,000 on rival’s credit card An athlete convicted of committing credit card fraud against one of her national teammates has won an Olympic gold medal for France in the women’s 15km biathlon, beating her victim...
England left with no margin for error after defeat by West Indies at T20 World Cup
Group C: West Indies 196-6 bt England 166 by 30 runs Rutherford smashes 76 and England splutter in chase West Indies are making Group C look plain sailing, England are all at sea. Like, by and large, the ball (unless it was arrowing towards a fielder), England’s pursuit of a...
Super League returns and, 30 years on, it’s going back to the future
New arrivals York and Toulouse see a return to a 14-team format that includes former champions Bradford Bulls Thirty years on from Super League’s debut night in Paris, British rugby league’s premier competition returns on Thursday evening with a bang – and if you look closely enough, there are more...
British stables beware: Ireland’s green tide is ready to roll into Cheltenham
The first four Grade One favourites at the festival are British horses but the Irish battalions are ready for battle The first four Grade One favourites at Cheltenham next month are stabled in British yards. So are three of the top six names in the Gold Cup betting. From a...
Manchester City make quick work of Fulham but Haaland off early with ‘niggles’
Manchester City’s week is moving along sweetly, this win closing the gap to three points to Arsenal, who travel to Brentford on Thursday. On Sunday, they defeated Liverpool at Anfield, on Wednesday they downed Fulham at home to reel off a 20th consecutive victory against them. The rosiest moment for the...
De Zerbi, Heitinga and Pochettino the leading contenders after Tottenham sack Frank
Heitinga could be interim option to end of season De Zerbi available after leaving Marseille Tottenham are exploring their options after sacking Thomas Frank on Wednesday morning, with Roberto De Zerbi and one of their current coaches, John Heitinga, in the conversation. It is unclear whether the chief executive, Vinai Venkatesham,...
Do the Strand: the Manchester United haircut guy exposes our lust for content | Jonathan Liew
As ‘the pressure of the haircut’ enters the game’s lexicon, the extent to which football revolves around winning and losing games appears to be fading “I don’t care about his haircut at all,” Matheus Cunha said this week. “I don’t really look at other people if they need to go...
Starmer tells Jim Ratcliffe to apologise for saying UK ‘colonised’ by immigrants
PM calls comments by Man United co-owner, who also hit out at people on benefits, ‘offensive and wrong’ Keir Starmer has said Manchester United co-owner Jim Ratcliffe should apologise for his comments that the UK is being “colonised” by immigrants. In an interview with Sky News on Wednesday, Britain’s seventh-richest...
Nottingham Forest target Vítor Pereira after late-night sacking of Sean Dyche
Strugglers seek fourth manager of the season Home stalemate with Wolves prompts latest firing Nottingham Forest are keen to appoint Vítor Pereira as their fourth head coach of the season after sacking Sean Dyche in the early hours of Thursday. The former Wolves manager worked under Forest’s owner, Evangelos Marinakis,...
Fear and Gibson suffer nightmare on ice as GB Winter Olympic medal drought goes on
British pair finish seventh after stumble in free dance Gold goes to France’s Fournier Beaudry and Cizeron Lewis Gibson did his best to smile, but the pained pinch on the face of his partner, Lilah Fear, as they twirled around the Milan Ice Skating Arena gave the game away. The...