20-year-old suspended for improper riding at Southwell Loughnane lodges appeal against verdict and penalty Billy Loughnane, who will be Britain’s youngest champion jockey on the Flat since Frank Wootton in 1909 if he takes the title this season, has lodged an appeal against a 21-day ban imposed by the stewards...
Mary Rand, first British woman to win Olympic athletics gold, dies aged 86
Rand won gold, silver and bronze medals at Tokyo 1964 Mary Peters pays tribute to ‘most gifted athlete ever’ Mary Rand, the British track and field athlete who blazed a trail for women by winning three Olympic medals at the Tokyo Games in 1964, has died at the age of...
Sinner continues Zverev domination to set up Miami Open final against Lehecka
Jannik Sinner defeats world No 3 6-3, 7-6 (4) in semi-final Jiri Lehecka beats Fils 6-2, 6-2 to reach maiden Masters 1000 decider For one intense, gripping hour inside Miami Open’s stadium court, Alexander Zverev outperformed the modest expectations of his sceptical audience. Under sustained, suffocating pressure from the best...
Featherstone’s long and quiet Sundays in a rugby league town that lost its soul
Club’s financial crisis meant exclusion from the RFL Championship this season, and it could be a long way back for one of the sport’s storied names Sunday afternoon in Featherstone. The first shoots of spring are creaking through the skyline and the Railway pub is bustling with rugby league supporters...
‘I’m disappointed’: Tuchel unimpressed by Wembley crowd’s booing of Ben White
White jeered when brought on against Uruguay ‘It cannot be the majority,’ says England manager Thomas Tuchel called the Wembley crowd “disappointing” for booing Ben White’s international return and hammered the refereeing during England’s 1-1 draw with Uruguay. White was hero and villain on a night when Ronald Araújo escaped...
Roberto Martínez: ‘It’s a hammer blow when you don’t succeed, but let us dream’
Portugal head coach, who describes the country as a ‘football school’, explains why he is ready to take risks in pursuit of World Cup glory ‘You get there and the mountain is so big, you have no objective other than survive.” It was summer 1995, Roberto Martínez was 21, he...
Tiger Woods released on bail hours after arrest at crash scene on suspicion of DUI
Tiger Woods arrested after Florida rollover crash Golfer charged with DUI after Jupiter Island incident Woods to be held eight hours under Florida DUI law Trump laments arrest of ‘close friend’ in remarks Tiger Woods was released on bail on Friday, hours after the golf star’s Land Rover clipped a...
‘I’m not a superhero. I’m just a boxer’: Moses Itauma on racism, identity and living on £7 a week | Donald McRae
Britain’s heavyweight prospect puts his unbeaten record on the line against Jermaine Franklin on Saturday Moses Itauma might represent the glittering future of heavyweight boxing but right now he is locked in the present. In the back seat of a car, while being driven from one swanky hotel to another...
Kimi Antonelli on F1 Japanese Grand Prix pole in Mercedes lockout with Russell
Italian finishes 0.298sec ahead of George Russell Piastri qualifies third with McLaren teammate Norris fifth Kimi Antonelli claimed pole position for the Japanese Grand Prix, completing another dominant display for Mercedes who have yet to be beaten to pole in the three opening races of the new Formula One season....
Cambridge offers botany course that inspired Darwin after rare archive uncovered
University’s botanic garden will use study materials created by John Stevens Henslow, the naturalist’s mentor, 200 years ago Plant specimens and teaching materials that inspired Charles Darwin and qualified him to work as a naturalist on HMS Beagle have been unearthed from an archive in Cambridge and will be used...