Teenage sensation wins in 10.21sec with legal tailwind in Brisbane 18-year-old celebrates before crossing line ahead of Zavier Peacock Gout Gout has blitzed the field but fallen short of breaking the 10-second barrier while winning the 100m at the Australian athletics junior championships in Brisbane on Saturday. The 18-year-old took...
O’Sullivan and Trump no-shows spoil mood before World Snooker Championship
Neither former world champion was at obligatory event as two British prospects look forward to moment in spotlight If there were any doubt remaining that Ronnie O’Sullivan retains a gravitational pull on the world of snooker, few moments hammered home the point better than Friday’s launch of this year’s World...
Spurs seek elusive victory, Lionesses in Iceland and Coventry seal Premier League promotion– matchday live
⚽ Today’s games | Latest tables | Premier League top scorers⚽ Follow us on Bluesky | And you can get in touch via email Cole Palmer reassured a lot of Chelsea fans that despite an inconsistent season he remains committed to the west London club. Speaking to Jacob Steinberg about...
No more gimmicks: Coventry’s perilous journey back to the Premier League is finally over
Supporters and club insiders look back at the Sky Blues’ journey, from the depths of text-a-sub ridicule and fan mutinies to promotion To understand the extraordinarily wild ride that Coventry have been on, culminating in the promotion achieved at Blackburn on Friday night, you need only look at the text-a-substitute...
Premier League shootout arrives with odd twist for feelings guy Guardiola
Manchester City v Arsenal is a rare late-season title decider and comes with a set of surprising plotlines OK, so it was all building to this, then. The slow‑burn plotlines. The room‑temperature action sequences. The winter afternoons on the sofa watching men wrestle unhappily, staring out of the window as...
‘I’ve got no plans to move’: Cole Palmer on being happy at Chelsea and his World Cup ambitions
The Blues’ star talks candidly about treatment-room frustrations, transfer talk and how he’s learned to love living down south There are two sides to Cole Palmer. There is the shy character who can fool you into thinking he has nothing much to say for himself. On the other hand there’s...
Questions raised over whether £3.8m government grant awarded to Wrexham AFC was lawful
Exclusive: The club, owned by Hollywood stars Ryan Reynolds and Rob Mac, received the grant without a contract or final state aid assessment in place Wrexham AFC, the football club part-owned by Hollywood stars Ryan Reynolds and Rob Mac, was given a £3.8m government grant without a contract or a...
Supercharged GOAT-level swim‑genius Adam Ramsay-Peaty is the Messi of breaststroke | Barney Ronay
The three-time Olympic champion is brilliant, charismatic, relatable, basically the best British athlete of all-time. But he’s also a victim of the decline of minority sports The Austrian philosopher and novelist Robert Musil once wrote a lengthy meditation on human capacity based around seeing the phrase “a racehorse of genius”...
Chess: Sindarov wins Candidates with record total, while Vaishali takes women’s event
The Uzbek 20-year-old won first prize unbeaten but his girlfriend, Bibisara Assaubayeva, finished second to the lowest seed in the Women’s Candidates Javokhir Sindarov finished with a record total in the world championship Candidates in Pegeia, western Cyprus, as the 20-year-old from Uzbekistan won the competition with a record 10/14...
Sports quiz of the week: I Am Maximus, Marie-Louise Eta and Rory McIlroy
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