Authorities want stage altered if risk is ‘extreme’ 2025 champion Ferrand-Prévot faces sterner challenge The Tour de France Femmes is facing pressure to reroute part of its key stage to the summit of Mont Ventoux next Friday because of the wildfires threat in Provence. The women’s Tour, which begins in...
Fifa scraps proposal to sell off stakes in World Cup after widespread backlash
Gianni Infantino issues statement on controversial plan ‘This proposal will not proceed,’ confirms Fifa president Gianni Infantino’s proposal to sell chunks of the World Cup to private investors has sensationally collapsed, with the Fifa president admitting the project “has created divisions of a nature that are no longer in the...
‘Pretty much the downfall of society’: Adam Ramsay-Peaty on press intrusion, forgiveness and going all in for LA 2028
After a rollercoaster week at the Commonwealth Games, the double Olympic champion says he will never stop believing what he can achieve “I couldn’t switch off because it’s been a real rollercoaster of a week,” Adam Ramsay-Peaty says with a weary smile on a quiet Thursday morning in Glasgow. He...
Georgia Hunter Bell outruns Odira to win Commonwealth Games 800m gold
Hunter Bell clocks 1min 59.51 to beat world champion Win secures full set of major medals for English runner There are late developers in sport, and then there is the brilliant Georgia Hunter Bell, who continues to defy sporting gravity at the age of 32. And on Friday night under...
‘I’m just a different type’: Demi Vollering gears up for Tour de France Femmes tilt
Dutch rider completed the set of Grand Tours by winning the Giro and is set on claiming a second title in France French pulses were set racing by Pauline-Ferrand Prévot’s win in the 2025 Tour de France Femmes, but the pragmatic choice of favourite for this year’s race, which begins...
Franco Baresi, iconic former Milan and Italy defender, dies aged 66
Italian icon had undergone surgery on pulmonary nodule ‘The entire history of Milan is in tears,’ Serie A club says The former Milan and Italy defender Franco Baresi, one of the most recognisable players of the golden era of Italian football in the 1980s and 1990s, has died at the...
Charley Hull refuses to apologise after £100,000 scratchcard prank on caddie
Hull: ‘I think people need to lighten up’ Thitikul leads on -7; double major winner Ryu on -5 Charley Hull has delivered an emphatic, unapologetic response towards those who criticised a prank on the eve of the Women’s Open. Hull used pre-tournament media duties to reveal she bought fake scratchcards...
Australia’s golden sprinters speak out on cycling defector: ‘Good riddance’
Views on Matt Richardson aired after gold in team sprint One of three Australian cycling golds won on day seven Leigh Hoffman has bid Matt Richardson good riddance after Australia’s gold medal in the team sprint on day one of the Commonwealth Games track cycling program. Teammate Ryan Elliott also...
Fifa to push ahead with consultation plan despite backlash and insists ‘nobody is selling football’
Body responds after Uefa’s World Cup boycott threat Claims ‘process disrupted by incorrect media reports’ Fifa has responded to the threat of a boycott from European nations with a statement saying that “nobody is selling football”, while blaming the media for disrupting its consultation process over controversial plans to sell...
Stephen Fleming to be appointed England Test coach after impressing ECB
New Zealander will succeed Brendon McCullum Likely to start on South Africa tour in December Stephen Fleming is expected to be named as England’s Test coach, after impressing the England and Wales Cricket Board in a series of interviews over the past two weeks. The 53-year-old would work alongside his...