Malinin delivers to secure US Olympic team gold win Japan pairs skating brilliance pushes US team to limit Host Italy secure team bronze on home Olympic rink The United States held off a late charge from Japan to retain the Olympic team figure skating title on Sunday, with Ilia Malinin...
Relentless Seahawks pummel Patriots to claim their second Super Bowl title
Seattle Seahawks 29–13 New England Patriots As it happened: David Lengel’s minute-by-minute report Half-time show review: Bad Bunny’s ode to Boricua joy Revenge is a dish best served cold. Although seeing as the Seattle Seahawks had to wait 11 years to exact theirs on the New England Patriots, their fans...
Winter Olympics briefing: Benjamin Karl brings golden flex on day of high drama
Austrian snowboarder delivered a tribute to his childhood hero, while there was a shocking moment in the downhill Between the icy air and Olympic pressure, you might expect athletes to bundle up at the Milano Cortina Games – but not Benjamin Karl. The Austrian snowboarder, 40 years old and competing...
Team GB dreams of Magic Monday and a hat-trick of Olympic medals
Mia Brookes reaches snowboard Big Air final Britain has contenders in curling and freeski slopestyle High in the Italian Alps, where the thin air and oxygen deprivation often does strange things to the brain, ÂBritish accents have started whispering about the possibility of Magic Monday – and Team GB winning...
Lindsey Vonn’s crash is violent but honest ending to an unprecedented Olympic bid
The gruesome finish to the US star’s comeback, at age 41 and with a ruptured ACL, is a reminder of skiing’s unforgiving nature There was always a version of this story that ended in a single, violent instant. Lindsey Vonn was 13th to push out of the start gate on...
Suryakumar’s brilliant blitz denies USA seismic shock in India’s T20 World Cup opener
India, 161-9, bt USA, 132-8, by 29 runs Suryakumar’s 84 from 49 balls proves the difference There was, in the end, no shock – but there was not a lot of awe either. India’s form over the last two years has made them the most feared side in world cricket...
Controversial YouTuber Jack Doherty barred from PGA Tour events after Phoenix Open disruption
Doherty removed over incident at tournament 22-year-old has subscriber count of nearly 30 million Source confirms streamer’s ban from future events A controversial livestreamer has been barred from attending PGA Tour events indefinitely after being removed from the Waste Management Phoenix Open, a person familiar with the matter told the...
Winter Olympics briefing: Italy’s golden moment and Sweden stick it to Norway
Francesca Lollobrigida brought the house down at the Milano Ice Park and then searched out her son to share her joy Even before the final pairing of the women’s 3,000m speed skating had finished, two-year-old Tommaso was being hurried towards the middle of the track, where his mother had just...
‘We lived a miraculous thing’: Castel di Sangro, 30 years on from their epic rise
Small town club’s Serie B adventure captivated football and inspired a famous book. That spirit remains and is being passed to their successors The WhatsApp group flickers into life at about 6am every day. It is the manager who goes first because, when you are 79, old habits die hard....
Frank backs Romero as Spurs captain despite red card at Manchester United
Head coach says defender apologised to him and his team ‘There is not any regret in making him captain’ Thomas Frank will not consider stripping Cristian Romero of the Tottenham captaincy despite the defender invoking a four-game ban after he was sent off in the 2–0 defeat by Manchester United...