Ten sports to feature in Scotland after Victoria pulled out as host The global rugby community has led a chorus of disappointment after 12 sports were shunted from the 2026 Commonwealth Games, following the announcement of the program for the streamlined event to be held in Glasgow. Rugby sevens, hockey and cricket were the highest-profile spo

This tense victory over AZ Alkmaar was not without complications for Tottenham, who were a long way below their pulsating best on a night when Timo Werner’s crisis of ­confidence reached new depths, but Ange Postecoglou could still find positives in a clean sheet, a fearless second-half display from young Mikey Moore and James ­Maddison’s

As this new, distended ­Champions League format entered its mean­dering middle stage it had been tempting to wonder exactly what was at stake for Arsenal. They did not exactly put anyone straight with a bland, low-key performance but the night produced what they had come for. Even if their European hopes were never going to live or [&hell

Arsenal clash is part Super Sunday but more importantly Tribunal Day Seven and the stakes could scarcely be higher Fri 20 Sep 2024 20.00 CESTShare Dance while the world burns. You have to hand it to English football. It is above all endlessly adaptable. Everything is content. Never stop selling. Even if the thing you’re […]

The 2024 Games have provided romantic moments, uplifting camaraderie and frayed tempers The Paris Olympics is over and it’s still a week or so before the Paralympics begins and global sports fever hits us again. The 2024 games have provided many standout sporting highlights with thrilling comebacks, unexpected wins and uplifting camaraderie among c

Behold the giant feast. Courses upon courses. Over the past 17 days this has been a city engorged, its every nook and crevice stuffed with sport, to the point where they had to parcel some of it off to the outskirts and even wrap some of it up in a doggy bag and send it […]

Paris Olympics day 15: GB take both 4x400m bronzes, taekwondo silver for Cunningham, bronze for Bell and more Women’s 1500m: Kipyegon’s gold set an Olympic record, breaking her own set in Tokyo. She comes across in 3:51:29. Silver goes to Australia’s Jessica Hull and GB’s Georgia Bell has bronze. Taekwondo: “Allez les Bleues” rings around […

Goodness me, in the long jump, Mattia Furlani of Italy has absolutely taken his first effort off the set, as Dough Boy might say, recording 8.34; that might be enough for gold. Jacob Fincham-Dukes of GB is second on 7.95.

Over to the men’s hammer throw now and both qualification groups have finished and we now know who is progressing. Earlier we told you Canada’s Rowan Hamilton and Ukraine’s Mykhaylo are through but since then another group has gone and there are seven other athletes who have qualified. Canada’s Ethan Katzberg threw the longest throw in [&helli