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Périgueux to Bergerac: updates from the 180.4km stage Stage-by-stage guide | Stage seven report | Mail Luke Today’s flat stage is a smidgen longer than yesterday’s – 180km v 175km – and involves a little more climbing: 1150m v 850m. The presence of two category-four climbs in the latter half of the route may interest potential escape artists: the top of the Côte de Domme comes at 102.6km, while t…

Australia soundly beaten after leading at half-time in Brisbane Second-half blitz sees Les Bleus run out 42-26 winners The Wallabies crashed to defeat to France in Brisbane to extend their losing streak to six – their worst losing run in a decade – and continue their winless start to the Nations Championship. As they had last week against Ireland, Australia squandered a half-time lead to be blown…

Updates from the one-off women’s Test at Lord’s Sign up for The Spin | Email James I’m pulling a double shift today ( they say nurses have it tough ) so will be very glad of your thoughts, theories, company and correspondence throughout the day. Drop me a line here . Continue reading...

Max Rushden is joined by Barry Glendenning , John Brewin and Nicky Bandini as Spain win it late on against Belgium and to preview England v Norway. Continue reading...

⚽ All the latest updates as the quarter-finals continue ⚽ Player guide | Bracketology | Golden Boot | Email us The brilliant Cold War Steve is back with the latest of his special World Cup 2026-themed collages. Look closely! More from Thomas Tuchel. Seize the day is his message. Continue reading...

The former England midfielder is everywhere at this World Cup, having reached a popularity in the US other Brits have rarely achieved Watch US television for any length of time and the endless spume of adverts will eventually separate into three distinct types. The first are adverts for units of generic food-substance, each one essentially the same hand-sized grenade of glossy and salted micro-mi…

Veteran will be 40 during next year’s tournament ‘I’m still able to compete at the highest level’ Novak Djokovic has vowed that he will return to Wimbledon next year, when he will be 40, despite a painful straight sets defeat by Jannik Sinner. Djokovic looked second best in Friday’s semi-final as he succumbed 6-4, 6-4, 6-4 to the world No 1. But afterwards he struck a defiant tone as he insisted …

With content-stacking and spoiler-avoiding, a fan with the right subscriptions can expect to enjoy 13 uninterrupted hours on the sofa on Saturday Start practising those excuses. For England fans, this Saturday is one of those that demands serious thought, by which I mean how to wheedle out of prior engagements and family obligations. No fewer than four of the national teams are in action, and to …

Heatwaves have long been part of the Tour but temperatures now are pushing the riders to limit of human endurance The Tour de France and the heat of the midday sun are old bedfellows, going back long before an era when the biggest catastrophe of the Tour’s opening week was a major fault in the Visma team bus’s air conditioning. Flip back 50 years to my favourite Tour read, the late Geoffrey Nicho…

The last person in the stadium who truly believed was Fery himself, outclassed but never outfought, a 5ft 9in battery pack in a world of power plants Well, we were beginning to run out of ferry puns anyway. Arthur Fery’s run to the semi-finals of Wimbledon always had a kind of glazed and surreal quality to it, a shaggy-dog story that kept adding more and more unbelievable layers : the fling that …

Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now! So here we stand. The quarter-finals of this unique and expanded Geopolitics World Cup have arrived! A whopping 96 games have been played and 40 teams have now received their marching orders. The Germans, the Dutch and the Brazilians are gone. And despite the absence of such heavyweights, it’s still a lip-smacking last eight lineup to tuck into.…

The people of Bryne are proud of local hero’s rise to the top of world football as Norway prepare to face England Surrounded by red hats, No 9 shirts and Erling Haaland action toys at her fabric shop in the small Norwegian town of Bryne, Olinda Haaland – no relation but proud to share the now world-famous name – said everybody in the striker’s home town was a football fan these days. “It’s been p…

Muchova is more experienced with one major final to her name but her fearless compatriot has youth on her side It feels somehow fitting that at the end of one of the most open women’s singles events in history, two Czech players should find themselves fighting it out for the biggest title in the game. Saturday’s clash between Karolina Muchova and Linda Noskova is the first all-Czech Wimbledon fin…