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USA, Japan, Italy, Georgia and Canada in medal contention Schedule | Results | Medal table | Briefing Email beau.dure@theguardian.com with your thoughts Let’s set the stage … The team competition is pretty simple. Finish first in a particular program, and your team gets 10 points. Second place is 9 points. Third is 8. Halfway through, we cut down to the final five. Continue reading...

‘You can’t underestimate these guys any more’ Curran’s final-over heroics sealed four-run win England flirted with one of the great T20 World Cup upsets in Mumbai before getting their campaign under way with victory against Nepal by four runs and, although they did not lose the game, Sam Curran insisted they had lost any sense of complacency. “We take those two points and take great confidence, b…

Fabian Hürzeler must be wondering if he will ever have another chance to get one over Oliver Glasner. The Brighton head coach’s record against his Crystal Palace counterpart and someone he counts as a mentor now reads three defeats and a solitary draw after Ismaïla Sarr’s second-half goal ended Palace’s 12-match winless run in satisfying style against their arch-rivals. But while Glasner can brea…

Exeter winger injured hamstring in training Feyi-Waboso to miss Scotland and Ireland games Immanuel Feyi-Waboso has been ruled out of England’s pursuit of the triple crown while Steve Borthwick has concerns over the fitness of Ellis Genge for the Calcutta Cup on Saturday. Feyi-Waboso pulled out of the 48-7 victory against Wales after sustaining a hamstring injury in training last Friday and was r…

Jon Scheyer bemoaned the behavior of some UNC fans North Carolina AD Cunningham apologizes Duke coach Jon Scheyer said he had staff members “that got punched in the face” as North Carolina fans stormed the court to celebrate a late winning shot in the famed rivalry Saturday night, prompting UNC athletic director Bubba Cunningham to publicly apologize. The 14th-ranked Tar Heels stunned the fourth-…

Atlanta rookie allegedly fled police, crashed car Police say incident involved LA Sparks’ Rickea Jackson Atlanta Falcons rookie star James Pearce Jr was arrested near Miami on Saturday night after fleeing officers and then crashing his car after what police said was a domestic dispute with WNBA player Rickea Jackson. Pearce, the first-round pick who led the Falcons in sacks and was third in NFL d…

Minute-by-minute coverage of Sunday’s clash at Anfield Jonathan Wilson: no longer the big show | Email Michael Two very strong XIs, and no real surprises. But look at the difference in quality and experience between the two benches. Liverpool: Mamardashvili, Woodman, Endo, Chiesa, Jones, Robertson, Nyoni, Ramsay, Ngumoha. Continue reading...

Arsenal’s 1-0 defeat of Manchester City at the Emirates Stadium was never going to be a statement of the Gunners’ title intentions, City’s lead at the top is just too big, but a result against the likely champions still had huge value. It would take the most almighty of collapses for City to lose their grip on a second league title, 10 years after their first. They are eight points clear of Manch…

The Bucks star has become a shareholder in one of the world’s largest prediction markets. It only ushers the NBA further into the fetid swamp of sports betting Couldn’t he have just started a podcast? “The Internet is full of opinions. I decided it was time to make some of my own,” Giannis Antetokounmpo, one of the four best basketball players in the world, posted in a statement announcing that h…

We take a look at the best images from day two of the Games, including women’s downhill, biathlon and cross-country skiing Continue reading...

England, 184-7, bt Nepal, 180-6, by four runs Sam Curran bowls final over to deny minnows England were given a major scare at the beginning of their Men’s T20 World Cup campaign, but Sam Curran held his nerve to deliver a four-run win over minnows Nepal at a raucous Wankhede Stadium. With Nepal needing 10 from the final over to secure a famous victory in the first-ever meeting between the two sid…

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 Sunday in Cortina d’Ampezzo knowing exactly what she was racing with: a fully ruptured ACL in her left knee, a heavy brace wrapped arou…

The actions of Fifa’s fawning president as well as the Olympics leader’s call for ‘neutral ground’ underscores the hollowness of the global bodies’ values In an ever more complex world, it is always good to have figures who can simplify things for us. A single person, making it crystal clear where they stand and what for, can be the light in the darkness that helps you navigate today’s turbulent …

As his team returns to the Super Bowl, the New England owner who once stood up on social issues proves he is just another transactional billionaire During the worst of it, when Philando Castile and Alton Sterling were killed by police a decade ago and Colin Kaepernick took a knee in protest, when a widespread reaction was to tell the highly accomplished, overwhelmingly Black professional athletes…

Northern leaders urge government to support proposal as Manchester mayor says a London bid ‘wouldn’t be right’ The north of England is seeking to host the Olympic and Paralympic Games to boost a region “left out of the national story”. Northern leaders have written to the culture secretary, Lisa Nandy, urging the government to back a multi-city games spanning an area with a population of 15 milli…