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Mageean won 2024 European 1500m title in Rome Athletics Ireland pays tribute to ‘inspirational figure’ Ireland’s European 1500 metres gold medallist Ciara Mageean has died at the age of 34. Two-time Olympian Mageean, who won the European title in Rome in 2024, announced last year she had been diagnosed with bowel cancer. A statement on her Instagram account on Sunday read: “At 6:30am this morning…

Fortune is not favouring Pierre Sage. Just when the Crystal Palace manager needed a positive result, Jean-Philippe Mateta’s early red card condemned his side to a third straight defeat in the league, leaving their manager’s position hanging by a thread. Goals from Archie Gray and Jan Paul van Hecke ensured that Tottenham recorded a third successive victory for the first time in 616 days as they m…

Accidents will happen. They also have consequences. Leeds were playing well, certainly better than Bournemouth for the first 30 minutes until James Trafford committed his grievous error. The goalkeeper made a horrible mess of a pass to an unwitting Ao Tanaka. In stole Justin Kluivert to set up Evanilson for a fifth goal in six matches. Where Leeds’s confidence sagged, Evanilson continued to find …

⚽️ WSL updates with games at 12pm, 2pm and 2.30pm (GMT) ⚽️ Putellas provides mindset change | Mail Luke A group of well-choreographed , fancy-dress-wearing school-age dancers fully embraced the Halloween spirit on Saturday as they boogied to one of Michael Jackson’s greatest hits at half-time here. Alas, the match itself was no thriller. For Manchester United, the only scary thing about this game…

United 17th in Premier League after Chelsea defeat No change expected until international break Michael Carrick is set to remain in charge of Manchester United for Tuesday’s Champions League game against Roma at Old Trafford despite Saturday’s 2-0 loss at Chelsea. The defeat means United have not won in nine games and have made their poorest start to a season since 1988, but Carrick’s position is…

Briton beats 18-year-old Austrian Lilli Tagger 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 Dart, a qualifier, was competing in her first WTA final Britain’s Harriet Dart won her first WTA title after coming from a set down to beat Lilli Tagger in the final of the Guangzhou Open in China. Dart, who saved three match points in her semi-final win over Sun Xinran to reach her first tour-level final, edged a thrilling match agains…

Tonga defeat Samoa 20-18 in Sydney England exit tournament on points difference England’s men have been eliminated from the Rugby League World Cup on points difference after Tonga’s 20-18 victory over Samoa. Brian McDermott’s side required Tonga to beat Samoa by 47 points or more to progress and it means it is the first time in history that England or Great Britain will not be in the last four. C…

The aim of reaching the Championship looks more realistic for a Manchester club in the shadow of City and United After seven seasons in League Two, Salford City are finally threatening to match the hype brought by their high-profile owners. First it was the Class of ‘92 who guided them up through the non-league system into the fourth tier but failed to progress any further. Gary Neville and David…

Valkyries prevail 68-63 in league’s first-ever Game 7 Williams scores 30 as Golden State win first title Second-year franchise complete remarkable rise In the middle of Chase Center, the Golden State Valkyries gathered somewhere they have been only a handful of times. They are, after all, just a second-year franchise. But on Saturday night they came together to collect their trophy as WNBA champi…

World No 10 holds nerve in 6-4, 1-6, 7-6 (7-4) semi-final win Australian will meet Carlos Alcaraz in championship match Alex de Minaur has held his nerve to claim what could be one of the most significant wins of his career, downing the world No 1-elect Alexander Zverev with a fearless display of attacking tennis to reach the Vienna Open final. The Australian played a fabulous deciding tiebreaker…

George Russell second on grid after qualifying Antonelli well placed as he nears title confirmation Even as Formula One’s young gun Kimi Antonelli remains on course to claim his first world championship on Sunday it was the veteran, seven-time champion Lewis Hamilton who gave a salutary reminder that there is very much fight left in the old dog yet as he claimed a spectacular pole position for th…

Matheus Nunes mistake lets in Yasin Ayari for winner Maresca: ‘We are conceding silly goals that we can avoid’ Enzo Maresca said “silly goals” and individual errors are costing Manchester City after Matheus Nunes’ mistake allowed Yasin Ayari to score Brighton’s winner in Saturday’s 1-0 victory here. Ayari’s strike was made possible after Nunes, City’s right-back, missed Diego Gómez’s cross from t…

Mexican star wins unanimous decision over Mbilli Álvarez, 36, regains WBC title after Crawford defeat Read Bryan Armen Graham’s round-by-round report Mexico’s Saúl “Canelo” Álvarez reclaimed the WBC super-middleweight title with a unanimous-decision victory over the previously unbeaten Christian Mbilli in Riyadh on Saturday night. The fight went ahead at Kingdom Arena despite a week of heightened…

Fulham helped cement Jamie Carragher’s argument that Aston Villa will never be Manchester United. No, they know how to grind out a point on a bad day and can go to Barcelona on Tuesday with some confidence. Zion Suzuki’s own goal denied Unai Emery’s team a fifth win in six games after Nicolas Jackson’s eighth goal of the season had promised to lift a resurgent Villa back into the top third of the…

The manager is not yet in Alex Ferguson and José Mourinho’s league, but his conspiracy theories have reached new levels English football loves the word “dossier”. It doesn’t love dossiers themselves, of course; they’re for nerds – unless, that is, they’re a “secret dossier”, which have a thrilling redolence of spy dramas, invisible ink and dead drops. Non-secret dossiers, though, are inherently r…