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Rebecca Passler may feature in women’s relay 24-year-old tested positive for letrozole in January The Italian biathlete Rebecca Passler rejoined her team at the Winter Olympics on Monday after a successful appeal against a suspension handed out before the Milano Cortina Games for an alleged doping violation. Passler began training in the bright sunshine at the Antholz-Anterselva Biathlon Arena on…

American was favourite for gold but finished eighth Video hints that experience may be used in routine Ilia Malinin has written about “an inevitable crash” after he missed the podium at the Winter Olympics in one of the biggest shocks in the history of figure skating. The 21-year-old was the overwhelming favourite entering the men’s free skate on Friday in Milan, but he fell twice during his rout…

Critics say what was once a showpiece for the league has turned into a glorified practice session. But there are signs an updated version may have worked Basketball Hall of Famer Tracy McGrady flashed a look of disdain when recalling last year’s NBA All-Star Game. “The All-Star Game that we witnessed last year was not an All-Star game,” McGrady told the Guardian. “I don’t know what that was.” Con…

Sebastian Hoeness’ side are back in the top four but face test to keep hold of top talent again this summer Köln had been here before. “It’s not the second time, but the fifth or sixth time,” said forward Marius Bülter, “that we’ve sat in the locker room after a game, not able to blame ourselves much, but still left with zero points.” His coach, Lukas Kwasniok, described it as “Groundhog Day,” af…

Pierre Sage’s team thrashed Paris FC 5-0 to go top of the table yet he is still talking about avoiding relegation By Get French Football News Marseille have a propensity to explode. So when they lost 5-0 to Paris Saint-Germain last Sunday and then lost their manager , it was no surprise. But seeing PSG having to put out fires is an unexpected turn. All the while, Lens have been a tranquil and una…

Max Rushden is joined by Barry Glendenning, John Brewin and Dan Bardell to discuss the fourth-round weekend and a big day in Scotland. On the podcast today: all hail Mansfield Town – their win at Turf Moor kept the magic of the cup alive this weekend, even if it’s impossible to be surprised by a Burnley defeat of any kind. Elsewhere, was this a great weekend for VAR? There were some questionable …

Group C: England, 202-7, bt Italy, 178 all out, by 24 runs Minnows denied by Curran and Overton in final overs England did enough to beat Italy and secure a spot in the Super Eights, if not – again – to establish themselves among the form teams of this tournament. Harry Brook had previously declared of this tournament that he would “rather not start amazing and finish amazing than start amazing a…

Updates from Pallekele International Cricket Stadium Start time is 7pm local/12.30am AEDT/1.30pm GMT Sign up for The Spin newsletter | And email James The players take to the field for the anthems, there’s some grass on the wicket and the noise is that we should see some turn. Short boundaries square, longer ones down the ground. Pallekele is at altitude which Big Matty ‘Haydos’ Hayden says will …

While goalkeeper Anatoliy Trubin’s last-gasp header meant more for the hosts, Madrid cannot take the challenge lightly now they return in the playoff round Nineteen days later Real Madrid fly back to Lisbon to try again. For all the drama, for all that Benfica’s goalkeeper Anatoliy Trubin rose through the rain to head an astonishing 98th-minute goal and José Mourinho raced up the line with his ar…

Juve directors condemned Pierre Kalulu’s dismissal but beyond the outrage there were reasons to take heart At the end of a spectacular, ferocious Derby d’Italia, none of Juventus’s players nor their manager would answer questions from the media. Instead, their chief executive, Damien Comolli, and director of football strategy, Giorgio Chiellini, spoke on the club’s behalf. They were not there to …

The former Ireland hooker on his rugby family, why Andy Farrell’s side need to rebuild and the physical toll of touring with the Lions I have known Keith Wood for nearly 30 years and so it’s easy to talk about life and death long before we move on to rugby. But the game always provides context and, last Friday afternoon, the 54-year-old former Lions hooker and Irish captain drove to Cork to watch…

Lauren James shows what Chelsea have been missing, Villa get a ‘cruel’ crushing and the leaders bounce back If there were any questions around how Manchester City would respond to seeing their unbeaten league run end, they were quickly put to bed. Andrée Jeglertz’s side were back to their free-flowing attacking best, putting six past Leicester. Dominant seems to be a bit of an understatement when…

The world No 5 says she has been disturbed by events back home, and is not afraid to speak up about issues in the United States While getting treatment and preparing for this week’s Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships, Coco Gauff has had the news on in the background almost every day. Gauff could be forgiven if she’s not up-to-date on everything that’s been happening back in the United States: s…

Medal table | Live scores and schedule | Results | Briefing Follow us over on Bluesky | Get in touch: email Daniel Gosh, Noel’s making hard work of this, the snow huffing down and he manages to ski his way out of trouble and stay on his feet, just, but finishes 1.96s off the lead. I think we can say he won’t be retaining his title. Next out, Kristoffersen, Norway’s best-ever slalomer … and he fin…

If the Sunday already felt golden under the alpine sun for Team GB, it only glittered brighter after dark Super Sunday? More like Golden Sunday. From the sunlit snowboard slopes to the floodlit ice track, Great Britain delivered a one-two punch that will live long in Winter Olympic folklore . In the space of a few hours, two British duos – Charlotte Bankes and Huw Nightingale, then Tabitha Stoeck…