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Medal table | Live scores and schedule | Results | Briefing Follow us over on Bluesky | Get in touch: email Daniel Buongiorno a tutti e benvenuti alle Olimpiadi invernali 2026 – undicesimo giorno! Rio Ferdinand once said he didn’t feel right in the morning until he’d done a rondo, and we’re getting to that point with curling – which is just as well, given that’s how we open today, and there’s mor…

Carlo Ancelotti and Zinedine Zidane’s impact is clear but where the Spanish giants go post-Xabi Alonso only Florentino Pérez knows All eyes are on Real Madrid again but in a different way than to which the 15-time Champions League winners are accustomed. Every fan expects Real to be among the best eight in Europe but they are in the playoffs for a second season in a row after a 4-2 defeat at Benf…

In an extract from his book, Richard Fitzpatrick reveals in the early 1960s the grand Italian club was equipped for doping like ‘a small hospital’ The quantity of drugs floating around the campus at Inter in the early 1960s meant the club was equipped like “a small hospital”, to borrow an expression used about the doping culture at Juventus in the 1990s. Inter’s coach Helenio Herrera – or “HH”, a…

Franjo von Allmen has led the way for the men with three golds and Loïc Meillard’s slalom victory brought a fourth gold Switzerland’s men have dominated the ski slopes of Milano Cortina. Not since the super-G and the team combined were added to the Olympic programme in 1988 has one country won four of the five events – a feat achieved with Loïc Meillard’s victory in the slalom on Monday. Only Bra…

Wrexham and Mansfield host big guns in round five while Newcastle face Manchester City and Liverpool go to Wolves TNT have kicked off with a walk-and-talk around a packed Macclesfield dressing room, the only problem being that the camera lens keeps steaming up. Let’s get on with it, shall we? Three minutes until the draw , according to an on-screen countdown that will inevitably prove to be inacc…

Brentford coach praises non-league side’s advances Manager John Rooney proud of Macclesfield’s efforts Keith Andrews made a beeline for the Macclesfield dressing room after Brentford’s fourth-round FA Cup victory at Moss Rose and told John Rooney and his players they had been immense against his Premier League charges. The Brentford head coach said footballing journeys like the one Macclesfield h…

Premiership-winning Canterbury winger hit in stomach and leg in Greenacre shooting Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Former NRL star Matt Utai is in hospital fighting for his life after being shot multiple times on his front lawn, in what police are treating as an ambush attack with no clear motive. The 2004 premier…

Selectors under fire after Steve Smith unused against Sri Lanka Fate now rests with Ireland and Sri Lanka beating Zimbabwe Australia’s aura as a white-ball heavyweight has all but petered out in the space of two disastrous defeats at the T20 World Cup where the absence of their champion fast bowlers has been ruthlessly exposed. Following an abject 23-run defeat to world No 11 Zimbabwe , Australia…

Lucy and Pippa Tallant have opened the Crossbar, in Brighton, to create a place for women to feel comfortable watching all sport You can’t miss it, the giant “Crossbar” flanked by two stylised crosses in black on the whitewashed outside walls glares down the street, a stone’s throw from Brighton’s Churchill Square. Outside is the narrow shelf that the co-owner Lucy Tallant, the DIY enthusiast of …

China’s Eileen Gu second, Italy’s Flora Tabanelli third Briton, fourth again, says: ‘I really did have to go for it’ This time, surely, Kirsty Muir must have believed that a Winter Olympic medal was in her grasp. But as a thrilling big air competition reached its denouement, an Italian with no anterior cruciate ligament in her right knee came down a 180‑feet ramp and drove a stake through the Bri…

“We are top of the league,” sang the Coventry City supporters of returning to the summit of the Championship. Ironically, it was a result that quelled the nagging noise surrounding Frank Lampard and his team. Coventry, pace-setters for the majority of the season, had won just four league games since the end of November. But Haji Wright hit a timely hat-trick as Coventry again traded places with M…

American was competing in her fifth Olympics Ties Bonnie Blair for US women’s medal record Medal table | Live scores and schedule | Results It took her five Olympics but she finally got there: USA’s Elana Meyers Taylor won gold in the monobob on Monday, capping a long and brilliant career. The 41-year-old’s first Olympics came in Vancouver in 2010, and since then she has won three silver medals a…

Northampton coaches eased wing’s post-Lions burden 34 games last season ‘a lot of rugby … I was tired’ England’s Tommy Freeman has revealed the extent of his mental struggles after the victorious British & Irish Lions tour of Australia at the end of a season in which he exceeded the player welfare limits for the number of appearances made. Freeman made 34 appearances last season – 19 for Northamp…

Rayo had to prepare at Getafe’s place and play at Leganés’s stadium. But they still managed to upset Atlético Madrid One day in November, the coach of Rayo Vallecano decided that was it: he was out. The captain in whom he finds strength had reached a similar conclusion long ago, handing in his armband as an act of protest and dignity. Two Fridays ago, the squad signed a statement saying they coul…

La Penna wrongly sent off Juve’s Kalulu against Inter Official could face one-month ban following incident The referee Federico La Penna has received dozens of death threats after wrongly sending off a Juventus player at Inter on Saturday. Italian police have reportedly advised him not to leave his home. La Penna sparked fury among Juventus supporters after dismissing Pierre Kalulu, showing the d…