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Minister Tony Burke confirms another member of Iran’s women’s football team left Australia late Sunday night Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast The captain of the Iranian women’s football squad has left Australia after withdrawing her claim of asylum. Zahra Ghanbari became the fifth member of the football cohort to c…

Richarlison’s late goal earns head coach first point ‘It’s a long way to our goal but today was important’ Igor Tudor described Tottenham’s first point of his tenure as the start of “something big” after drawing at Liverpool. The Croat had overseen four straight defeats since taking over and was heading for a fifth until Richarlison’s last-minute equaliser. Dominik Szoboszlai fired Liverpool into…

⚾ Winners will play either Italy or Venezuela in final ⚾ Email david.lengel@theguardian.com with your thoughts Welcome to our coverage of the World Baseball Classic! It’s heavyweight night in Miami with a semi-final match-up between the US and the Dominican Republic. It’s the game we all wanted to see from our first view of the bracket, with two of the most stacked baseball lineups you could put …

American pars 18th for victory after birdie on 17 Fitzpatrick had led at Sawgrass before late slip The PGA Tour might have lost out in the court of public opinion over whether the Players Championship could be a major. However, the level of drama as shadows lengthened on this Sawgrass Sunday set the tournament aside from most others. It came down to Cameron Young versus Matt Fitzpatrick. As Fitzp…

World No 1 had lost four finals against opponent Sabalenka comes back from set down for victory Aryna Sabalenka snapped her losing streak against Elena Rybakina in a thrilling Indian Wells final on Sunday. The world No 1 beat Rybakina to win her maiden grand slam title at the Australian Open in 2023 but since then had lost all four finals against the Kazakh, including at the WTA Finals last seaso…

Americans win Para ice hockey final 6-2 US get better of their neighbors once again Three weeks after the United States beat Canada in the Olympic hockey finals, the Americans overcame their neighbors again to win Paralympic gold and complete the three-peat at Milan Cortina. Jack Wallace scored a hat-trick to help the US beat Canada 6-2 in Sunday’s Para ice hockey final and become the first natio…

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Having moved to within touching distance of Premier League safety when they beat Nottingham Forest last month, three points from their past five games could be raising a few jitters among the Leeds supporters. But they were celebrating with Daniel Farke and his players at full time after earning a point that the German predicted could turn out to be “priceless” in the end. Had Dominic Calvert-Lew…

It seemed, for the briefest of moments, that it was finally going to happen for Vítor Pereira and Nottingham Forest. Dan Ndoye, the half-time substitute, had burst into the area after the hour-mark and sidefooted perfectly, prompting the explosion of relief at the City Ground. However, joy at taking the lead against Fulham was ended by the video assistant referee, extra painful for a side that ha…

Russia’s involvement meant politics could not be avoided at a Paralympics more competitive than ever The theme of the closing ceremony of the Winter Paralympics, held at the Olympic curling arena in Cortina D’Ampezzo, was “Italian Souvenir”. It followed, through dance and music, the ambitions of a young girl, played by Sofia Tansella who has spinal muscular atrophy, to see her dreams represented …

Best left Bermuda at 17 and joined West Ham, with Bobby Moore among his teammates, but he also faced horrendous abuse ‘I did what I had to do,” Clyde Best says as he recalls leaving Bermuda at the age of 17 and travelling to England for a trial at West Ham. There was no fear, no thought of homesickness. Best saw opportunity. It was 1968 and, before setting off on his journey, the boy who would go…

Tottenham earning a point after successive defeats may not have ended relegation fears but shows all is not lost yet At last, amid all the gloom, a sliver of positive news for Tottenham . On a day when their injury crisis reached yet greater heights, they met an out-of-sorts Liverpool resting players for Wednesday’s Champions League tie against Galatasaray. The result was a game of very high squa…

Skier suffered serious injuries in crash at Olympics Speculation has mounted over possible retirement Lindsey Vonn said she will retire on her own terms, and not those of anyone else. The 41-year-old, who is recovering from a serious downhill crash at the Milan Cortina Olympics, is still deciding her next steps, something she made clear in a social media post on Sunday. Continue reading...

Coach ‘the perfect person’ to lead side into World Cup Springboks game ‘an amazing opportunity’ for players Jamie George has insisted England can go toe-to-toe with South Africa when they lock horns with the world champions in July and believes his side will be among the favourites for next year’s World Cup if Steve Borthwick remains as head coach. England are on a disappointing run of four strai…

Despite a huge upswing in performance against France, the head coach still has a case to answer for what went wrong in the Six Nations Did England play like that because of Steve Borthwick or in spite of him? For all that the Rugby Football Union will deep dive, look under the bonnet, get into the weeds – pick your own favourite bit of corporate speak – it is the fundamental question that Bill Sw…