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Men’s and women’s race updates from 2.21pm BST Preview: Channel 4 makes debut | Get in touch Stephan Freischem – father of Mia Freischem (Cambridge) and Lilli Freischem (Oxford), speaking at the start outside Thames Rowing Club in Putney. He resides in Cologne, Germany and works as a patent attorney. Split allegiance today … actually on the one side it’s calming, because we know one of our daught…

Canada Soccer holding jersey exchange in Toronto Italy failed to qualify for finals after playoff defeat Italian football fans are being encouraged to put their national team’s World Cup 2026 qualification failure behind them – by backing co-hosts Canada instead. Canada Soccer, the national governing body for the sport, is offering a jersey swap on Saturday for fans in Toronto’s Little Italy dist…

⚽️ FA Cup updates from 12.45pm BST at the Etihad Stadium ⚽️ Live scores | FA Cup quarter-finals preview The small print No replays in the FA Cup quarter-finals. If it needs to go extra-time and penalties, then it needs to go extra-time and penalties. Continue reading...

Carabao Cup-winning defender signed in 2022 for £12m Howe’s underperforming squad set for summer overhaul Kieran Trippier is to leave Newcastle when his contract ends this summer, heightening the sense of an era ending at the Saudi-owned club. Trippier’s arrival, for £12m, from Atletico Madrid in January 2022 proved a landmark moment in the team’s transformation following Newcastle’s Saudi Arabia…

A distant relative found a family link to the football prodigy, as they are both related to George Male, the first player to win six English top-flight titles Dave Male could have had no idea that his decision to attend a match while he was on holiday in Spain two years ago would uncover a remarkable family link to one of English football’s brightest young prospects. The retired teacher was stayi…

The world welterweight champion on returning to the ring, boxing politics and her imminent wedding A year ago, on a historic night for boxing when an all-women card of fights was held at the Royal Albert Hall last March , Lauren Price produced an imperious headline performance which should have led to a series of even more prestigious bouts. Her dominant display in outclassing the venerable Natas…

If the Eagles are to make a mark on their home World Cup in 2031, the hard-hitting Anthem RC lock could have a key role to play Will Sherman may be the future of US rugby, but his roots are in the game’s American past. The 22-year-old standout second-row forward for Anthem Rugby Carolina in Major League Rugby is the son of Wade Sherman, a member of a champion Cal Berkeley team that included Mark …

Reports suggested parts of the arena’s wall had collapsed, but Alianza Lima ruled out any structural failures One person has been killed and dozens more injured at the Alejandro Villanueva Stadium in Lima, Peru, according to the football club Alianza Lima. Hundreds of fans were attending a “flag-waving event” on Friday around the stadium, a day before a derby match between the home team Alianza L…

County cricket updates from 11am BST across the grounds Team-by-team guide | Send Tanya your thoughts via email The spectre of the Ashes loomed over day one of a new Championship season, every innings, every wicket, a play in one act sent straight to the laptop of Brendon McCullum. England Lion Emilio Gay won the race to the first century of the season for Durham , a classy innings, fierce on the…

A first FA Cup semi-final since 1987 is within reach but manager says Premier League is ‘our bread and butter’ As Leeds travel to West Ham for an FA Cup quarter-final both teams could arguably do without, one thing is not in doubt: Daniel Farke knows how to read a balance sheet. As the holder of an MA in economics and a diploma in sporting directorship, the Leeds manager needs no reminders that, …

Former athletes like me know that in professional sports you can get away with most things … as long as you’re talented enough When the Chicago Bulls waived Jaden Ivey on Monday , after he made a series of unprompted anti-LGBTQ and religiously charged comments on social media, the move was framed as a response to “conduct detrimental to the team.” On the surface, the situation appears straightfor…

At 17, Cooper Lutkenhaus is the youngest world champion in track and field history – and potentially USA’s poster boy for LA28 Fire on the boards. Slack jaws off it. Last month I was fortunate enough to be yards away from the 17-year-old American high school student Cooper Lutkenhaus when he powered away from a strong 800m field in Torun to become the youngest world champion in track and field hi…

The most recent data shows stark levels of inactivity in one of the poorest areas in the country but the West Midlands is fighting back “Being in nature and among the trees, getting some nice air and oxygen and exercise, that’s what clears the mind,” says Kelvin Gilkes, the human dynamo behind the Pendeford Community Bike Hub. A place where he fixes old and abandoned bicycles and helps people rid…

Arsenal meet Brighton with their sights set on reaching a second semi-final while Tottenham could be facing Chelsea at just the right time Riding high after their Champions League quarter-final win over Chelsea, Arsenal are ready to push on in the FA Cup. The WSL title may be almost certainly out of sight following Manchester City’s impressive victory over Manchester United, but the chance to go …

Goalkeeper on representing Israel, learning from Manuel Neuer at Bayern and targeting an FA Cup upset A few days after returning from international duty, there is only one place to start with Daniel Peretz: his pride at representing Israel during the unsettling and tense backdrop of war and geopolitical conflict. His excitement at facing Arsenal in the FA Cup quarter-finals can wait. Almost all o…