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Updates from Friday’s live action around Glasgow Medal table | Campbell cooks up gold | Email Billy Athletics: It’ll be a tough one to take for England’s Ellis Kottas and Australia’s Mikaela Dingley who came away with silver and bronze after Wednesday’s original race but leave today empty-handed. Kottas finished 4th, 23sec out of the medals, and Dingley was over a minute slower in last. Woods get…

Dutch rider completed the set of Grand Tours by winning the Giro and is set on claiming a second title in France French pulses were set racing by Pauline-Ferrand Prévot’s win in the 2025 Tour de France Femmes, but the pragmatic choice of favourite for this year’s race, which begins in Lausanne on Saturday, is Demi Vollering. The 29-year old Dutch rider, leader of the FDJ United-Suez team and the …

Matt Ellis has transformed the club after spending £10m so far and they are now contenders to win Super League for the first time Matt Ellis is too young to remember the glory days of the club he has supported all his life and is now the proud custodian of, but he is reminded often enough to concede it serves as his greatest motivation to bankroll one of Super League’s sleeping giants. For suppor…

Harrow schoolgirl eclipses legend Judit Polgar as youngest girl ever to score international master result England’s 11-year-old talent Bodhana Sivanandan fought her way to another world age record last Saturday. Sivanandan ended the Dole Trophy in Aix-en-Provence, France, with a historic first international master result. Judit Polgar, the all-time No 1 woman, achieved her first IM norm in April …

Follow the latest standings for the Glasgow Games as 74 countries compete for the 645 medals on offer The 23rd Commonwealth Games are taking place in Glasgow between 23 July and 2 August. There are 74 Commonwealth Games Associations eligible to compete, all of whom are expected to send athletes to the championships. Medals will be available in 215 events, spread across 10 sports. Six of them incl…

England 58-54 South Africa Lois Pearson scores 17 goals from 17 shots England stormed back from a six-goal deficit at the end of the first quarter to book their place in the netball semi-finals with a 58-54 win over South Africa. Anna Stembridge’s side went into the game knowing defeat would mean them failing to reach the last four of the competition for the first time since the sport was introdu…

Italian icon had undergone surgery on pulmonary nodule ‘The entire history of ⁠Milan is in ⁠tears,’ Serie A club says The former Milan and Italy defender Franco Baresi, one of the most recognisable players of the ⁠golden era of Italian football in the 1980s and 1990s, has died at the age of 66. “The entire history of ⁠AC Milan is in ⁠tears following the ​passing of Franco Baresi,” his former club…

World governing body responds after Uefa World Cup boycott threat ‘Consultation process was disrupted by incorrect media reports,’ Fifa says Fifa has responded to the threat of boycott from European nations with a statement saying that “nobody is selling football”, while blaming the media for disrupting its consultation process over controversial plans to sell chunks of the World Cup to US-based …

Big-spending club kick off season on Friday 4 September Champions Manchester City begin against Birmingham Those desperate to see what London City Lionesses will look like with two-time Ballon d’Or winner Alexia Putellas in their ranks do not have to wait long, with the big-spending club kicking off the new Women’s Super League season against Manchester United on Friday 4 September. The Michelle …

Fifa’s 25-page sales deck produced by JP Morgan Reference made to doubling global tournaments Fifa’s sales pitch to persuade members to approve the sale of the World Cup’s commercial rights clearly states that its plans for financial growth will be achieved by staging more tournaments, having higher ticket prices and debt financing. A 25-page sales deck titled “Fifa Forward Enterprise Member Mate…

Hull: ‘I think people need to lighten up’ Thitikul leads on -7; double major winner Ryu on -5 Charley Hull has delivered an emphatic, unapologetic response towards those who criticised a prank on the eve of the Women’s Open. Hull used pre-tournament media duties to reveal she bought fake scratchcards in a Blackpool joke shop, before using one to trick her caddie, Adam Woodward, into believing he …

Everything was looking rosy for Howe at St James’ Park until Alexander Isak’s departure led to rushed signings and a messy season Last September, David Hopkinson, just installed as Newcastle’s chief executive, perched on a stool at a downstairs corner table in Shearer’s Bar at St James’ Park and between sips of zero alcohol lager, likened Eddie Howe to Bruce Springsteen. According to Hopkinson, N…

The champions are capable of shattering every record in a temporary aligning of the planets, the elusiveness of pure perfection Treble-20. “Ohh, he couldn’t.” Treble-19. “Oh, you spiteful young man.” Bull. “You spiteful person! That is ridiculous! ” As ever, Wayne Mardle – commentating on the World Matchplay final for Sky Sports on Sunday night – put it most succinctly of all. The great individua…

Athlete set a new Commonwealth record in +86kg final before revealing she is to appear on MasterChef By the time Emily Campbell stepped on to the platform for a final time on Thursday, the women’s +86kg weightlifting final had all the fervour of a revivalist meeting. Everyone was cheering. There were loud shouts and exhortations. And people who didn’t know a snatch from a clean and jerk two hours…

Unbeaten filly lands fourth Group One prize Trainer Aidan O’Brien considering Arc trial The high summer sun was still beating down on Glorious Goodwood on Thursday but thoughts were beginning to turn towards the autumn’s showpiece events in France and the US after Diamond Necklace extended her unbeaten record to six races with an effortless success in the Nassau Stakes. Diamond Necklace had just …