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In this content-driven age, we consume sport as fleeting entertainment – but the fate of Captain Matthew Webb suggests we always have Pull. Breathe. Kick. Glide. Three decades since my last swimming lesson, I found myself sitting in a lecture theatre chanting these words with a few dozen strangers, all of us trying not to take anyone’s eye out as we matched them to the actions. Pull. Breathe. Kic…

Bolt’s name appears in Wythenshawe FC squad list Team features several former Premier League stars The sprinting legend Usain Bolt appears set to turn out for a star-studded Sunday league team in Greater Manchester after his name appeared in their online squad list. The eight-time Olympic champion, who still holds the world records for the 100 metres and 200m, appears on the player list for Wythe…

39-year-old collapsed during event in June American won world title in 2011 Former 1500m world champion Jenny Simpson says she will not return to running after she collapsed during a track event in June . Simpson, a three-time Olympian and one of the most accomplished American female runners in history, was pacing a mile group at an event in North Carolina when she went into cardiac arrest. She w…

Total prize pool for tournament will be $108m Players guaranteed $140,000 for making first round The world’s leading tennis players have welcomed the US Open’s announcement of a 20% increase in prize money and agreed not to continue their protests at this year’s tournament as a result. The build up to both the French Open and Wimbledon was overshadowed earlier this year by a media boycott as the …

South Africa welcome New Zealand for their Greatest Rivalry series with the suspicion that they plan on beating the tourists at their own game The problem with Test weeks is that they can feel long. Cricketers can play for days on end, footballers every few nights, but rugby players step on to the international stage for just 80 minutes per week. The result is a drawn-out vacuum in the buildup an…

Nahuel Molina, Thiago Almada and Gavi also suspended Fifa issue $321,000 fine for Falkland Islands banner Three Argentina players have been banned for their part in a brawl at the end of last month’s World Cup final against Spain , but they have only been fined for displaying a Falkland Islands banner after the semi-final win over England. Leandro Paredes has been given a 10-match ban and a $90,0…

The Essex batsman, filling in for Jacob Bethell, wasted no time in laying down a claim to a longer run in the England side When Jordan Cox was 19, playing in his fifth first-class match and unbeaten overnight on 167 for Kent against Sussex, he decided to set himself a new task. Cox told Sam Billings, his captain and an England international, that he would go past Billings’ first-class best of 171…

From the manager’s divorce to tension with the club hierarchy, new documentary is an honest portrayal of his difficult last two seasons Having occupied a front-row seat for the final two seasons of Pep Guardiola’s gilded Manchester City tenure, the subject of Amazon’s A Beautiful Obsession, the surprise to me is how unfiltered the four-part series is. Particularly, the telling of the torrid 2024-…

First game of new Premier League season, 8pm kick-off Arsenal’s opportunity | Football Daily | Mail Scott The Premier League is back, and you won’t get too many people making a case for newly promoted Coventry City to get something in tonight’s opening game against champions Arsenal. But then on the first day of the 1993-94 season, Micky Quinn did this … … and there weren’t too many at Highbury e…

Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now! A brand new season of the Premier League is already upon us. Yay? It seems like it’s been barely a month since the Geopolitics World Cup final for goodness sake … though that’s because it is barely a month since the GWC final. Are we not allowed summers any more? Well, yes, thanks to good old fossil fuel, come sit by the fire, it’s lovely and wa…

The young Italian has a substantial lead but his rivals will not see him as being out of reach going into the Dutch GP The Dutch Grand Prix may be hosting its final meeting on the Formula One calendar this weekend but its farewell heralds the opening of a championship run-in that is far from over. Rested, reset and ready to rumble, there is an anticipatory air among the title contenders in Zandvo…

Jockey Juan Hernandez dashes to airport after victory ‘He’s just so fast that it doesn’t matter what he runs on’ His name is the Italian for a kiss but there is little delicacy or tenderness about Bacio, the front-running winner of the Nunthorpe Stakes here on Friday. He was headstrong and belligerent on the way to post and simply brutal once the race was under way, tearing down the five-furlong …

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England wrapped up a comfortable victory but their red-ball men’s team will not be back in Leeds for a few years Harry Brook has sparkled in front of his own. The Yorkshireman ran the chase against Australia at Headingley three years ago and played a strong hand against India last year . On Thursday he was England’s top-scorer but the slightest misjudgment against Ali Usman’s left-arm spin on 91 …

1st Test, D3: England, 409, bt Pakistan, 171 & 135, by inns & 103 Archer, Robinson and Tongue all take three wickets The sounds heard emanating from the Headingley area at 3.38pm on Friday were not simply the belching roars of the Western Terrace as England wrapped up a one-sided victory over Pakistan. A pressure valve had also been released. One win against a team as ragged as this Pakistan outf…