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Updates from Wednesday’s live action in Glasgow Medal table | Hunt wins silver in storm | Mail Tom Tom will be with you shortly. Here’s what to look out for today: Morning (10am-1pm BST) Weightlifting - women’s 77kg final Athletics and Para-athletics heats Swimming and Para-swimming heats Bowls and Para-bowls (through the day) Continue reading...

Association was unaware of Infantino’s plans Members given 19 September deadline to opt in Concacaf has joined Uefa in criticising Fifa’s plan to sell off stakes in the World Cup to private investors. In a strongly worded statement the Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football expressed deep concerns about Fifa’s governance and a lack of due process, revealing tha…

Manchester United and Arsenal need midfielders, Liverpool should sign a winger and Chelsea require a goalkeeper By Opta Analyst Declan Rice was worked to the bone by Arsenal last season, playing 4,456 minutes in all competitions. This showed at points during the World Cup, when the midfielder’s body looked on the verge of breaking down. Arsenal need high-quality reinforcements in the centre of th…

Plus: UK prime ministers’ football allegiances, top-flight W teams in England and united Uniteds Mail us with your all of your questions and answers “Kazuyoshi Miura recently scored in the Emperor’s Cup at the tender age of 59 – is he the oldest goalscorer in football history?” asks Terry Winter. If we were picking an all-time Knowledge XI, ‘King Kazu’ would be in the mix for a place. He’s appear…

New Zealand sprinter wins in personal best of 10.93sec Emmanuel Eseme surges to men’s 100m victory in 9.83 On a night of spite and might in Glasgow, England’s Amy Hunt had to settle for 100m silver as New Zealand’s Zoe Hobbs ran the race of her life to take Commonwealth gold. The filth and unrelenting fury of the rain had left the track sodden and conditions far from ideal, but Hobbs ran a huge p…

Reported incidents of all discrimination reach new high Reports of abuse in grassroots football rose for fifth year Abusive chanting against immigrants has become a feature of football matches in England, according to new data from Kick It Out. Last season 39 reports of anti-immigrant chanting were made to the anti-discrimination charity, more than the previous two seasons combined. Phrases such …

Teenager dominates men’s 200m breaststroke final Win makes him island’s most successful Games athlete Filip Nowacki secured his status as Jersey’s most successful Commonwealth Games athlete by storming to a historic gold medal in the men’s 200m breaststroke. The 18-year-old led from start to finish in a commanding display, touching the wall in 2min 07.87sec before erupting in celebration as he cl…

New manager’s No 1 priority must be to persuade World Cup-winning captain to stay as Real Madrid circle “Welcome home,” was Khaldoon al-Mubarak’s warm greeting to Enzo Maresca on his appointment last month as Manchester City manager. Now, after two previous spells at the club, the Italian’s task is to keep the chair content, and ensure a three-year contract does not end early. To achieve that, Ma…

Geneva chosen over US, India and Cyprus Switzerland to host for first time since 2004 Gukesh and Sindarov both 20 at first move Geneva has been chosen to host this year’s world chess championship match, with Fide announcing on Tuesday that reigning champion Gukesh Dommaraju will defend his title against challenger Javokhir Sindarov in the Swiss city from 25 November to 15 December. Both Gukesh, o…

Jockey fell off Amiloc as horse was leaving stalls Trawlerman lost all momentum after interference Scandinavia confirmed the form of his Ascot Gold Cup defeat of Trawlerman with a wide-margin win in the Group One Goodwood Cup on Tuesday, but the bare result does not tell the full story of a race in which a riderless horse led the field for much of the way and veered across the leaders with three …

Club have been promoted three times in four years Phil Parkinson’s side missed out on playoffs in 2026 The Wrexham co-owner Ryan Reynolds called it a “punch-me moment” – his club playing Liverpool in a pre-season friendly at Yankee Stadium just five years after he and Rob McElhenney (now simply Rob Mac) completed their takeover of a club languishing in the National League. The knockout blow would…

Mohammed Ayub Qureshi has invited Pakistan’s opponents Australia for dinner at his restaurant – whatever the result The invitation has already been extended. Even if Australia beat Pakistan in their men’s pairs match at the Commonwealth Games, they are still welcome to dinner afterwards. There is just one small catch. “If we lose, they are still invited to the restaurant, but I will probably give…

‘There will be a lot of transfer links, a lot of rumours’ Chelsea hit back to beat Western Sydney Wanderers 6-4 Xabi Alonso refused to confirm Chelsea are interested in signing the veterans Danny Welbeck and Jordan Henderson after his first game in charge of the team, a 6-4 pre-season victory against Western Sydney Wanderers on Tuesday, but said he was looking to build a squad that had “proper ba…

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Oscar Onley’s pre-race injury presaged three bleak weeks and new director of racing knows he has his work cut out Crashes, punctures and injuries ensured that the 2026 Tour de France campaign was one of the worst ever for the beleaguered Netcompany Ineos team. From the first stage on, when Dave Brailsford’s team came close to winning the team time trial in Montjuic, the 2026 Tour was, in the word…