Cuban cyclist Arlenis Sierra wins Cadel Evans race
Disappointing result for Australian Mitchelton-Scott team Lucy Kennedy finishes second and Amanda Spratt thirdCuban Arlenis Sierra has spoiled the Australian show for the biggest win of her cycling career.Sierra launched a perfectly timed attack in the last 4km of Saturday’s...
Mikaela Shiffrin adds to dazzling season with first super-G crystal globe
Skier wins 10th season-long title and first in speed disciplineShiffrin, 24, locked up overall and slalom titles weeks agoItaly’s Dominik Paris captured men’s title at World Cup finalsMikaela Shiffrin won the World Cup super-G title for her 10th career crystal...
Going it alone: What drives solo endurance athletes?
From transatlantic rowers to cross-continental runners, solo adventurers rely as much on their mental strength as their physical attributesFew people have the will and the stamina needed to run across a continent or row across an ocean — and...
Ronaldo’s defining display shows ‘fino alla fine’ spirit is alive at Juventus
The striker’s best performance for Juve in the Champions League embodied the club’s ‘until the end’ mottoThe Juventus motto is “fino alla fine” – in other words, until the end. On Tuesday evening the men’s team proved these words are not...
Will MMA ever be an Olympic sport?
Global popularity and an ancient pedigree make MMA a sensible fit for today’s Olympics. The reasons why it’s not even being considered – too violent? too popular? – are less clearGatekeepers charged with determining which sports can qualify...
Kansas City Chiefs’ Patrick Mahomes is youngest NFL MVP since Dan Marino
Kansas City quarterback wins MVP award in landslide voteMahomes, 23, is youngest winner since Dan Marino in 1984Patrick Mahomes’ breathtaking breakthrough season earned him the NFL’s Most Valuable Player award.The Chiefs quarterback landed a pair of honors at NFL Honors on...
Charlie Whiting, Formula One race director, dies aged 66
Briton dies from pulmonary embolism in MelbourneTributes flow for ‘guardian of F1’s best interests’Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel have led the tributes to Charlie Whiting, the Formula One race director who died suddenly on Thursday, three days before the first grand...
Zion Williamson’s injury-by-Nike exposes college basketball’s hypocrisy
The likely No 1 pick in June’s NBA draft suffered a shocking injury that puts a fine point on college basketball’s student-athlete shamThirty-three seconds into the biggest college basketball game of the season, the sport’s biggest star went...
Victory in US for Tommy Fleetwood ‘only a matter of time’, says Rory McIlroy
• Englishman shot first-round 65 in Players Championship• ‘He is one of the best players in the world’It was hardly a shock to hear Rory McIlroy endorse the chances of Tommy Fleetwood winning in the United States before long. Singing Tommy’s praises has...
Hull FC’s Sika Manu: ‘I remember seeing roofs torn off buildings’
A year on since Cyclone Gita hit Tonga, the forward talks of those dark days and a brighter future in EnglandThe Super League season is barely a month old and there is already talk of a crisis at Hull FC....
Saudi Arabia, sportswashing and golf’s daring sortie into enemy coffers
The European Tour breaks new and controversial ground in the Middle East this week, with Justin Rose among the players being paid up to $1m to compete in the Saudi InternationalIn a flawlessly manicured instance of cosmic timing,...
Kelly Catlin: cycling world champion suffered concussion in months before suicide
Father said depression and burden of work contributed to deathSister pays tribute to ‘special person – kind, funny, empathetic’The sister of Kelly Catlin, the three-time cycling world champion who has died at the age of 23, says her sibling suffered...
