Sean Ingle in Livigno The woman who carried the Ukrainian team placard at the Winter Olympics opening ceremony was a Russian living in Milan, who chose to perform a small act of resistance to show her support for Ukraine. Anastasia Kucherova, an architect who has been living in Milan for 14 years, was unrecognisable in a hooded silver…
Sean Ingle in Livigno Team GB chiefs have hailed Britain’s greatest day at a Winter Olympics after celebrating two gold medals, in the mixed snowboard cross and mixed team skeleton in Milano Cortina. Super Sunday started with Charlotte Bankes and Huw Nightingale storming to a surprise victory in Livigno, with Bankes dramatically overtaking the French team with four turns remaining…
Sean Ingle in Milan The Ukrainian skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych has been kicked out of the Winter Olympics after he refused to back down from wearing a “helmet of memory” in honour of Ukraine’s war dead. The decision was announced by the International Olympic Committee just 21 minutes before the first round of the men’s skeleton competition in Cortina on…
CHÜMOUKEDIMA, Feb 11: The U-13 ASMITA Football League 2025–26 (Major League – East Zone) concluded on February 10, 2026, at the Chümoukedima Football Stadium, marking the successful completion of a grassroots football initiative under the ASMITA and Khelo India programmes. The closing ceremony was graced by Anthony Ngullie, IAS, Secretary, Youth Resources & Sports, Government…
CHÜMOUKEDIMA, Feb 6: The Under-13 ASMITA Zonal Football League 2025–26 (East Zone) was held at the Chümoukedima Football Stadium on Thursday, bringing together young football talents from across the East Zone under the ASMITA and Khelo India initiatives. Deputy Commissioner, Chümoukedima, Polan John, graced the inaugural ceremony as the Special Guest. Addressing the gathering, he…
Sean Ingle and Nick Ames The International Olympic Committee president, Kirsty Coventry, has given her clearest signal yet that Russia could be back for the 2028 Los Angeles Games. A day after the Fifa president, Gianni Infantino, said he wanted Russia reinstated to international football, Coventry used her opening address to the 145th IOC congress in Milan to argue that…
Exclusive by Tom Garry The Football Association has proposed radical changes to the Women’s FA Cup, including seeding four teams and dispensing with a draw after the last 32. The plans would introduce a “road-to-Wembley bracket” from the last 32, which would map out those teams’ route to the final, in the style of a World…
Suzanne Wrack at Gtech Community Stadium A businesslike performance against AS Far earned Arsenal a place in Sunday’s final of the inaugural Fifa Women’s Champions Cup against Corinthians. Four goals in the first half – from Stina Blackstenius, Frida Maanum, Mariona Caldentey and Olivia Smith – allowed Renée Slegers to rotate players and rest some legs and the…
Tumaini Carayol at Melbourne Park Iva Jovic became the youngest American woman to reach the quarter-finals of the Australian Open since Venus Williams in 1998, by dismantling the Kazakhstani veteran Yulia Putintseva 6-0, 6-1 on Sunday. At 18 years old, Jovic arrived in Melbourne as the youngest player inside the top 100 and the 27th seed has dominated…
Local media gleefully homed in on English pre-series predictions after Australia retained the urn having played just 11 days of cricket Jack Snape The sports sections of Australia’s major mastheads were on Monday largely dedicated to ridiculing pre-series predictions of an England Ashes victory, and announcing the end of the tourists’ now-compromised attacking philosophy. “Bazball…