Category: Sports

ROLAND GARROS — British tennis authorities will install a new high-tech hybrid clay court this month in an effort to improve its players fortunes on the surface. All six British singles players were knocked out in the first round of the 2024 French Open, the second time in five years the contingent have returned “nul...

Rugby league legend Rob Burrow has died at the age of 41. Burrow was diagnosed with motor neurone disease in 2019, just two years after retiring from a stellar 17-season rugby league career. He won eight Super League titles, two Challenge Cup trophies and three World Club Challenges in an illustrious playing spell with Leeds,...

British boxer Lewis Richardson has secured his spot at this summer’s Paris Games after beating Puerto Rico’s Angel Llanos Perez on points in the quarter-final of an Olympic qualifying event. The light-middleweight, 26, had to reach the semi-finals at the World Qualification Tournament in Bangkok to claim a place at Paris 2024. Richardson was behind...

Great Britain’s Matthew Hudson-Smith beat his own 400m European record with a convincing victory in his season opener at the Diamond League in Oslo. The 29-year-old ran 44.07 at the Bislett Games, beating his 44.26 from last year’s World Athletics Championships in Budapest. “Preparation has been going well,” he told BBC Sport. “I knew anything...

Olympic medallists Elinor Barker and Lizzie Deignan will headline Great Britain’s six-strong team for this year’s Tour of Britain Women. Deignan, 35, and Barker, 29, will be joined by Elynor Backstedt, Anna Henderson, Millie Couzens and Flora Perkins. Wales will host the first two stages of the race, which starts on 6 June, with the...

Great Britain’s Amy Broadhurst made it two wins from two bouts at the Olympic qualifier in Thailand after defeating Terris Smith to make the 60kg division quarter-finals. The Dundalk fighter secured a unanimous 5-0 win over her Canadian opponent on Wednesday. It’s the 27-year-old’s debut tournament for Great Britain following her switch from Ireland. Broadhurst,...

It’s hard to imagine any athlete putting the brakes on their training schedule in an Olympic year. It’s even harder to imagine an Olympic bronze medallist – with their sights set on Olympic gold – hopping straight off a plane from a Diamond League victory in Doha and onto a track filled with 100 primary...

World heptathlon champion Katarina Johnson-Thompson and Olympic 800m silver medallist Keely Hodgkinson have been named in the British team for next month’s European Athletics Championships in Rome. World 400m silver medallist Matthew Hudson-Smith and world 100m bronze medallist Zharnel Hughes are also included in the 72-strong team. Rising star Molly Caudery, crowned world indoor champion...

CNN  —  A British equestrian rider has died after falling from her horse during a competition on Sunday. Georgie Campbell was competing at the Bicton International Horse Trials in Devon, southwest England when she suffered the fatal accident on her horse, Global Quest. Campbell’s profile on the International Federation for Equestrian Sports’ website said that...

The top stories and transfer rumours from Tuesday’s newspapers… THE GUARDIAN Roberto De Zerbi has been sounded out as a potential replacement for Erik ten Hag as Man Utd manager. Xavi has warned his successor as Barcelona manager that he will have to be prepared to “suffer” in the job. Pep Guardiola will spend the...