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Olympics women's boxing: Italian abandons fight with Imane Khelif, who failed gender test

A United Nations expert unequivocally condemned the Olympic rules that enabled the bout to take place. Reem Alsalem, the UN’s special rapporteur on violence against women and girls, said: “Angela Carini rightly followed her instincts and prioritised her physical safety, but she and other female athletes should not have been exposed to this physical and psychological violence based on their sex.”Emanuele Renzini, Carini’s coach, was adamant that the decision to quit the bout was not premeditated....

Luke Cowan-Dickie on how he’s got back to his best

Luke Cowan-Dickie has 41 England caps, and three Lions test caps, yet owing to a torrid two years of neck, shoulder, and arm injuries, has been unable to add to his tally since November 2022. However, having finally restored a clean bill of fitness, the Sale Sharks hooker finds himself in the England squad once more and, more importantly, enjoying his rugby. 


By his own admission, he wasn’t at his best last season, but it seems the severity of the nerve injury that limited arm mobility throug...

When is Simone Biles next competing and what is the ‘Biles II’?

Simone Biles won her third gold medal of the Paris Games, her seventh Olympic title and 10th medal overall on Saturday night when she won the vault gold to add to the individual all-around gold she won on Thursday night and the team title she had won on Tuesday, reaffirming her status as one of the world’s greatest athletes of all time.The 27-year-old is one of a select few in sport to truly transcend their discipline, with her youthful dominance, longevity, honesty and glamour typifying the mod...

French fightback leaves Wales winless heading into final round

A bullish France side put on a second half clinic to heap the pressure on a dispirited Welsh side.

Pressure also builds on Warren Gatland, whose prioritisation of inexperience was punished in a trial by French territory and possession.

Bright starts to both halves by Wales were flattened by a chronic inability to get out of their own 22, let alone their own half.

Whilst defiant defence continued to repel close-range French attack, only so much heart could keep out a physically superior French

Australia announce touring squads for t20 and ODI series

Cricket Australia have released the two squads as they prepare for three-match t20 series vs Scotland and England, followed by a five-match series against the latter in September.


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Mitchell Marsh continues his captaincy of the t20 squad despite Australia’s super eight exit last month, as Australia select a green squad to travel to Scotland for their first match of three on the 4th of September.


Of the 15 players picked for the World Cup in India, nine retai...

Nathan Catt Interview: The objective is to make world-class scrummagers for the Red Roses

Nathan Catt Interview: 'The objective is to make world-class scrummagers for the Red Roses'

The Guinness Women’s Six Nations has had a feeling of familiarity about it in recent years: England play, England win.

One of the best rugby sides to ever do it, the Red Roses haven’t lost in the competition since their last-minute heartbreaker vs France on March 10th, 2018.

This year, however, change is aplenty as England head into the tournament under the stewardship of new head coach John Mitchell,

Dowson impressed by 'freak athlete' Hendy

Northampton Saints head coach heaped praise on George Hendy after his two second half tries sealed a 24-14 win over Munster in the Investec Champions Cup last 16.

Hendy, a substitute for the outstanding centre Burger Odendaal, scored with his first touch of the ball following a classic Saints attack from just outside the 22, but his real moment of magic came 12 minutes later when he recovered a bouncing ball from behind him, accelerated past Jack Crowley and sprinted clear of Simon Zebo to put

David Campese: We've had boards who have not been accountable - We havent got a culture of rugby

David Campese: 'We've had boards who have not been accountable - We haven't got a culture of rugby'

David Campese, a World Cup winner in 1991 with 101 caps and 64 tries, was a man renowned for his flair for the dramatic and believes the sport now needs reinvigoration.

Beginning by speaking about Australia off the back of their disastrous 2023 Rugby World Cup campaign in which they failed to progress to the knockouts for the first-ever time, Campese thinks Australian rugby has become stale beca

Wasps' recruitment freeze lifted as Blackett hints at recent breakthrough

Wasps' financial situation did lead to a freeze in recruitment this summer that head coach Lee Blackett confirmed has now been eased.

The Gallagher Premiership club was reportedly unable to go into the market and help make additions to their squad for the 2022/23 season, having lost 11 players recently, including the likes of Jimmy Gopperth, Malakai Fekitoa and Thomas Young.

This was due to the ongoing issue of refinancing the £35m bond that was due to be repaid to bondholders in May.

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From heartbreak to hammerings - Leicester Tigers' rotten run at The Rec

Leicester Tigers go in search of a first Premiership win at The Rec in more than a decade this afternoon.

Not since March 2011 have they defeated Bath on their own patch in a league encounter, suffering nine-straight defeats ranging from agonising one-pointers to a couple of thrashings.

Here, Tom Jeffreys looks back on a miserable run Tigers fans will be hoping comes to an end when Steve Borthwick returns to his former club in round 17 of the Gallagher Premiership...

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