By: Matt Hardy

Deputy Sports Editor - City AM Matt Hardy is the City AM Deputy Sports Editor with a specialism in the business of sport. He covers the likes of rugby, cricket, sporting investment and venture capital funds; while also being across golf, cricket, and the politics of sport.

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Dame Sarah Storey previews the Tour de France Femmes

July 22, 2022

One of sport’s most recognisable scenes involves a peloton of more than 170 men hurtling down the Champs-Élysées, where the Tour de France yellow jersey wearer is traditionally crowned champion of the gruelling 21-day bike race. But just hours before the latest chapter of men’s cycling history is written, the first of a monumental era [...]
England chief executive floats idea of sending potential coaches to Georgia

July 21, 2022

England Rugby’s chief executive Bill Sweeney has floated the idea of placing coaches at second-tier nations such as Georgia to groom them for the England job. Speaking a week after England wrapped up a 2-1 Test series win against Australia Down Under, Sweeney suggested that a long-term coaching succession plan would not be realised until [...]
Wightman the latest in a long line of British 1,500m successes

July 20, 2022

In the 1950s it was Roger Bannister in the 1,500m; in the 1980s it was Steve Ovett, Sebastian Coe and Steve Cram dominating the global landscape of middle-distance track and field athletics. And this week, in 2022, it’s Jake Wightman, the 28-year-old three-and-three-quarters lap runner who secured gold at the World Athletics Championships in Oregon. [...]
Hassell-Collins looking Down Under to other sports to help development

July 20, 2022

Uncapped England hopeful Ollie Hassell-Collins insists that taking tips from sports outside of rugby union can give him the edge in next year’s Premiership season and, he hopes, propel him into national colours. The 23-year-old London Irish wing has been a staple for his club but has been in and out of various England camps [...]
Premiership Rugby: Fixtures announced with Spurs hosting London derby

July 19, 2022

London clubs Saracens and Harlequins will clash at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium next March, it was revealed this morning as the 2022-23 Premiership Rugby fixtures were confirmed. It looks to be part of a solution that will see key derbies played outside of international windows – a criticism of last year’s schedule. The season will [...]
Stokes’ retirement highlights dilemma for English cricket’s bigwigs

July 19, 2022

“Three formats are just unsustainable for me now.” The words of England Test captain Ben Stokes as he announced that today’s one-day international against South Africa would be his last. If that is what the 31-year-old World Cup winner stresses as he bows out of one of cricket’s three main formats, then domestic administrators must [...]
India deserved series winners as Buttler’s ODI tenure begins in defeat

July 18, 2022

England one-day captain Jos Buttler’s tenure in charge of the current World Cup champions has not started in the way the previous era finished. Then, under Eoin Morgan, it was a 3-0 whitewash of the Netherlands – which included a record 50-over score of 498. Now, though, it’s a 2-1 loss against India on home [...]
Rugby round-up: England win Down Under, history for Ireland and Chile on fire

July 17, 2022

A Emiliano Boffelli crossed the whitewash in Santiago del Estero on Saturday night to earn his Argentina side a Test series victory against a sorry looking Scotland, it marked the end of the European rugby season; one that began in September. But in Ireland’s historic series in New Zealand, England’s continued success on the shores [...]
British Athletics on mission to buck trend of mediocre Championships

July 14, 2022

Just once has the Great Britain and Northern Ireland athletics team left a World Championships with medals tallying into double figures – at Stuttgart in 1993 – and there’s little hope of a repeat at this year’s edition, which gets underway in Eugene, Oregon, tomorrow evening. Of course there is medal hope – notably in [...]
Fan spending FOUR days on bus to watch World Athletics Championships

July 13, 2022

Dedicated fan bases are what sports are built upon; the desire to be there for your team or player and witness any history they make. But would you spend four days on a bus going coast-to-coast for a few days of sporting action? Because that’s just what Jan Figueroa is doing. The 24-year-old Puerto Rico-born [...]

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