Alice Tai: ‘I used to cry before swimming. Now it’s my job’ August 22, 2024 Alice Tai is a Paralympic champion who has demonstrated that she is equally adept in front of the camera and in the pool. It has been some journey for an athlete who ran away from her first competition because of the crowd. The 25-year-old from Poole will head to Paris this summer looking to add [...]
Liverpool and Arsenal dominate football ticket scam league August 22, 2024 Liverpool have been named top of the Premier League for football ticket scams, with fans of the club suffering the most fraud. Reds supporters fell victim to the highest number of ticket scams and also lost the most amount of money to them, according to NatWest. Liverpool fans were conned 76 times and lost close [...]
Ed Warner: The Paralympics is heading for a transgender row in Paris August 22, 2024 A row over the eligibility of Italian transgender athlete Valentina Petrillo looms over the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games, showing why para sports must be independent from organisers the IPC. It is increasingly difficult to find footage online of Raygun at Paris 2024. For a brief moment it seemed the Aussie breakdancer who launched a thousand [...]
Why Tottenham Hotspur have been named the best-run football club in England August 22, 2024 Spurs saw off Manchester United, Cambridge United, Brentford and Norwich City to top the Index.
Matchroom gets the Drive to Survive treatment in Netflix series August 21, 2024 Barry Hearn, Eddie Hearn and the Matchroom sports promotions empire are to feature in a new Netflix documentary series from the makers of Drive To Survive. The fly-on-the-wall show has a working title of Matchroom: The Greatest Showmen and is being produced by Box to Box, whose success has made them the go-to sports docs [...]
Hotel snag hits potential rescue deal for beleaguered Reading FC August 21, 2024 The long-running takeover saga at Reading has been further delayed by a dispute over the status of an IGH hotel at the Select Car Leasing Stadium. Former Wycombe owner Rob Couhig has agreed a £25m deal to buy the League One club that also includes the stadium and the training ground, thus ending the disastrous [...]
Investment case for British Olympic and Paralympic sport is stronger than ever August 21, 2024 UK Sport CEO Sally Munday explains why funding has never been more important for continuing the success of British athletes at the Olympic and Paralympic Games. As the dust settles on the Olympic Games, I reflect proudly on what our British athletes achieved and how their performances touched the nation. And while there is sadness [...]
Cristiano Ronaldo launches own YouTube channel with two-letter name August 21, 2024 Cristiano Ronaldo has today launched his own YouTube channel called UR, promising that it will allow him to “engage further with his global fanbase”. The football superstar is already the most-followed person on social media platforms, a position that has helped to make him the world’s best paid athlete. On his YouTube channel, Ronaldo says [...]
Aston Villa decide against joining Man City in legal challenge to Premier League rules August 21, 2024 Aston Villa are unlikely to follow through with threats from owner Wes Edens to follow Manchester City and mount a legal challenge to the Premier League’s Profitability and Sustainability Rules. The club’s proposal to increase the three-year rolling loss limit from £105m to £135m was defeated at the Premier League’s annual general meeting in June. [...]
In pictures: New stadium set to be world’s biggest and host 2030 World Cup August 21, 2024 The stadium near Casablanca sits under a translucent tented roof made of aluminium lattice and is set to hold a record 115,000 spectators.