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  • Ed Warner: The row over sport banning Russian players will be even bigger in 2023

    Opinion

    Wimbledon will be here before we know it. Expect the debate about banning Russian and Belorussian stars to start soon. The tug of war over the two bellicose nations’ participation at next year’s Paris Olympics and Paralympics has already begun. Schisms within sports and between their leaders and politicians are inevitable. Last year, backed (or [...]

  • Best of 2022: Australia ready for green and gold decade of sport

    take a look

    Australia is on course to be a major sporting player over the next decade. City A.M. took a look at why that is and what’s at stake politically for the country. Article originally published 15 August 2022. The sun-kissed nation of Australia is about to embark on a decade-long installation as the centre for world [...]

  • A year in sport: The big moments from 2022’s sporting calendar

    review of the year

    It’s been a monumental year for sport both on British shores and further afield. Take a look at some of the year’s biggest moments ahead of another year of exhilarating action. January Cricket: Ashes series concludes with 4-0 defeat for England. The result would extend England’s winless run in Australia to 15 matches and mark [...]

  • Best of 2022: Sir Craig Reedie lifts the lid on how London 2012 Olympics was delivered

    December 23, 2022

    In this interview from July 2022, Sir Craig Reedie, one of the architects of the London 2012 Olympics and one of Britain’s most influential sports administrators, looks back on the Games 10 years on. If you lived through the London 2012 Olympics then you will probably remember where you were for its most spectacular or [...]

  • Ed Warner on the sporting year that was

    December 22, 2022

    And so we reach the end of a year of sporting excess, or at least an excess of sport. Sunday’s FIFA World Cup Final was the calorific dessert that may well have caused you to come over all Mr Creosote, exploding under the temptation of just one more dish of must-see sporting competition. While we [...]

  • Beth Mead wins Sports Personality of the Year 2022

    December 21, 2022

    Beth Mead has been named the BBC Sports Personality of the Year at a ceremony at Media City in Salford. The footballing star beat gymnast Jessica Gadirova, curling star Eve Muirhead, snooker’s Ronnie O’Sullivan, cricketer Ben Stokes and athlete Jake Wightman to the annual gong. Stokes came second with Muirhead third. Lioness Mead was part [...]

  • Antyukh the fifth Russian track and field athlete to have 2012 gold stripped

    December 21, 2022

    Russian athlete Natalya Antyukh has been stripped of the gold medal she won at the London 2012 Olympic Games due to historical sampling data which came out of a Moscow testing facility. The 400m hurdler – who is now 41 – is already distanced from track and field due to a four-year ban which she [...]

  • Sir Chris Hoy: Track Champions League can win over new fans in London

    November 15, 2022

    Sir Chris Hoy believes the UCI Track Champions League can create new cycling fans when it returns to London next month. The five-date competition, which got its second season underway in Mallorca last weekend, features some of the world’s best riders including Britain’s Dame Laura Kenny and Katie Archibald. London’s Lee Valley VeloPark is set [...]

  • Ed Warner: Marathon season revives questions about unequal fight against doping

    September 22, 2022

    The track season is behind us and athletic thoughts now turn to autumn marathons. Berlin, renowned world record course, this Sunday. London and then Chicago within a fortnight. New York at the start of November.  That’s four of the six marathon majors in seven weekends, and doubtless plenty of competition among race organisers to secure [...]

  • Staging Hockey World Cup at Tottenham Hotspur will ‘sustain the sport for years’

    September 21, 2022

    England Hockey is pinning its hopes of hosting the men’s World Cup in 2026 on staging matches in bigger venues than the sport usually visits, such as the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.  The 62,000-capacity ground has been earmarked to host finals weekend if the joint bid from England and Wales is selected in early November.  “This [...]

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