Author: Beau Dure
Audrey Crowley, Alpine skiing (standing)The first-time Paralympian only turned 19 at the start of March, but she has been in the news for her skiing prowess since she was a second-grader. She’s also going to Italy on a roll, having reached the podium in two World Cup downhill races in early February. In the 2024-25 season, she had two World Cup podium finishes in giant slalom, and she took bronze in giant slalom and fifth in slalom at the world championships, where the other three events were canceled. Though she was born without her lower right arm, she was still…
Emma Raducanu says she is determined to wrest back control of her style of play, with the British No 1 eager not to be bound by the diktats of a single coach.“I want to come back to my natural way of playing,” she told BBC Sport. “That takes time to relearn because that’s something that has been coached out of me a little bit.“I have had a lot of people telling me what to do, how to play, and it hasn’t necessarily fit. I don’t necessarily want to have one coach in the role because anyone I bring in is…
A terrible boredom stalks the land. Across the nation’s television studios and podcast armchairs, wearied men grizzle accursedly with forked tongues into branded microphones: entombed by a game they despise and yet are paid so generously to discuss. Out there in the wild digital beyond, the sickness festers still deeper. The game has gone, they type into a little white box. This is not the football I once loved, click send. The beautiful game is broken, pleads the Telegraph. They think it’s all over, and perhaps it always was.Arne Slot is no longer enjoying himself, and presumably a good proportion…
Jonathan Varane’s 2026 didn’t get off to the best start. Four days into the new year, the QPR midfielder sprained a knee during a 3-0 win over Sheffield Wednesday and was a frustrated spectator for more than a month.Varane had been desperate to play his part, with QPR hoping to push for the playoffs, but the 24-year-old took the opportunity to indulge in two of his other passions: reading and history. That included a trip with his teammate Paul Nardi to the British Museum, where the ancient Egyptian artefacts proved of particular fascination.“It’s interesting to know a little bit about…
Closer than ever to a driver title, or never again as close? Oscar Piastri will soon find out his foreseeable future in Formula One. But he says there’s one thing he won’t do: rebel against McLaren team orders.The glitzy, globetrotting series is back and Melbourne offers a tantalising round of racing to start the season. Extensive changes to regulations have left each team grappling with new electric-boosted power units, and smaller, nimbler vehicles.For Piastri, the changes come at an unfortunate time, given the dominance of the McLaren in recent years. He said on Thursday his team are no longer favourites,…
As Iran’s national anthem began to trumpet around Gold Coast Stadium on Monday night, members of an Iranian fan group who had gathered near the halfway line began to unfurl red, white and green flags.They weren’t the flags of their home nation, though. At least, not the nation they want to remember.“The flag is the Lion and Sun flag: our last known flag before the Islamic regime took over in 1979 and invented the new flag,” says Ara Rasuli, who was in the crowd.“It is our national flag. The current regime does not represent us, and therefore their flag does…
Aston Martin have admitted that Fernando Alonso and Lance Stroll will not be able to complete even half the race at the season-opening Australian Grand Prix this weekend for fear of suffering permanent nerve damage because of a vibration problem with their car.The team principal, Adrian Newey, who designed the team’s new car, said the drivers were suffering such severe vibration through the steering wheel that they would be able to complete 25 and 15 of the 58 laps respectively.“That vibration into the chassis is causing a few reliability problems, mirrors falling off, tail lights falling off, all that sort…
Eddie Howe accepts his Newcastle side are at their best when they create chaos and no one in black and white is better at conjuring it than Will Osula.The Denmark Under-21 striker is, to say the least, unpredictable. No one, least of all Osula himself, ever seems quite sure what he will do at any given moment. Here though he stepped off the substitutes’ bench to score a fabulous, virtuoso 90th-minute winner for a home team reduced to 10 men by Jacob Ramsey’s 45th-minute sending off for a perceived dive.Although Bruno Fernandes enjoyed a fine game in midfield even he…
West Ham looked damaged beyond repair when they fell seven points below Nottingham Forest in early January. Two months on, they could be forgiven for wondering why anyone was worried. It has been a remarkable turnaround from Nuno Espírito Santo’s side and, while there is still a long way to go, they will know that survival is within reach after closing on Nottingham Forest and Tottenham thanks to a resilient victory over Fulham.The only disappointment for Nuno was that a first win in four games was not enough to lift West Ham out of the bottom three. Yet while they…
“Vamos, vamos!” screamed Rodri in his native Spanish following a 62nd-minute header that seemed to grab a precious victory for Manchester City. But the title chasers’ 2-1 lead lasted only 14 minutes as Phil Foden allowed Elliot Anderson to run off him and the Nottingham Forest midfielder, from range, curled a sublime equaliser beyond Gianluigi Donnarumma that silenced City’s faithful.Before Anderson’s leveller Erling Haaland was denied a penalty by the referee, Darren England, and the video assistant referee, for a coming together with Matz Sels, the visiting No 1. Bernardo Silva did not agree. “I just watched it,” City’s captain…