The finish of the 2021/22 Italian Women’s Volleyball Championship regular season (4 rounds to go, but some teams have to play a game or 2 more) promises to be utterly interesting in terms of fighting for the top seed. Prosecco Doc Imoco Volley Conegliano returned to their home ground afterRead More →
Jumbo-Visma lit up Paris-Nice from the very first stage, with Christophe Laporte, Wout van Aert and Primož Roglič attacking on the final climb and team time trialling to the finish, where they celebrated a famous 1-2-3. New signing Laporte, who blew the bunch to pieces on the short late climb, was ushered through to claim theRead More →
Barcelona fought back to earn a 2-1 win at Elche on Sunday as a late penalty from Memphis Depay ensured they continued their revival after a difficult start to the season. Having fallen as low as ninth back in November, when former coach Ronald Koeman was sacked, Xavi Hernandez’s revitalisedRead More →
R Ashwin is an “all-time great”. Ravindra Jadeja is one of the “top allrounders”. This is what captain Rohit Sharma had to say about India’s two most consistent match-winners at home, after they took 15 wickets between them in the innings-and-222-run victory over Sri Lanka in the first Test in Mohali. In the second innings, inRead More →
Mike Krack was sitting at home feeling under the weather when the discussions began that would ultimately lead to him becoming Aston Martin’s Team Principal, as of March 1 2022. “I was at Petit Le Mans – and I probably caught Covid at Petit Le Mans,” says Krack, speaking onRead More →
Could three seconds a day of resistance exercise really increase muscular strength? That question was at the heart of a small-scale new study of almost comically brief weight training. In the study, men and women who contracted their arm muscles as hard as possible for a total of three seconds a dayRead More →
Viktor Hovland stormed into a two-shot halfway lead at the Arnold Palmer Invitational, as Rory McIlroy was left to rue a costly finish to his second round. Hovland, chasing a fourth victory in his last eight worldwide starts, mixed seven birdies with a lone bogey to card a round-of-the-day 66Read More →
Former Top 20 player Varvara Lepchenko was given a four-year doping suspension on Friday by the International Tennis Federation after she tested positive for a banned stimulant during a tournament last year. Her lawyer, Howard Jacobs, wrote in an email to The Associated Press that Lepchenko intends to appeal the decision toRead More →
Ace shuttler Kidambi Srikanth admits it was frustrating to miss out on the India Open after contracting COVID-19 but says he’s fortunate to recover quickly from the infection and his main priority this year is to defend the Commonwealth Games gold. After struggling for the last few years, Srikanth finallyRead More →
The fourth round of FIDE Grand Prix Belgrade saw seven draws and only one win, nearly everything remained at a status quo. This means that GMs Sam Shankland and Dmitry Andreikin remain in the lead in Group A. In Group B, GM Anish Giri retains his full point lead. In Group C, GMs Vidit Gujrathi and Richard Rapport share the lead, whileRead More →
At the ISSF World Cup Rifle/Pistol, which continues in Cairo, Egypt, athletes competed for medals in two more events. All awards were won by athletes from Europe. Patrik JANY from Slovakia won his second individual medal at the current competitions. The athlete won the 50m Rifle 3 Positions Men. TheRead More →
A host of junior and senior international swimmers – including members of Team GB’s Olympic squad – are to don their club colours as the National Arena Swimming League finals return. Twenty clubs will be in action at the Cardiff International Pool for the B Final and Cup Final onRead More →