Category: Sport

With the aim of hosting a drive that makes a real difference, the new motor racing series Extreme E has progressive ideas at its core. The championship is dedicated to highlighting the climate emergency and in doing so promoting women in racing. Yet there was a curiously deafening silence this weekend over the clear incongruity […]

Last month’s death of “Miracle on Ice” Olympic hockey player Mark Pavelich was ruled a suicide a Minnesota medical examiner said on Monday. The Midwest Medical Examiner’s Office in Anoka county announced the ruling in a news release that Pavelich died of asphyxia. His body was found on 3 March at the Eagle’s Healing Nest […]

Coventry, Luton and Cardiff have said they have fallen foul of an administrative anomaly after confirming they have been handed transfer embargoes by the English Football League. All three clubs said they had been given an extended deadline to submit their financial accounts to Companies House because of the pandemic but that the EFL has […]

Uefa has opened disciplinary proceedings against the Slavia Prague defender Ondrej Kudela for alleged racial abuse and announced he is suspended for the Europa League quarter-final first leg at Arsenal on Thursday, hours after the Czech club said he would miss the game anyway because of injury and illness. Kudela was involved in an incident […]

Beth Potter is facing fresh disappointment as her world record-beating 5km road time is highly unlikely to be ratified as a UK record, the Guardian understands, as the timekeeper did not have a national level qualification and there was no referee on site. The triathlon specialist surprised everybody – including herself – by running 14:41 […]

Thomas Tuchel has praised Antonio Rüdiger and Kepa Arrizabalaga for making peace after confirming they were involved in a “serious” training-ground incident as Chelsea tried to recover from losing against West Brom before their Champions League quarter-final against Porto on Wednesday night. Tuchel, who called Chelsea’s 5-2 defeat by West Brom “a big slap in […]

And now for his next trick. Any notion of Bryson DeChambeau toning down his approach to Augusta National will be dismissed within one Masters shot. DeChambeau used pre-tournament media duties to deliver his unique plans for the 1st: the US Open champion intends to blast his drive over the trees protecting the right side, thereby […]