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Pollard’s late kick helps Leicester peg back Harlequins in Big Game thriller
There may be a grassroots rebellion soon descending on Twickenham, torches and pitchforks in tow, but here was some festive fun before the bonfire begins. It ended honours even – remarkably the third time this Big Game fixture has been tied when Leicester have been the visitors – thanks to …
Jessie Diggins opens Tour de Ski with first sprint win in three years
Jessie Diggins launched her bid for a third Tour de Ski title with a dramatic victory on Saturday in the opening 1.4km freestyle sprint in Toblach, Italy.
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Which sport won 2024? Australia audiences feast on free-to-air despite streaming boom | Jack Snape
The Matildas may have offered the nation a historic ratings bonanza last year, but in 2024 the list of Australia’s most-watched sporting broadcasts returned to orthodoxy despite a shift from the old idiot box towards smart TVs and gadgets.
Free-to-air live sports dominate the list of most watched programmes. So …
Kabaddi fever hits Melbourne as part of two nations’ sporting symbiosis
The blue swarm knew not of contested possessions as it closed in on the former AFL midfielder Josh Kennedy. His crew of recently retired colleagues, dubbed the Aussie Raiders, were struggling to stay in touch with the Pro Kabaddi All Stars. So when the opposing mass grabbed, gripped and grappled …
Galopin Des Champs ready for Cheltenham Gold Cup after dominant display
Galopin Des Champs, the Cheltenham Gold Cup winner in 2022 and 2023, is a clear favourite to become the first since Best Mate in 2004 to complete a hat-trick in steeplechasing’s championship event after a deeply impressive return to winning form in the Savills Chase at Leopardstown.
Willie Mullins’s eight …
Will Muir grabs hat-trick as Bath pour on style in demolition of sloppy Saracens
It looks increasingly likely that when the fog of winter lifts, Bath will emerge top of the pile, perfectly placed to launch an assault on the Premiership playoffs. Saracens travelled west aiming to make it four wins from four in December, but were dismissed with contemptuous ease by Johann van …
Puerto Rican boxer Paul Bamba dies aged 35, six days after last fight
Puerto Rican boxer Paul Bamba has died at the age of 35, his manager, the R&B singer Shaffer ‘Ne-Yo’ Smith, announced Friday. The news comes less than a week after Bamba claimed the WBA’s secondary ‘gold’ cruiserweight title with a sixth-round knockout of Rogelio Medina in New Jersey.
Bamba’s death …
Nitish Kumar Reddy blossoms to give India hope as century stalls Australia
As India’s tour of Australia has worn on, the coverage has become preoccupied with fading veterans - Steve Smith, Usman Khawaja, Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli – and speculation about whether somebody’s decent score is a last hurrah, or if a lack of one is a terminal sign. A preoccupation with …
‘Running a bad airline is expensive’: is British Airways finally getting better?
It’s been a long and turbulent time since anyone used British Airways’ old slogan “the world’s favourite airline” with a straight face. After a decade during which the UK flag carrier was tarnished by cost-cutting, IT fiascos, mass redundancies and strikes, BA was then pushed to the brink by Covid.
…After the show: what happened next to Olympic gender row boxers?
It was the full hero’s welcome for Imane Khelif on her return home from Paris to Algiers. An open-topped bus parade on a humid evening that had followed a meeting with president Abdelmadjid Tebboune in the El Mouradia Palace where she was granted the honorary title of major in the …