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The alternative 2024 sports awards: quotes, gaffes and animal cameos
Player of the year
Keeper
Lewis Patching
–saying sorry in March
after signing on loan for Rushden & Diamonds, conceding four,headbutting a fan
in the bar and being sacked on the same day. “I was disappointed how the game panned out … I’d like to …Janey Godley remembered by Nicola Sturgeon
Very early in the pandemic, somebody in my office said, “Have you seen these voiceover videos of your Covid briefings that Janey Godley is doing? They’re really, really funny.’” So I watched a couple of them and they really, really were.
Obviously, Covid was such a hard and dark time …
Sammi Kinghorn: ‘I told my dad I was OK with never winning gold’
“My ambition now is the same as it’s always been: get faster,” says Sammi Kinghorn. “I still feel I can. I know there’s little changes in technology I can use, other things I need maybe to look at. The day when you don’t think you can get any faster is …
Tom Jenkins’ best sport photographs of 2024
It’s been quite a year, and one totally dominated by the “big three”: the men’s Euros in Germany and the Olympics and Paralympics in Paris. This a personal selection of my favourite pictures, a few of which haven’t been published before. Some have been chosen for their news value; others …
Australia gamble pays off with late flurry of India wickets in all-time classic Test
In the end, the dice landed the right way up for the shooter. Had India managed to bat for another hour, another 14 overs, Australia’s tactics would have been sliced up: too conservative in batting into the final day. But Australia’s gamble was about laying off risk on the other …
Bird strike unlikely sole cause of fatal South Korean plane crash, experts say
fatal airline disaster in South Korea
, the answer as to what went wrong with Jeju Air 2216 remains elusive.Even as experts remain puzzled by what caused the crash that killed 179 people, experts say that a bird striking the engine is unlikely …
Monday briefing: Law, order and what the future might hold for Palestine
South Korea orders emergency safety inspection of airline operations after Jeju Air crash
South Korea’s acting president has ordered an emergency safety inspection of the country’s entire airline operations, while authorities plan a separate check of all Boeing 737-800s, after 179 people died in a Jeju Air crash involving the aircraft on Sunday.
As shocked citizens began a second day of official mourning …
Starwatch: Track down Taurus to and the year feeling bullish
Finish the year by tracking down one of the oldest known constellations: Taurus, the bull. The chart shows the view looking south from London at 22.00 GMT on 30 December. The view will remain essentially the same all week.
According to Babylonian star charts from about 1000BC, the grouping of …
Text messages, a mayday and then tragedy: the day flight 7C2216 was lost
“A bird is stuck in the wing. We can’t land,” one passenger on board the ill-fated Jeju Air flight 7C2216 sent out in a panicked text just before 9am on Sunday morning. “Should I write my final words?”
Minutes later, the Boeing 737-800 carrying 181 people veered off the runway …