Sport

If you thought elite athletics was a young person’s game, then meet the athletes who’ve made the grade at this weekend’s British Masters indoor games in London. Some are in their eighties and nineties – shattering myths and smashing the age barrier.

Sir Roger Bannister – the first athlete to run a mile in under four minutes – has died at the age of 88. His family said he died peacefully surrounded by his loved ones – adding “he banked his treasure in the hearts of his friends.”

The winter Olympics closing ceremony has taken place in South Korea with a digital lightshow, fireworks and input from the country’s K-pop stars. Britain came home happy after a best-ever haul of five medals, but it was the outbreak of sporting diplomacy between North and South Korea that dominated these games.

Forty-two years ago, when the British skater John Curry won his Olympic gold at Innsbruck, he faced a barrage of questions about his “very personal lifestyle”. He had just been outed by a German newspaper, one of the first leading sports people to become openly gay. Curry’s life ended tragically early when he died of…

The 20-strong winter Paralympics GB team gathered in Manchester today as they count down to their chance to shine at PyeongChang 2018. For the first time the team will compete in five sports. Jordan Jarret-Bryan went along to meet some of the medal hopefuls.

Yorkshire has been welcomed into a world league for repressed minorities, independent nations and stateless people. A league that includes the Rohingya, Tibet and Darfur.

If you think of pre-match boxing hype, you think of bragging and bad mouthing opponents. And if you think of champs of old, they will have had mean-sounding nicknames – like Hit Man Hearns and Iron Mike Tyson. But while Watford world champ Anthony Joshua might be built like them and punch like them he…

Troy Townsend, from Kick It Out, which campaigns against racism and discrimination in football, discusses Cyrille Regis.  

Tributes have been paid to the former England footballer Cyrille Regis,  who’s died aged 59 after a cardiac arrest. Regis, who won five caps for England, was a pioneer for black players in the late 1970s. The Professional Footballers’ Association called him a “true gentleman and a legend”, who would be deeply missed.

Will football coaching at the top of the English professional game become the next focus of a Me Too campaign surrounding racism allegations? Later this month former England star Peter Beardsley will hear if he has has lost his job as a Newcastle coach. He strongly denies charges of racism and bullying made against him.…

Four amateur British rowers have smashed an endurance race record by rowing across the Atlantic in just over 29 days – five days quicker than the previous record. The London-based team was among 25 teams racing the three thousand miles from the Canary Islands to Antigua in the Caribbean. The four friends were expecting to…

Russia has been banned from competing at next year’s Winter Olympics in South Korea. But its athletes who can prove they are clean will be allowed to take part in the Games as neutrals. The International Olympic Committee decision, made in the last hour, followed claims that Russian officials ran a covert doping operation for…

Jim Walden, Grigory Rodchenkov’s lawyer, responds to accusations from the Russian state that the doping scandal was in fact all Dr Rodchenkov’s doing.

Britain might have built a worldwide reputation for its athletics success – but the coaches behind the athletes are far less well known. A film and photography exhibition is honouring some of the black and Asian coaches who’ve helped to train the country’s most successful sports stars. But as our sports reporter Jordan Jarrett-Bryan reports,…

President Trump has come under more fire at home after he repeated criticism of sports stars who kneeled in protest during the US national anthem. But today more than 20 players from two NFL clubs defied their President by kneeling at a match held at Wembley Stadium.