Sport

Digging into the detail and data to separate the noise from the news

Brussels, a city of 1.2 million, now has no open-air swimming facilities - just in time for summer

Big money and big ambitions fuel the racket sport born in a Mexican back garden

Trump plays so often and is so obsessed with the game that his administration is now a golf course company with a government attached

As in the Scottish Premiership, Spain’s Primera División is dominated by the same two clubs every season. And it’s getting boring

Most Mexicans have a positive opinion of the US, even if 80% of them believe Trump’s treatment of Mexico has been disrespectful

Le Balcon de Villard was cheap and very cheerful. Climate change and underinvestment changed that – but now NBA star Tony Parker wants to revive it

A new biopic covers the short life of basketball’s Dražen Petrović, Croatia’s greatest sporting hero

Reliable snowfall is becoming a thing of the past in the Alps, where the effects of climate change are magnified due to the terrain

La Sagrada Familia is not expected to be fully completed until 2034 and football fans are starting to grumble

Little blame can be attached to André Roussimoff for exaggerating the truth of his stories because everything about the wrestler and actor was already exaggerated

I always considered myself outdoorsy until I met the Austrians

The city’s working class banlieues have produced superstars like Kylian Mbappé and Thierry Henry. Could they now take Paris Saint Germain to the next level?

Once a forgotten figure, athlete turned activist Werner Seelenbinder is finally getting the credit he is due

Watching a game with people supporting the same team as you is one of the most deeply social experiences you can have

As the Portuguese superstar’s football career winds down, his Monopoly career is just taking off

A city’s reputation lies in tatters

Memories of Law, Jordan and Souness are being replaced by a new generation of Scottish talent taking Serie A by storm

Trump views Scotland as just one big golfing playground

The Frenchman won seven Grand Slam singles titles in the 1920s before becoming an innovator in the world of sportswear and tennis equipment

The word repechage was heard regularly at this summer’s Olympics, but its modern usage bears little relation to its original meaning

Hosting the Games is expensive and complicated, but if it can keep Scottish sports on the world stage then it’s worth it

Why does the Sri Lankan cricket squad have a player with such an English-sounding surname as Mathews?

Seventy years ago at White City, a thrilling 5,000 metres established the concept of live televised events beamed across the continent

Barça’s new manager, Hansi Flick, must understand one simple fact: he is faced with a virtually impossible task

Siena’s chaotic horse race is over in a minute and a half, but the plotting goes on all year round

The late Sven-Göran Eriksson faced scepticism and downright xenophobia from the British press but always remained a true gentleman of football

The women’s 800m final causes our writer to pose some awkward questions around race

One in four Brits believe they could qualify for the 2028 Games if they started training today. It’s endearingly delusional

Parisians embraced the Games – but it was a different story in one corner of rural France

Boxer Cindy Ngamba, from Cameroon via Bolton, won the Refugee Team’s first medal thanks in part to the value of youth workers

All Olympics opening ceremonies that offer kulturkampf instead of pure spectacle suffer from the same regression to the tacky