Sport

Baseball, basketball and NFL games bring millions to the capital - but Zia Yusuf wants them scrapped in favour of "our own culture"

Locals are blaming Kai Wegner for poor service after he crossed the line by taking on his girlfriend while 45,000 homes were without power

Rugby internationals in England sell tens of thousands of tickets, but almost no one follows the game at club level. What’s going on?

Newly super-rich Paris FC face Paris St Germain in France’s top flight for the first time in nearly 50 years. But can the city support two teams?

Very few athletes have had to endure what the Hungarian went through in order to compete for her country

He never lifted the World Cup, but his intelligence and fight for democracy made him one of the nation’s most beloved footballing icons

The San Ciro in Milan is legendary. But it was too shabby to host the Champions League final - which can only mean one thing

The reduction of female empowerment to a pink coloured, ditsy sports channel was not only a stunningly poor idea, but also grossly insulting

You could win the chance to have lunch with Reform’s leader - as long as you’ve got £350 to spare first

A pacy and ferocious player, disappointments weren’t uncommon throughout the Frenchman's life. Nor was depression

The former footballer who removed a union flag is now a target of the hypocritical right

Hunting season has begun in France but the participants’ lack of etiquette and disregard for the rules is frustrating locals

The sport’s familiar – but often baffling – terminology has its origins in Anglo-Norman instructions, Old French numbers and Arabic palms

Today’s worldwide boom follows decades of resistance – but the battle for equal status is far from won

More fans are taking it in the stands. The bans have begun, but it won’t change the British need to do everything to excess

According to Fifa, £7.22bn in men’s football alone has been spent in transfer fees, a jump of more than 50% compared with the same period in 2024

Americans may have Apple, Amazon and the lead in the AI race, but Donald Trump is killing their soft power

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The ‘Kingdom’ emerged victorious in the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship yet again – a far cry from when the county used to be the butt of Ireland’s jokes

There is a difference between riding your luck and being lucky, just ask Leah Williamson and the Lionesses

In an exclusive interview, Gary Lineker talks to Matt Kelly about the war in Gaza, his exit from the BBC, and life as a podcasting media mogul

This summer has shown us two visions of the country. Only one deserves to win

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