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Only 34 people alive are in the most exclusive club on the planet. One photographer set out to track them down

The cartoonish villain who turned to cocaine was once an Olympic-calibre wrestler who helped US athletes win gold

In a Vanity Fair interview, the star footballer said he was worried by the rise of the hard right. The result was a wave of race-baiting, and the return of the big Le Pen lie: that unless you’re white, you’re not really French

Prices were so high for tickets that the tournament risked becoming a festival of pure greed. But fans simply weren’t buying it – and so Trump and FIFA have had to think again.

It will be hideously expensive, will exclude whole sections of the US public and be largely inaccessible to foreigners – a perfect Trumpian tournament

At Monaco 1984, the Brazilian announced himself as a legend – but a decade later, he was gone

Reform's Treasury spokesman accepted a day out at the races from the betting-mad newspaper after opposing plans to hike taxes on it

Hugh Bonneville’s World Cup W1A spin-off founders on flabby dialogue and grating new characters

The Ukrainian high jumper, Yaroslava Mahuchikh, has one record left to beat – a Russian one

Flawed, flamboyant and freakishly gifted, Warne turned leg-spin into high art – and made every ball an event

Ski-slope bump or influential person? Two similar-sounding but unrelated words have merged

When I heard that ICE would be attending the 2026 Winter Olympics, I was shocked - but not surprised

Slovenia is obsessed with strapping on skis and flying into the void – and they’re expecting to be in the medals at the Winter Olympics

MAGA opponents Bad Bunny and Green Day will provide the entertainment for the NFL’s big game - and the president is staying away

Seventy years after Cortina first hosted, a very different Games returns to the town that once hosted Hemingway and Bond

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