Sport

2023 has been a tumultuous year around the world, filled with conflict, controversy and historic firsts, alongside hopes and fears for the future

The former Arsenal midfielder made Serie A a refuge from the blood and thunder of English football.. even if he did snub Pavarotti.

Taking faster routes can be a sensible thing to do but only when it doesn’t destroy the activity itself

The rising tensions were far from an ideal atmosphere for an international sporting competition

The Premier League’s crisis club is facing more turmoil and a potential points deduction

Golf gave Romans something to cheer for. But, the culture around the sport still perplexes Italians

Turkey’s women’s volleyball team is not just a group of athletes – they embody so much more

Women’s football in the 1970s was a battle with mud, money and misogyny, says the pioneering photographer who was there from the start

Thanks to his Invictus Games, traumatised German soldiers have been brought, rightly, into the limelight

The story of “Wembley of Turkey” goes far back into the Byzantine era

France is on a mission to ensure its capital is ready to host the 2024 Olympics – which means a clampdown on alcohol and its associated issues

It’s hard to accept that women today have fewer rights than when Billie Jean King took on Bobby Riggs 50 years ago

Spain’s women have progressed – it’s the nation’s men who, sometimes, lag behind

A new photography book revels in the past of F1’s most famous team. But what would their founder make of their uncertain future?

Trans women have been banned from world chess events while a review is underway. Recognising that chess is a game not a sport could bring clarity to the situation

Links with British industry and French universities – through ‘rugger diplomacy’ – helped to turn Romania into a surprising hotbed of the sport

Oil is fine. Sport tells us so: whispering to us in our dreams, dropping subtle hints every time we turn on the sports channels

During the World Cup, the Lionesses brought the difference between patriotism and nationalism into sharp focus

As the World Cup looms, rugby union is in flux. What remains constant is the beauty of many of its European homes

Whether he is the “Goat” or not, he has a unique brand of authenticity, happy to deviate from the expected behaviour of a global tennis star

Germany needs to make its pools safer. In the meantime, where’s David Hasselhoff when you need him?

An all-female team’s battle to win the Le Mans 24-hour race and shake up a stale, male world

Understandably, many Jews have reservations abut Poland. Today, baseball is helping change that, one game at a time

The British Embassy Cricket Club has a star-studded past which, despite its name, has nothing to do with the British embassy

The Austrian’s life was defined by a single event lasting 55 seconds

Fireworks go on through the night ad Naples celebrates

The Targa Florio road race pitted drivers against every imaginable danger.. including stray dogs

Can the football-mad Italian city achieve the ultimate goal?

The Dutch cyclist should have fallen to his death after tumbling into a 1,000-foot ravine during the 1951 Tour de France, but emerged in miraculously good shape

She was on her way to becoming a tennis all-time great. Then, 30 years ago, an attacker changed history

Burnley’s triumphant return to the Premier League has been masterminded by the son of a refugee who became Belgium’s first elected black mayor

The current sensation of bouts between reality TV stars, rappers and TikTok celebrities could kill off real boxing forever