Sport

France might be rugby league minnows – as their World Cup campaign has demonstrated – but, as MICK O’HARE explains, the sport in the country has had to fight for its very survival You don’t need to know much about rugby to know that the two codes of the game – rugby league and rugby […]

Few footballing powers have fallen as far as the Dutch. NEIL FREDRIK JENSEN asks if there is any way out of the downward spiral For all the pessimism surrounding English football and the gaping void that exists between its current state and its golden era of global domination in 1966, there are some positives. The […]

The world’s most successful show this year – beating the likes of Bruce Springsteen and Justin Bieber – is a Swiss figure skating performance. Could the British warm to it, asks WAYNE SAVAGE? The UK’s mild weather is perhaps to explain for our uneasy relationship with ice. Despite an intense, if short-lived, fascination with Torvill […]

STEVE ANGLESEY explains the surge of protest in America’s biggest professional sports league The sensation of being stranded in darkness while facing insurmountable odds is nothing new for Colin Kaepernick. In February 2013, his San Francisco team were trailing by 22 points in the Super Bowl when the lights went off in the New Orleans […]

Between them, Bjorn Borg and John McEnroe provided one of sport’s greatest ever rivalries. But, as JASON SOLOMONS reports, a new film centred around their most famous clash is really all about unravelling the Swedish enigma Tennis was never the same after the fourth set of the 1980 Wimbledon final. Upstart, foul-mouthed American John McEnroe […]

His stricken condition fuels macabre speculation, but Michael Schumacher's real legacy is the remarkable run of Grand Prix dominance which began in 1992. ROB BURNETT reports