Stuart Walker 
Max Verstappen has clinched his third world championship. The most one-sided Formula One campaign of recent memory was dominated by the Dutch driver. We look back at six Max Verstappen races which fired him on the road to glory.
As predicted before the start of the 2023-24 season, Premier League referees are clamping down on player ill-discipline. Seventeen players have been sent off in the first seven rounds of matches, compared with 30 across the whole of the previous campaign.
Manchester United have endured their worst start to a season since 1986, following Tuesday night’s Champions League defeat at home to Galatasaray. United have lost six of their opening 10 games in all competitions, a tally not seen since the latter stages of Ron Atkinson’s managerial reign.
Europe take on the United States in the Ryder Cup in Rome from September 29-October 1. Captained by Luke Donald, Europe will attempt to regain the trophy at Marco Simone Golf and Country Club. Here, we take a closer look at some Ryder Cup stats.
Sir Mo Farah has retired after a glittering career which included four Olympic titles. Farah, 40, signed off with one last race in the Great North Run at the weekend when he finished fourth. Here we look back at the best Mo Farah wins.
The US Open, the final grand slam of the year, begins in New York on Monday. Carlos Alcaraz and Iga Swiatek, the current world number ones, will bid to defend the titles they won last year but a host of rivals will be out to dethrone them. Here, we pick 10 players to watch at Flushing Meadows.
The ninth edition of the Women’s World Cup finished on Sunday as Spain were crowned champions. They earned a maiden World Cup win after beating England 1-0 in Sydney thanks to Olga Carmona’s first-half goal. Here we take a look at what we learned from this tournament and what it told us about the development of women’s football.
New guidelines on added time aimed at clamping down on time-wasting are splitting opinion among football players and fans. Premier League referees have been instructed to more accurately calculate time lost to stoppages this season – including goal celebrations, substitutions and VAR checks – in line with the approach first adopted at the men’s World Cup in Qatar last year.
Declan Rice has become the most expensive British player in Premier League history. Arsenal have smashed their club record to sign the England midfielder from West Ham, parting with an initial £100million plus a potential £5m to follow in add-ons. Here, we compare the transfer with previous big-money signings.
Wimbledon 2023 has served up the men’s singles final most tennis fans wanted as the best two players in the world meet on Centre Court. Top spot in the rankings is up for grabs as well as a grand slam title and while this is the final that was widely predicted, picking a winner is not as easy despite Novak Djokovic the clear favourite.
Ons Jabeur hopes she has served her apprenticeship as she bids to take the final step and win a maiden grand slam title on Saturday. No other woman can match the Tunisian’s achievement in reaching three grand slam finals in the last five tournaments after finishing as runner-up at Wimbledon last year and at the US Open.
Usain Bolt’s 100m world record of 9.58 seconds was set at the 2009 World Championships and continues to be the time to beat to this day. The Jamaican sprint king retired in 2017 and with no athlete looking like they will eclipse his fastest 100m time anytime soon, we look back at his heroics in Berlin.
There have been relatively few upsets at Wimbledon 2023 with five of the top seeds in the women’s singles making it through to the quarter-finals. Surprise results are never too far away in this sport, though, as we look back at some of the biggest upsets in women’s tennis.
The countdown is on until Paris 2024 and to get us in the mood we have chosen our greatest Olympians of all time. Some create singular seminal moments that ring down decades. Others leave their respective Games laden with armfuls of medals. Fashioning such considerations into a coherent countdown of the greatest Olympians is an almost impossibly subjective task but here is our top 10.