England will be hoping 2024 is finally the year men’s football comes home as they go for European Championship glory. Boss Gareth Southgate probably has one final shot at becoming the first manager since Sir Alf Ramsay to win a major trophy after several near misses over the last few years.
The Paris Olympics and Euro 2024 will underpin next year’s sporting calendar. Here we pick out 10 sporting stars in 2024 who could shine.
Erling Haaland, Max Verstappen and Novak Djokovic were among the stars to produce historic statistics in a memorable year of sport. Here we look back at 2023 in numbers.
Five sports – cricket, squash, baseball/softball, lacrosse and flag football – will either be making their Olympic debut or returning to the programme at the Los Angeles 2028 Games. The proposal was approved at the International Olympic Committee Session on Monday, with only two delegates voting against the new events.
Stars from both ends of the experience spectrum are among those boasting gold medal hopes for Great Britain at next year’s Paris Olympics. With one year to go before the Games, we’re picking out five of the potentially biggest Team GB Olympics headline-grabbers to look out for.
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.
ROC began the men’s Winter Olympics hockey tournament as the team to beat but second favourites Finland have impressed us more in Beijing. After picking up two silvers and four bronze medals at the last nine Games, it could just be time for them to claim that elusive first gold.
The big two have made it safely through to the Winter Olympics women’s hockey final and Canada are fancied to be too strong for the USA in Beijing. America shaded a shootout triumph when they met in the decider four years ago, but Canada look a cut above this time.
Canada enjoyed a smooth 5-0 success over China in the final round of Group A fixtures and should also cruise through a quick rematch in the playoffs. The hosts had to assemble a side from scratch for this event and fell to three straight defeats during the pool stage.
Canada and the USA both got off to flying starts at the Winter Olympics and now meet up in what should prove a Group A decider. A young American side looked exciting when routing China but will face formidable opposition in Team Canada, who cruised past Germany.
The absence of NHL stars has obviously affected everybody’s Winter Olympics 2022 Ice Hockey predictions and is also reflected in our power rankings. There will still be a host of proven performers and hot prospects on show, though, so we’re still expecting plenty of thrills.
Calamity struck curling’s traditional super-power Canada in Pyeongchang but the Canucks are expected to bounce back in Beijing this month. Two familiar faces will spearhead the recovery mission and hopes are high of making amends in many Winter Olympics predictions.
We’re taking a look at five major medal hopes from the Winter Olympics 2022 Team Canada roster and their betting odds for success in Beijing. There are 215 squad members competing in 14 different sports, with 45 past medalists present and many more rising stars.
From 15-year-old figure skaters to 35-year-old snowboarding superstars, there will be no shortage of big names competing at the Beijing Winter Olympics. We pick out five international Winter Olympics 2022 stars to watch and highlight their odds to win gold in China.