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.
Stuart Broad dismissed David Warner for the 17th time in 29 meetings and for the second time in the match as England fought back to beat Australia in the third Ashes Test at Headingley. Having already snared Warner in the first Test last month, we take a look back at the Broad vs Warner duels over the years to see how they have historically fared against each other.
Ben Stokes produced another remarkable innings for England in what was ultimately a losing cause in the second Ashes Test at Lord’s. The England captain walked in with his team on 45 for four and they were later reduced to 193 for six in pursuit of 371, but his explosive 155 kept them in contention before Australia finally managed to end his resistance and go on to claim a 43-run win. We look at some of Stokes’ special innings with the bat for England.
Ayrton Senna has dropped to sixth on the list of F1 drivers with most Grand Prix wins following Max Verstappen’s victory in Austria. He contested 161 Formula One races and won three world championships before he was tragically killed at the San Marino GP in 1994 as we look back at five of the Brazilian’s most memorable moments.
Lewis Hamilton has dominated his home race at Silverstone for the last decade but it is impossible to oppose Max Verstappen in our British Grand Prix predictions. Hamilton has won seven of the last nine F1 races at the Northamptonshire track and will be roared on by the bulk of the 140,000 crowd on Sunday.
Lewis Hamilton already holds the record for the most British Grand Prix wins and is bidding for a ninth victory in the race at Silverstone this weekend. Hamilton has dominated his home race since his first victory in 2008 and won seven out of eight races from 2014 to 2021.
Wimbledon celebrates the career of Roger Federer today so we’re looking back at all his grand slam victories. Federer, who announced his retirement last September, will have his achievement of winning a record eight grand slam titles in SW19 recognised during a special ceremony before the action on Centre Court begins at 1.30pm. Here are all the Federer grand slam wins during the 41-year-old’s incredible career.
As we approach the halfway point in the 2023 Formula One season, it is almost time for the biggest event on the UK motorsport calendar – the British Grand Prix at Silverstone. We have studied every Grand Prix across the past two decades to identify the key ingredients for success at Silverstone.
Zharnel Hughes recently broke Linford Christie’s long-standing British record but still has a way to go to be on the list of the fastest men’s 100 metres of all time. Hughes, who won 100m silver at the 2022 European Championships, clocked 9.83 seconds at the New York City Grand Prix in June to beat Christie’s record (9.87) which had stood since the 1993 Stuttgart World Championships.
Former world number one Caroline Wozniacki has announced her intention to return to tennis after a three-year retirement and is the latest athlete to plan a famous sporting comeback. Wozniacki, who won the 2018 Australian Open and was runner-up in two US Open finals in 2009 and 2014, is targeting her grand slam return at Flushing Meadows later this year.
Emotions will be running high for Mark Cavendish over the next three weeks whatever happens on the long road from Bilbao to Paris. Over the course of the past two decades, the Manxman has earned a reputation as the greatest sprinter cycling has seen, and nowhere has he done more to burnish that reputation than at the Tour de France.
The 2023 Tour de France starts in Bilbao, with the Basque Country Grand Depart making for a route which is difficult from the very start. After some tough opening stages, the Pyrenees come as early as stage five, with no time for anybody to ease into three weeks of punishing racing which will climax in the Alps in the third week.
After losing the first match at Edgbaston, England will be looking to level the series in the second of this year’s Ashes Tests at Lord’s. The Home of Cricket has staged 37 Ashes Test matches since 1884, with Australia holding a fine track record at the ground.
Max Verstappen is expected to continue his domination of Formula One this season and give Red Bull a home win in our Austrian Grand Prix predictions. The flying Dutchman heads to Spielberg seeking a fifth straight race win and a seventh victory in nine outings so far this term.