Sport

Beating the Olympic champion to win a World Championship gold medal is a feeling few athletes get to experience but Jake Wightman is unique in doing it with his dad ...

By Richard Boxall Roman Mazumder hit a rapid 40 to help Cyprus inflict a heavy defeat on Turkey in their first international cricket meeting, in the European Qualifiers for the World ...

By Saskia Otterstein The New Era Championship will take place at Platia Evropis in Larnaca on Saturday. In the two main fights our Cypriot athletes will be facing A-class fighters ...

England’s World Cup hero Ben Stokes has announced his shock retirement from one-day cricket, departing with a word of warning about the “unsustainable” schedule. Stokes’ bloody-minded brilliance was the ...

President Nicos Anastasiades on Monday recognised a track and field athlete for helping her teammate who had fallen near the finish line at an international multi-sport event. Lanitio high school ...

Evergreen AC Milan striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic will stay at the Serie A champions beyond his 41st birthday after agreeing a one-year contract extension, the club said on Monday. Details of ...

Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta said Gabriel Jesus’s ability to create “chaos” is exactly what they need after the Brazilian continued his impressive pre-season form in a 2-0 win over ...

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce claimed an astonishing fifth world 100 metres title at the age of 35 on Sunday when she clocked 10.67 seconds to edge Shericka Jackson and Elaine Thompson-Herah in a brilliant Jamaican ...

Australia’s Cameron Smith produced a stunning final round to capture the 150th Open Championship and inflict more major misery on a shell-shocked Rory McIlroy. McIlroy held a two-shot lead ...

By Peter Hall Manchester United have agreed a deal with Ajax Amsterdam to sign defender Lisandro Martinez for an initial fee of 57.37 million euros ($57.87 million), with 10 million euros of potential ...

By Steve Keating An excited record crowd poured into rainy St Andrews on Sunday for the climax of the 150th British Open that appeared to be heading towards a matchplay-style ...

Poland striker Robert Lewandowski is set to join Barcelona after Bayern Munich reached a verbal agreement with the LaLiga side on a transfer, the Bundesliga champions said on Saturday. The 33...

Ireland coach Andy Farrell said it was a special day for the sport back home and even the country as a whole after his side claimed a stunning 32-22 win ...

England outwitted and outfought an error-prone Australia 21-17 to win their July series 2-1 on Saturday, a second success for northern hemisphere rugby after Ireland’s earlier triumph over the ...

Chelsea have completed the signing of centre-back Kalidou Koulibaly from Napoli for a reported fee of around £34million. The 31-year-old becomes the club’s second acquisition of the summer following ...

Australia’s Cameron Smith stepped confidently into the spotlight vacated by Tiger Woods as Rory McIlroy remained firmly in contention in the 150th Open Championship at St Andrews. After an ...

A nine-year-old child was hit by a vehicle from the Tour de France’s publicity caravan and was taken to hospital, organisers told Reuters on Friday. The child, who suffered ...

Manchester United have signed Christian Eriksen on a free transfer with the Danish playmaker signing a three-year deal, the Premier League club announced on Friday. Eriksen, who needed life-saving treatment ...

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) on Friday dismissed appeals filed by the Russian football federation and four Russian clubs against FIFA and UEFA’s decision to ban them ...

By Richard Boxall The Cyprus cricket team pulled off a famous 20-run victory over Romania in the European Qualifiers for the World T20 this week, a day after a disappointing ...

Tom Pidcock became the youngest ever winner of a Tour de France stage on the Alpe d’Huez ahead of a rejuvenated Chris Froome while Jonas Vingegaard defended his new ...

American Cameron Young made his first round at the British Open a memorable one, carding an eight-under 64 on Thursday to sit two clear of Claret Jug favourite Rory McIlroy as ...

Liverpool striker Diogo Jota has suffered a setback in his recovery from a hamstring injury. Manager Jurgen Klopp fears the 25-year-old may have aggravated the problem he picked up on ...

Phil Mickelson told a journalist to “let it go” in frustration at being asked LIV Golf-related questions after his opening round at the Open. Mickelson’s absence from past champions’ ...