Televisions loss is snookers gain as the very interesting Steve Davis clinched his 30th World Championship appearance at the Crucible. ...
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Britain's Sean Rose set himself for the challenge of the Winter Paralympics in Vancouver on March 12 when he claimed silver in the final skiing competition. ...
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England stormed into Thursday’s semi finals of the World Cup with a game to spare after beating the hosts India 3-2 in Delhi. ...Read more >>
There is no more optimistic footballer than Spurs and England striker Peter Crouch and he lifted the hopes of his national team and his own when he came off the bench to score twice against African Champions Egypt at Wembley. ...Read more >>
The British Olympic Association left behind their own legacy behind after the Winter Games in Vancouver when they donated all their equipment from their headquarters in the Olympic Villages to a local charity which helps children through sports.Read more >>
Security fears and the presence of thousands of police and hundreds of paramilitary commandos were forgotten as England overcame Australia on the opening day of the hockey World Cup in Delhi. ...Read more >>
This professional footballer from unfashionable Burnley proved to be more of a Clarke Kent than a Clarke Carlisle as the central defender risked his street cred among his fellow pros by appearing and the cerebral Channel 4 programme “Countdown”, a...Read more >>
Five times Olympic champion Sir Steve Redgrave wants to help Great Britain’s winter sportsmen by building a winter venue in the UK. ...Read more >>
Jenny Meadows showed she is ready for the World Indoor Championships when she broke Kelly Holmes' seven-year-old British 800m indoor record at the UK Indoor Grand Prix in Birmingham. ...Read more >>
British swimming continued its huge development when unheralded Jazmin Carlin beat her world class compatriots Rebecca Adlington and Jo Jackson in winning the women's 400m freestyle race against Germany in Swansea. ...Read more >>
World champion Jenson Button may have changed cars but he has still clocked the fastest time of pre-season tests at Jerez in the last two weeks. The 30 year old McLaren driver posted a time of one minute 18.871 seconds on the final day of the thir...Read more >>
If at first you don’t succeed try, try again and if that does not work try, try and try some more! That was the case when the Lions of South Africa entertained (literally!) the Waikato Chiefs in round two of the Super 14 in Johannesburg. ...Read more >>
The Open returned to Hoylake in 2006 after a 39-year absence and around 230,000 people, a record for the tournament in England, watched Tiger Woods become the first back-to-back champion since Tom Watson in 1983. ...Read more >>
Great Britain won their hoped for Olympic Gold medal in Vancouver in the skeleton bobsleigh – but it was number two Amy Williams rather than the highly fancied Shelley Rudman. ...Read more >>
Unbeaten Kevin Mitchell has set up a fight with the Australian Michael Katsidis for the WBO lightweight title in the summer after another glittering performance. The 25 year old Mitchell knocked out Ignacio Mendoza at Wembley on Saturday to set up...Read more >>
British number one Elena Baltacha stands poised to break into the world’s top 60 after winning the Dow Corning Classic in Michigan. Elena, now fully recovered from a succession of career threatening injuries, dropped her first set of the tournamen...Read more >>
On a night of mixed emotions for the Olympic family, Shelley Rudman flew the British flag for Team GB, at the glittering and often thrilling Opening Ceremony for the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games. ...Read more >>
Entitled "The Justin Campaign", launched in memory of Justin Fashanu, the world's first and only out gay professional football player; launches an international day opposing homophobia in football – Football v Homophobia on February 19th 2010. The...Read more >>
Under fire Martin Johnson had every right to feel uplifted after poor starts to England's previous recent campaigns and praised his team for they way they finished off the Welsh after the visitors threatened to repeat their 2008 Twickenham win wit...Read more >>
Paralympic gold medallist Tanni Grey-Thompson, who has done so much to establish her sport around the world, is soon to become a "people's peer" after a recommendation from the House of Lords Appointments Commission. ...Read more >>
Visually impaired skier Kelly Gallagher has been named in the Great Britain team for next month's 2010 Winter Paralympics in Vancouver. ...Read more >>
A pensioner has been awarded judo's highest rank – one of only seven living people in the world to hold the honour. ...Read more >>
The Olympic and world 100m and 200m champion and record holder Bolt will make his 2010 track comeback over the full lap on his home track in Jamaica on Saturday 13 February. ...Read more >>
After a tumultuous week which saw John Terry stripped of the captaincy England had cause to think optimistically of the future when the draw was made for the for the 2012 European Championships to be held in Poland and the Ukraine. ...Read more >>
Great Britain are looking for their best Winter Olympics in 70 years when the Games open in Vancouver next month. The target is a minimum of three medals, a target funding body UK Sport believes is achievable after investing £6.5m over the four-ye...Read more >>
At least there was one British winner when the remarkable Peter Norfolk won his fourth Australian Open quad wheelchair singles by beating the American David Wagner 6-2 7-6 (7-4). ...Read more >>
British sailors and supreme optimists Iain Percy and Andrew Simpson added the Star class world title to their Olympic crown with victory in Rio de Janeiro. The brilliant partnership, who won the two-man keelboat class at the 2008 Beijing Games, do...Read more >>
Snowboard medal hopeful Zoe Gillings along with world women's bobsleigh champions Nicola Minichiello and Gillian Cooke head the latest list of British athletes heading for Canada and the Olympic Games. The rump of the team was announced in London ...Read more >>
Britain’s top female slider Shelley Rudman took the silver medal in the overall FIBT World Cup for the second successive year boosting her prospects of a podium place in Canada next month. ...Read more >>
Paralympic skier Sean Rose created history when he won Britain's first gold medal in a World Cup race after taking the downhill event in Sestriere, giving him a massive lift ahead of the Vancouver Paralympics. ...Read more >>
British national indoor long jump record holder Chris Tomlinson has his chance for a measure of revenge when he faces South Africa’s Godfrey Mokoena at the Aviva International match in Glasgow on Saturday January 30. ...Read more >>
Kristan Bromley held his nerve to win a silver medal in the seventh round of the Skeleton World Cup in Switzerland after a protest robbed him of the lead. ...Read more >>
Pickering, who will represent the Aviva Great Britain and Northern Ireland Team on January 30, has won the 60m event for the last three years and in 2008 it was his performance that propelled GB & NI to victory. ...Read more >>
Andy Turner returns to Glasgow for the Aviva International Match on Saturday 30 January determined to go one better than his second place finish last year and avenge his defeat by Shamar Sands. ...Read more >>
Britain's Shelley Rudman has secured a place as one of the Olympic favourites after securing another podium finish with a bronze medal at the sixth round of the World Cup Skeleton Bobsleigh competition from Königssee, Germany. ...Read more >>
No wonder the rest of the world envy English football's pyramid when, despite the recession, gates at all levels of the game remain remarkably healthy while the television audiences confirm that the Premier League is the number one choice. The Joh...Read more >>
England manager Fabio Capello travelled to Milan to watch the veteran play his first match of the year. Beckham, on loan from the American club LA Galaxy, enjoyed a winning return and an excellent performance, to the AC Milan side as they outgunne...Read more >>
One of GB’s leading forwards Pops was released by the NBA's Toronto Raptors and the 26-year-old chose to return to Europe after a season which saw him let go by the Houston Rockets in November before moving to Toronto. ...Read more >>
The Team GB short track speed skating athletes in Vancouver will be: Men: John Eley, Anthony Douglas, Paul Worth, Jack Whelbourne and Tom Iveson. Women: Sarah Lindsay, Elise Christie. This is a significant improvement compared with the Turin 2006 ...Read more >>
Fourteen years after receiving World Championship silver medals Britain's 4 x 400 metres relay team have finally been declared the winners and awarded richly deserved gold medals. ...Read more >>
Fight fans the world over can be optimistic that the mouth watering fight between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather will go ahead. ...Read more >>
World Champion Ennis will be joined by silver medallist Dobriskey and bronze medallist Meadows at the National Indoor Arena with all three hoping their outstanding form in 2009 will continue throughout the indoor season, which climaxes with the Wo...Read more >>
Dream Alliance completed a fairytale return to racing by winning the 60th Welsh National at Chepstow against all the odds. ...Read more >>
Meadows has confirmed she will compete at the Aviva International Match, the Aviva World Trials and UK Championships and the Aviva Grand Prix and hopes that strong performances at each of the UK based indoor events will put her in a good position ...Read more >>
Kenenisa Bekele, the Olympic 10,000 metres Champions, hopes to break yet another world record at the Aviva Grand Prix on February 20, when he will race over the 3000m, the distance he won his sole World Indoor title in 2006. ...Read more >>
David Beckham back to Old Trafford with AC Milan and Jose Mourinho returning to Chelsea with Inter Milan are the two reunions which have added sparkle and glitter to the draw for the last 16 of the Champions League. ...Read more >>
No one was more surprised than Ryan Giggs himself when he was named BBC’s Sports Personality of the Year in Sheffield on Sunday night. ...Read more >>
Britain's Hannah Miley added gold to bronze when she won the 400m individual medley at the European Short Course Championships in Istanbul. ...Read more >>
Hayley Yelling proved it is never over until it’s over when she returned from a year long retirement to win the European Cross Country title in Dublin. ...Read more >>
Britain's disability swimmers captured nine medals on the final day at the IPC World Short Course Championships in Brazil to bring their total for the Championship to 46. Their final tally over the seven days of competition in Rio de Janeiro left ...Read more >>
Britain's Euan Burton emphasised his enormous potential when he clinched gold in the 81kg category at the top ranked Grand Slam judo tournament in Tokyo on Saturday. ...Read more >>
The event is the BBC’s Sports Personality of the Year. The venue is the Sheffield Arena.The date is Sunday, 13 December and the time 1900 GMT for live coverage on BBC One, BBC Radio 5 Live & BBC Sport website. ...Read more >>
Not even the stone faced Fabio Capello could hide his delight when England were presented with the ideal first round draw for the World Cup Finals which begin in South Africa in June. ...Read more >>
Britain's top Paralympic swimmers warmed up for the IPC World Short Course Championships in Rio next week when they smashed 12 world and 22 European records at the Nationwide Short Course Championships in Sheffield. ...Read more >>
The very best of the world's top sprinters have been signed up to race in London next summer with the sensational Usain Bolt leading the way. Bolt, Tyson Gay and Asafa Powell are just three of the names unveiled to compete in next year's inaugural...Read more >>
It's the dream team as current World Champion Jenson Button joins last year's world champion to drive for McLaren next season in an all English set up. ...Read more >>
Great Britain 's cyclists continue to dominate the world – even on the other side of the world. This time it was Wendy Houvenaghel who won her second successive World Cup individual pursuit to take gold for Great Britain in the Melbourne leg of th...Read more >>
David Davies might have decreed that the Winter Olympic is taken off television's free to air service but it seems that neither Kristan Bromley nor Shelley Rudman took any notice at all. ...Read more >>
Britain 's David Haye made fools of the critics when he outpointed and outlasted the giant Russian Nikolay Valuev to claim the WBA heavyweight crown in Nuremberg with one hand tied behind his back. ...Read more >>
Manny Pacquiao's victory confirms his status as the world's best pound-for-pound boxer and takes his record to 50 wins, three defeats and two draws with 38 knockouts. ...Read more >>
Cup giant killing is alive and well and living in a quiet corner of Spain – giving hope to every English team with ambitions as the minnows approach the third round of the FA Cup. ...Read more >>
It is now three days since my close friend Sir Bobby Robson passed away after a 17 year fight against five bouts of pervasive cancer and I have come to the conclusion that the world's eternal optimist was absolutely spot on with his attitude to hi...Read more >>
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