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It’s the antihero antidote to the BBC’s saccharine Sports Personality of the Year awards, a selection of our favourite cheats, heels, villains and sore losers from 2021. Vlastimil Voracek“I use mouthwash myself several times a day during the coronavirus pandemic, Read more
1) After playing superbly to finish runner-up in the UK Open, Luca Brecel continued his rich vein of form by thrashing John Higgins in the final of the Scottish Open. He features in this roundup of the best shots of Read more
Splashing tales from British watersports have won both categories of the 2021 Football School/Guardian Young Sportswriter of the Year award. James Sarfas, age nine and from Reading, Berkshire, won the category for children aged from seven to nine for an Read more
Eleanor May Simmonds. Some may call her a swimmer, some may call her a Paralympian but I call her my hero. Ellie Simmonds has completed many amazing things in her life so far: she is the youngest British swimmer to Read more
Three days before last Christmas, Gabriel Martinelli set about making up for lost time. The young forward had arrived in England with a bang but knee surgery meant he missed the opening months of 2019-20. He finally returned to the Read more
England began the day-night second Ashes Test at the magnificent Adelaide Oval wondering if fortunes might be about to turn. News had filtered through before the start of play that Pat Cummins had been pinged out of the match and, Read more
Mercedes’ team principal Toto Wolff says he can give “no assurances” that Lewis Hamilton will continue in Formula One after Sunday’s controversial season finale, saying the British driver is still in “pain” and “will never get over” what happened. Speaking Read more