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England have the squad depth, but France have a returning hero and hosting duties for the potentially decisive finale What are you most looking forward to? Let’s hope it stops raining at some stage. Because if Matthieu Jalibert, Louis Bielle-Biarrey, Henry Arundell, Manny Feyi-Waboso, Louis Rees-Zammit et al have a licence to thrill with a […]

Team of pizza-makers and teachers brought together by a passion for the sport hope to win hearts back at home In a basement office in the north of Rome, Riccardo Maggio is unpacking boxes of blue jerseys with “Italia” written on them. He sighs when the landline phone rings again, and then again. Maggio is

World champion Lando Norris is anticipating “more chaos in races” as a result of new rule changes in Formula 1 next season.

‘My motivation to win is exactly the same,’ says champion McLaren driver admires rival Verstappen’s killer instinct Lando Norris insists he enters the new Formula One season highly motivated to retain the world championship he won for the first time last year. The McLaren driver believes his maiden triumph has only given him greater confidence

The five-time Olympian leads a young US team into Milan after nearly two decades at the vanguard of women’s hockey’s rise and transformation For nearly two decades, Hilary Knight has been the heartbeat of USA women’s ice hockey – the constant through gold-medal ecstasy and silver-medal heartbreaks, coaching changes, domestic league collapses and the sport’s

British duo Jennifer Dodds and Bruce Mouat get the better of Norway after power failure at curling arena Curling fans, rejoice! It is only fitting that the one sport played every single day of the Winter Olympics is the one that opens proceedings at Milano Cortina. Dubbed “chess on ice”, curling may not have the

With the T20 World Cup beginning on Saturday, BBC Sport looks at the trends and tactics from the global game that may play a part in India and Sri Lanka.

Injury-hit Ireland face the unenviable task of trying to stop returning captain Antoine Dupont and France in Thursday’s Six Nations opener in Paris.

Holders Newcastle United were knocked out of the Carabao Cup by Manchester City on Wednesday night and a challenging season shows no sign of relenting.

Cardiff City’s reset in League One has some fans saying relegation has been a “blessing” – but one ex-captain warns the same problems remain.