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How understanding the menstrual cycle is breaking new ground for women’s soccer

Players’ cycles, once deemed to be a minor inconvenience, are now seen as potential keys to unlock big gains in performance In 1921, the English Football Association banned women’s soccer, declaring the game “unsuitable for females”. The sport has reclaimed its place on the world stage over the subsequent century-plus, but another outdated notion persists; […]

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Happy anniversary Bayern Munich: 125 years and a simple secret for success | Philipp Lahm

My boyhood club is shaped by Franz Beckenbauer’s legacy, and for the last half-century has been run by former players I congratulate my club on its anniversary. On Thursday, Bayern Munich will be 125 years old. The club was in my cradle, because my grandfather was and my father is a Bayern fan. When I

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Matt Beard leaves job as Liverpool manager with the club seventh in WSL

Beard’s second spell at Liverpool started in May 2021 Decision follows series of meeting with WSL title winner Liverpool Women have parted company with their manager Matt Beard with the team seventh in the Women’s Super League. Beard was in his second spell in charge of Liverpool after guiding them to back-to-back WSL titles in

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NFL offseason storylines to watch: Aaron Rodgers’ next team and trades galore

As the NFL gathers for the combine, we look at the plots that will dominate the news cycle in the coming weeks and months Stafford and the Rams are in another contractual standoff, with Los Angeles giving their quarterback permission to seek a trade. Stafford is set to earn $27m next season, putting him way

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Hardy Diggins leads next generation into cross-country’s ‘wall of sound’

A pack of Americans looks to make its mark as the Nordic world ski championships begin in Trondheim, where one of the sport’s most electric atmospheres awaits Competing in a Nordic world ski championships is always special, but doing so in the heartland of cross-country skiing elevates the experience to a whole different level. This

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The Trade™, three weeks on: Dončić, Davis and the art of the NBA breakup

As much as the basketball itself has started to round into shape for the Lakers and Mavs after the biggest trade in NBA history, the wounds have only just begun to heal “A lot of emotions, not much sleep … I’m just glad it’s over.” Those were 25-year-old Slovenian basketball phenom Luka Dončić’s succinct and

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Lise Klaveness: ‘If Fifa followed their own reforms, it would be very good. But they didn’t’

The first female president of Norway’s FA will soon have a seat on Uefa’s ExCo, but she has no intention of being any less disruptive to football’s governing bodies Lise Klaveness cut a lonely figure in April 2023 as she walked across the cavernous Lisbon Congress Centre, where Aleksander Ceferin had just been re-elected for

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