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Winter Olympics 2026: women’s giant slalom, snowboarding, monobob and more – live

Medal table | Live scores and schedule | Results | Briefing Follow us over on Bluesky | Get in touch: mail Daniel This downhill course is so sporting. Gasienica Daniel of Poland is doing nicely, like the others before her, then makes a huge error lower down and is 10th. But have look! Brignone, champ

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Eden Hazard: ‘I’m more of a taxi driver than a football player now, but it’s OK’

Former Chelsea and Real Madrid idol wants merely to be remembered as ‘a good player and a funny guy’ after a career of multiple titles – and spats with Mourinho If Italy is a boot, Lecce sits right on the heel. It is here, deep in the countryside a few kilometres outside the baroque city,

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‘The perfect place for people like me’: how one couple started UK’s first women’s sports bar

Lucy and Pippa Tallant have opened the Crossbar, in Brighton, to create a place for women to feel comfortable watching all sport You can’t miss it, the giant “Crossbar” flanked by two stylised crosses in black on the whitewashed outside walls glares down the street, a stone’s throw from Brighton’s Churchill Square. Outside is the

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Winter Olympics briefing: Pinheiro Braathen writes Brazilian fairytale

Brazil’s president hails ‘unprecedented result’ as 25-year-old wins first Winter Olympic medal for country and continent Hundreds of thousands of international tourists are expected to descend on Brazil over the next few days for carnival. But you didn’t need to go further than the Dolomites on Saturday to see somebody performing samba on a raised

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