IOC’s major policy shift explained The International Olympic Committee has introduced one of the most significant rule changes in modern sport — limiting women’s Olympic events to biological females only from the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. The decision marks a clear reversal from policies intr...

Elite sport rarely pauses for life’s biggest changes. In artistic gymnastics, a discipline built on precision, timing and relentless physical demand, stepping away even briefly can feel like falling years behind. That is why what Alice Kinsella achieved this weekend was more than a competitive com...

‘I Thought I’d Be Bleeped’ — Why Amy Hunt’s Words Still Resonate Months After Her World 200m Silver In the immediate aftermath of the biggest race of her life, Amy Hunt wasn’t thinking about legacy, messaging, or viral soundbites. She was barely thinking at all. Adrenaline has a way of d...

Winter Paralympics Under the Spotlight as Warm Conditions Raise Questions About Scheduling When athletes compete in snow sports wearing T-shirts while spectators apply suncream in the stands, it naturally raises a question: are we watching the Winter Games or the Summer ones? That strange contrast h...

Russia win their first gold medal of Paralympics as Varvara Voronchikhina triumphs in Super-G After more than a decade without a Paralympic gold medal under their national flag, Russia finally celebrated a historic moment on the slopes. Para-alpine skier Varvara Voronchikhina delivered a stunning pe...

From Glasgow pub anonymity to Olympic silver: how Team GB curlers captured the nation’s attention It was a cold Thursday night in November in Glasgow’s Merchant City. Inside a cosy pub, four men in their early thirties squeezed around a small wooden table, nursing pints and talking quietly about...

There’s a quiet irony at the heart of Emily Harrop’s Olympic story. In another version of events — in another federation meeting room, perhaps — the Union Jack might have been rising for her in Milan-Cortina. Instead, when ski mountaineering makes its long-awaited Olympic debut, it will almo...

There are certain afternoons in athletics when the clock seems to take on a personality of its own. Saturday in Birmingham was one of those days. The arena hummed, spikes scratched against the Mondo surface, and when Keely Hodgkinson stopped the clock at 1:56.33 in the heats of the UK Athletics Indo...

The Winter Olympics are meant to be a celebration of sport at its purest — speed, precision, courage, and the quiet drama of athletes pushing themselves to the edge. Yet in Cortina this week, attention shifted from the icy track to a helmet, and from split times to symbolism. Ukrainian skeleton ra...

Lindsey Vonn has never been one to shy away from risk. Across two decades at the very top of alpine skiing, she built a career on pushing limits, racing through pain, and believing that the biggest rewards only come when you dare greatly. That mindset did not change at the Winter Olympics in Cortina...