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The prime minister has given a heavy hint that there will be an extra bank holiday if England win the World Cup. Thomas Tuchel’s team will play Norway in the quarter-finals on Saturday night. The final will take place a week on Sunday, on 19 July. It is widely expected Sir Keir Starmer will step…

Miami / 22:00 BST England’s 3-2 win over Mexico was probably the game of the tournament so far. I really enjoyed the resilience they showed with 10 men, with the subs coming on and John Stones blocking things, Dan Burn heading every ball clear and Djed Spence making some really important challenges. This will be…

Alexander Zverev produced a dominant display to end his dismal losing streak against an injured Taylor Fritz and reach his first semi-final at Wimbledon. The second seed had lost his previous seven encounters with Fritz and was losing their head-to-head 10-5, which included two defeats at the All England Club. But with the American hampered…

England batter Tammy Beaumont has announced her retirement from international cricket. The 35-year-old will retire after England’s upcoming Test match against India which starts on Friday, which is the first women’s Test to be played at Lord’s. Beaumont made her international debut in 2009 and has played 11 Tests, 140 one-day internationals and 109 T20s….

Great Britain’s Amber Rutter won bronze at the International Shooting Sport Federation’s Shotgun World Cup as the Olympic medallist returned to international competition for the first time following the birth of her second son. The 28-year-old, who gave birth in October, finished behind world-record performances from champion Sara Bongini and silver medallist Victoria Larsson in…

Gregor Kobel is Switzerland’s penalty hero, after pulling off a stunning shootout save from Colombia’s Cucho Hernandez to help set up a quarter-final clash with Argentina. Source link

With 12 minutes of normal time remaining Egypt stood on the cusp of their greatest ever World Cup result. The Pharaohs led Argentina, the reigning world champions, 2-0 in Atlanta Stadium. A quarter-final spot – their first – beckoned for the football-mad African country. Then it went wrong. Horribly wrong. When Cristian Romero reduced the…

Tour de France stage four results 1. Mads Pedersen (Den/Lidl-Trek) 4hrs 10mins 45secs 2. Quinn Simmons (US/Lidl-Trek) same time 3. Raul Garcia (Spa/Movistar) 4. Marco Frigo (It/NSN) 5. Ramses de Bruyne (Bel/Alpecin-Premier Tech) 6. Kevin Vauquelin (Fra/Ineos) 7. Sean Quinn (US/Easypost) 8. Torstein Traeen (Nor/Uno-X Mobility) 9. Pablo Castrillo (Spa/Movistar) 10. Mathias Vacek (Cze/Lidl-Trek) Tour…

Former Afghanistan fast bowler Shapoor Zadran, who hit the winning runs to seal his country’s first World Cup victory, has died at the age of 38 The Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) said it was with “profound grief and deep sorrow” that Zadran has passed away, with the left-armer being treated for a rare immune condition…

Parks, who had originally given himself a year to see if wheelchair tennis was feasible, is proud but modest about his own role 50 years on. “I was the head of the organisation, I was the first player to really play the game but it’s hard for me to say Brad, you invented wheelchair tennis,…