Winter Olympics 2026

Northern Ireland manager Michael O’Neill insists the future is bright for his side after they lose their World Cup play-off semi-final against Italy, as they’re beaten 2-0 in Bergamo. READ MORE: Italy end Northern Ireland’s World Cup hopes Available to UK users only. Source link

Luke Humphries turned on the style to beat Nathan Aspinall 2-0 and reach the second round of the World Grand Prix in Leicester. Premier League champion Humphries edged a close first set 3-2, despite Aspinall recovering from a slow start to win the second leg with a ‘big fish’ finish of two treble 20s followed…

“I give credit to my boys – we didn’t give up. And to the coach (Rassie Erasmus) as well,” said South Africa captain Siya Kolisi. “We played fearlessly. We didn’t want to hold back. We knew what we needed to do and we believed in ourselves – that was the most important thing out there.”…

Squads will be made up of between 16 to 18 players, while there is a salary cap limit along with a salary collar, a minimum amount teams must spend. The salary pot in the men’s competition for 2026 has risen by 45% to £2.05m per side, and the fund for women’s teams has increased by…

Red Bull’s Max Verstappen, who is 63 points behind Piastri in the championship but has won two of the past three races and finished second in the other, was asked in a news conference on Thursday in Austin whether he believed McLaren were favouring Norris. He replied: “Absolutely.” He laughed, and then said: “Yep.” Leaving…

The McLaren drivers go into the final five races free to race with each other and with no internal team rules hanging over them – other than not to crash with one another. Norris had been facing undefined “repercussions” after colliding with Piastri while taking third place from him at the first sequence of corners…