Roger Federer admits he is battling to be fit for the Australian Open; He says he is still not 100 per cent as he recovers from a knee injury; World No 5 has not played since the Australian Open in January; Federer voted best Swiss athlete since 1950 at a ceremony on Sunday.more
The German ski jumper Karl Geiger, who became the ski flying world champion on Saturday in Planica, welcomed his first child in the world yesterday evening - his daughter Luisa. "The perfect week has just come true," he wrote on social media.more
Lionel Messi saved Barcelona from another embarrassing result by scoring the decisive goal in a 1-0 win over lowly Levante, while Real Sociedad returned top of La Liga on Sunday.more
The Athletic's Liam Twomey has revealed the Czech Republic star will be between the sticks against Tottenham in a Premier League 2 fixture at Kingsmeadow on Monday.more
Champions Bayern Munich again had Robert Lewandowski to thank as they came from a goal behind for the fifth straight Bundesliga game to rescue a 1-1 draw at Union Berlin on Saturday as they held on to top spot ahead of RB Leipzig on goal difference.more
Cooperation and playing with the star of world football Leo Messi is a challenge and stress that not everyone can cope with - says Juan Carlos Unzue, former assistant coach of FC Barcelona, a club in which the famous Argentine plays.more
Seven-times Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton, female jockey Hollie Doyle and Premier League champions Liverpool were the main winners at Britain’s Sports Journalists Association (SJA) awards on Thursday. The ceremony was conducted virtually, instead of the usual gala event, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.more
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Paolo Rossi, the star of Italy's 1982 World Cup-winning team and one of the best forwards of all time, has died aged 64, according to Italian media. The news was announced on Thursday morning by Italian TV channel RAI Sport, for whom Rossi had been working as a pundit.more
The Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo (Juventus), the Argentine Leo Messi (Barcelona) and the Polish Robert Lewandowski (Bayern Munich) are the finalists for the award for best player of the year at the Globe Soccer Awards Dubai 2020.more
Lewis Hamilton is hoping to recover from COVID-19 in time to race at this weekend's Abu Dhabi Grand Prix after posting his first video message on Instagram since he started his isolation.more
Iga Świątek won the WTA Most Improved Player of the Year title for her outstanding improvement throughout the 2020 season. Piotr Sierzputowski, coach of Iga Świątek and a Gold Member of the WTA Coach Program, becomes the third recipient of the WTA Coach of the Year Award.more
An Argentine senator has proposed putting an image of the late football star Diego Maradona on new banknotes. Maradona, who led Argentina to the 1986 World Cup title, died two weeks ago at the age of 60.more
"Helping me gives me the feeling that what I do with my life also affects others. I can use my success to make other people's lives better" - admitted Iga Swiatek, the winner of the French Open, who joined her staff the Noble Package team.more
NBA champion LeBron James, Super Bowl winner Patrick Mahomes and Japan's Naomi Osaka were among five athletes honoured on Sunday (Dec 6) by Sports Illustrated magazine for their off-field activism.more
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Former England midfielder Steve Hodge has insisted the shirt worn by Diego Maradona in scoring two iconic goals against the Three Lions in the 1986 World Cup quarter-final is not for sale. Hodge swapped shirts with Maradona, who died last week at the age of 60, at the end of the match in which the Argentine legend punched home what became known as the "Hand of God" goal.more
Robert Lewandowski, Ewa Pajor and Paulina Dudek are on the lists nominated for the teams of the year of the European Football Union. The best eleven will be selected in the vote of Internet users and UEFA observers, which will end in January.more
Iga Świątek, who finished this year's performances in mid-October, is still 17 in the latest tennis ranking of the WTA. A week after the ATP Finals tournament, which ends the season, the top tennis players are unchanged - the first is Serb Novak Djokovic, the second is the Spaniard Rafael Nadal, and the third Austrian Dominic Thiem. Hubert Hurkacz remained in 34th place.more
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced that his government is preparing to organize special events to pay tribute to the late Argentine footballer Diego Maradona.more
Adam Małysz was satisfied with the attitude of the Polish representatives in the weekend World Cup competitions. "In Kuusamo it is different, but this season our performances here can be considered quite successful" - summed up the director of ski jumping in PZN.more