Yesterday
UEFA asks Euro 2020 teams to stop removing sponsor bottles
Cristiano Ronaldo started the trend on Monday at a mandatory pre-game news conference by hiding two Coca-Cola bottles and replacing them with a water bottle.
- Graham Dunbar
This Month
- Opinion
- UEFA Euro 2020
Cristiano Ronaldo may have discovered his most powerful voice yet
The soccer megastar is a corporate creation - but it would now be more valuable for him to back a social cause.
- Oliver Brown
Soccer stars snub Coca-Cola, Heineken as ‘Bottlegate’ escalates
Two of the most popular soccer stars at the Euro 2020 championships have shown their disdain for alcohol and soft drink product placement.
- Joe Easton
- Exclusive
- Tokyo Olympics
Coates talks up pre-Tokyo vaccination efforts
Olympic supremo John Coates talks up his officials’ efforts to vaccinate athletes and inbound visitors, but that does little to ease the concerns of many Japanese.
- Michael Bleby
Djokovic’s French Open win puts him a major short of Nadal, Federer
Not only did the victory make the Serb the first man in the Open era to win all four grand slams on at least two occasions, but it left him just one major behind Nadal and Federer.
- Simon Briggs
Djokovic topples Nadal in French Open semi-final classic
Novak Djokovic came from a set down to defeat Rafa Nadal, ending Nadal’s bid for a record-extending 14th French Open title, in front of a raucous crowd of 5000.
- Martyn Herman
UK PM Johnson backs Tokyo Olympics, Japan wants more G7 support
The Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, which were postponed last year due to the global spread of the coronavirus, is scheduled to start on July 23.
- Guy Faulconbridge
Brisbane 2032 Olympic host costs are already soaring
Olympics veteran John Coates says new reforms will help keep the cost of hosting Brisbane 2032 down, but history is not on his side.
- Michael Bleby
‘Rip-off’: Fans fume as curfew pauses Djokovic match
Thousands of spectators were cleared out during Novak Djokovic’s French Open quarter-final against Matteo Berrettini because of an 11pm coronavirus curfew.
- Jerome Pugmire
Curse of the near-40s: Williams and Federer bow out of French Open
It was quite a blow to the tournament, its TV partners and tennis fans to see both gone from the French Open field one after the other.
- Updated
- Jerome Pugmire
- Analysis
- French Open
Osaka’s exit sad and unnecessary
Depression is more common in sport than many would expect. But media coverage, much of it favourable, has helped Osaka become the world’s best-paid female athlete.
- Christopher Clarey
Naomi Osaka out of French Open, cites anxiety
Naomi Osaka withdrew from the French Open on Monday and wrote on Twitter that she would be taking a break from competition, saying she has “suffered long bouts of depression.”
- Updated
May
Arsenal’s Aussie goalie on humility, racism and her second book
The Kalgoorlie-born football star has written a second kid’s book and it’s a manual for personal empowerment through making connections and seeing the value in others.
- Hans van Leeuwen
AOC asks for extra $314m to boost medal tally
The peak sporting body also wants to play a bigger role in the development of sport, health and education policy.
- Michael Bleby
Luxury spending keeps booming as mare goes for $2.6m
Given last year’s Magic Millions sale set a record of $4.2 million for race filly Sunlight, expectations were high as the annual broodmare option got under way on the Gold Coast on Tuesday.
- Fiona Carruthers
- Analysis
- PGA Championship
Mickelson’s historic PGA win not a surprise to those closest to him
For most, it was an out-of-left-field win for ‘Lefty’, who collected his sixth major and first since the 2013 British Open. However, those who knew him say they saw this coming.
- Sam Farmer
Mickelson wins PGA to be oldest major champ
Phil Mickelson captured his sixth major and by far the most surprising Sunday at the PGA Championship.
Rugby Australia aims for ‘light on the hill’ with 2027 World Cup bid
Australia last hosted the Rugby World Cup in 2003 and the country was buzzing about the Wallabies. RA chairman Hamish McLennan wants to recreate momentum for the sport.
- Max Mason
Rugby Australia’s new sugar daddy
Social media is already alight with bad takes on the news Rugby Australia has swapped Qantas for Cadbury as its sugar daddy.
- Tom Richardson
- Analysis
- Coronavirus pandemic
Questions mount over the Tokyo Olympics
The world is in the middle of a pandemic. What use is an event billed as a symbol of recovery?
- Jeremy Cliffe
