Whatever you think about him, Lance Armstrong is the biggest story in sports this season.
Under the outlandish surface was a singer who had come by his fame through a genuinely remarkable talent.
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/ 16 December 2008
Formula one fears the departure of other major companies like Honda looking for ways to withstand the recession.
This time he remembered to do his shoelaces up. This time he ran hard all the way to the finish, looking neither right nor left.
These are the first Olympic Games in which anticipation of the athletes’ feats has been overshadowed by speculation about the nature of the event.
As a small group of pro-Tibet demonstrators briefly disrupted the ceremonial lighting of the Olympic torch in Athens this week, they were underlining a central truth concerning the world’s greatest sporting festival: it tends to hold up a mirror to the face of its hosts and the result is not always flattering.
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/ 11 January 2008
There could be few more satisfactory presents for a racing driver’s birthday than a new grand prix car, and Lewis Hamilton beamed with delight as the new McLarenÂMercedes for the 2008 grand prix season made its entrance this week. ”We’ve gone to a lot of trouble,” Ron Dennis, the McLaren team principal, said before the unveiling.
To watch Roger Federer play tennis is to understand why the word ”stroke” became the game’s operative verb. This week’s undemanding opening to his attempt to win a fifth consecutive men’s singles title at Wimbledon offered the opportunity to admire his ability to caress the ball at all angles and velocities with a wonderful delicacy.
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/ 8 December 2006
Ricky Ponting won the man-of-the-match award in Adelaide, making it two in a row, and that said almost as much about the manner of England’s defeat as it said about the victorious Australian captain. His runs — 256 in the first Test and 191 in the second — had something to do with it, but it was his positive leadership which tilted the balance.
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/ 24 November 2006
It is a contest older than the modern Olympic Games, older by far than football’s World Cup. The Ashes, created in 1882, may not enjoy the global reach of those other great international tournaments but to the participants, two nations with long sporting pedigrees, they represent a biennial journey, interrupted only by baser conflicts, through the peaks and troughs of every conceivable emotion.