Elgan Alderman

If you find yourself at Pen Ponds Café in Richmond Park of a midweek afternoon, you may just come across Tony Holness sitting on a bench, in the shadow of a tre

As a Canada captain and No 8, it would be no shock to hear Sophie de Goede explain how she idolised Al Charron. Perhaps Sergio Parisse or Sarah Hunter. They may

Gabriel Clemens and Dimitri Van den Bergh had made history — but in the semi-finals Michael Smith and Michael van Gerwen ensured they were history. A German and

Michael Smith is called “Bully Boy” not for his penchant for the middle of the board, but for his former job on a cattle farm in Littleborough. After two final defeats, he can now add “world champion” to his list of sobriquets – and there is no ambiguity over that one.

Within 24 hours of becoming European champions, Great Britain’s four-man bobsleigh team were undertaking the nine-hour drive from Altenberg, in Germany, to St M

Great Britain’s bobsleigh quartet hope to complete their journey from “miracle” minnows to world No 1 before the 2026 Olympics.Brad Hall, Arran Gulliver, Taylor

The Olympic bronze medal winner, Sky Brown, has become Great Britain’s first skateboarding world champion at the age of 14.Brown won gold in park skateboarding at the World Championships in Sharjah yesterday, with a best score of 90.83 from her three runs.The teenager was already top of the standing

Rehan Ahmed’s scriptwriters finally produced a bum draft. There were promising early scenes and a pleasant coda in the first act, but after the interval the cas

At the end of a one-hour interview that lasted two hours, I ask Jack Russell whether he would blindfold me if we were at his house. Among the many tales of Russ

Before Fiji strike more fear into Welsh hearts — since knocking them out of the 2007 World Cup, they have met in every pool stage — the world’s favourite second team have a rare sojourn to Twickenham. They have had no such shocks against England, who most recently beat them 35-11 in the opening match of the 2015 World Cup and 58-15 during the 2016 autumn internationals. But this is the England of 2023, and who knows what will happen?