Sophie Penney

Andy Macdonald has team mates younger than his son as he prepares for an Olympic debut as the oldest skateboarder in Paris, but the 50-year-old great reckons he can still teach them a trick or two.

Olympic competitors risk being used as "Russian propaganda" after the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) decision to allow Russian and Belarusian athletes to compete as neutrals at the Paris Games, Ukrainian skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych said on Friday.

Recent investment in soccer has set the bar for the value of elite clubs and led to the sport becoming “big, big business”, finance expert Neil Joyce told Reuters on Friday, ahead of the expiration of a deadline for bids to buy into Manchester United.

Four months after 97-year-old amateur Leonid Stanislavskyi's dreams came true when he played with 21-times Grand Slam champion Rafa Nadal, the Ukrainian is enduring his worst nightmare in Kharkiv as Russian forces bomb the city.

Manchester United forward Marcus Rashford has become the youngest recipient of an honorary doctorate from The University of Manchester for his campaign against child poverty, the Premier League club said on Friday.

Marathon world record holder and Olympic champion Eliud Kipchoge hopes that technology will take “centre stage” as athletes strive for improvement and chase faster times in the future.

Tokyo 2020 pole vault champion Armand Duplantis said he does not know his limits and wants to break his own world record several times over in the near future.

Norwegian hurdler Karsten Warholm is not against innovation in sports but feels the new carbon-technology shoes are hurting athletes’ credibility, the men’s 400 metres hurdles champion at the Tokyo Olympics told Reuters.