As Olympic champions and world record-holders drifted between interview stations at the World Athletics Ultimate Championship media day, many had one eye on the cameras ​and another on their phones.

When Femke Broeders-Bol traded the 400 metres hurdles for the 800m in ​February, the Dutchwoman entered one of athletics' most unforgiving disciplines armed with little more than faith in her coach an...

A group of former international players, including World Cup winners and FIFA legends, ‌called on Monday for immediate change at world soccer's governing body, saying its leadership under embattled Pr...

Argentina's Leandro Paredes received a 10-match suspension for his part in a brawl after his team lost to Spain ​in the World Cup final while teammate Nahuel Molina was suspended for seven games, ‌FIF...

UEFA Vice-President Laura McAllister said any future FIFA president should ‌be a "custodian of the sport" capable of uniting world football, as pressure grows on embattled current chief Gianni Infanti...

As FIFA President Gianni Infantino battles the biggest challenge of his decade in power, two of the most prominent voices in the revolt against him have been women.

If England are to win the World Cup, they may look back on Sunday ​night at the Azteca Stadium as the moment they proved it was possible.

Canada's record-breaking World Cup run came to an end with a 3-0 last-16 defeat by Morocco on Saturday, but the overriding feeling was not ​disappointment so much as optimism about what this young sid...

Canada's dream World Cup run ended on Saturday when ​they crashed out with a 3-0 loss to Morocco in the last 16, but coach Jesse Marsch said he could not have ‌been prouder of his players after a perf...

TORONTO, July 3 - The World Cup has given the Canadian Premier League plenty to discuss with FIFA after a disallowed Cristiano Ronaldo goal was among 17 that would have stood under a revised offside i...

The first signs may come before kickoff. A faster heartbeat. Deeper breaths. Perhaps a restless night's sleep.

By the time the Daily Star had crowned them the "Dallas Wow Boys", ​England had already lived up to their World Cup billing, and it was a few pointed words at halftime from Thomas Tuchel ‌that helped ...

The tournament's enlarged footprint will see 48 teams and venues scattered across North America.

The United States denied entry to a Somali referee who arrived in ​the country over the weekend to ‌officiate games during the FIFA World Cup, the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol said on ​Monday.

FIFA is ramping up efforts to close one of sport's most persistent blind spots -- the lack of research on female athletes -- with a new global education programme designed to better equip ​women's foo...

Manchester City's trophy parade and after-party on Monday blended celebration with sentiment, as fans honoured a season of success and said goodbye to Pep Guardiola.

Pep Guardiola said he knew the end was near when he felt the energy that had driven him for a decade slipping away, ​as the Manchester City manager delivered an emotional explanation for his departure...

Michael Carrick never chased the spotlight as a player, and he has not suddenly sought it out as a manager.

Football's global players' union renewed concerns about ​heat at the 2026 World Cup after scientists warned the likelihood of dangerous temperatures for players and fans has sharply increased.

Lunch at Manchester City Women's new first-team facility no longer revolves around pasta on repeat or squeezing in alongside teenagers fresh back ​from school.

Manchester City's long-awaited return to the summit of the Women's Super League was sealed last week, but built all season long ​around something the squad had long been reluctant to voice.

Major League Soccer's Toronto FC attracted their largest attendance at BMO Field in the club's history on Saturday for a clash with Lionel Messi's Inter Miami that served as a dress rehearsal for the ...

The WNBA officially arrived in Canada on Friday with the Toronto Tempo tipping off their inaugural season against the Washington Mystics in front of an electric, sellout home crowd.

May 8 (Reuters) - Bayern ⁠Munich's Alphonso Davies will be sidelined for "several ⁠weeks" after injuring his left hamstring during ‌their Champions League semi-final second leg against Paris St Germai...

When Teresa Resch first spotted a Toronto Tempo jersey "in the wild" she stopped in her tracks.

Afghan women footballers will be able to showcase their skills to the world after FIFA cleared the way for their return to international competition and former ​captain Khalida Popal said the team wil...

The National Women's Soccer League and its players' union have joined ‌Project ACL, a global initiative aimed at reducing the number of anterior cruciate ligament injuries in professional women's foot...

BBC Sport charts the remarkable career of Alex McKechnie, who left Scotland to become one of the NBA's top physiotherapists with a reputation of saving basketball careers.

Olympic individual and team silver medallist Yuma Kagiyama of Japan said on Monday that he will take a break ​from competitive figure skating during the 2026-27 season, citing a ‌desire to rediscover ...

The Egyptian forward, whose goals, durability and iconic moments helped deliver two Premier Leagues, the Champions League and ‌a host of other major trophies, confirmed his departure in an emotional v...

Every team in a FIFA ‌women's competition will be required to have at least one female head or assistant coach, part of sweeping new regulations from soccer's governing body aimed at boosting the numb...

The floodlights at Wrexham's Racecourse Ground, bright, towering structures installed in 2023, still catch Geraint Parry off guard sometimes.

Manchester City kept the pressure firmly on Premier League leaders Arsenal with a nervy 1-0 victory at Leeds United on Saturday, pulling within two points of top spot courtesy of Antoine Semenyo's strike on the stroke of halftime.

For a nation that measures itself in hockey gold, Sunday's heartbreaking 2-1 defeat to the United States in overtime was more than a lost final, it was a symbolic shift in a rivalry Canada has long co...

MILAN, Feb 22 : At a Games that delivered fewer medals than Canada hoped for, the country's Olympic chief David Shoemaker delivered a pointed message to Prime Minister Mark Carney: if the nation wants...

Sitting in the leader's chair, Mikhail Shaidorov watched one contender after another falter, each mistake sharpening the sense of an upset unfolding, the realisation dawning that the Olympic title was...

The pressure had been building, the glare of Olympic expectation, the scrutiny of a sport that demands not only athletic precision but artistic perfection. And on Friday, all of it came crashing down ...

Canada's Deanna Stellato-Dudek says the past two weeks have unfolded like "a nightmare" after a terrifying brush with disaster when she hit her head in training that almost obliterated her Olympic dre...

On most mornings this season at the Ice Academy of Montreal, triple world champions Madison Chock and Evan Bates were carving patterns into the ice just metres away from their French rivals, Laurence ...

Ice dance duo Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Guillaume Cizeron arrived at the Milano Cortina Olympics as one of the sport's most compelling new partnerships and gold‑medal favourites, all while standin...

With Canada–U.S. tensions bubbling from sport into geopolitics, Team Canada held their opening press conference of the Milano Cortina Olympics on Thursday facing a pointed question: will their athlete...

When Japanese skater Yuma Kagiyama launches into his free programme under the Olympic lights at the Milano Cortina Games next month, the sweep of "Nessun dorma" is sure to strike a chord with the Ital...

Ilia Malinin has never been much for limits. In a sport defined by physics, the self-named "Quad God" keeps redrawing what is possible, spinning beyond the virtual edge of imagination — and landing th...