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Blumberg has also revealed more about the circumstances surrounding Flanagan’s sudden departure, which was said to have been a mutual decision. Blumberg said Flanagan “wanted a decision on his future” and had “applied a bit of pressure around what would happen for him”. “That almost made it a decision that had to be made quickly rather than wait for a …

The financial meltdown of London Irish, Wasps and Worcester has left the taxpayer out of pocket by more than £30m in unrecovered Covid loans. The three Premiership clubs went out of business during the 2022-2023 campaign after taking £41.6m in contingency funding from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) to cover the loss of revenue from matches and …

Batter Billy Root has signed a new deal to stay at Glamorgan for the 2025 season. The 32-year-old has become a mainstay since joining the club in 2019, helping them win the Metro Bank One Day Cup in 2021 and 2024. Root has scored 3,326 first class runs, as well as 1,217 in list A and 357 in T20 cricket. …

This result was always likely with only 131.2 overs possible across the first three days – even more so when India’s last-wicket pair of Bumrah and Akash Deep dramatically avoided the follow-on late on day four. India’s innings was finally ended when Deep was stumped off Travis Head for 31 five overs into the final day, but no play further …

In another stellar season Hodgkinson went unbeaten over two laps and battled through illness to retain her European title, which in 2022 represented her first major outdoor title. Her improved British record at the London Diamond League in July was not only confirmation that she was ready to make the next step on the podium in Paris, but it has …

The 54-year-old Wright only averaged 89.63 to his opponent’s 93.77, but did enough to progress. Sporting a purple mohawk and festive outfit, crowd favourite ‘Snakebite’ showed glimpses of his best to win the first set and survived eight set darts to go 2-0 ahead. He lost the next but Dutchman Plaisier missed two more set darts in the fourth and …

Name: Armand Duplantis Sport: Athletics Key achievement: The 25-year-old retained his Olympic pole vault title in Paris – becoming the first back-to-back champion in men’s pole vault since the 1950s. In doing so, he broke both the Olympic and world record – the latter for the ninth time in his career, and second time this year. He went on to …

Swedish pole vaulter Armand Duplantis has been named BBC Sports Personality’s World Sport Star of the Year for 2024. Duplantis – more commonly known as Mondo – is regarded as the greatest pole vaulter of all time and enjoyed another record-breaking year in 2024. The 25-year-old retained his Olympic title in Paris – becoming the first back-to-back champion in men’s …

Kevin Doets survived a scare to defeat Noa-Lynn van Leuven 3-1 in the first round of the PDC World Championship. Doets will face 2023 champion Michael Smith next after the victory against Dutch compatriot Van Leuven, who was the first transgender player to compete in the tournament. “It was very tough, especially at the beginning. She played better than I …

A selection of some of the most striking sports photographs taken around the world over the past seven days.