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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 …

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 …

Grand Slam quarter-finalist Menzies was crestfallen after suffering a surprise defeat to veteran Gates. The 54-year-old never looked back after hitting a 138 checkout in the opening leg against the Scot, who made the last four of the WDF World Championship in 2022. While Gates wiggled his hips after nailing doubles, and was backed by chants of ‘USA, USA’, his …

The Football Association’s decision to back Saudi Arabia’s bid to host the 2034 World Cup was “not difficult” after organisers gave “a lot of commitments”, its chair Debbie Hewitt says. Saudi Arabia was confirmed as host of the men’s tournament on Wednesday by football’s world governing body Fifa. Organisers have insisted everyone will be welcome, but the country has been …

Bellamy will be keen to build on the momentum of a maiden Nations League campaign in charge that has seen him go unbeaten in his first six games since replacing Robert Page. However, he has made it clear that reaching the World Cup is his ultimate aim, and the former Wales captain was buoyed by the challenge presented to him …

India’s grandmaster Gukesh Dommaraju became the youngest-ever undisputed classical chess world champion after beating Ding Liren 7.5-6.5 in their best-of-14 final in Singapore on Thursday, December 12. The 18-year-old Gukesh and defending champion Ding entered the last game tied and things appeared to be headed to rapid chess tiebreaks, but it was the youngster who was able to claim the …

Among the second seeds based on their Fifa world ranking, Wales will be in Pot 2 for the draw – meaning one of their opponents will be a top seed from Pot 1, such as Spain, France or England. As for the countries from Pots 3, 4 and 5, Wales do not yet know whether they will be in a …

Cristiano Ronaldo has insisted the 2034 Saudi Arabia World Cup ‘will probably be the best ever’ after the country was announced as the host nation.     The country was awarded the tournament at a FIFA Congress on Wednesday after not a single alternative candidate came forward.     The acclamation of football nations, rather than a vote, brought an end to a rapid 14-month process which has …

  The world footballing body, FIFA, has officially named Saudi Arabia as the host nation of the FIFA World Cup 2034. This was disclosed at the Extraordinary FIFA Congress meeting, which held on Wednesday, December 11. FIFA also confirmed Morocco, Spain, and Portugal as co-hosts of the 2030 World Cup.   The Saudi bid was the only candidate and was acclaimed …