Oliver Brown

World Athletics head Sebastian Coe has vowed to shift the IOC’s emphasis from human rights to biology to protect the women’s category if he succeeds Thomas Bach.

The gifted footballer and ambivalent fashion star on being left on the bench by Gareth Southgate and becoming a hero in St Kitts

It is nearing the end of the photo shoot and Cole Palmer , whose blank resting expression is perfect for modelling, needs a little persuasion to smile. Step forward his agent, Mark Rankine, a wisecracking character with a gift for piercing Palmer's defences. For a few moments the pair lark about on set, throwing their arms around each other and taking peace-sign selfies with their iPhones against a background of vivid Chelsea blue. “This,” Rankine tells his young superstar, “is the pose we're going to strike when you win the Ballon d'Or .”

oliver brown The mischievous South Africa coach Rassie Erasmus a confounding, magnetic personality

There was a moment of unbearable pathos when Sir Bradley Wiggins sat down in Colorado this summer to dissect his torment with, of all people, Lance

Revelations about legendary British cyclist’s financial woes dash hopes that his road to perdition could end at happier destination

While it was Rafael Nadal who perfected the “banana shot”, famously unleashing his around-the-netpost party trick at the 2009 Australian Open, Novak Djokovic might just have produced tennis' greatest curveball yet.

Scot and Serb both have a history of bellowing at their own team – at least one of them will have to stop doing so

When Anthony and June Hadad found their dream home almost 50 years ago, they had not taken much notice of the distinctive front gate that came with it.