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• Van Dijk had been out since October with cruciate injury• Joe Gomez also made injury comeback against Hertha BerlinVirgil van Dijk and Joe Gomez have lifted Liverpool by making successful playing returns following their long-term injuries.The centre-…
Testing identifies several possible positive cases in camp‘Maintaining Covid security is a priority for us,’ say clubManchester United have cancelled their pre-season friendly with Preston on Saturday after a number of suspected coronavirus cases in th…
Simone Biles cheers on the 18-year-old daughter of refugees who fled Laos for US at end of Vietnam warThis was supposed to be the night that Simone Biles added yet another star-spangled page to the history books, by becoming the first gymnast to defend…
Club pauses for 97 seconds at pre-season training base in Austria for Andrew Devine, who died this weekThe players and staff of Liverpool football club have observed 97 seconds of silence at their training base in Austria as a tribute to Andrew Devine,…
Vondrousova has backed up her big win over Naomi OsakaMedvedev loses against Carreño Busta in men’s singlesMarketa Vondrousova and Belinda Bencic will face each other in the women’s tennis singles gold medal match. Vondrousova, who toppled the second s…
The Portuguese has downplayed the idea he can offer a quick fix but expectations are high for his return to ItalyHow many managers could inspire a mural before taking charge of their first game? José Mourinho was not even officially in the job yet at R…
Lee: ‘I was starting to put a lot of pressure on myself’Brazil’s Rebeca Andrade wins silver after injury troubles Sunisa Lee, the new women’s Olympic all-around champion, said that Simone Biles and her older teammates gave her some key advice in a tens…
Rio 2016 silver medallist went down a storm as part of the BBC’s Olympics coverage and is keen to go again as a punditThis Olympics has seen the rise of new British stars, from the likes of Tom Dean and Duncan Scott in the pool to Tom Pidcock and Georg…
Attritional contests are things of the past but there has been no change to the exhausting number of games on the calendar Listen to anyone involved in the British & Irish Lions’ agonising defeat by South Africa in the second Test in 2009 and one w…
Decision on whether deal will happen expected in daysVilla want to hold on to Grealish and have offered new dealManchester City have stepped up their pursuit of Jack Grealish by opening negotiations with Aston Villa. The England playmaker is a key targ…
First Group One winner for jockey after low of 2018Renowned music agent puts Jarvis back at top table Oisin Murphy led a celebration party from the weighing room holding a sign that read “Smile, dance, wave and celebrate” after Lady Bowthorpe’s success…
Sevilla want at least €45m plus Zouma for France defenderWest Ham’s £20m valuation of Zouma falls about £10m shortSevilla have told Chelsea to increase their offer for Jules Koundé, and the deal could run into further complications after West Ham enter…
Dutch driver went to hospital after incident at British GPHamilton will endure racist abuse if it leads to equalityLewis Hamilton has said he would repeat the move against Max Verstappen that led to the Dutchman crashing out of the British Grand Prix. …
US qualify for knockout stage with 17-7 victory over hostsChris Brown expresses disappointment with performanceChris Brown sounded keen to return to the dressing room and admonish his players, which felt a little incongruous since his team had just won…
Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now!Never accuse The Fiver of failing to offer past England players their dues. Big Phil Neville last week, Plain Old John Terry this – and, to complete the hat-trick of 2000s stars who have otherwise been…
The Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjær says the club has showed its ambition by agreeing deals to sign Jadon Sancho and Raphaël Varane. Sancho has completed his move from Borussia Dortmund, while Varane should soon follow from Real Madrid su…
Team have ‘scratched surface of what we can do’ at OlympicsAndonovski says sacrifices must be made to execute his plansCrystal Dunn believes the US women’s national team have only “scratched the surface” of what they can achieve at the Tokyo Olympics b…
GB women’s team led at half-time but Black Ferns win 26-21British side will face Kenya next in Group AGreat Britain were so far ahead that, just for a moment, Tyla Nathan-Wong struggled to remember the score – “21-0 down, or however it was,” the New Ze…
Chelsea winger Christian Pulisic says “anything’s possible” in the upcoming campaign, as the Blues look to build on their Champions League success of last season.
Thomas Tuchel did a remarkable job in the second half of last season to guide Chelsea t…
