All set for the Dakar Rally

The 39th Dakar Rally revs into gear on Monday in the Paraguayan capital Asuncion, the start of a punishing route at often giddy altitudes that the competitors admit they are scared by. From Asuncion the gruelling 9,000 km race will cross into Argentina, negotiate the...

Jemimah Sumgong in record breaking Brazil run

Olympic marathon champion Jemimah Sumgong’s love affair with Brazilian roads continued on Saturday when she won the 92nd Sao Silvestre international 15-kilometre road race in Sao Paulo, four months after her gold medal run at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics. Sumgong, who...

Officials ‘admit to existence of doping programme’

Russia is for the first time conceding that its officials carried out one of the biggest conspiracies in sports history: a far-reaching doping operation that implicated scores of Russian athletes, tainting not just the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi but also the entire...