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WADA's 2027 prohibited list, in force from 1 January, keeps GLP-1 drugs on the monitoring programme. The agency's own criteria require at least two of three boxes to be ticked.
Rebecca Henderson walked 42.195km in 3hr 14min 52sec in the rain at Takahata, the first senior world record by an Australian track and field athlete in a championship event for 20 years. The discipline is nine months old.
The Mercedes driver took pole in Austin and can settle his first world championship this weekend. To do it he needs two other drivers to finish in particular places.
A settlement with the players' association drops the league's performance and marketing tests. From 2027, any player paid at least 12 per cent of the base salary cap qualifies.
Harry Brook reached 200 from 114 balls and finished on 202, taking England to 429 for 4 in Rawalpindi. Sri Lanka chased 430 with two wickets and one ball to spare.
Catherine Breed swam from the Oregon border to Mexico in staged sections linked by GPS waypoints. Formal ratification is pending.
The Backyard Ultra World Team Championship sends runners round a 6.7km loop on the hour, every hour, until one is left. Two of Australia's 15 are still going.
A 3-1 win over Coventry gave Spurs their first victory of the season and lifted them out of the bottom three. The Guardian counted the stadium's other comparably frequent sell-out.
Real Sociedad came from behind to win 2-1 at Zubieta on Sunday, ending a 45-game unbeaten run that began last November.
The five span 32 years and include chassis raced by Gerhard Berger, Jenson Button and Lando Norris. The most modern was taken to 317km/h at Austin by Brad Pitt.
Billy Loughnane, 20, is the youngest champion since 1923. He is now chasing a mark set in 1947, which is the only one of the two he can still improve.
Brandon Figueroa weighed 1.4 pounds over the featherweight limit and was stripped. The bout was then called off and the belt went unwon.
A phone-sized device replaced the card in a Copa Uruguay match. Its developers say the colours must be visible at the ground and on television; an earlier trial was abandoned because of sunlight.
The USOPC chief executive says geographically dispersed Games are becoming the norm. Only the calendar still holds them together.
Chad Laycock, 19, is the first bowler to take five wickets in an over in South African T20 cricket, finishing with 6/26. KZN Inland lost the match by 21 runs.
Rwanda will host the African Grand Prix from the early 2030s, ending an absence from the continent that began in 1993. The track is planned beside an airport that is also still under construction.
Hunt Auctions says the price moves game-worn basketball kit into an asset class usually reserved for art. The 1998 Finals went six games, which leaves four.
The 2026 race recorded the second-highest attendance in Marina Bay's history. The 2022 figure that beats it is 302,000, and the circuit has since lost a grandstand seating 27,000.
The two-time Olympic champion won at the MCG in 2:09:10, two seconds inside the previous race best. He slowed on the final half-lap to wave.
Rohit Yadav's own javelin bent in an aircraft hold. Neeraj Chopra, absent from the Games with an ankle injury, sent one of his own by taxi.
Pieter Coetze swam 22.09 in Tashkent. Kliment Kolesnikov, whose 22.11 had stood since 2022, finished sixth in 22.88.
Carlos Alcaraz, Coco Gauff, Naomi Osaka and Jannik Sinner will play the 1 Point Slam at Rod Laver Arena on 13 January. Every match lasts one point.
South Africa, Qatar, India, Hungary, Turkey, Germany and South Korea present to the IOC in November. The president says athletes must be at the heart of everything the movement does.
Entries for the 2027 ODI World Cup in southern Africa passed 1.1 million within days of opening. India feature in the four most sought-after fixtures.
A hard-coded anti-cheating rule fired during two wet formation laps in Malaysia, shutting down electric motors across the field. The FIA wrote a fix and started the race an hour late.
The Aga Khan Studs four-year-old beat Bay City Roller at ParisLongchamp on Sunday. Two horses have retained the race since 1978, and both of them were fillies.
Trinity beat Warrington Wolves 23-10 at Old Trafford to become champions of England for the first time since 1968, two years after winning the Championship play-off final.
The 20-year-old's unbeaten 188 from 79 balls is the highest score in a men's T20 match. The Knights, batting eleven, managed 143.
The cockatoo emblem appeared in the preview image of a video on the Games' own YouTube channel, with its official explanation attached. The Olympics minister would not say whether the leak was planned.
Darren Yap took a joint-bronze in the first virtual taekwondo event staged at an Asian Games, a day after a medal in the physical version. Each competitor fights an opponent they can see only through goggles.
Three centuries, 405 for seven, and a chase completed with 39 balls to spare. Shubman Gill made 223 not out off 133 balls.
Betting companies supplied 34 per cent of top-flight clubs' commercial revenue in 2025, about $200 million. Flamengo's deal alone matched a transfer fee.
The Wallabies collected four yellow cards in the last quarter of an hour in Perth and finished the match two short of a rugby league side. They won 42-38.
The Internationals led by three points going into the singles at Medinah and lost the session 9.5-2.5. It was the largest final-day comeback in the event's history.
Four start places, three unavailable riders and a closed registration window left the national team with one option. The coach says the participation is a formality, which is precisely what the rules ask for.
Organisers expect 2.5 million spectators across 52 matches in seven Australian cities. The Tour de France is estimated to pass more than 10 million, and counts none of them.
Vithya Ramaraj's anchor leg held off Vietnam in Nagoya, where Bahrain won gold in a Games record of 3:12.87. India finished in 3:14.46 and Vietnam in 3:14.54.
A seventh successive annual loss takes the club's total to £444m since 2019. Supporters are being offered 7cm squares of the replaced pitch for £125 each.
Forty-eight countries begin a six-round campaign for the 2027 finals. The appeal over January's final is listed at the Court of Arbitration for Sport on 8 October.
The Collingwood midfielder broke Patrick Cripps's record of 45 votes. He polled the maximum three votes in thirteen separate matches.
A Bristol and Oxford study logged more than 93,000 brand appearances across all 104 matches. No player appeared in as many.
The Belgian was 30 seconds clear by halfway in Montreal and finished almost a minute ahead. In a race against the clock, this newspaper reports the result from the clock's side.
The world champion trailed 9-8 in a best-of-19 in Amsterdam before holding throw and then breaking it. He described the pair as good friends who raise each other's game.
The England captain broke a 49-year-old record in Bayern Munich's 7-0 win over Union Berlin. Since 2023 he has averaged a Bundesliga goal every 78.5 minutes.
A 2-1 victory at Real Sociedad opened the club's first European campaign in 127 years. A flag in the away end supplied the club's preferred unit of measurement.
The four-time world champion was given 35 laps and 75 minutes to pass the entire field in an exhibition kart race. He used 14 laps.
Coaches across Europe are studying a potentially revolutionary competitive strategy.