Team Sky are set to announce a new sponsor – owned by Britain’s richest man Sir Jim Ratcliffe. The broadcaster said in December that it would end its decade-long commitment at the end of 2019, during which time Team Sky have won eight Grand Tours. The team will be renamed Team Ineos – after the… Read More »
When a game is won at such a canter it seems strange to talk of miracles. But as Alun Wyn Jones raised the Six Nations trophy into the teeming Cardiff skies on Saturday, gold and red streamers cascading down from the stands, flame-throwers lobbing light into the gloom overhead, the great coup of Warren Gatland’s… Read More »
Olympic champions Great Britain missed out on a medal ride in the men’s team pursuit on day one of the Track Cycling World Championships in Colombia. Two-time Olympic gold medallist Ed Clancy, Sam Harrison, Owain Doull and Jon Dibben finished eighth, in four minutes 4.419 seconds in Cali. GB won the four-kilometre event in 2012,… Read More »