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Tylen said: “I set out on New Year’s Day with the objective to achieve ‘a year in the saddle’ and set a new Guinness World Record and am delighted to have done so. “I can now truly claim the title of ‘one woman, one year, one world record.” Meanwhile, 7,600 miles away in the Indonesian city of Sragen, in Central Java, which has a population the size of Carlisle, the world’s oldest…

Chelsea’s Gary Cahill celebrates after scoring the opener for the leaders Premier League leaders Chelsea equalled the top-flight record of 13 consecutive wins in a single season by beating valiant Stoke in a thriller at Stamford Bridge. An exceptionally entertaining second half included five goals as the Blues were twice made to retake the lead by a Potters side who gave them one of their toughest tests this season. Gary…

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This is the first in a six-part New Year’s series examining how Japan is preparing for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics. On Dec. 21, the organizers of the Tokyo Summer Games announced that the 2020 sports extravaganza will cost no more than ¥1.8 trillion, boasting of their efforts to save money for the taxpayers in Tokyo and indeed all of Japan. But even if they manage to keep the…

A spectator at yesterday’s Porto-Feirense Portuguese league cup match learned the hard way to never look away from the match, even for a moment. Advertisement This is a Deadspin Video, in which strange sports moments are slowed down to ridiculous speeds and matched with indie music. This video features “Billy Mitchell” by Masters of the Hemisphere. See previous episodes here. A Spotify playlist of every song used in Deadspin Videos…

facebook Share twitter Share As this Olympic Year 2016 comes to a close, we see that sport is one of the few things with the power to unite all people in an increasingly fragile world. Sport is an anchor of stability for so many people, regardless of background, nationality or belief. For me, this is the underlying reason that…

It’s 58 days until the 2017 Daytona 500 is televised live on FOX, bringing to mind the unusual history of the No. 58 in NASCAR’s Premier Series. It has gone to Victory Lane just once. That happened on June 16, 1962, when little-known (then and now) Johnny Allen took his No. 58 Pontiac to Victory Lane in the Myers Brothers 200 at Bowman Gray Stadium in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. A…

Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo has received a generous paycheck from a Chinese soccer team, his agent Jorge Mendes told Sky Sport recently. The unidentified Chinese buyer had offered the newly crowned four-time golden ball winner an annual salary of over €100 million ($105 million), Mendes claimed—double Ronaldo’s current yearly earnings in salary and bonuses. But the Portuguese star, who won championship titles with both his national team and Real Madrid…

Australia is world-famous as a swimming nation. We have a celebrated beach culture, not to mention more privately owned pools per capita than any other country. Yet few urban Australians would consider swimming in their city’s river. Almost every major Australian city sits on the banks of a large river. But judging by online reactions to the suggestion of a dip in the Brisbane river, most people are worried about…

Australia is world-famous as a swimming nation. We have a celebrated beach culture, not to mention more privately owned pools per capita than any other country. Yet few urban Australians would consider swimming in their city’s river. Almost every major Australian city sits on the banks of a large river. But judging by online reactions to the suggestion of a dip in the Brisbane river, most people are worried about…

When Moussa Camara scored a late first-half equalizer against Mukura earlier this month in a Rwandan Premier League match, fans of the Rayon Sports forward didn’t know for what to cheer: the player’s skill or his apparent belief in witchcraft. Just three minutes before the Mali-born player booted in what would be the final goal of the 1-1 draw, he was spotted fiddling with something near the opponent’s goal post. According…

The judge said Sport England’s current policy defined sport as involving “physical activity” and its move to reject reclassification of bridge was correct. During the case, Sport England argued that bridge was no more a sporting activity than “sitting at home, reading a book”. Speaking after the decision, Sport England’s director of sport, Phil Smith, said: “Our job is to help the nation to be more physically active. We recognise…

A “lack of clarity surrounding dual roles” between British Cycling and Team Sky, “resentment amongst some riders and BC staff who did not have Team Sky roles/contracts”, and perhaps most pertinently, the “serious reputational risk to many stakeholders posed by a doping scandal at Team Sky” were all flagged up by the 2011 Deloitte report jointly commissioned by British Cycling and UK Sport to look into the relationship between British…

Just when Hope Solo thought she couldn’t be more of an outcast, her former teammates kicked her hand-picked equal-pay advocate to the curb. US women’s national soccer team players said Wednesday that attorney Rich Nichols, whom the combustible goalkeeper reportedly “convinced” the team to hire two years ago, will no longer serve as the union’s counsel in contentious contract negotiations with the US Soccer Federation. Before Solo was issued a…

The British Cycling president, Bob Howden, insists he is prevented from confirming what was in a package delivered to Sir Bradley Wiggins five years ago due to the UK Anti-Doping investigation into the matter. Wiggins announced his retirement on Wednesday but the contents of the package given to him at the end of a race in France in 2011 are the subject of a Ukad investigation into alleged “wrongdoing”. The…

The British Cycling president, Bob Howden, insists he is prevented from confirming what was in a package delivered to Sir Bradley Wiggins five years ago due to the UK Anti-Doping investigation into the matter. Wiggins announced his retirement on Wednesday but the contents of the package given to him at the end of a race in France in 2011 are the subject of a Ukad investigation into alleged “wrongdoing”. The…

In a neatly maintained archive of papers held in the library at Brunel University, the pioneering campaigner for action to prevent sexual abuse in sport Prof Celia Brackenridge compiled a catalogue of horrific cases that came to court in the 1990s. Included in the files is a note on the Channel 4 Dispatches programme that in 1997 exposed several instances of abuse in football. Tragically the Brackenridge archive comprises reports…

Here’s something you may not have known — soccer in Rwanda is lit. In a recent match in the African nation, Mukura Victory was leading Rayon Sports 1-0 when Moussa Camara headed a ball off the post as he tried to bring his team level. He then ran to the post and put something next to it which supposedly was him trying to use witchcraft on the post. What happens…

Bradley Wiggins has announced his retirement from cycling, ending a career that saw him win a British record eight Olympic medals as well as the country’s first Tour de France title. The 36-year-old posted a statement on his Instagram page on Wednesday afternoon, accompanying a picture of his collected race jerseys, medals and trophies. In it, he said: “2016 is the end of the road for this chapter, onwards and…