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Olympic champ Evenepoel wins Tour de France 15th stage

Olympic champ Evenepoel wins Tour de France 15th stage

Olympic champion Remco Evenepoel beat race leader Tadej Pogacar in a sprint finish to take Sunday's 15th stage of the Tour de France, as former winner Jonas Vingegaard crashed out.

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Argentines out in force as New Yorkers bid farewell to World Cup carnival

Argentines out in force as New Yorkers bid farewell to World Cup carnival

Noisy Argentinians brought the World Cup carnival back to the heart of New York ahead of their blockbuster clash against Spain Sunday, reigniting interest in the tournament after it dipped with the US exit.

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Kim leads British Open as Young charges into clubhouse lead

Kim leads British Open as Young charges into clubhouse lead

South Korea's Kim Si-woo moved within sight of his first major after Sam Burns' two-shot overnight lead at the British Open vanished with three consecutive bogeys.

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Calm Antonelli takes sixth win of the season with victory at Belgian GP

Calm Antonelli takes sixth win of the season with victory at Belgian GP

Italian teenager Kimi Antonelli ended a three-race winless streak on Sunday to extend his lead in the Formula One drivers’ championship with a solid fighting victory for Mercedes in the Belgian Grand Prix.

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Antonelli takes sixth win of the season with victory at Belgian Grand Prix

Antonelli takes sixth win of the season with victory at Belgian Grand Prix

Italian teenager Kimi Antonelli extended his lead at the top of the world championship with victory in the Belgian Grand Prix at Spa on Sunday.

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Ton-up Duckett leads England to 387-3 in India ODI decider

Ton-up Duckett leads England to 387-3 in India ODI decider

Ben Duckett blasted a sublime 141 and Jacob Bethell powered to 91 as England pulverised India to reach a mammoth 387-3 in the third one-day international at Lord's on Sunday.

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Red and yellow sweep Madrid before World Cup final

Red and yellow sweep Madrid before World Cup final

Madrid was awash in red and yellow on Sunday as Spain prepared for the World Cup final against Argentina, with buses flying national flags, mobile phone networks adopting football-themed slogans and thousands of supporters wearing the national team's shirt.

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Russell out of Belgian GP after colliding with Hamilton on lap one

Russell out of Belgian GP after colliding with Hamilton on lap one

Mercedes driver George Russell crashed out of the Belgian Grand Prix on Sunday after colliding with Ferrari's Lewis Hamilton on the first lap at Spa-Francorchamps.

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Tsitsipas ends title drought in Gstaad

Tsitsipas ends title drought in Gstaad

Greece's Stefanos Tsitsipas won his first ATP title in nearly a year-and-a-half with a three-set win over Belgian Raphael Collignon at the Swiss Open in Gstaad on Sunday.

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Tour de France rivals Pogacar, Vingegaard given night-time doping controls

Tour de France rivals Pogacar, Vingegaard given night-time doping controls

Tour de France leader Tadej Pogacar and his main rival Jonas Vingegaard both confirmed on Sunday that they were visited in the middle of the night by anti-doping controllers, just hours before a crucial mountain stage.

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