AN UNFORGIVING, UNFORGETTABLE 10-match, six-week tour of duty awaits the British & Irish Lions. Without a series win in 12 years, the heat is on. Can 38 elite athletes from four rival nations band together for one of sport's most demanding challenges? At the heart...
IT'S A GROSS cliché, but you never forget your first match. I remember stepping into the simmering hum of a football stadium, seven years old, wearing my older brother’s oversized replica shirt and clutching a match-day program so tight the ink was almost staining my...
WHEN STRONG MAN MITCHELL HOOPER set up to complete a Flintstone Barbell – a behind-the-neck overhead press using two giant rocks – in the qualifying rounds of the 2022 World’s Strongest Man, he was slightly apprehensive. He’d never attempted the move before,...
It's billed as the pinnacle of a player's career. Here's how Lions' coach Aled Walters is preparing his team to take on the Wallabies
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