More than the Score

Broadcasters around the world have reported huge viewing figures for this year's Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics. In the US, NBC has said viewership increased by ninety-six percent compared to the 2022 Beijing Games, while in the UK, the BBC has said this was its most-watched Winter Games ever - partly driven by the exploits of Great Britain's curling teams. Five-and-a-half million TV viewers - equi...

UFC legend Ronda Rousey is scheduled to face Gina Carano on 16 May in California. Both women have been long retired and will undergo stricter "neurological and concussion" medical tests before they are cleared to return to MMA. Rousey has spoken at length about serious concussion problems throughout her athletic career and said it contributed to her decision to retire from MMA 10 years ago so is h...

Making your negative feelings known in football has long been an accepted part of the game. For players and match officials, it is what they have come to expect at some point in their careers. But are fans booing their own team and manager more than ever?  Wayne Rooney, who made headlines in 2010 after hitting out at England fans for booing the team, remembers being booed quite a lot in his career...

Norway’s Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo is the first athlete to win six gold medals at a Winter Olympics, so was it a greatest of all time (GOAT) performance in terms of an individual athlete at a games? He completed his historic gold medal sweep of the men’s cross-country skiing events after winning his sixth race. Klaebo’s victory in the 50-kilometer mass start race shattered the nearly 50-year record...

Italy's men's international rugby team have gone from perennial Six Nations strugglers to talk of one day winning the competition. In the not-too-distant past, they were almost certain to be awarded the wooden spoon for finishing bottom of the table behind England, France, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. In fact, throughout much of the late 2010s and the early 2020s, there was plenty of demand for It...

England's Women's Super League, or WSL, is one of the richest leagues in women's football, with players from many countries - but it's proven particularly attractive for Swedish footballers. Twenty-three Swedes play across the league, including such names as Manchester United's Fridolina Rolfo and Hanna Lundkvist, as well as Arsenal's Stina Blackstenius. But has that damaged Sweden's own league, t...

World Cup-winning cricketer Smriti Mandhana has been named BBC Indian Sportswoman of the Year for 2025 - the first cricketer to win the award. As vice-captain, she helped her country to win the 2025 ICC Women's Cricket World Cup, scoring 434 runs across the tournament. Mandhana was chosen by a distinguished grand jury comprising tennis great Leander Paes, Paralympic medallist Deepa Malik and World...

Emily Harrop is the dominant force in the sport of ski mountaineering, or skimo – an intense, demanding discipline that combines cross-country and alpine skiing. The French racer has won the sport's overall and sprint World Cup titles for the past four seasons, and as skimo joins the Olympic programme at the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics, Harrop is the hot favourite to become its first gold medali...

Sturla Holm Laegreid won a bronze medal in the men's 20km biathlon at the Winter Olympics in Milan-Cortina - then tearfully confessed to TV cameras that he had cheated on his girlfriend, and wanted to reconcile with her. It was the most unexpected moment of the Games, and suddenly put biathlon in the headlines all over the world. And that's not the only controversy that's put the spotlight on biat...

Dave Ryding is the only British Alpine skier to ever win a World Cup race. His 2022 victory in the slalom at Kitzbuhel also saw him become the oldest man to ever win a World Cup slalom, aged 35. Ryding's career started years later than those of his peers, and in very different circumstances to skiers from the traditional Alpine superpowers. Dave learned to ski as a teenager on the plastic dry slop...

Earlier this month, Liverpool and Netherlands captain Virgil van Dijk commented that some former footballers who now work as pundits go too far in their criticism of young players. Speaking to Sky Sports' Gary Neville, he argued that "sometimes criticism also goes into being clickbait, saying things to provoke things, and without thinking about the repercussions for the mental side of players, and...

Polo is one of the world's oldest team sports, believed to have origins that date back more than 2,000 years, in which two teams of horse riders compete to hit a ball against posts at either end of a playing field. It might not seem like a place for innovation - but over the past decade, polo has been transformed by the use of cloned horses. At the heart of the cloning boom is Argentinian Adolfo C...

The 2021 US Open tennis champion Emma Radacanu is looking for the 10th coach of her career so how do coaches and athletes build successful partnerships? The BBC’s Lee James is joined by tennis journalist Molly McElwee and renowned boxing coach Joe Gallagher. McElwee believes Raducanu and Francis Roig had a difference in philosophy in how to play and that a player needs to have faith in a coach if...

Ilia Malinin, Kaori Sakamoto and Matteo Rossi are among the figure skaters who've already lit up the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics. Figure skating and ice dance are among the most-watched sports at any Games, with crowds enthralled by the flair, risk and technical brilliance. But what goes into making a winning routine? Ed Harry speaks to Benoit Richaud and Robin Cousins, two men who know what it...

The tenth edition of the ICC Men's T20 World Cup is being co-hosted by India and Sri Lanka. Defending champions India are the strong favourites but could South Africa build on their recent success and go all the way? Beaten finalists in 2024, the Proteas travel to the sub-continent as World Test Champions. India cricket commentator, Prakash Wakankar, explains to Delyth Lloyd why he can't see anyon...

Arianna Fontana is Italy's most-decorated Winter Olympian. She won her first Olympic short-track speed skating medal in 2006, when she was just 15 years old. Twenty years on, Fontana heads into Milan-Cortina as one of the faces of this year's Games. She'll be carrying the Italian flag in the opening ceremony, before bidding to add to her tally of 11 Olympic medals - including golds in the 500m at...

Super Bowl LX between the New England Patriots and the Seattle Seahawks will have an estimated global audience of over 127 million. The field at the Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California, not only has to cater for the players and dozens of staff, but also the pre-game and half-time festivities that help to make Super Bowl Sunday such a huge cultural phenomenon. Jordan Achay was part of the gro...

More than 3500 athletes from 93 countries will be competing for 195 medals at the Milan-Cortina Games. Three countries will be making their Winter Olympic debuts at the 2026 Games, the African nations of Benin and Guinea Bissau along with the United Arab Emirates. But with the established winter sport nations such as Norway, the United States of America, Canada and Germany looking to dominate the...

With transfer windows closing in some of Europe's major leagues on February 2nd, we hear from one of the most powerful agents in football. Rafaela Pimenta's clients include Manchester City striker Erling Haaland, Liverpool manager Arne Slot and 17-year-old Mexican wonderkid Gilberto Mora. In an in-depth interview with the BBC’s Simon Stone, Pimenta discusses the sexism she has faced during her car...

Lara Colturi is only 19 years old, but she's already one of the world's best slalom skiers, with four podium finishes in this season's World Cup. She heads into the Winter Olympics in Milan-Cortina with the chance of making history, by becoming Albania's first Winter Olympic medallist. In an interview recorded earlier this year for BBC TV's Ski Sunday, Colturi talks to former British Olympic skier...

Naomi Osaka turned heads at tennis's Australian Open when she took to the court for her first-round match wearing a long, flowing outfit - accompanied by a custom hat and parasol - inspired by reading her daughter a story about jellyfish. Created with sports brand Nike and designer Robert Wun, it further cemented four-time Grand Slam champion Osaka's reputation as one of sport's most fashion-consc...

Heated Rivalry is TV's most talked-about show. Based on a series of novels by author Rachel Reid, it tells the story of a secret romance between two male ice hockey players, the Canadian Shane Hollander and the Russian Ilya Rozanov. Since launching on the Canadian streaming service Crave in November 2025, it has acquired a huge and passionate fanbase around the world; the show’s two lead actors, H...

Ellie Bouttell is a boxer who was born in the UK and crafted in China. During a difficult period as a teenager, she went to live with her father in China before returning to England to study Chinese at University. At University, Bouttell took a boxing class to improve her cardio and her love for the sport was born. She later returned to China and took the decision to turn professional. In an in-de...

The NBA is synonymous with basketball in most parts of the world. It's the most-watched, richest and best-known league in the game. And now it's making plans to launch a spin-off competition in Europe. The European influence on the NBA is growing - there are 71 European-born players in the league this season, and five of its last seven MVP (Most Valuable Player) awards have gone to European player...

The Australian Open tennis championships are reaching the end of their first week, but the hottest ticket so far hasn't been Carlos Alcaraz, Jannik Sinner, Iga Swiatek or Aryna Sabalenka. Instead, observers were stunned by the queues to watch the world number 49, Alexandra Eala of the Philippines. Her first-round match had been put on court number 6, leaving many fans disappointed as they were lef...