Sport

ROME -- Rana Reider, the coach of Italian sprinter Marcell Jacobs, has had his accreditation removed by the Canadian Olympic Committee over safeguarding concerns.

ROME -- It is not often at the Olympics that we get to see a true underdog triumph.

ROME -- Jasmine Paolini and Sara Errani won gold for Italy in stunning fashion in the final of the women’s tennis doubles, adding more medals to the Azzurri tally over a weekend of action in Paris.

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ROME -- With widespread attention turned on the fallout from Angela Carini’s boxing abandonment, you could be forgiven for missing Italy’s other sporting triumphs.

ROME -- Before the first punch was pulled at the Arena Paris Nord, Angela Carini looked ready to take on the world.

  LONDON -- Zak Chelli, the current British and Commonwealth Super-Middleweight Champion, with Italian roots will be in action this weekend against mandatory challenger Callum Simpson. 

ROME -- Nicolò Martinenghi won the men’s 100 metre breaststroke final in stunning fashion to beat two-time Olympic gold medallist Adam Peaty and claim Italy’s first gold medal of the Paris Olympics

 LONDON -- Coverage of Wimbledon concludes with a blizzard of numbers which often offer a comprehensive overview of the tournament.

 LONDON -- Rock star Antonello Venditi said it best after Italy lost an important football match. The measure of humans is best demonstrated by their behaviour in defeat.

 LONDON -- In Italy where time is reckoned in eons and ages rather than mere centuries, it’s unusual that anything happens that hasn’t happened before.

 ROME – Italian tennis player, Jasmine Paolini, made history as she became the first Italian woman to reach the Wimbledon finals.

 LONDON -- A day after yesterday’s bleak weather at Wimbledon looked like the end of the world, the sun came out.

A DIRGE FOR WIMBLEDON

with apologies to Verlaine

It rains in my heart

As it rains on court.

 LONDON -- When I started following the professional tennis tour, I set out with many misconceptions, none more ludicrous, I soon realized, than my assumption that sinc

 LONDON -- One of the abiding clichés in tennis holds that players regard cash as a secondary, even a tertiary consideration.

 LONDON -- Journalists are supposed to be neutral, objective. But to be honest we all have our favourites, our secret preferences. Mine is Frances Tiafoe.

 LONDON -- Tennis is a game of traditions, and a rich literature has grown up around the arcane origins of everything from its scoring system to its etiquette.

 LONDON -- Delightful it was to be at Wimbledon on a dry(ish) day in July. But to be a fan of Italian tennis was purest heaven. Hours before World No.

 LONDON -- The first-round headlines at Wimbledon had less to do with what happened on court and what transpired in the doctor’s office.

 LONDON --  Wimbledon 2024 opens with a resounding volley of questions. Will Carlos Alcaraz repeat as champion and win his fourth Grand Slam title?

 LONDON -- With 2024 Wimbledon about to start, it strikes me that I’ve spent almost a year of my life swanning around the hallowed grounds at SW19, London. It’s easy to do the math.

 ROME -- Defending champions Italy were knocked out of Euro 2024 by Switzerland, who beat the Azzurri 0-2 in Berlin.