"Playing football is the best for us, for the club and for the fans ... it's the only thing that we control and we want ...

Ukraine's Dayana Yastremska reached the Lyon WTA quarterfinals on Thursday, less than a week after escaping Russian bomb attacks on her home city of Odessa.

Athletes from the Russian Paralympic Committee and Belarus were excluded from the Games after tensions escalated in the Games' villages ahead of the opening ceremony.

Rod Marsh was remembered as "a colossal figure" in Australian cricket who gave close to 50 years of service to the sport as tributes poured ...