Luis Suarez left his last Barcelona training session in tears on Wednesday as he prepares for a move to La Liga rivals Atletico Madrid. Spanish television channel Gol showed the Uruguayan striker wiping away tears with his sleeve as he drove off after saying his last goodbyes. Suarez...

The only thing more difficult than staging next year's Tokyo Olympics in a pandemic might be convincing sponsors to keep their billions of dollars on board in the midst of economic turbulence and skepticism. To make the point this week, IOC President Thomas Bach will join a number of...

Paris Saint-Germain defeated on Sunday Nice 3-0 in an away game to record their second victory in the 2020-2021 Ligue 1 season. Kylian Mbappe scored in his returning game after missing three matches after contracting the novel coronavirus. Angel Di Maria and Marquinhos also scored, and...

Top seeds Novak Djokovic and Simona Halep both advanced to the finals of the Italian Open on Sunday as fans returned to the stands at the Foro Italico for the first time this week. World number one Djokovic booked a place in a 10th Rome final with a 7-5, 6-3 win over Norway's Casper Ruud....

Pep Guardiola said Friday that only Lionel Messi knows if a move to Manchester City is a possibility next year after the Argentine reluctantly decided to stay at Barcelona this season. In an explosive interview earlier this month, Messi blasted Barcelona president Josep Maria Bartomeu,...

Bayern Munich must host Schalke behind closed doors in Friday's opening game of the new Bundesliga season as the defending champions begin their hunt for a ninth straight league title minus playmaker Thiago Alcantara and with Kingsley Coman in quarantine. On Thursday, it was confirmed that...

Neymar's punishment for being one of five players sent off following a brawl at the end of Paris Saint-Germain's defeat to Marseille will be revealed on Wednesday, the French Football League (LFP) said Monday. The world's most expensive footballer was shown the red card in stoppage time of...

Lewis Hamilton celebrated the 90th win of his Formula One career, one short of Michael Schumacher's all-time record, after a crazy crash-strewn Tuscan Grand Prix on Sunday that was twice stopped and re-started. The six-time world champion's Finnish teammate Valtteri Bottas completed the...

Barcelona have taken heed of Lionel Messi's scathing criticism of the club as they begin a "fresh and exciting project", vice-president Pau Vilanova has said. Vilanova's assessment is the first time someone on the Barca board has spoken publicly since Messi's explosive interview with Goal...

This year's edition of the AFC Cup, Asia's second-tier club competition, has been cancelled amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the continent's governing body for football said in a statement Thursday. The competition, in which teams from more minor nations in Asia participate, had been suspended...

Former world champion Sebastian Vettel has signed for the renamed Aston Martin team for the 2021 season "and beyond", the ambitious British Formula One outfit announced Thursday. The 33-year-old German won four consecutive titles from 2010 to 2013 with Red Bull before joining Ferrari, but...

Six-time Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton on Tuesday announced he was entering a team in the Extreme E competition, a new electric off-road racing series that aims to shed light on environmental issues. It will be Hamilton's first foray into motorsport team ownership, although he...

Barcelona captain Lionel Messi reported for training Monday for the first time since requesting to leave the club last month. Messi had failed to turn up to the club's tests for COVID-19 eight days ago and been absent from all subsequent sessions ahead of the new campaign after giving the...

The racing Williams family ended their association with Formula One on Sunday with an understated result at the Italian Grand Prix that reflected their recent fortunes and a pledge from one of their drivers to "drive like hell to honour the name". After 740 races, 114 victories, 128 pole...

France's Pierre Gasly won an astonishing Italian Grand Prix thriller for Italy-based AlphaTauri Sunday in a topsy-turvy race packed with suspense and none of the usual top teams on the podium. McLaren's Spaniard Carlos Sainz finished a close second at Monza after a nail-biting chase to the...

Argentine football superstar Lionel Messi will remain with Spain's Barcelona for a final season, a sports channel in Argentina said on Friday. "Lionel Messi will continue in Barcelona until June 30, 2021, the date on which his contract ends," TyC Sports said in an exclusive report....

Championship leader Lewis Hamilton topped the times ahead of team-mate Valtteri Bottas as Mercedes continued their emphatic domination in Friday afternoon's second practice for this weekend’s Italian Grand Prix. The six-time champion responded to the Finn’s quickest lap in opening practice...

Japanese officials and Tokyo 2020 organisers began talks Friday on the mammoth task of how to hold the postponed Olympics safely while the coronavirus pandemic continues to rage. The Games were postponed earlier this year in a historic decision as the scale of the coronavirus crisis became...

Lewis Hamilton on Thursday urged people to continue discussing their mental health and said, based on his personal experience, that it was a strength and not a weakness for people to show their vulnerability. The championship leader and six-time world champion said he experienced "difficult...

Lewis Hamilton stretched his lead in the drivers' world championship and closed to within two wins of Michael Schumacher's Formula One record of 91 Sunday with a majestic, if ultimately tense, Belgian Grand Prix victory. The series leader and six-time champion registered his 89th career win...