Sign up to our free sport newsletter for all the latest news on everything from cycling to boxing Sign up to our free sport email for all the latest news Thanks for signing up to the Sport email France captain Antoine Dupont has been cleared to return to action following surgery on his facial fracture. Scrum-half Dupont became a doubt for the remainder of his country’s home Rugby World Cup

South Africa’s captain Duane Vermeulen urges his side to perform against Tonga Sign up to our free sport newsletter for all the latest news on everything from cycling to boxing Sign up to our free sport email for all the latest news Thanks for signing up to the Sport email Duane Vermeulen watched South Africa’s defeat to Ireland from the coaching box but will be back on the field in

Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. As he took hold of the premiership cup, his first as coach of Collingwood, on an afternoon when the roar around the MCG had been deafening, Craig McRae had more good news to deliver the Magpie army. Just hours before the Magpies had claimed their 16th flag before 100,024 fans, this time by

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Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. In one of his first interviews as Rugby Australia chairman, Hamish McLennan made a couple of statements that, in retrospect, are illuminating. The first was that “Dave Rennie is going to be a fantastic coach for us”. “He’s very calm,” McLennan told Sky Sport New Zealand three years ago. “He’s a grown-up.” The

Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Sport is a brutal career. Forget about what happens on the field, the requirements of the World Anti-Doping Code are the manifestation of brutality. The rules must be that way but the operation of them and the imposition of their consequences can be vicious. Outcomes can alter lives. An athlete who breaches the

Sign up to our free sport newsletter for all the latest news on everything from cycling to boxing Sign up to our free sport email for all the latest news Thanks for signing up to the Sport email Javan Sebastian admitted to being “a bit overwhelmed” about the prospect of making his first start for Scotland at a World Cup after bouncing back from a “dark” spell working as a

By Jake Niall Collingwood coach Craig McRae.Credit: Getty Images Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. One month before Collingwood would meet his old team in the 2023 grand final, Craig McRae stood before the Brisbane Lions players and fleetingly addressed them on the possibility of a premiership for the Magpies or the Lions. “If we don’t win it, I

Sign up to our free sport newsletter for all the latest news on everything from cycling to boxing Sign up to our free sport email for all the latest news Thanks for signing up to the Sport email Kicking coach Dave Alred and fitness specialist Paul Stridgeon were found to have illegally switched balls during England’s 67-3 triumph over Romania on this day in 2011. The pair were duly suspended

Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The AFL has ditched the boats and is returning to dry land with a motorcade for this year’s grand final parade after a 2022 procession on the Yarra River fell flat. Players for the Collingwood Magpies and Brisbane Lions will instead travel in utes through Melbourne on the public holiday on Friday, marking