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Vicente Modal: Former Olympic track and field coach accused of child sex crimes

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✨ Discover this must-read post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 Category: 📌 Key idea: Former British Olympic track and field coach Jose Vicente Leyva Modal has been charged with child sex offences, the Public Prosecution Service announced.Leva Modal, 65, the husband of former Olympic middle-distance runner Diane Modal, will appear in court on Tuesday to face 19 separate charges including sexual assault of a child, rape and controlling and coercive behaviour.The Public Prosecution said that all charges related to the same woman between 2012 and 2024.This follows an investigation by Greater Manchester Police into Norwegian national Leva Modal, also known…

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Commonwealth Games: Glasgow 2026 will award 215 gold medals over 10 days

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✨ Check out this must-read post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 Category: ✅ Main takeaway: Highlights of the sixth day: A further 26 gold medals will be decided, including the finals of the men's 3x3 and 200m freestyle events, which could see the host nations face off in the pool.In Scotstoun the women's heptathlon has concluded - will double Commonwealth champion Katarina Johnson-Thompson win a third title in a row? Sammy Kinghorn will be aiming to improve on her bronze in Birmingham in the T54 1500m.The most prominent events of the seventh day:At Sir Chris Hoy's track, Olympic medalist Neah…

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Formula 1 Q&A: Russell, FIA Presidency, TV coverage of Formula 1 and the 2026 Singapore Speedway

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✨ Discover this awesome post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 Category: 💡 Here’s what you’ll learn: With all the talk about Max Verstappen's impressive season, is the work George Russell doing at Mercedes being overlooked? Given the right equipment, does he look like a world champion in the making? - He diedGeorge Russell led a fantastic season, including dominant victories in Canada and Singapore.There was never any doubt about Russell's speed – his qualifying session for the 2021 Belgian Grand Prix, when he put the Williams car on the front row in the rain, can arguably be considered one of…

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England national football team: Who is the best striker after Harry Kane?

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🔥 Discover this must-read post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 Category: ✅ Key idea: Thank God for Harry Kane.The Bayern Munich star is likely to start England's match in Riga against Latvia on Tuesday evening as he hopes to add to his impressive run of 18 goals from his past 10 matches.A minor injury ruled Kane out of England's 3-0 win over Wales on Thursday night, with Aston Villa's Ollie Watkins - the only other striker in the squad - taking part.But during the match, Watkins hit the post and was subsequently ruled out of the Latvia match due to…

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R360: Where’s next in the rugby civil war after rookie league test ban hits?

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🚀 Discover this awesome post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 Category: 💡 Main takeaway: “I think the battle lines have been drawn publicly and everyone knows where the unions stand,” says sports attorney Ben Cisneros of Morgan Sports Law.“The main thing everyone is after is a clearer understanding of what the competition looks like and what the future holds.“If players are going to enter into new contracts with clubs within this new entity, there will need to be a number of guarantees that they will want to have on the viability of the competition, whether it will actually happen, the…

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LA28 Olympics: Why Brisbane 2032’s NFL and GB flag football teams loom on the horizon

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🚀 Discover this awesome post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 Category: 💡 Main takeaway: After finishing seventh at last year's World Championships and then fifth at this year's World Games, Britain's women retained their European title in Paris last month.Last December, the British American Football Association (BAFA) also received funding from UK Sport for the first time, with £500,000 allocated to developing the Olympic Performance Programme.This, coupled with investment from a private donor, has allowed Bafa to provide Britain's players with better support services than ever before and, for the first time, cover most of their travel expenses to this…

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Harry Kane: Is the ‘modest’ striker an undervalued England star?

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🔥 Explore this must-read post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 Category: ✅ Main takeaway: He was England's top scorer when they reached the final of the postponed Euro 2020 with four goals in seven games, although the 2022 World Cup ended in disappointment as Kane missed a penalty in a 2-1 defeat to France in the quarter-finals in Qatar.Kane, by his own standards, had a disappointing performance at Euro 2024, looking very tired and there was much clamor to replace the England captain with Aston Villa's Ollie Watkins.He was substituted in every one of England's knockout matches, including after just…

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Harry Kane, Kylian Mbappe or Erling Haaland – who is the better striker?

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✨ Read this awesome post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 Category: 💡 Here’s what you’ll learn: With three players in such good form, opinions are bound to be divided as to who is the best.“This is not to disparage Erling Haaland, who is one of the great players in world football,” said former Scotland, Chelsea and Everton winger Pat Nevin, a BBC sports analyst. "In England, they admire Harry and everyone else, but he should also be considered one of the greats of world football. Maybe he's not seen that way in England, but he is."“When you watch a match…

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World Cup Qualifiers: Can a dejected Scotland pull itself together to the end?

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🔥 Check out this trending post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 Category: ✅ Main takeaway: And when McTominay scored Scotland's second goal six minutes from time, he walked away with the indifference of a man who was adding a cherry on top of a rich performance rather than calming nerves at the end of a very tense game.By scoring the 13th goal in his international career, McTominay showed a calmness that contradicted the tension, but he did not continue and did not deserve to continue.Belarus had more attempts on Scotland's goal than Scotland did - and when Hleb Kuchko scored…

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Jordan Pickford: England goalkeeper agrees to a new contract with Everton

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✨ Read this trending post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 Category: ✅ Here’s what you’ll learn: Pickford has made 329 appearances for Everton since joining from his boyhood club Sunderland.He played a key role in helping Everton retain their Premier League status despite sackings of executives, breaches of financial rules and points deductions in recent seasons.Everton currently sit eighth in the Premier League table and are unbeaten at their new home - Hill Dickinson Stadium - so far this season.Pickford said that the club's players responded to Everton coach David Moyes' request to start the season well.Pickford added: "The manager…

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