How Alice Milliat brought women into the Olympics
Analysis: the Frenchwoman played a huge role in establishing the first Women's World Games 100 years ago this month
Greece Sport News
More to come from Caudery despite seventh-placed finish at Europeans
Molly Caudery admits she could have given more despite claiming a solid seventh-place finish at the European Championships. The Redruth pole vaulter, 22, cleared the bar at the second highest height of her career as a leap of 4.55m hauled her ahead of British teammate Sophie Cook. Ad But it was not enough for a medal as flying Finn Wilma Murto grabbed gold ahead of Greek star Aikaterini Stefanidi and Slovenian Tina Sutej.
Medvedev grinds down Shapovalov in Cincinnati
World number one Daniil Medvedev wore down Canadian Denis Shapovalov 7-5 7-5 on Thursday to reach the Cincinnati quarter-finals ahead of his U.S. Open title defence.
Olympic champ Pichardo wins Euro triple jump, Bol keeps double bid on track
MUNICH: World and Olympic champion Pedro Pichardo added European triple jump gold to his accolades in Munich on Wednesday while Dutchwoman Femke Bol kept her bid for an audacious track double on course.
Fritz overpowers Kyrgios in Cincinnati
Taylor Fritz blasted his way to a 6-3 6-2 win over Australian Nick Kyrgios on Wednesday and a place in the Cincinnati Open third round.
Suarez-esque Nott'm Forest target now unhappy with Marinakis, move in serious jeopardy
Nottingham Forest could be set to miss out on Bordeaux striker Hwang Ui-jo, according to French outlet L’Equipe (via Sport Witness).
Crowd propelled me to best-ever finish, says race-walker Davies
Resurgent racewalker Bethan Davies believes the magical Munich crowd helped propel her to her best-ever finish at a major international championships. The Cardiff star delivered a battling display to finish 11th in Tuesday morning's 35km event at the multi-sport European Championships. Ad Davies, 31, clocked a valiant time of 2:59:38 on a boiling day in Germany as Greek star Antigoni Ntrismpioti grabbed gold.
Daniil Medvedev gets US Open prep back on track with win in Cincinnati
Cincinnati Open on Tuesday. Medvedev had been building momentum ahead of the year's last Grand Slam at Flushing Meadows by winning a tune-up event in Los Cabos without dropping a set but was beaten by Nick Kyrgios in the second round of the Canadian Masters in Montreal last week. The Russian starting strongly against Dutchman Van de Zandschulp with an immediate break before going on to win the first set. The second set posed more of a challenge, with the world number one having to save a set point, but he capitalised on several double-faults from Van de Zandschulp before wrapping up the match. "The second set was going not that bad," Medvedev said in an on-court interview. "He was not serving especially well today, doing a lot of double faults. So I tried to keep pressure, use my chances. "Two breaks on these fast courts is enough to win and I should have done a little bit better on my serve. But the first match is tricky and I'm happy that I managed to go though, and hopefully I will raise my level in the next matches."