Sports

5 Oct 2012

A prestigious academy in Britain lets you experience the sport of kings. Lara Brunt takes the reins.

16 Sep 2012

A camaradarie born of adversity characterises the Afghan cricket team and, despite being ranked last among the 12 nations taking part in the Twenty20 World Cup, which begins this week, they are...

Letters to the Editor, February 3, 2013

3 Feb 2013

Convert old sites to boost land supply

I wonder how many people are really happy with Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying's first policy address last month.

Leung's failure to address...

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Learning curve: what to do when heroes become zeroes

3 Feb 2013

It was always easy to spot Ken Ho at school. From Years One to Three he often wore a soccer strip with the number 9 and Fernando Torres' last name on it.

Sprockets of resistance

8 Jan 2013

In this era of blinged-up, electronic-geared, ultralight carbon fibre bicycles that can cost as much as a car, it is ironic that the latest trend in the two-wheeled world is actually a case of...

Opinion

Jake Van Der Kamp

An age-old problem and the sums that just don't add up

Howard Winn

HSBC suffers the Taibbi treatment in Rolling Stone

Shirley Yam

How tycoons' IPO 'losses' may hide profits at herd's expense

Game on

Come out and play with the season's minimalist sports aesthetic.

Lords of the rink

The crowd gasps as the ice hockey player lunges towards the sliding puck, his stick almost colliding with another player's head. Seconds later, his opponent slams him against the barricade in...

38,000 runners snap up 10km race places

It may be demanding to run 10 kilometres, but an online scramble for a highly sought-after entry ticket for a race in February was just as challenging.

FIT & FAB

Fit & Fab

Tania Harris' path to triathlons was paved with failure. After nine miscarriages, two stillbirths and a pulmonary embolism within four years, the executive coach embraced the sport as a way to...

Armstrong gone, time to vanquish doping in all sports

Lance Armstrong never existed. That is the message from cycling's governing body in the wake of overwhelming evidence that he was a drug cheat. And his disappearance is being fastidiously enforced...

QUIZ

Quiz

It seems the French were right after all. After years of accusing American cyclist Lance Armstrong of taking performance-enhancing drugs, it now appears certain that Armstrong's record seven...