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It took Muscadeu, a small, portly white horse, and his rider, Luke Tucker, a teenager from Yorkshire, almost six months to trek from the Camargue region of France to England. For both the trip was a job of work: they were part of the 2008 Caravan of Hope, a charitable mission to deliver Camargue horses, [...]

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‘What the —- is this bull—-?” Eyes on mine, Mike Tyson slams his fist down on the leather sofa. Then he smiles – a smile that travels slowly up from those sadistic-looking incisors to the flames tattooed over his left eye. “That was what I was like back then. I had this rage inside and [...]

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Prince Harry has always been a bit of a joker so it is no surprise that he managed to make this little baby smile. The Prince proved he has a softer side as he clowned around for a friend’s baby during a polo match. He couldn’t resist making the little tot laugh as he took [...]

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My gorgeous little girl Heidi was born on April 22 – weighing a healthy 7lb 6oz – blissfully unaware of the furore of which she would soon be the focus. The reaction to my article about jogging while pregnant, published in last week’s Mail on Sunday, has been overwhelming. Twitter has been awash with people [...]

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There are two wondrous events I remember as a young boy: Hillary and Tenzing climbing Everest in 1953, and in 1954 Roger Bannister running the first sub-four-minute mile. I’ve never run a mile – competitively, that is – nor have I ever climbed a mountain: a few tors on Dartmoor has been my limit. But [...]

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Tindall, 33, said he and Princess Anne’s daughter want to follow in the footsteps of her brother Peter and give the Queen a great-grandchild. But the England rugby star said that it was difficult because of their busy sporting schedules.   Speaking at the launch of his new charity Rugby For Heroes, he said it [...]

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With fewer than 80 days to go until the start of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games it would be easy to conclude amid the hype that the “future” of sport is restricted to only a few weeks in July and August. However, those involved in the industry are already looking beyond the games [...]

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On a recent weekday evening at London’s Wembley Stadium, half a dozen Muslim women, some wearing headscarves, were taking it in turns to flip over some male opponents with impressive shoulder-height kicks. These women, demonstrating Safari Kickboxing’s female-only Muay Thai Kickboxing classes, were taking part in a ground-breaking celebration of Muslim women in sport. Pioneered [...]

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A roar of delight goes up, momentarily drowning the clatter of the helicopter rotor blades. Below in Gateshead Stadium are 1,500 screaming, waving children, dressed in shorts and trainers, legs blue with cold, cheeks red with exhilaration. It’s hard to imagine the Olympics opening ceremony generating any more excitement, but then to these primary school [...]

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A London teenager today told of his joy as he traced the steps of Usain Bolt by winning a medal in the 100 metre final of the school Olympics at the Olympic stadium. Reuben Arthur, 15, from Islington won bronze in the blue riband event at the climax of UK School Games, staged in the [...]

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To normal, well-adjusted people, it was genuinely sweet to see that cute dark-eyed, floppy-haired little boy enjoying his father’s triumph. It was heart-warming to see O’Sullivan, a man who has suffered miserably with depression and addiction, so manifestly in love with his son. Ronnie jnr looked pretty happy to see cascades of multicoloured ticker-tape descend [...]

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A girls’ school in Saudi Arabia has defied a religious ban on female sports by setting up basketball hoops and letting pupils play at break-time. Clerics in the conservative Islamic kingdom have long opposed girls playing sports, with one senior figure saying in 2009 it might lead them to lose their virginity by tearing their [...]

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There is no smell quite like that of a schoolgirls’ PE changing room, and probably nobody who remembers it more vividly than I do. It was a mixture of sweaty clothes, wet towels and rubber shoes – and none of it was properly disguised by the gallons of forbidden cheap perfume. Yet the reason I [...]

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The health of Britain’s girls is suffering because they shun school sports, rejecting them as overly competitive and un-feminine, according to a report out today. A survey of just over 1,500 school pupils revealed that only 12 per cent of girls are reaching the standard level of fitness by age 14 – half the rate [...]

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Schools are being urged to introduce more female-friendly fitness activities such as Zumba classes and rollerblading because so many girls are opting out of exercise. Research suggests the gap between the amount of exercise girls and boys do widens during their time at school. A study for the Women’s Sports and Fitness Foundation says more [...]

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Teachers claim they have been reprimanded by Ofsted inspectors for having pupils who are ‘too well behaved and polite’ and for marking work with ‘back to front’ left-handed ticks. A list of bizarre complaints has been revealed, including one about a teacher who was eight months pregnant but told she was being downgraded because she [...]

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There was action, there was romance, there was drama, there were tears and devastation and – finally – there was a happy ending. But this was no movie. It was in fact events that unfolded at Arlington Ballpark last night when the New York Yankees played the Texas Rangers. A young Rangers fan was left [...]

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Powerful clerics in the conservative Islamic kingdom have long spoken against allowing girls to play sports. Saudi Arabia’s austere interpretation of Islamic law prevents women from working, opening bank accounts or having some elective surgery without the permission of a male relative. They are not allowed to drive. King Abdullah has pushed for women to [...]

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A 15-year-old girl has died during a school game of rounders. Nicky Payne collapsed at about 11.30am yesterday during the game at Angley School, Cranbrook, Kent, a specialist sports college. She was taken to hospital but doctors were unable to revive her, Kent Police said. A force spokesman said police were called to Angley School [...]

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A 15-year-old girl died after collapsing at school while playing rounders in a PE lesson. Nicola Payne had been playing the game with her friends at Angley School in Cranbrook, Kent, when the tragedy happened yesterday morning. Nicola, known as Nicky to her family and friends, was given first aid at the scene while staff ushered other [...]

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Schools, local authorities and the NHS should encourage all forms of walking and cycling to improve the health of the nation, the National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence has said. Specifically children should be encouraged to walk and cycle to school as, currently, fewer than three per cent children between the ages of two and [...]

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Kids and Sport – children around the country are taking part in sport and are enjoying it!

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What’s not to love about swimming? I spent a lot of time jumping off boats as a child, and I wouldn’t consider a holiday complete without water to loll around in. Even now, aged 37, if a child chucks a stone to the bottom of the deep end, I’ll duck-dive for it.   But I’ve [...]

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Revealing similar concerns about the built environment as his father, the Prince said that saving “what is left” of sports fields was something very “close to his heart”. He said that the marathon had helped out “massively” by raising money for the charity Fields In Trust. ”Fields in Trust is something very close to all our hearts, [...]

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Last Wednesday morning, in the unlikely setting of the ExCel Centre in London’s Docklands, I found myself trying to hold back tears for a woman I have never met, but who was clearly loved. Loitering outside a T-shirt printing booth at the Virgin London Marathon expo, I glanced at a fluorescent yellow vest hanging on a [...]

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Children should put down their computer games, abandon virtual shooting and take up the real thing, the new head of the Countryside Alliance has declared. Sir Barney White-Spunner is urging a new generation to take up arms and embrace country sports. In a provocative hunting and shooting message, Sir Barney said fishing, farming and clay-pigeon [...]

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David Cameron may avoid talking too openly of his tailcoat-wearing schooldays at Eton, but if the Conservative members of government want to avoid conjuring images of ruddy-cheeked prefects, brisk games of rugger and chapel before breakfast, they don’t seem to be trying very hard. In a speech this week to Scottish voters before the local [...]

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Patrick Swayze famously said ‘nobody puts Baby in the corner’ – but the Dirty Dancing line doesn’t appear to apply to the mums who want to see their little girls crowned as the next UK Disco Kid champ. As their fake orange tans shimmer and the thousands of sequins on their expensive, garishly-coloured costumes sparkle [...]

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The owner of the private Wellington Hospital is proposing to build a 100,000 sq ft children’s hospital, sports clinic, museum and a corporate entertainment venue for Lord’s on the land, according to trade magazine Property Week.   The Hospital Corporation of America is understood to be working on the plan with property company Almacantar. Under the [...]

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Children are doing more exercise in their lunchtimes than in school PE lessons, a study shows today. Primary pupils are more active when given toys to play with at breaktime, the Institute of Youth Sport at Loughborough University found. Its Active Play Report says children are physically active for two thirds of lunch breaks, compared [...]

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A teenage girl who has twice been on the brink of death has overcome her troubled past to become one of Britain’s Olympic hopes. Monique Newton, 19, battled brain cancer when she was a child, then went on to survive an attempted overdose at the age of 15. Now the London-born athlete has triumphed over [...]

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It was an incredible display of batting which left cricket fans packed inside an Indian stadium open-mouthed with astonishment. But despite fans cheering with delight after West Indian batsman Chris Gayle hit five consecutive sixes, one young fan was left in agonising pain. When Gayle, who was playing for the Royal Challengers Bangalore, hit his [...]

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No helmets, no safety rails, no child-friendly synthetic surfaces — little sign of an adult (with or without a fluorescent bib and a first aid kit). Yet, none of these scenes ended in disaster. They were just part of growing up in the days when a stubbed  toe or a cracked tooth was a fact [...]

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In the week that the British medical profession united behind a campaign to fight obesity, McDonald’s, a sponsor of the Olympics, has come up with its own recipe to improve children’s health: nine million free toys, two one-eyed mascots and a mysterious force called “Rainbow Power”. In the wake of criticism from nutritionists over the [...]

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Sexy mama! How one mother lost 40lbs of baby weight by learning to pole dance – and now she’s taking on the professionals By VICTORIA WELLMAN PUBLISHED: 18:16, 13 April 2012 | UPDATED: 19:13, 13 April 2012 Comments (0) Share Pole dancing is well on its way to disassociating itself from strippers and stilettos in [...]

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One of Britain’s top heart doctors says he thinks anyone playing sport regularly should be screened for heart defects. At the moment only top flight athletes are forced to be tested. Sanjay Sharma is a professor of cardiology at St George’s Hospital in south London. “We know that one in 300 young people in the [...]

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London 2012: Cyclist Sir Chris Hoy’s first bicycle was a girl’s bike Cyclist Sir Chris Hoy’s first bicycle was a girl’s bike, the Olympic gold medallist’s mother has revealed. Sir Chris, 36, a four-time Olympic champion who won three golds at the 2008 Beijing Games, got the second-hand bike from his neighbour. His mother, Carol [...]

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Talk about embarrassing! Football player’s dad smashes school’s $30,000 trophy after tripping on rug By MEGHAN KENEALLY Parents often complain that their children find them endlessly embarrassing. One college student was more likely mortified when his father tripped and knocked over the team’s crystal championship trophy. The Waterford Crystal trophy designed in the shape of [...]

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Bodybuilding granny steps up training regime in a bid to claim international title By SADIE WHITELOCKS A grandmother who is currently ranked the fourth best female bodybuilder in the world, is putting herself through a grueling training regime in a bid to be crowned Miss Olympia. Sharon Madderson, 46, from Cramlington in Northumberland took up [...]

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Two-thirds of parents say they have witnessed bullying and intimidation on the school sports field, a survey suggests. A poll of 1,250 eight to 16-year-old pupils and 1,010 parents for cricket charity Chance to Shine suggests some pupils are put off sport as a result. More than half of the pupils surveyed say they have [...]

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My turn! Victoria Beckham cuddles up to son Cruz at hockey game… just hours after he attends basketball match with dad David With a father like David Beckham, it stands to reason that Cruz would be a sports fan. But it seems that the seven-year-old is more than a little keen on every kind of [...]

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After Rosanna Ogden had open heart surgery at only six weeks old, her parents were told that physical activity could help her recovery. It was then they discovered they had a water baby on their hands. Only ten weeks after the operation, her mother Sanam took her to a swimming session for infants. ‘She is [...]

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Caterham School have won the British Schools Karting Championship 2012 in the most closely fought final in the competition’s history. Caterham’s Ben Dillon, 18, Alex Jobson, 17, and Ivan May Jones, 16, finished tied on 89 points with Altrincham Grammar, but beat last year’s winners by way of a faster fastest lap. The team matched [...]

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A 19-year-old woman from Lancashire has won an award for her work encouraging Asian girls to play football. Rabiya Ahmed from Preston says she is determined to break down barriers in sport as well as improve social cohesion in the local community. via BBC News – Muslim teen targets sporting barriers. » Inline Ad Purchase:  Intext [...]

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For Adriel, a football-obsessed 14-year-old from one of Rio de Janeiro’s most troubled favelas, an opportunity to visit the UK and meet some of his sporting heroes is a dream come true, yet he is remarkably level-headed about it. “This is a chance for me to speak English. I want to learn English so I [...]

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A primary school girl has smashed a world weightlifting record – by hoisting more than two times her own bodyweight. Naomi Kutin, 10, claimed the astonishing achievement after squatting 215 pounds – despite weighing just under 93 pounds herself. She lifted the staggering amount – which weighs the same as Mike Tyson in his prime [...]

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The boy, who plays for the ESF Lions team, was captured on video kicking a 12-year-old playing for Kitchee Escola in the head as he lay on the ground after a bad tackle. The two teams were playing a grudge match after the ESF Lions lost 16-0 to Kitchee in a previous encounter. While the [...]

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You would have thought it was the World Cup final. But these chanting football fans roaring on their team are actually watching an under-eights match. Drunken supporters of top flight Polish club Lech Poznan gatecrashed a children’s football game being played in a school sports hall in the western city of Poznan. Over the top: [...]

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The 41 year-old admitted she “smashed” her unidentified sporting rival, during a match between their schools, Downe House and Wycombe Abbey more than two decades ago. The former champion lady amateur rider, who is now the corporation’s face of horse racing, admitted she took the phrase “attack is the best form of defence” to an [...]

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