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Switzerland’s Marlen Reussser wins the women’s elite individual time trial at the UCI World Championships in Kigali, Rwanda, with Duth riders Anna van der Breggen and Demi Vollering taking silver and bronze. BBC News

Switzerland’s Ditaji Kambundji wins the women’s 100m hurdles with Nigeria’s Tobi Amusan taking silver and USA’s Grace Stark taking bronze at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo. FOLLOW LIVE: World Athletics Championships Available to UK users only. BBC News

England’s Alice Hewson retained her Swiss Open title with a convincing five-shot victory at Golfpark Holzhausern. The 28-year-old led by two strokes heading into the third and final round, where she carded a four-under 67 to seal her third Ladies European Tour title, finishing 13 under overall. Ireland’s Lauren Walsh, …

The 2025 Mountain Bike World Championships are taking place in Switzerland this week, and BBC Sport will be showing the elite cross-country women’s and men’s events live from Valais. Coverage of the action will be shown on 13-14 September, live on the iPlayer & BBC Sport app and website. In …

Boss Rhian Wilkinson says Wales are determined to close the gap on the top international women’s sides after their experience at Euro 2025. Wales made history by qualifying for this summer’s tournament in Switzerland, but exited at the group stage after defeats to the Netherlands, France and England. BBC News

Three British nationals are among the 16 who died after the iconic Gloria funicular in Lisbon derailed and crashed, authorities have said. The crash, which left 22 people injured, happened at around 6pm on Wednesday. Footage showed one of the railway’s two carriages practically destroyed and emergency workers pulling people …

Switzerland captain Lia Walti has left Arsenal after seven years at the club and has signed a two-year deal with Italian side Juventus. The 32-year-old had one year remaining on her contract in north London and said it was “one of the hardest decisions she has ever had to take”. …

Switzerland launched an open-source model called Apertus on Monday as an alternative to proprietary models like OpenAI’s ChatGPT or Anthropic’s Claude, reports SWI as spotted by Engadget. The model’s source code, training data, model weights, and detailed development process are available on the AI model platform HuggingFace. Apertus, which is …

Patrick Bamford has left Premier League newcomers Leeds by mutual consent while full-back Isaac Schmidt and winger Largie Ramazani will spend the 2025-26 season away from the club on loans. It ends a seven-year spell at Elland Road for Bamford, who scored 60 goals in 205 appearances after joining from …

Crystal Palace have agreed a deal in principle worth up to £26m with Villarreal for Spain winger Yeremy Pino. The 22-year-old is believed to be open to a move to Selhurst Park and is expected to complete a medical in the coming days. Pino has a £69m release clause, but …

Okafor’s arrival at Elland Road takes the total spent by Premier League clubs this summer to £2.37bn, according to data from FootballTransfers.com. Six Premier League clubs have broken their club transfer records in this window to contribute to the record level of spending. Brentford completed a deal of up to …

Ten-man Basel manage to secure a 1-1 draw with FC Copenhagen in the first leg of the Champions League play-offs at St Jakob Park in Switzerland. BBC News

It has been a whirlwind four months for Agyemang since coming off the bench to score within 41 seconds on her England debut against Belgium in April. Agyemang, who was a ball girl for England’s World Cup qualifier against Northern Ireland in 2021, played 138 minutes of football at Euro …

This has been an unusual transfer window – in that there have been two windows. The first opened between Sunday, 1 June and Tuesday, 10 June, because of an exceptional registration period relating to the Fifa Club World Cup. A total of £400m was spent before the traditional transfer window …

Barton – who represented Cardiff City, Yeovil Town, Chieti Calcio Femminile, Brighton and Charlton during her club career – was a pivotal figure in helping earn Rhian Wilkinson’s side qualification for Euro 2025. The forward netted four times in qualifying and went on to feature in each of the three …

A man in Austria has jumped on to a high-speed train after apparently being left behind at a station stop. According to local media reports, the man, an Algerian aged 24, is reported to have decided to take advantage of a scheduled stop a St Poelten, 64km (60 miles) west …

The Prince of Wales is a keen football fan – he is an avid Aston Villa supporter and is president of the Football Association. He was among the party that presented England with the Euro 2025 trophy last month having watched the final against Spain in Switzerland with Princess Charlotte. …

Wales women will play a friendly against Australia on Saturday 25 October (14:00 BST), their first match since making their major tournament debut at Euro 2025. The game at Cardiff City Stadium will mark the beginning of preparations for 2027 World Cup qualifying which will take place from February to …

The Football Association of Wales (FAW) is reviewing the Adran Premier in an attempt to improve the domestic women’s game. The Adran Premier, as well as the second-tier Adran North and Adran South, came into being in 2021 as a result of an FAW restructure designed to raise standards within …

Rangers will face Viktoria Plzen of the Czech Republic or Servette of Switzerland in the Champions League third qualifying round should they defeat Panathinaikos. Source link