"Is that man blind?" I overheard a child ask his mother when I was walking through a train station the other day. "Shh!" I heard his mother reply, sounding rather embarrassed.

Australian cricket teams have been coming to England for over 150 years but when the class of 2023 arrives in the next few days, they are set to take on a programme which is arguably more demanding than any faced by their predecessors.

One in five people in the United Kingdom have a disability. Eighty per cent of those have a hidden disability. That’s 10 million people. I am one of them.

I am told that Giorgia Meloni, the Italian Prime Minister, is expected soon to decide whether athletes from Russia and Belarus are to be allowed to take part in this year’s International Fencing Federation (FIE) Fencing World Championships.

Mind games in sport. Not new. Not at all. WG Grace, the revered - and feared - cricketer who carried his bat from this life in 1915, aged 67, bears testament to that.

Be it a democracy or autocracy, politicians and Government officials are almost unapproachable - in my experience - barring a few exceptions.

When urban sports were announced to the programme for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, I have to admit I was sceptical about whether they would be a good fit.

Records  of the Olympic Games that took place 75 years ago reveal that organisers were faced with what has become a very familiar question.

Sounds of the shuttlecock pinging off racket strings and trainers squeaking on the court were all you could hear when Chen Yufei and He Bingjiao went toe-to-toe in their pursuit of Olympic glory.

When it comes to a coronation, pop festival or state funeral no one does it better than the Brits.

Who knows whether Russia’s onslaught on Ukraine will be over by summer 2024.

So I think I understand about breakdancing. That is to say, breaking. Whoops. Showing myself up already.

On the second day of the International Boxing Association (IBA) Men's World Boxing Championships here, insidethegames revealed that Boris van der Vorst is set to resign as President of the Dutch Boxing Association to devote more time to World Boxing.

Wearing a plain white judogi with no national symbols or emblems, Arman Adamian stepped atop of the podium to collect his gold medal here.