After three silver medals, snowboarder Craig Muhlbock is going for gold, while debutant alpine skier Lauren Kerjan is hoping to make her mark too at the at the world's largest winter sport event for athletes with an intellectual disability.

England go into Sunday’s Six Nations match with Italy at Twickenham knowing a win may not be enough to appease critics of their faltering attack.

Pregnant players on the women’s tennis tour now can receive 12 months of paid maternity leave, and those who become parents via partner pregnancy, surrogacy or adoption can get two months off with pay.

The Morisini first called in Djibouti, before steaming in the Gulf of Aden and participating in the anti-piracy Operation Atalanta (operating since 2008), followed by the Straits of Hormuz and Persian Gulf for Operation Agenor. However, what was new was that the Morisini then steamed eastwards across the India Ocean.

The nomination of Jannik Sinner for the Laureus sportsman of the year award has been withdrawn because of the top-ranked tennis player’s three-month ban for his two positive doping tests nearly a year ago.