Sports

Female players in the league have been targeted for racist and sexist attacks in the wake of the sport’s growing popularity thanks to young stars like Caitlin Clark

Boston is favorite to retain the title after the NBA Championship has gone to six different winners in six years

Inoxtag, a 22-year-old who lived his life online before announcing he would attempt the world’s highest peak, has garnered more than 34 million views with a documentary that covers his journey to the summit

The Mexican actress narrates ‘Las Amazonas de Yaxunah,’ a documentary about the revolutionary Mayan women’s softball team from Mexico’s Yucatan region

The 22-time Grand Slam champion hangs up his racket after 23 years as a professional as one of the sport’s greatest historical competitors

As the 2024-2025 NBA season approaches, the father-and-son duo embark on a six-game preseason, with the official season tipping off on October 22

Australian tycoon Aron D’Souza wants to organize the controversial Enhanced Games, a competition that still has no date or location, which sets out to test the limits of the human body by allowing performance-enhancing drugs

The Golden State Warriors and Team USA coach talks politics, leadership and the synergies between soccer and basketball during a visit to Mallorca

A group of amateur players falsely posed as the official national team at a tournament held in Perm. They were discovered after being trounced and now the question is how they were able to hoodwink the Russian and Colombian federations, and why

The team that’s accompanying the Spanish trail runner in his attempt to cross the Alps speaks with EL PAÍS. They discuss the logistics involved and the athlete’s special diet as he climbs 59 mountains in just two weeks. ‘He hasn’t lost any weight!’

The events begin on August 22 with a preliminary regatta, but the official competition starts on August 29. This year, Team New Zealand is the Defender

One of the greatest sailors in history is looking to finally bring the America’s Cup to the United Kingdom and complete a unique list of achievements

Body-shaming against female Olympians and other sportswomen is rife. Water polo player Paula Leitón is the latest to be subjected to intense physical scrutiny

The Argentine president’s spokesman excluded the soccer idol in a list of outstanding ‘lefties’ from sports and the arts, drawing criticism from relatives and former footballers, among others

A number of Caribbean countries achieved extraordinary results, considering their size and GDP, while France has once again proved the ‘host effect’

The killing of the soccer player’s sister, Paola Salcedo, has placed a turbulent family relationship in the spotlight. Mother accused son of the crime, while the Jalisco Prosecutor’s Office accuses the mother and sister of another murder at the beginning of the year

The instrument, reserved for gold medalists to sound at the Stade de France, has become a symbol of victory ahead of its installation in the renovated Notre-Dame cathedral

Norwegian swimmer Henrik Christiansen has gone viral at the Paris Games, not for winning a medal, but rather for his love of a chocolate treat

EL PAÍS has matched 13 photos from the Games with artworks that capture their essence and feeling, from Munch’s ‘The Scream’ to Michelangelo’s ‘David’

The Paris Games saw two different Cuban wrestlers compete for the gold: the fighter who remained on the island and his compatriot who defected

A new essay reconstructs the literary competition of the VIII Olympiad, which brought together Nobel Prize winners on the jury and participants such as Robert Graves and Henry de Montherlant to praise sporting heroism

Amid the Olympic Games in Paris, the deaths of Kazuya Hiraide and Kenro Nakajima on K2 sheds light on the wild essence of an activity in which mistakes are paid for with lives

The team collected eight gold medals out of the 34 at stake in Paris, the lowest haul of a tournament since the Melbourne Games in 1956

The planet’s most Parisian lodgings turns 100 years old amid the world’s biggest sporting event and has been sold out for months. Refuge for the powerful, its well-earned fame as a secure place with good hot chocolate has attracted guests such as David Beckham and Woody Allen