A 23-second video of a support car sweeping past a cyclist on a Tuscan descent has been viewed 6.2 million times since Sunday. Italy’s cycling authority has barred the driver for life from race convoys and ordered a review of how teams use cars on closed roads.
A community project to bring lights to football fields in Samoa has uncovered 14 venues listed as finished in a multi-million-tala grant programme that volunteers say were never built. The Island Sports Grants Office is now facing demands to account for payments worth 4.6 million tala (about €1.5 million).
A second-tier club has sued Italy’s football governing body, alleging that a €76 million stadium-solar fund rewarded projects that could not yet connect to the electricity grid. The case has brought scrutiny to a scheme promoted as a way to cut clubs’ energy bills and modernise their grounds.
A fuel fund launched to keep a women’s football club on the road carried Zarqa’s Lanterns to a district cup final. Their veteran goalkeeper, back in competitive football after 15 years, scored the winning penalty in a 5-4 shootout.
A proposed A$52 million (about €30 million) takeover would put the Western Kites under the same owner as Coastline Athletic, the rival that thrashed them 4-0 days ago. The deal has turned a months-long fight over the Kites’ future into an urgent test of Australia’s football rules on shared ownership.
A baffling burst of long, glassy waves gave Brazilian surfer Eliza Piotrowski-Czerwiński the conditions to earn the first perfect final score in South Atlantic Games history. Her victory helped Brazil finish the Florianópolis tournament with a record 31 gold medals.
A veteran Australian referee who once labelled footage for an automated offside system helped lead a walkout that halted six league matches on Monday. The stoppage has exposed how little power officials have when software, and not the person on the pitch, makes the call.
Yasmine R. Clark won the Egyptian Football Council presidency on Sunday with 29 of 34 votes, hours after a public hearing cleared her to stand. The former goalkeeper becomes the first woman to lead the country’s governing body for the sport.
A baffling pitchside trick has interrupted a four-month fight over the future of a Nigerian football club’s home ground. Oyo Lanterns members have delayed a decision on a ₦4.8 billion lease after balls appeared to roll uphill towards the goal.
Singapore’s electric touring championship has postponed its title-deciding finale after a dashboard fault showed battery temperatures 43°C (77°F) below the readings recorded by separate test equipment. All 18 cars have been withdrawn from Saturday’s race while organisers inspect the shared monitoring system.
A short, 18‑second video that has racked up 8.3 million views shows the president of Brazil’s top league taking what appears to be an envelope inside a VIP box after a decisive match. Two members of the league’s governance council say they formally objected to the panel that approved the result — and that their protests were ignored.
A short, explosive video posted online has escalated an ongoing betting inquiry into a full criminal investigation after it appeared to show the captain of the Vancouver Northstars accepting an envelope in a VIP box. The Canadian Premier Hockey League has suspended the player and frozen several club accounts as the RCMP sweep up phones and bank records.