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Israel Folau is expected to be one of three new caps in the Australia squad for Saturday’s first Test against the British and Irish Lions.
The British & Irish Lions’ shock defeat to ACT Brumbies will be forgotten if the tourists win the Test series against Australia, according to full-back Rob Kearney.
British and Irish Lions lock Geoff Parling admitted the first tour defeat Down Under “hurts like hell” after Warren Gatland’s side were edged out by the Brumbies at Canberra Stadium.
British & Irish Lions wing George North has been passed fit to play in the first Test with Australia in Brisbane on Saturday.
England Under-20s coach Nick Walshe is expecting a “tough challenge” against Wales in the IRB Junior Championship final on Sunday.
Michael Hooper insists Australia can draw inspiration from the Brumbies’ 14-12 victory over the British and Irish Lions.
WELSHMAN’S camp say the world super-middleweight champion has snubbed an offer for a £2.5mil mega-fight
Geoff Parling admits the British and Irish Lions 14-12 defeat to the Brumbies at Canberra Stadium ‘hurts like hell’.
• Lions defeated 14-12 after five successive victories• ‘We can’t mope around. We’ve got to pick ourselves up’The British & Irish Lions lock Geoff Parling admitted the first tour …
“Right from the start they wanted it more” says Irishman of tourists’ first non-Test defeat in Australia for 42 years
“When the crowd started to really get behind Murray at the Olympics, that made a big difference. It bothered and annoyed Federer”
The British and Irish Lions will go into this weekend’s opening Test with the Wallabies in considerable discomfort, both physically and psychologically.
Nathan Cleverly branded Carl Froch an “absolute joke” for claiming to be one of the best British boxers ever.
On a day when the defeat of Agnieszka Radwanska, the world No 5 and last year’s Wimbledon runner-up, demonstrated the difficulties that grass-court tennis offers even to the very best, the current British No 1 and one of her predecessors proved the value of experience on the sport’s most challenging surface.
• Wallabies will think ‘it’s do-able’ – Brumbies coach Jake White• Warren Gatland says Lions can learn from ‘reality check’The British & Irish Lions have been warned that …
England are through to the final of the IRB Junior World Championship after a stunning 33-21 victory over New Zealand.
British number one Laura Robson recorded her first win under new coach Miles Maclagan to reach the second round of the Aegon International in Eastbourne.
Laura Robson secured her first win under new coach Miles Maclagan to reach the second round of the AEGON International in Eastbourne.
• British No1′s partnership with Miles Maclagan off the mark • Faces former world No1 Caroline Wozniacki in next roundThe British No1, Laura Robson, recorded her first win under …
It scarcely seems worth the effort for a representative team to fly halfway round the world for a rugby match and then fail to show up on the night, so Rory Best’s confession along those lines after this bitterly disappointing defeat – the first Lions failure against provincial opponents in 16 years – was sorrowful in the extreme. Precisely how deeply events have pierced the soul of the touring party is not yet known, but we will find out for sure this weekend when the Test series with the Wallabies gets underway in Brisbane.