RADICAL WHO?
The Speed Project is a coveted, near-mythical 340-mile desert race built on the promise of total freedom: no route and no rules. Runner, filmmaker and activist Tilly GW has spent five years helping to make that promise a reality.
The Speed Project is a coveted, near-mythical 340-mile desert race built on the promise of total freedom: no route and no rules. Runner, filmmaker and activist Tilly GW has spent five years helping to make that promise a reality.
Behind a roller shutter on an Amersham industrial estate sits a boxing gym full of young fighters, world-ranked coaches, Pilates mums and two wandering French bulldogs. Evolve Boxing Academy is proof that the best stories in sport rarely live where you expect them.
They say water heals, but can it silence decades of self-doubt? I thought swimming in London would be a bleak compromise, but through early mornings, cold water, and crowded lanes, I found an unexpected freedom—and a way to quiet my inner critic.
As the World Cup arrives in the United States, much of the conversation has focused on what it could do for the men's game. Yet the blueprint for soccer's cultural relevance in America was arguably written nearly three decades ago... by the women.
In Lake Placid, in front of 35,622 fans, Jessie Diggins skied the last race of her career at the first Cross-Country Skiing World Cup Finals ever staged on American snow. We head to one of the most thrilling three-day moments women’s endurance sport has produced in years.
With the champagne flowing, the dressing-room playlists on the speakers and the entire women’s football pyramid packed into one ballroom, we got the golden ticket to the WSL Football Awards to see what happens when the women’s game gathers under one roof.
Fashion has finally stopped pretending sport is just a reference. On the Met Gala steps, the crossover looked less like a trend and more like the industry’s new order, as the worlds of fashion and sport moved beyond flirtation and into full commercial, cultural and creative alignment.
Halfway up a mountain at the Tour de France Femmes, it’s not the helicopters circling overhead waiting for the peloton that makes you stop, but a group of women, loud, coordinated, colourful, all chanting one name.
What’s it like to be friends on land and bitter rivals the second you hit the water? We head to Kelly Slater’s Surf Ranch to meet five of the world’s best surfers, a generation that has grown up together, now competing for the same titles as each other’s greatest support system and most dangerous obstacles.
Don’t let the high hair and tans fool you- the world of Irish dance is shaped by discipline and legacy, where years of training build towards a performance that lasts only minutes. We go backstage at the CLRG World Irish Dance Championships in Dublin.