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.
Running a marathon is one thing. Watching someone you love do it, armed with fourteen WhatsApp groups, a shouting voice and a loose grip on logistics, is another. Together, they make the one day a year London remembers how to be kind out loud.
You don’t need a race number to take part in the London Marathon. Just a loud voice, a carefully plotted route across the city, and a willingness to chase crowds, cheer strangers and claim your post-race carbs.
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.
We met Laila Edwards before the gold medal. Before Milan. Before the headlines. In Wisconsin, with her family around her and Dominique’s camera rolling, we saw the making of a champion who would go on to help deliver Olympic history.
Six hundred and sixty hours of hand-beading, one lost FedEx package, a tribute to the Spice Girls and a $100,000 Oscar de la Renta dress. Figure skating just had its most fashionable Winter Games ever.
"Being the only woman in the room can be a disadvantage or a superpower. You get to choose." From the grease of a diesel workshop to high-stakes ‘half-pipes’ in the sky, Emma McDonald, the sole female competitor in Air Race X, is redefining what it means to be a pilot.
