For 13 nights, Fay Manners lived on the North Face of the Eiger while creating a route nobody had climbed before. The result was Solar Eclipse, and a place in mountaineering history as the first British woman to open a new route on the face.
Kate Courtney has spent much of the past year doing things she didn’t expect. The two‑time world champion talks risk, rediscovering the fun in racing and returning to the brutal Cape Epic for her new Red Bull film Everything to Gain. What happened next surprised even her.
With the Tour de Femmes 2026 about to be in full swing, I spent part of last summer at the Tour de France to understand why that race still holds such a colossal place in cycling culture, and to imagine what the future could look like for women’s competitive cycling.
It took a 1,454-foot free climb to the top of the Empire State Building to secure an unforgettable proposal. But the arrest is only the latest chapter in Angela Nikolau and Ivan Beerkus' extraordinary love story.
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.
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.
