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DAVID COVERDALE IN NASSAU, BAHAMAS: The American sprint star has set his sights on winning four gold medals at the Paris Olympics by adding the 4x400m relay to his programme, alongside the three events he won at last year's World Championships - the 100m, 200m and 4x100m. Lyles was given a first chance of the 4x400m at the World Indoors in Glasgow in March, when he ran the third leg as the USA claimed silver behind Belgium. But the 26-year-old's selection was widely criticised, with his own team-mate Fred Kerley, the 2022 world 100m champion, accusing the USA Track and Field of favouritism and acting like 'puppets'.

DAVID COVERDALE: The father of Olympic and world champion runner Jakob Ingebrigtsen has been charged with physically abusing one of his children. Jakob and his older brothers Filip and Henrik (pictured), who are also Norwegian athletes, accused their dad and former coach Gjert (left) of 'physical violence and threats' last year, prompting a police investigation. Now Gjert, 58, has been charged with domestic violence following allegations he hit one of his other children in 'the face with a wet towel'.

EXCLUSIVE BY DAVID COVERDALE: There will be something a little different about the Olympics this summer. For the first time in 40 years, Sir Steve Redgrave will not be there. The British rowing legend has been an ever-present at the Games from Los Angeles 1984 to Tokyo 2020. He won a famous five consecutive gold medals, before working as a pundit for the BBC, an ambassador for Team GB and, most recently, a coach for China. As things stand, though, Redgrave's only visit to Paris this summer will be for a cruise down the Seine two weeks before the Olympics start. 'The people who go on cruises tend to be my sort of my age and older, so at least they can still remember what I did,' jokes the 62-year-old, who will be making a special guest appearance on the ship alongside fellow Olympic icon Daley Thompson.

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW BY DAVID COVERDALE: Ronnie O'Sullivan is in his kitchen looking for jam. Mail Sport has brought scones and clotted cream to the 48-year-old's East London townhouse, but we are without the other accompaniment needed to make up his favourite snack. The slippers-wearing Rocket goes through the condiments already set out on his table, then searches his cupboards before peering into his fridge. 'No jam, mate,' he sighs after seeing his dream of a proper cream tea die. 'What's going on? How can we not have jam? I'll have to keep fasting and just drink tea.' As he consoles himself by making another cuppa, I note that jam is not all that is missing from the minimalist home he shares with his partner Laila Rouass, the former Footballers' Wives actress. Indeed, if this was an episode of Through the Keyhole, the panel would never guess who lives in a house like this because there is nothing on show from his storied snooker career, other than one piece of silverware sitting on his kitchen table.

DAVID COVERDALE AT ST JAMES' PARK: In a whirlwind afternoon at St James' Park, Newcastle carved through Tottenham to secure a 4-0 victory.  A blockbuster first-half saw Alexander Isak and Anthony Gordon strike within 95 seconds to hand them a lead.  The Magpies duo, along with Harvey Barnes, ran riot in Tyneside and things picked up where they left off in the second-half as Isak picked up his second. 

EXCLUSIVE BY DAVID COVERDALE: Colin Graves looks out from the offices on the top floor of the Headingley pavilion to survey the scene at the start of the new season. 'It is great to see the sun out because all we have seen is rain, rain, rain,' says the returning Yorkshire chairman. It is a reference to the weather, but it could just as easily be a metaphor for the mood at the club, where there is finally a ray of light after the gloom of the Azeem Rafiq racism scandal. This being Yorkshire, though, it is not all clear skies ahead. And as dark clouds eventually move in to delay the start of play against Leicestershire, off the pitch, there have also been unwelcome developments on the morning that we meet.

DAVID COVERDALE: CJ Ujah has returned to Great Britain's 4x100metres relay squad for the first time since his failed drugs test saw the team stripped of a silver medal at the Tokyo Olympics. The 30-year-old will be joined at next month's Olympic relay trials in Bahamas by the three men who lost a medal because of his actions - Zharnel Hughes, Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake and Richard Kilty. While Hughes and Mitchell-Blake have since been relatively supportive of Ujah, who served a 22-month doping ban, Kilty said in 2022 he would never 'be able to forgive him'.

EXCLUSIVE BY DAVID COVERDALE: Olympic legend Sir Steve Redgrave has hit out at World Athletics for offering prize money for gold medallists - insisting it is unfair on other sports. Athletics will become the first sport in Olympic history to financially reward its champions at this summer's Games in Paris, with gold medal winners to collect $50,000 (£39,800). Redgrave, though, says the landmark move risks turning the Games into a two-tier system - and thinks World Athletics would be better off spending the £1.9million prize pot on developing its grassroots.

DAVID COVERDALE: Three-time Olympic champion Max Whitlock has announced he will retire after this summer's Games. The 31-year-old will go for gold on the pommel horse in Paris, where he could become the first gymnast to win four Olympic medals on the same apparatus. That, though, will now be the last act of a glittering career which has already brought 32 major international medals, including six at the Olympics, making him comfortably Britain's most successful gymnast of all time.

DAVID COVERDALE: After finishing third in the British Swimming Championships on Sunday, Tom Dean will not defend his 200 meters freestyle title at this year's latest edition of the event in Paris. Following his third-place finish in 1:45.09, Dean is now almost certain to be disregarded in the tournament he won gold in in Tokyo 2020, with no country allowed two individual places per race in Paris.

DAVID COVERDALE: Rob McElhenney, the co-owner of Wrexham, has agreed to produce a documentary about the Enhanced Games, the controversial event that encourages athletes to dope. James Magnussen, Australia's former world champion swimmer, has been the first to sign up for action, claiming he would 'juice to the gills' to try and break the 50 meters freestyle record in exchange for $170,000 (£790,000).

BY DAVID COVERDALE - BY COVERDALE: Emily Campbell's no-frills gym on an Alfreton industrial estate wanders into a more glamorous world. Campbell has only been wearing a nice outfit for a special Mail Sport photoshoot in which she dances in the middle of the Atlas Workout Warehouse, sporting five coloured weights similar to Olympic rings. The 29-year-old has also got dark red hair. She had it dyed a Team GB-themed red and blue and tied into two buns at Tokyo 2020. As for Paris this summer? It turns out that Schwarzkopf, a global hair colouring company, had a legitimate reason for choosing Campbell as an ambassador.

BY DAVID COVERDALE: Sky Brown looks over her shoulder against Tower Bridge in this exclusive interview. 'Definitely the coolest place I've ever skated,' she says. So iconic that it was having it as a backdrop.' The 15-year-old skateboarding sensation has just unveiled a series of spectacular tricks on a floating 14ft-high half-pipe between two London buses, halting commuters, visitors, and children from riding their tracks. Brown's show was, of course, part of a new advertising campaign for one of her many sponsors, namely luxury watchmaker TAG Heuer. However, the Team GB sensation travelled to London, especially for it, and then jetted back to her Los Angeles home the next day. This week was by no means an ordinary week for a teenager. Brown, on the other hand, isn't exactly a normal adolescent. This is the girl who signed her first sponsorship contract at the age of seven, turned pro, and signed a Nike deal at the age of 10. She then became the country's youngest Olympic medalist aged 13.

DAVID COVERDALE: Keely Hodgkinson, Josh Kerr, and Jonnie Peacock are among the Great Britain athletes being shot for a new fly-on-the-wall documentary ahead of the Olympics and Paralympics this summer. Nine British celebrities have been granted behind-the-scenes access to their preparations for Paris's two-part Channel 4 series, which promises to 'give readers a unique glimpse into the journey these celebrities take and the sacrifices they make.' Four Olympians will be the subject of the first episode, which will be produced in association with the National Lottery. They are the world and Olympic 800 meters silver medalists for the last two 1500 meters world champions, Kerr and Jake Wightman, as well as high jumper Morgan Lake.

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS: 3rd Earl Stanhope, a 1794 entrepreneur, built an experimental steam-powered ship for the Admiralty. In 1797, a 200-tonne 'ambi-navigator' was tested between Deptford and Chatham but was rejected. In their report, the Navy Board said that "an invention of this sort could never be used for any worthwhile purpose in His Majesty's Navy."

DAVID COVERDALE: Amber Rutter, a British shooter, has confirmed she will compete at the Paris Olympics for gold, just three months after she is set to give birth. The former world No. 1st, who failed to perform in Covid, is expecting her first baby with husband James in the middle of April. However, Rutter -née Hill - wants to return to training six weeks later and board the plane to Paris, having already secured Team GB's spot in the women's skeet shooting competition.

DAVID COVERDALE: As well as gymnastics, the self-proclaimed adrenaline junkie will go surfing and cliff jumping in Cornwall. But athletics was always going to be her focus, given that Barbara's mother Barbara was a pole vaulter and her father Stuart was a decathlete who became her first coach, and that athletics was always going to be her forte. Caudery has been climbing the ranks ever since, with a silver at the 2022 Commonwealth Games and a fifth-place finish at the World Championships this summer before this month's glory in Glasgow.

The 2026 Commonwealth Games are in danger of cancellation after Malaysia refused a £100 million bid to take over as hosts. Last summer, the quadrennial festival was thrown into disarray when the Australian state of Victoria pulled out of staging it due to spiralling costs. Last week, it was revealed that the Commonwealth Games Federation had offered Malaysia the opportunity to host the Games and that £100 million would be available for 'financial and strategic assistance.'

BY DAVID COVERDALE: They say you're only as old as you feel, and, for the most part, 50-year-old skateboarder Andy Macdonald is 13. He tells Mail Sport, 'I'm skating with teenagers all the time.' "I feel like I'm right there mentally on a variety of fronts.' I act like a kid, and I dress like a teenager. 'It just so happens that I'm 50 years old, so when I fall it takes longer to get up and longer to heal!' Macdonald, a father of three children, is what skateboarders refer to as a 'Rad Dad.' This Peter Pan of the park isn't exactly a figure of amusement. He is a skateboarding hero in the United States, who now competes for Great Britain and could be on the verge of becoming the sport's oldest Olympian.

After being found not guilty of violating anti-doping laws following a 16-month inquiry, DAVID COVERDALE: Victoria Ohuruogu is aiming for a spot at the Paris Olympics. During being photographed on a London track with her Italian boyfriend Antonio Infantino while suffering a three-year drug ban, Britain's best female 400 meters runner was put under scrutiny by UK Anti-Doping in December 2022. According to 'prohibited association' rules, athletes can't be trained by anyone under a drug prohibition, and Ohuruogu - the younger sister of 2008 Olympic champion Christine Ohuruogu - was charged.

DAVID COVERDALE: She will be remembered as one half of the ultimate golden couple. The dame and the knight are portrayed in the book. Female and male athletes in British Olympic history have been the most successful in the sport. Laura Kenny described her family's need to win 12 Olympic gold medals so they could make a clock for their Cheshire home when their surname was still Trott. How fitting, then, that the 31-year-old should accompany his husband Jason in retirement with five golds rather than his seven.

BY DAVID COVERDALE DAVID COVERDALE: Javier Bello holds his phone to display the snapshot of him and his twin brother Joaquin as their background. It's an artist's interpretation of the Eiffel Tower Stadium - the beach volleyball arena at this summer's Olympics, located at the foot of Paris's most prominent monument. We've been living our Olympic dream for the past few years,' Javier admits. "That looks really cool, we want to be there," I said as soon as I got there.' The beach on the banks of the Thames is where the London-based brothers find themselves with Mail Sport, where they will actually knock a volleyball about for the purpose of our pictures.

DAVID COVERDALE: Lord Coe will attend the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix this weekend as athletics seeks to become the first sport to attract investment from the Gulf state. During his stay in Jeddah, Mail Sport reports that the World Athletics president will consult with representatives of Saudi's Public Investment Fund. If negotiations go well, a sponsorship agreement with PIF could be forged, which may also result in the staging of a major track and field festival in the Middle East country for the first time.

DAVID COVERDALE: For the first time, the United Kingdom is considering hosting the FIFA Women's World Cup. The tournament, according to UK Sport, the government department that controls major sporting events, is one of 70 events they want to stage in the United Kingdom over the next 15 years. As soon as 2031, a bid to host the Women's World Cup - the world's biggest sporting event, which has never been hosted here - could be made. However, if the 2027 tournament goes to Belgium, Germany, and Netherlands, who are up against Brazil and a joint effort from Mexico and the United States, then the UK will aim for 2035 or 2039. The 2027 Tour de France, the World Athletic Championships in 2029 or 2031, the Ryder Cup in 2031 or 2035, and the Men's Rugby World Cup in 2035 or 2039 were also targets on UK Sport's list of targets.