The Spanish goalkeeper kept Fiorentina in the game whilst hope hung by a thread and the team teetered on the brink against Inter. Then his team-mates ruined it all, yet again

The Italian driver is dominating in Austin and needs just two points to be mathematically certain of winning the Formula 1 World Championship. However, it cannot be ruled out that all five remaining Grand Prix races will actually take place. Ferrari are performing well

A professor of orthopaedics and traumatology at Sapienza University, he was also a competitive wrestler, judoka and sambo practitioner (the Soviet combat sport), having finished fourth at the European Championships: “I stopped because I didn’t have the time, not because I didn’t want to.” Interview

Ahead of a highly anticipated derby, the manager of one of the teams, ‘the Poirot of football’, asks an artificial intelligence programme to draw up a sort of match plan. The story of a true event

“You have to get back on track, trust the right people. Start the engine again, as if it were an emergency generator when the power goes out and then you’re back on the road. The physical part is simple, the mental part isn’t.” Amidst injuries and gold medals, an interview with the Italian breaststroke swimmer  

On Sunday 1 November, for the first time in history, the American university basketball season will kick off outside the United States, with Rome having been chosen as the venue for the Eternal City Tip-Off. The event will bring four teams to the capital: the men’s and women’s sides from Notre Dame and Villanova