David Walsh

Chief sports writer at The Sunday Times. From 23 July 2020, author of The Russian Affair.

[Times Sport @TimesSport]

Core fans priced out already . . . imagine if Gianni Infantino got his way

Nothing beats the experience of watching sport live, but top-level events are increasingly becoming the preserve of the most affluent

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Tadej Pogacar is the world’s best athlete — and team-mate

Unstoppable Slovenian closes in on fifth Tour de France title but proves the ultimate team player as he chaperones team-mate Isaac del Toro to podium place

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‘Better to lose sleep than credibility’ — fallout from Vingegaard’s crash after his 2am drug test cast a shadow over stage 16 and Pogacar's overall lead cut

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Yannis Voisard, aged 27, is riding the Tour de France for the first time but is close enough to the top ten to be creating excitement within his team

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"Pidcock kept fighting and you can bet he will continue to do so. It is at times like this, when he’s not at his best, that he discovers who he is. He will take a lot from this third place."

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Iconic moment as Tadej Pogacar gifts stage win to team-mate and friend Isaac Del Toro

Emotional scenes after young Mexican is encouraged to win on only his second day on the Tour de France as Jonas Vingegaard retains yellow jersey

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Paul Seixas will end France’s long wait — this Tour will tell us when

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"Forty years ago I had the greatest summer. Well, at least of my working life. It involved two events, two Frenchmen and two deserved outcomes."

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Racing needs underdog to beat top dog more — at Royal Ascot, it could happen

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@AshleyGill77 Hi Ashley, thank you for sending this photo my way. Brings back a host of memories, all of them happy. The two years at the Observer are up there with the best of them. David.

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Today in Dublin, Ireland and Scotland will play for the Siobhan Cattigan Trophy. This occasion, this recognition of what Siobhan contributed to Scottish rugby means a great deal to her family, writes @DavidWalshST

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One thing LIV Golf got right? It didn’t treat caddies like ‘rats’

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Carl Hayman on life with dementia: Success now is doing one job in a day

Once rugby’s greatest tight-head prop, the former All Black shares his experience living with the symptoms of brain injury for more than a decade

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Ipswich’s Premier League promotion is a triumph of old-fashioned values

Sir Bobby Robson has long gone but in Kieran McKenna the Suffolk club have a visionary manager whose loyalty and self-restraint are a throwback to bygone era

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Two best friends, two suicides. How did rugby let this happen?

Shane Christie’s former partner Holly Parkes relives harrowing decline that led to his death, which eerily echoed that of team-mate Billy Guyton two years earlier

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@DavidWalshST
Powerful podcast with Holly Parkes🥲
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"Imagine if you’d been at the game and someone had told you three of the players would be dead within nine years. All from the same team. Impossible, you would have said"

Two best friends, two suicides. How did rugby let this happen?

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@ewenmurray77 Much appreciated Ewen.

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🚴 Paris-Roubaix is a risk for Tadej Pogacar and we love him for taking it on

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"A friend remarked on the sadness of a sporting icon dragged so low. It isn’t just sad. It's bad"

@DavidWalshST says fans are always eager to forgive Tiger Woods, but another car crash reveals an alarming spiral for a man who remains a hero to many ⬇️
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