Jessica Ennis-Hill has said she can enjoy competing more now she has become a mother, as she prepares to compete in her first heptathlon since winning gold at the London 2012 Olympics.

Nicola Adams has targeted boxing history as she steps up her plans for her Olympic title defence. The 32-year-old will fight for Team GB in the first European Games in Baku this month.

Lutalo Muhammad is relishing the prospect of renewing one of the biggest rivalries in his sport when he takes to the mat for the men's -80kg taekwondo competition at the European Games.

Some of you won’t like me saying this, but I feel old! I know I’m only 22 but I’m diving so much and working so hard that my body is sore every day. I’m training for the World Aquatics Championship.

I can’t wait for Rio 2016! It’s come around so quickly – it feels like London 2012 was last week. But hopefully I’ll be in good shape next year, make that team and do everyone proud.

ROAD TO RIO'S SALLY BROWN: It’s been a really tough couple of years for me, but I’m really hoping everything is going to come together in time for Rio next year.

Max Whitlock has set his sights on becoming a ‘legend’ of the sport. That quest for greatness continues at the World Championships in Glasgow.

CHRIS MEARS: Rio has always been there driving me to train harder and to compete as well as I can. It’s really pushed me. Now it’s becoming less of a dream and more of a reality.

I'm really looking forward to the Olympics - and it's crazy how quickly it's coming around - but at the moment I'm trying just to focus on the European Championships.

The 29-year-old Brit Greg Rutherford, also the reigning world and European champion, posted a season best of 8.31metres in the second round to dominate the event.

Once the medals started coming in I wanted to be that person to stand on the podium – the success of the others really spurred me on. For every member of the track team to win a medal was unbelievable.

Britain has a stable of young sprinters that is the envy of the world, and Sportsmail has brought them together for a stunning photoshoot.

South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham called former VP Joe Biden a 'fine man' after firing off a letter to the State Department seeking documents on Biden and his son Hunter.

Republican Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy, 68, walked back on his comments that Ukraine interfered in the 2016 presidential election during an interview on CNN on Monday.

President Donald Trump (pictured) reportedly knew about the whistleblower complaint when he released military aid to Ukraine in September.

Doubts were cast over Gordon Sondland's call with Donald Trump where POTUS allegedly told him there was 'no quid pro quo' at play in U.S. policy toward the Ukraine, as no record of the call exists.

Police have questioned a 'respected' Ukrainian gynaecologist, Dr Vyacheslav Tripolko, after an unnamed woman saw herself on an adult site undergoing an ultrasound investigation.

Ukrainian officials are said to be in the process of discussing a number of ways to improve their country's standing with President Trump in the wake of the fallout caused by the impeachment probe

Chairman Adam Schiff had said the report will be released 'soon' and now it's reported the Committee will have 24 hours to view the documents from Monday evening then will vote to approve it Tuesday.

Congressman Jefferson Van Drew of New Jersey doesn't support impeachment and says only a 'small elite group' of lawmakers want to remove Trump, which would be 'un-American'.

Call records released in the House Intelligence Committee's impeachment inquiry report reveals multiple contacts between Rudy Giuliani and the White House during the Ukraine controversy.

Gennady Andreev, 39, and his accomplice Ruslan Klemenchuk, 36, ambushed businessman Yury Beznischenko, 44, and his lover Alla Vitryak, 40, in a forest in Ukraine to steal their VW Touareg.

Fabrizio Ravanelli has revealed his 'big dream' is to one day become coach of his favourite club Juventus. The former striker, known as the 'White Feather' was a prolific scorer for Juve.

Rudy Giuliani's communications director is a 20-year-old who hasn't even graduated from college yet but who is now the gatekeeper to the president's personal attorney.

The Russian leader, 67, was filmed leaving the bathroom in Paris's Elysee Palace alongside six armed bodyguards. Putin was in Paris for a summit to discuss a ceasefire with Ukraine.

Rudy Giuliani detailed Tuesday that he felt it was necessary for Marie Yovanovitch to be prematurely removed from her post because she was enabling Ukrainian corruption.

Ex-golfer David Correia worked to further the business interests of Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman in their bid to sell liquefied US natural gas to Ukraine and other parts of Europe through Poland.

The US wants Ukraine to extradite Craig Lang (left), 29, so that he could face trial in Florida for his role in the murders of Serafin 'Danny' Lorenzo Jr (top right), 53, and Deana K. Lorenzo (bottom right), 50.

The Republican senator from South Carolina is concerned that the president's former lawyer vet his research from sources known for peddling Russian conspiracy theories.

Animal rights activists rescued the desperate animals after a tip off in the capital Kiev.

Saeed Tahmasebi had flown to Tehran with new wife Niloofar Ebrahim and had stayed behind to collect their wedding photos following their celebrations.

The Russian president watched Kalibr cruise missiles and Kinzhal hypersonic missiles being launched from the deck of the Marshal Ustinov cruiser off the coast of Moscow-annexed Crimea.

Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani wants the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene and declare the Democratic-driven impeachment unconstitutional.

Despite Adam Schiff leading the House impeachment inquiry into US President Trump allegedly withholding aid from Ukraine, not one of the three contestants recognised him.

The Government Accountability Office has concluded that the White House Office of Management and Budget violated a the law by withholding millions in aid to Ukraine.

Katya, 19, who is originally from the Ukraine but resides in the US, has reportedly sold her virginity for £1,026 million (1.2M Euro), after putting it up for sale through a notorious online escort agency.

House Democrats released the messages in a document dump on Friday, showing Parnas texting with Derek Harvey, a top Nunes aide.

House impeachment managers wrote White House counsel Cipollone just hours before Trump's trial was set to begin to tell him he may be a 'material witness' to the trial.

An idea under consideration by Senate Democrats would allow for testimony by Joe Biden or the former vice president's son in exchange for former security advisor John Bolton.

Dmitry Khaladzhi, 40, has lifted a 55-stone cow for more a minute near Moscow. The powerlifter, of Ukraine, claims to hold 63 Guinness World Records.

Rudy Giuliani promised in a rambling Fox News interview to release shocking 'evidence' regarding Ukraine corruption that he claims will prompt a probe into both Bidens.

University of California experts showed that location-tagged tweets by Ukraine residents could have been used to map out sentiments towards Russia in real-time.

The president's personal counsel - who is not part of his impeachment defense in the Senate - had told Fox News he would offer evidence at noon Friday, but his new podcast had no new facts.

In 1991, five years after the disaster which rocked Ukraine, the black fungi was found sprouting up the walls of the abandoned reactor which had been flooded with gamma.

Sens. Charles Grassley and Ron Johnston released a letter to the Secret Service seeking information on Hunter Biden after the Senate acquitted Trump of abuse of power.

Aston Villa's £3million signing from Barcelona Louie Barry was on the scoresheet again after his heroics against Russia on Saturday as England U17s beat Ukraine 4-0 on Monday.

If you don't want to mark your match-up the same way as every other loved-up pair on Valentine's Day, pay close attention. Here we've rounded up ten lesser-known places linked to love around the globe.

Anna Sakidon's biological age was nearer to 80 and she weighed just 17lbs when she died in Ukraine. She suffered from Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome which only affects 160 people.

Protesters lit fires and hurled rocks as six buses carrying evacuees from Wuhan, the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak, drove to the hospital in Novi Sanzhary.

Ksenia Didukh, 83, was pronounced dead in Stryzhavka, west Ukraine, after medics were called and found her without a pulse, but was rushed to hospital ten hours later after showing signs of life.