Fallon Sherrock narrowly failed to create more history as she drew 6-6 with Glen Durrant at the Premier League in Nottingham after her PDC World Championship success in December.

The elephant in the room remains, running laps at improbable speed. It has been two weeks since Jemma Reekie came to wider attention with an astonishing performance - now she must talk.

The world's fastest sailboat is set to complete its record-breaking journey around the world this week, making its arrival through the Thames. The IDEC Sport's crew are led by Francis Joyon.

Laura Lambert and Chief Sports Writer Martin Samuel are shortlisted for the Hugh McIlvanney Award for Sports Journalist of the Year.

It is four years since Jason Kenny won three gold medals at the Rio Games, thus matching Sir Chris Hoy as Great Britain's most successful Olympian by bringing his tally to six.

EXCLUSIVE BY DAVID COVERDALE: Organisers of the 2022 Commonwealth Games are set to face a grilling after it was confirmed that the archery and shooting will be held in India.

If Laura Kenny wanted to forget about the injury she was told would rule her out of the Tokyo Olympics, her two-year-old son had other ideas.

British Cycling have been dealt a major financial blow after HSBC pulled the plug on their £20million sponsorship deal four years early.

It was left to Jason Kenny to add to the family's cycling silver after wife Laura defied doctor's orders but could not defy the odds.

RIATH AL-SAMARRAI: New levels of bemusement were attained with this week's revelations of how he changed his story about an L-carnitine infusion to USADA investigators.

DAVID COVERDALE: The British track cycling star went out at the last-16 stage and leaves Berlin with just the silver medal he won in the team sprint, having also failed to make Thursday's keirin final.

WILL JEANES IN MARRAKESH: Da Costa, who drives for DS Techeetah, had finished second in the previous two races of the season in Chile and Mexico but led from pole.

GEORGE BOND: The longest championship drought in the history of North American professional sport met its end deep in the webbing of Anthony Rizzo's right glove.

The coronavirus has rocked the sporting world this week with most taking measures to ensure that fans nor players are affected by the global pandemic that is spreading across the world.

World champion Mads Pedersen of Denmark has pulled out of the Paris-Nice race before the start of Saturday's final stage after his country asked its nationals to return amid the coronavirus outbreak.

World champion Judd Trump has become the first player to win six ranking titles in a season after beating Kyren Wilson 4-3 in the final of the BetVictor Gibraltar Open.

Sportsmail understands the opening meet in Doha on April 17 will be pushed back until after the Olympic Games scheduled for the summer, with a new slot in September or October likely.

The Premier League Darts season has already thrown up plenty of surprises as it nears the half-way mark of the 2020 campaign. Here, Sportsmail takes a closer look at what we've learned.

Sportsmail is shadowing seven British stars from a variety of sports as they prepare for Tokyo. Tom Bosworth takes the spotlight today. Here's an update on the other six...

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Race walker Tom Bosworth stands to miss out on as much as £20,000 this spring due to events that have been called off because of coronavirus.

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW BY RIATH AL-SAMARRAI: Daley Thompson doesn't break people and crush souls these days unless he absolutely has to. As it happens, he had to on the morning we met.

RIATH AL-SAMARRAI: Roman Abramovich, Gary Neville and anyone else who has had the decency to do what they can to help a few others in a unique time of crisis deserve enormous credit.

The World Snooker Championship is the latest major sporting event to be postponed because of the coronavirus. Judd Trump was due to start the defence of his title at the Crucible on April 18.

*'Footy is resilient and footy will find a way,' said not Jeff Goldblum in Jurassic Park but AFL chief executive Gillon McLachlan this week. Here are the sporting fixtures proving him right.

Britain's double Olympic champion was due to retire from short-course triathlons to concentrate on the Ironman circuit. Brownlee, 31, said: 'I am now going to have to extend it for another year.'

Three more events scheduled for May were postponed on Friday, but Diamond League organisers have claimed they're committed to delivering an 'extensive season' in 2020.

Top PDC Darts stars gave the phrase 'in the madhouse' a new meaning as they defied the global sporting shutdown to live-stream a tournament from the comfort of their respective living rooms.

UK Athletics have brought forward plans to hire a new head coach in the wake of the postponement of the Olympics.

The extravaganza will consist of just over a month's worth of darting action, as live sport returns in a unique format to households despite the coronavirus lockdown.

The legendary road race is scheduled to start in Nice on June 27 but it will now either be postponed or scrapped altogether, with a decision expected later this week.

The Scot, a two-time winner of the World Championships at Ally Pally, was scheduled to take part in the event from the comfort of his own home in Somerset, but is now unable to.

Gary Anderson had to pull out of the PDC Home Tour due to poor Wi-Fi connection. The event sees darts players compete from home over the next 32 nights in a competition.

World champion Peter Wright won the opening match of the PDC Home Tour, overcoming a scare against Peter Jacques. Wright, who is known for his wacky haircuts, donned an NHS logo on his head.

On just the second evening of the tour, world No 57 Luke Woodhouse hit a 113.9 average and also beat Ted Evetts and Rowby-John Rodriguez to ensure a 100 per cent record in Group Two.

O'Sullivan is a five-time world champion and his dad was spreading the word from when he was just a small child, including to one of the country's greatest ever footballers.

Chris Brasher was one of the great Corinthians: four-minute mile pace-maker, Olympic champion, mountaineer, journalist, pipe smoker and all-round bon vivant.

EXCLUSIVE BY RIATH AL-SAMARRAI: Then known as Ann Packer, she took gold in the 800m as Sportsmail caught up with one of Britain's sporting heroes at her lovely home in Congleton, Cheshire.

Ebdon famously defeated Stephen Hendry 18-17 to win the world championship in 2002, and also triumphed in the 2006  UK Championship in one of his other eight ranking event wins.

From the goat's blood injections Usain Bolt took before winning Olympic gold at Rio to Diego Costa's use of horse placenta, Sportsmail have looked athletes methods of treatment

INTERVIEW BY RIATH AL-SAMARRAI: That Duncan Goodhew can relate to the uncertainty facing Adam Peaty also means he is well placed to predict the younger fish will prevail to win gold.

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW BY DAVID COVERDALE: Going from globe-trotting gymnast to stay-at-home dad was not part of Max Whitlock's career plan for at least another four years.

A wide-ranging review of UK Athletics has heard that the under-fire organisation 'couldn't get any worse' - and has raised specific concerns about its ethics.

Kanye West announced plans in November that he was setting up a new Adidas Yeezys HQ in Cody, Wyoming, vowing to bring jobs back to the United States.

Mark Wahlberg revealed on The Ellen DeGeneres Show that his children misinterpreted his hint about getting a new puppy and thought he invited Kim Kardashian and Kanye West to dinner.

Kim Kardashian was at her wits' end on Monday, after her youngest daughter, Chicago, two, stained her expensive white sofa.

The Keeping Up with the Kardashians star is currently studying to become a lawyer, and has now said that following in the footsteps of her late father Robert Kardashian has always been a dream.

She gave a glimpse of her enormous and well-stocked fridge after  she was mocked for having 'empty shelves.' And on Wednesday, Kim Kardashian showed off what a breakfast looks like.

He is fresh off two successful gospel albums after a religious awakening. And Kanye West was the picture of good cheer as he stepped out in the Kardashian enclave of Calabasas.

Kim Kardashian shared a new video to her Instagram account on Monday morning. The 39-year-old TV vet appeared to have a very deep tan as she announced she was releasing a new fragrance.

Kim Kardashian and her children join husband Kanye West every week for his music-filled Sunday Services.