Broncos’ Chelsea Lenarduzzi: ‘It’s burnt me every year that we haven’t won’ | Jack Snape

Women’s rugby league is on the up, but for one of its proudest proponents, the downs are still impossible to avoid. Chelsea Lenarduzzi, the Brisbane and Queensland forward, has felt disappointment for her state and club in the past 12 months.However, the longtime Bronco knows there’s nothing to do but get back on the horse. “If you don’t make a team, the sun rises the next day and you should still go to work,” she says ahead of Brisbane’s season opener against the Tigers on Saturday. “Our work is that sometimes you go to training, and sometimes you go to a recovery centre the next day after bad news

Owen Farrell backed to ‘inject experience’ into Lions squad after replacing injured Daly

Andy Farrell says the arrival of his son Owen will “inject a bit of life and experience” into the British & Irish Lions squad in Australia and is backing him to sharpen the team’s competitive edge. Farrell also said he had had no hesitation in picking the former England captain despite the fact he has not played Test rugby for 20 months and struggled for form and fitness this year.Farrell Jr is due to fly in to join the squad on Friday as a replacement for the luckless Elliot Daly who broke a forearm in the 52-12 win against the Queensland Reds. It is a big call for a number of reasons but Farrell Sr insists it is the right one for the squad as they build towards their best-of-three Test series against the Wallabies which kicks off in just over a fortnight.Farrell Jr has not played any rugby at all in the last two months and is not a like-for-like positional swap for Daly but his father is focused on the impact he could have on a squad which is not overflowing with Lions experience

Tour de France 2025: full team-by-team guide

Tadej Pogacar’s UAE team and Jonas Vingegaard’s Visma lead the way but watch out for Soudal-QuickStepTwo men, Mathieu van der Poel and Jasper Philipsen, with one plan: stage wins and the green jersey; VDP is the big star, but in recent Tours de France it’s been “Jasper Disaster” who has delivered. On the flat stages, VDP uses his explosive power and superlative bike handling to lead out Philipsen, who has won nine stages in the last three Tours and the green jersey in 2023. Anywhere a bit lumpy will be for VDP, although he has taken only one Tour stage in his career. That was at Mûr de Bretagne in 2021, so watch out for him when the Tour returns there on 11 July.Team: Van der Poel, Philipsen, Kaden Groves, Silvan Dillier, Xandro Meurisse, Jonas Rickaert, Gianni Vermeersch, Emiel Verstrynge

Idaho-bred Matteo Jorgenson is big – and getting bigger in cycling’s biggest races

The American rider defies the sport’s physical norms and is already a Grand Tour contender. But for now it is patience, not power, that’s his defining traitMatteo Jorgenson is big. Not in the way Dexter Lawrence or Chet Holmgren are big. Not in the sense that most American athletes are considered big. But in the world of professional cycling, Matteo Jorgenson is big

Architect behind MCG’s Shane Warne Stand says mooted upgrades ‘don’t pass the pub test’

The architect who helped design the MCG’s Shane Warne Stand has urged the Melbourne Cricket Club to reconsider plans to demolish and replace the venerated grandstand, given the mooted upgrades – estimated to cost $200,000 per additional seat – don’t “pass the pub test”.The towering structure formerly known as the Great Southern Stand, which won a prominent design award as recently as 2020 and is younger than Collingwood midfielder Steele Sidebottom, was completed in 1992 on the narrow envelope between the hallowed MCG turf and Brunton Avenue, adjacent to the train tracks south of the stadium. It was renamed in honour of Warne after the leg-spinner’s death in 2022.MCC president, Fred Oldfield, told members at his organisation’s AGM last year the 45,000-seat stand, which received a $55m refurbishment in 2012, will need a “complete rebuild” at some stage, and the chief executive, Stuart Fox, has described it as a “priority”.The MCC operates the ground on behalf of the Victorian government-appointed MCG Trust, the organisation chaired by former Victorian premier Steve Bracks with former Collingwood president Eddie McGuire on its board

Wimbledon 2025: Raducanu beats Vondrousova, Fritz survives, Osaka through, Paolini exits – as it happened

That’s all for today. Thanks as always for following along with us and be sure to join us tomorrow for more coverage from SW19.And Fritz finishes it off, helped out by a couple of Diallo unforced errors. He advances to a third-round tie with the winner of the match between Botic Van de Zancschulp and Aleandro Davidovich Fokina, which was suspended for darkness and will resume tomorrow.Diallo does his part in holding from love-15 down