Sports Calendar

Sport in brief: Sangakkara a ‘coup’ for Lancashire

Tommy Bowe stays put | Alfa Romeo triumphs | ICC sets deadline | USF1 plans on track | Lindsey Vonn given all-clear

Sport in brief: plain sailing for Alfa

Alfa Romeo, skippered by Neville Crichton, just ahead of Britain’s ICAP Leopard in the Sydney to Hobart race

British forces descend on Australia for yacht race

Members of the Armed Forces will take part in the Sydney-to-Hobart yacht race as part of unique inter-service training exercise

Sport in brief: Young wins thriller

Sir Chris Hoy’s focus on gold | Ferrari think big | Female ski jumpers lose battle | Heineken Cup games | Challenger’s query

Girl sailor Laura Dekker found in Dutch Antilles

The 14-year-old, banned by the courts from trying to sail solo round the world, has been found on the island of St Martin

Teenage sailor Laura Dekker on her way home

Dutch welfare officers say she was disturbed by the furore over her sailing plans, which had been encouraged by her father

The decade’s top five sporting moments

It was the decade of Zidane's head-butt, Jonny’s dropped goal and that Beckham free kick – but it was Usain Bolt who sprinted clear

Decade’s top 100 sporting moments: Nos 20-6

Part five features a head-butt from Zinédine Zidane, Arsenal’s "Invincibles" and Gary Pratt running out Ricky Ponting

The decade’s top 100 sporting moments: Nos 60-41

Part three of our countdown, including the final act of an Ashes folk hero and humiliating exits for two England football managers

The decade’s top 100 sporting moments: Nos 100-81

So how was the sporting decade for you? The staff of Times Sport have assembled their favourite memories of the past ten years

Freed sailors admit they made a mistake

The British yachtsmen released by Iran acknowledged that they had allowed their boat to stray into Iranian waters

Davies ends her Atlantic ordeal

British sailor finishes tenth in the Transat Jacques Vabre race after battling horrendous weather and technical problems

Ainslie and Team Origin hit the rocks

British hopes of winning the Louis Vuitton Trophy are dashed as the Azzurra team makes the most of Mediterranean conditions

An ocean of calm: on board with Ben Ainslie

Times writer joins Britain’s America’s Cup entry in Nice and finds a composed crew among the pandemonium on the Cote d'Azur

Monster sail takes wing in storm-force controversy

Romance is thrown overboard for radical technology in America's Cup

Oracle unveil stunning new super-yacht

Sailing: racing team hope that Bor 90, the most radical racing yacht ever, will help them beat Alinghi in America's Cup

Bor 90: technology that powers the yacht

Sailing: Oracle's stunning new vessel has an on-board computer wired to more than 100 sensors monitoring its performance

Thomson crashes out of Jacques Vabre

Sailing: British crew were fourth in Transat race before damage suffered from collision with a large piece of flotsam sent their challenge off course

Briton leads planning for reform of America’s Cup

Sailing: Sir Keith Mills of Team Origin calls for the creation of an independent body to run future competitions

Battling simply to survive on the water

Sailing: HUGO BOSS skipper files his online diary amid dreadful conditions in the Transat Jacques Vabre race to Costa Rica