Wimbledon champion Serena Williams insists she won’t let her chase for the all-time record of 24 Grand Slam titles become a damaging distraction.

Serena Williams followed up her seventh Wimbledon singles title and record-equalling 22nd Grand Slam crown with victory in the women’s doubles alongside sister Venus yesterday.

France want to write football “history” by winning the Euro 2016 final at home six years after a damaging player revolt and as the country recovers from the Paris attacks, captain Hugo Lloris said yesterday.

Talented left-back Raphael Guerreiro is one of three members of the Portuguese squad who will be facing the country of his birth in today’s Euro 2016 final against France.

In the autumn of 2002, when some unwise people suggested Sir Alex Ferguson was over the hill, the great Hugh McIlvanney sounded a note of caution.

Maria Martins’ Paris bar is more festive than usual as punters knock back Portuguese Super Bock beers.

Welsh star Gareth Bale and his teammates paraded through the streets of Cardiff packed with an estimated 200,000 fans raucously cheering them as they returned from their Euro 2016 heroics.

Euro 2016 was meant to be Paul Pogba’s tournament, putting the seal on what could be a world record setting transfer away from Juventus. But Antoine Griezmann’s match-winning performances against Germany and Iceland have made him the darling of the host nation.

Nigerian international winger Ahmed Musa yesterday became Premier League champions Leicester City’s second acquisition in a week for what is believed to be a club record fee of £16.6mn ($22mn, 20mn euros).

Manar Sarhan disinfects her hands after filling a patient’s tooth, readying to catch the Euro 2016 match and analyse it for a newspaper as Egypt’s first woman in mainstream football punditry.

World number two Dustin Johnson, who won his first major title at the US Open Golf Championship in June, won’t play in the Rio Olympics because of concerns over the Zika virus.

South Korea’s Park Sung-Hyun charged to a two-shot lead after the second round of the US Women’s Open on Friday with the ominous figure of world number one Lydia Ko in hot pursuit.