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Somewhere in the press pack for the Converse x Palmes Jack Purcell PDM there is a photograph that has almost nothing to do with the collaboration. It is a screenshot from Nikolaj Hansson's Instagram, taken in 2012, and it shows him skating in a pair of Jack Purcells in Denmark. "I just liked them," he says, "and I was like, I'm gonna skate in them." Fourteen years on, he has designed one. Hansson is on a call from New York, where the week is stacked. He is taking a group out to the US Open tomorrow.

Somewhere on the road down from Cortina this week, a 1968 Lamborghini Miura was being driven slowly on purpose. Chassis 3586, the car from the opening sequence of The Italian Job. Fifty-odd years after it went into that tunnel it was back in the Alps, its crew watching a stopwatch rather than the rev counter. That is the thing to understand about the Louis Vuitton Dolomites Classic Run, which finished today in Milan. It is a regularity race. Nobody wins by being quickest.

As a new generation edges closer to becoming a golden one, Morgan Rogers sits front and centre of football’s next wave. The latest PFA Young Player of the Year has everything the winners of the past had: the ability to decide games, shift momentum and the expectation to become the player in whatever side they play for. I interviewed Morgan directly after he received that award. Nearly a year later, we spoke again.

There is a moment, early in any conversation with Khadija Shaw, where you realise the name “Bunny” is doing a lot of work. It suggests softness, approachability, a certain lightness. The reality, once you understand the numbers, is somewhat different. 117 goals in 137 appearances for Manchester City. Over 100 WSL goal involvements since joining City. The first Manchester City player – men’s or women’s – to score 100 goals for the club. A third consecutive WSL Golden Boot. A league title.

Ahead of my interview with TV presenter Miquita Oliver, I’ve been sent a film documenting the inception and rise of her Skip School. As soon as the opening montage of Miquita’s own journey with skipping starts, I smile. There is footage of training sessions in the park four years ago where Miquita was first handed a rope by a personal trainer.

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The night promotion was sealed, Andy Woodman’s foot was going. I was sat near him in the ground. Legs going, foot tapping, that contained stillness on the outside that hides everything underneath. The Ravens, founded 1892, had just reached the third tier of English football for the first time in their history. The man known to anyone who has ever been near a dressing room he ran as Woody was vibrating. “We had a seven-year plan.

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He’s been to Southampton, and he’s even been to Scunthorpe. But, in the years since his 2010 breakout hit “Pass Out” catapulted him to international fame, how has London’s favourite rapper been getting on? With a return to music on the horizon, we asked Mr Tempah, now 36, what role sport and his beloved Arsenal FC play in keeping him grounded. Were you into sports growing up? “I tried various sports and obviously as a young lad, you want to become a footballer. But it didn’t happen.

When Josh Kerr crossed the finish line at the Indoor Championships earlier this year, winning gold in the 3000m, he put two hands beneath his head and made the “night night” gesture. The celebration was box-office and made headlines almost immediately. It was also classic Kerr, a man who is unafraid to put his personality and rivalries out there when he takes to the track.