Wales v Scotland: Six Nations rugby union – as it happened

Sarah Rendell’s report has landed so I’ll get out of here.Credit to her for making sense of that. A quick trade secret, most match reports are written with 10 minutes left on the clock. So any change at the death can be a nightmare.The fact that Sarah filed this on time, and with more than a degree of coherence, is a testament to her skills!Thanks for joining me

Russell inspires Scotland to thrilling Six Nations comeback win against Wales

Scotland pulled off a dramatic comeback win against Wales to back up their impressive Calcutta Cup success the previous week. Hosts Wales had the lead until the 74th minute thanks to a spark lit by the wing Josh Adams, leaving the visitors with a feeling that they were lucky to come away with five points, which sent them to the top of the Six Nations table.This was just the third time Scotland have won the match directly after a victory over rivals England in the Six Nations and their second-half resurgence came at the hands of their maverick Finn Russell. Who else could it have been? The fly-half is one of the best in the world and has been the architect of Scotland’s biggest victories over the last few years. He was largely quiet in the first 40 minutes, such was Wales’s impressive start, but two fast-paced tries either scored or created by Russell set Scotland on the comeback path

Borthwick ‘bitterly disappointed’ by latest Six Nations setback against Ireland

Steve Borthwick says England have only themselves to blame for their steep decline in this season’s Six Nations. After his side’s record humbling by Ireland on Saturday, Borthwick said his side are being punished for their poor starts to games and are leaving themselves “a mountain to climb” against quality opposition.This was England’s worst Six Nations defeat since they lost 53-10 at home to France in 2023 and Borthwick said he was “bitterly disappointed” with his team’s latest sub-par first-half showing. “Unfortunately, for two weeks now, we have given the opposition too many points and we have not got scoreboard presence. We will be looking closely at that and how I set the team up to make sure it doesn’t happen again

Borthwick’s plans in shreds as ruthless Ireland heap more misery on England | Michael Aylwin

So it looks as if it might have been a bubble. England’s 12-match winning run came to a shuddering halt last week, but it was possible to believe that flop might prove a one-off – a chastened Scotland at home, after all, has been the downfall of many an England team.Well, there are scattered strips of latex all over Twickenham now, England’s balloon more than spectacularly popped by an Ireland side who are hardly afraid of inspirational rugby against this lot themselves.Just as England had been riding high before last week, so Ireland had been looking a little lacklustre. We thought they might be a team in transition – and they may yet prove to be – but they brought back a whole haberdasher’s worth of experience, led by the peerless Jamison Gibson-Park, and fairly tormented their younger and more hopeful hosts

Jorrit Bergsma wins mass start to continue golden Winter Olympics for 40-somethings

Jorrit Bergsma, the mullet-wearing 40-year-old speed skating legend from the Netherlands, won the men’s mass start on Saturday afternoon for his second medal of the Milano Cortina Games and his first Olympic gold since 2014.Bergsma crossed first in 7:55.50, ahead of Viktor Hald Thorup of Denmark and Andrea Giovannini of Italy, denying American star Jordan Stolz in his bid to become the first man in 32 years to win three long-track speed skating golds at a single Olympics.“Everybody settled for third, honestly. Nobody wanted to get the gold,” said Stolz, the 21-year-old from Wisconsin who captured a pair of golds with Olympic-record times in the 500m and 1000m before Thursday’s silver in the 1500m

England 21-42 Ireland: Six Nations player ratings from Twickenham

Freddie Steward Showed the type of inaccuracy that will infuriate Steve Borthwick more than once and made little or no impact in attack. 5Tommy Freeman A couple of decent moments, but like almost everyone else in white, far from his best day. 6Ollie Lawrence Did his job by bringing power in the carry and clearly positionally superior at No 13 to the Freeman experiment. 6Fraser Dingwall Took his try well, but a defensive error allowed Doris’s skill to expose him. Another very indifferent day