Scotland 31-20 England: Six Nations – as it happened

Rob Kitson’s report has landed so I’ll sign off.What a day of rugby that was. Two cracking games. I had so much fun calling them both for you. I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did

‘A big call for the IOC’: is the fight over Olympic rowing on Australia’s predator-infested Fitzroy River all a croc?

An act of God cancelled rowing at the first Olympics of the modern age.But since stormy seas off Athens scuppered the sport in 1896, rowing has featured in every Games since.Now, the deputy premier of an Australian state appears to have threatened to upend what would be 136 years of history by scrapping rowing from the 2032 Brisbane Games – unless international Olympic and rowing officials agree to race on a river some have expressed concerns may not be up to standard, and one which is within the natural habitat of one of the most deadly predators on Earth: the saltwater crocodile.The Queensland infrastructure and planning minister, Jarrod Bleijie, raised the stakes on his government’s bid to have the central Queensland city of Rockhampton host rowing in 2032 on Wednesday, sending a message to the International Olympic Committee that there was no option other than the “mighty Fitzroy River”.“Rowing is gonna be in Rocky,” Bleijie said

Canada’s curling war of words with Sweden escalates after warning over ‘F-bomb’

The Canadian curler at the centre of a cheating row at the Winter Olympics has denied any wrongdoing, accusing the Swedish team of deliberately trying to “catch us in the act”.On Saturday, World Curling confirmed that Canada had escaped punishment despite being accused of breaking the rules in the 8-6 victory over Sweden on Friday night. However, the sport’s governing body did warn Canada about their abusive langugage and introduced emergency spot checks on Saturday afternoon to make sure teams were not cheating when releasing the stone.A bad-tempered game erupted when Sweden’s Oskar Eriksson told Canada’s Marc Kennedy he was double-touching the stone on the penultimate end, which led to Kennedy responding with an expletive.Speaking after Canada had lost 9-5 to Switzerland on Saturday afternoon, Kennedy insisted he was innocent of any wrongdoing

Two races, two golds: Jordan Stolz smashes another Olympic record in 500m

The men’s 500m is speed skating distilled to its most unforgiving form: one and a quarter laps of the oval, no pacing, no recovery window, no margin for technical compromise. On Saturday afternoon in Milan’s western suburbs, Jordan Stolz mastered the sport’s fastest and most unpredictable race and pushed his Olympic campaign toward historic territory.The 21-year-old American won the 500m in an Olympic-record 33.77 seconds, securing his second gold medal of the Milano Cortina Olympics and adding pace behind what is rapidly becoming one of the defining individual campaigns of these Winter Games.It also means Stolz has opened these Games with two races, two gold medals and two Olympic records

Ireland 20-13 Italy: Six Nations rugby union – as it happened

Time to sign off with Brendan Fanning’s report from the Aviva Stadium. Thanks for joining us. Until next time …A huge game at Murrayfield, with kick-off in 10 minutes time …Some post-game reaction from Cormac Izuchukwu, via RTÉ. “We needed more fight and edge about us [after losing to France], and we showed that in the second half. It was tough this week, maybe we pushed too much

Baloucoune spares Ireland’s Six Nations blushes as they recover to see off Italy

After what felt like 40 days and 40 nights of darkness and rain, the sun came out in Dublin. Cold, yes, and a grey day by kick-off, but bright enough to throw light on an Ireland side scrambling for their footing, and a bullish Italy one looking to break new ground.Neither quite worked out. Never having won a Six Nations game in Dublin might be the sort of statistic to weigh you down but the Azzurri carried it here like a backpack with only a couple of bits and bobs. What they achieved was to give the Championship a highly competitive performance that was heartening, but not worthy of a note in history