Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao to fight in September rematch on Netflix

Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao will face each other on 19 September in Las Vegas in a rematch of one of the biggest fights in boxing history.Their first fight, in 2015, was generally seen as a tame affair with both fighters past their peaks. September’s bout, which will be streamed live on Netflix, is likely to be of an even lower quality. Mayweather and Pacquiao will be 49 and 47 respectively when they fight. Mayweather’s last professional fight, which preserved his unbeaten record, came in 2017, although that was a glorified exhibition against UFC star Conor McGregor

Highs, lows and halfpipes: the Guardian’s most memorable Winter Olympics moments

Curling cursing, podium camaraderie and stunning speed on skis linger for our writers after an astonishing GamesBest moment Matt Weston winning double gold. It was so well deserved. He fought hard for the victories and the emotions afterwards showed how much it meant to him.Biggest disappointment Seeing the second GB skeleton relay team, Freya Tarbit and Marcus Wyatt, take fourth place. The sense of almost getting that medal, the sadness was so visible

England’s zombies have rapidly descended into collective brain fog in Six Nations | Robert Kitson

The band on the stadium concourse were playing a familiar tune in the immediate aftermath of England’s latest debacle on Saturday. “Zombie! Zombie!” the vocalist sang, ostensibly in tribute to Ireland’s record 42-21 victory at Twickenham. Alternatively he might just have been riffing on the horribly listless, blank-eyed performance that ended England’s Six Nations title hopes for another year.“In your he-ad, in your he-ad…” The old Cranberries anthem, synonymous with Ireland’s 2023 World Cup campaign in France, will be heard a few more times over the next month if Andy Farrell’s team maintain their revitalised excellence and no-nonsense physical intent. For England’s players, though, the past two weekends have been truly grim, a return to the bad old days they had dared to hope were over

Even greater heights await Australia’s Winter Olympians after success of Milano Cortina Games | Kieran Pender

More than half of the 50-odd Australians who featured in Italy this month were Olympic debutants, suggesting a bright future aheadAustralia’s golden 2026 Winter Olympics campaign ended on Sunday not with a medal, but with a thrilling view of the future. Following the nation’s most successful Winter Games of all time, the denouement suggested that this might just be the beginning.Sixteen-year-old Indra Brown’s fifth place in the freestyle skiing halfpipe on the final day of Milano Cortina was a fitting conclusion to a remarkable Games for team Australia. While Brown missed out on a medal, her performance – just 5.5 points off the podium – was historic all the same

Winter Olympics men’s ice hockey final: USA beat Canada in overtime to end 46-year wait for gold – as it happened

Bryan Graham was in the arena in Milan on Sunday. You can read his full report below:So the USA will finish with 12 gold medals in Italy, two more than their previous best of 10 (Salt Lake 2002) and three more than their best away from home.Canada wraps up with five, just one more than their 21st century nadir four years ago in Beijing. And one of those five went to a team (men’s curling) that disturbed the genteel nature of its sport. The 21 total medals are also the lowest since 2002

The US moved away from its heartland to set a Winter Olympics high in Italy

In 2002, on home ice and snow in Utah, the USA obliterated its records for most gold medals (10, beating the previous high of six) and most overall medals (34, more than two times the previous high of 13) by the country in a single Winter Olympics.In 2026, the USA broke that national record for gold medals with 12, and broke the 30-medal mark for the first time outside North America (Norway broke the overall record with 18 golds).If that stat seems surprising, perhaps it’s because the bulk of those US medals were won by people who are not household names. You won’t see Snoop Dogg and Martha Stewart cheering them on US TV. You may not even know their sports