Sports Shorts: Mayer and Asher-Smith are European athletes of the year

A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Saturday IMAGE: Kevin Mayer is the first Frenchman to hold the decathlon world record. Photograph: Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters World decathlon......

Sports Shorts: Meet the first Japanese man to top badminton rankings

IMAGE: Japan’s Kento Momota. Photograph: Robertus Pudyanto/Getty Images World champion Kento Momota has become the first Japanese man to top the Badminton World Federation rankings,......

A heart-wrenching tale of forgotten athletes

IMAGE: Kim So-young, left, a former gymnast who was paralysed from the neck down at 16 after falling off the parallel bars while training, talks to former Olympic gold medalist Jang Mi-ran at her......

India's C'wealth Games showing raises hope for big medal haul at Asiad

Abhinav Bindra of India. Photograph: Jeff Gross/Getty Images Bolstered by a better-than-expected performance in the Commonwealth Games, India’s athletes are looking to assert themselves......

'God of vault' flips out after school drops his sport

Olympic champion Yang Hak-seon, who vaulted South Korea gymnastics into the limelight by winning gold at the 2012 London Games, has flipped out at plans by Hanyang University to disband its......