Well, there are plenty of sore legs and slow movers in Sydney today after 90,000 participants took part in the City2Surf on Sunday.

While most are in it to raise money for charity or just for fun, there is still a serious race along the 14-kilometre course which runs from Sydney’s CBD to Bondi Beach.

This year, the winners of the men’s and women’s race were Olympic marathoner Andy Buchanan and Aussie cross-country representative Holly Campbell, respectively.

Neither set new course records. But then, no one has for a while.

Remarkably, the men’s record run by Steve Monghetti (40:03) was set in 1991, and the women’s record run by Susie Power (45:08) was set in 2001!

1.92 metres
The height cleared by Izobelle Louison-Roe to claim gold in the women’s high jump at the World Athletics U20 Championships. The jump was three centimetres higher than the 1.89m that earned her silver at the same event in Lima two years ago. Australia finished the meet with six medals, including two golds. The other gold was won by race walker Isaac Beacroft, whose 5km victory a day earlier came with a world under-20 record.

"I want people to know this diagnosis doesn't define me. I am still Roger Craig."
Three-time Super Bowl champion Roger Craig in a speech on Saturday after being inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Craig played as a running back with the San Francisco 49ers. Near the end of a nine-minute recorded speech, the 66-year-old disclosed a vascular dementia diagnosis. The condition is a result of restricted blood supply to the brain. His doctors believe concussions across 11 NFL seasons are partly responsible.

Former professional ice hockey player Sean Avery is most well known for spending a decade in North America’s National Hockey League (NHL), but he is now carving out a career as an actor. Most recently, he played one of Odysseus' crew in Christopher Nolan's ‘The Odyssey’. He also appeared in two of Nolan’s previous films, ‘Oppenheimer’ and Tenet’.  

🏉 The AFLW season opened on Sunday night in the first double-header staged alongside an AFL match. Carlton won both games. In the women’s game, the Blues beat St Kilda 66-40 in front of 20,500 fans at Marvel Stadium, with midfielder Tyanna Smith best on ground after 24 disposals and two goals. AFLW’s first round will continue on Thursday. Meanwhile, Carlton took the men's match 106-62 to move into 10th on the ladder and add to growing calls for interim coach Josh Fraser to be appointed full-time. Both matches were played honouring Spud's Game, a mental health initiative named after former St Kilda captain Danny Frawley. 

🏉 The Les Kiss era at the Wallabies started with a win as Australia narrowly held off Japan 35-32 in Osaka on Saturday. Kiss took over as coach from Joe Schmidt last month and watched his side play 20 minutes a man down after lock Miles Amatosero was sent off for a dangerous clean-out. Japan, coached by former Wallabies boss Eddie Jones, closed to within three points with two minutes left on the clock. Afterwards, Kiss said: “When we had to find a way, we found a way.” The second and final match of the series against Japan will be played in Townsville on Saturday.

🏉 Adelaide Crows forward Taylor ‘Tex’ Walker has announced that this season of AFL will be his last, closing a run that began with his debut for the same club in 2009. Walker has played 316 games, scored more than 700 goals, and was the club’s captain from 2015 to 2019, a period which included the 2017 premiership. The club will mark Walker’s retirement in Round 24 when the Crows host the GWS Giants at Adelaide Oval. The Crows are currently fifth on the ladder and will be looking to make a strong finals run after a straight-sets exit last year. 

🎾 Men’s tennis world number one Jannik Sinner has withdrawn from this week's Cincinnati Open with a knee injury. The Italian also skipped the Canadian Open, which is currently underway, and now heads into the U.S. Open on 30 August with almost no match practice since winning Wimbledon last month. Defending champion Carlos Alcaraz is also missing the tournament with a wrist injury. Meanwhile, no Australians are left in the Canadian Open singles as both the men’s and women’s draws reach the quarter-final stages.

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The Tour de France Femmes, the women's version of the Tour de France, finished in Nice on Sunday after nine days of racing.

Dutch rider Demi Vollering won her second title, riding away on the last climb of the final stage. The 29-year-old finished 1 minute 18 seconds clear of Poland's Katarzyna Niewiadoma-Phinney, who won the race in 2024. Vollering had lost the yellow jersey worn by the race leader two days earlier, when her rival Niewiadoma-Phinney attacked on Mont Ventoux in southern France, and took it back on Saturday.

Vollering said: "It's not only the dream of winning the Tour de France. It's also the dream of living this life, of working hard along with passionate people. It all starts with dreaming. Go chase the dreams and don't let anyone stop you."

Vollering went into the ninth and final stage of the race eight seconds ahead of Niewiadoma-Phinney, who claimed that Vollering's teammate Célia Gery had cut her off, forcing her against the barriers and causing her to give up the lead on the second-to-last stage. 

She confronted Gery immediately after Stage 8 and said she had lost respect for the team. Officials took no action. Vollering said the shape of the road had dictated Gery's line, not any team order. 

Niewiadoma-Phinney stood by the complaint before Sunday's stage. The two spoke afterwards, and Vollering said it was settled.

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The last-placed St George Illawarra Dragons beat the fourth-placed Cronulla Sharks on Sunday. While the result was one of the upsets of the season, the Dragons are still on track to finish last and receive the proverbial wooden spoon, claiming an unwanted piece of club history in the process.

The Dragons beat Cronulla 24-16 at Jubilee Stadium in Kogarah, ending a five-match winning run for a Sharks side that had won 11 of their previous 12 meetings. Centre Valentine Holmes starred for the Dragons with a try and four goals for 12 points.

Cronulla remain fourth on the ladder, but the loss leaves them four points off the top two with four rounds to play. Sharks coach Craig Fitzgibbon said: "It was more important to them [to win] today than us."

The side that finishes bottom of the NRL ladder is said to receive the wooden spoon, and in 27 completed seasons St George Illawarra have never worn it. That run stretches back to 1998, when Sydney club St George merged with the Wollongong-based Illawarra Steelers to form the joint venture that first played the following year. Only three other current clubs have avoided it altogether: Manly Warringah Sea Eagles, the New Zealand Warriors, and the Dolphins.

The Dragons have three wins from 20 games and would need two things to happen to avoid the club’s first wooden spoon. 

The term is borrowed from the University of Cambridge in England in the 18th Century, where an oversized carved spoon went to whoever finished bottom of the honours list in the university's mathematics exams. The last one was handed out in 1909 but the term has carried over into British and Commonwealth sporting competitions.

The Newcastle Knights ended Canberra's finals hopes with a 30-24 win in the capital. The result was sealed when Knights winger Dom Young crossed shortly after Raiders prop Corey Horsburgh was sin-binned for striking Knights centre Dane Gagai late in the match. Raiders coach Ricky Stuart called it a "brain explosion".