This week’s roundup also features England embarrassments, mountain bike heroics, the Bryan brothers and more
1) Stephen Hendry is returning to snooker, eight years after retiring. Here are some quick career highlights, a maximum break on his last Crucible appearance, and the man himself on his best-ever shot. Hendry has won the world title seven times, his first against Jimmy White in 1990. Pity the Whirlwind, who ran into peak Hendry three more times in the final – including this nerve-shredding deciding frame in 1994. Title No 7 came against Mark Williams in 1999, but perhaps the best demonstration of Hendry’s ice-cold genius came in the 1991 Masters final, when he came from 7-0 and 8-2 down to beat Mike Hallett 9-8. Hallett returned home that night to find he had been burgled.
2) Lyon are queens of Europe again after seeing off Wolfsburg in the Champions League final. And further afield, there was late drama in Uruguay as Plaza Colonia scored an own goal from their own half to give Deportivo Maldonado the win. We are all the guy in blue from the final replay in 2020.
