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When have football associations seen enough evidence to take brain injury seriously? The question arises after new research from Karolinska University in Sweden on Thursday published in The Lancet. This reveals, not for the first time, a clear picture: professional football players are much more likely to develop a brain disease such as dementia in their lives...

In the empty cycling hall of the Omnisport sports complex in Apeldoorn, two riders in rainbow jerseys are working up a sweat in silence. While a group of middle-distance runners complete their training exercises in the middle area, world champion Jeffrey Hoogland (1 km time trial) bends deeply over his handlebars. When the derny in...

If the VVD members, around 24,000, choose Dilan Yeşilgöz (46) as their new leader, they will get someone completely different from Mark Rutte. A woman, for the first time in the history of the VVD. Of Turkish-Kurdish descent: she came to the Netherlands with her parents when she was eight. Rutte lived in The Hague all...

Miranda Schmidt was at the ophthalmologist's office naming the row with the largest letters when the arrest team burst in. There was no time left for the slightly smaller letters. She had to leave the ophthalmology department of Erasmus MC in Rotterdam immediately. “Everyone out,” shouted the men with helmets, bulletproof vests and machine guns. ...

The figures from Spain are perhaps the most telling. They were astonishing. The team of the now departed national coach Luis Enrique had almost total control on the field with 77 percent possession of the ball and a record of 939 passes on average per match with an accuracy of no less than 91 percent. You...