18-year-old Christian cyclist dies
Luke Randall
An 18-year-old Christian cyclist from Switzerland has died while competing in the World Championships in Zurich.
Muriel Furrer was competing in a junior race when a bad crash in a wooded area left her with an eventually fatal brain injury. No one had witnessed the accident and she had been lying in the area before she was found during the next race. Furrer had regularly spoken of her faith on social media, with her Instagram profile declaring ‘all things through Christ’. She regularly posted about how God had helped her during competitions.
Call for action on betting surge
Luke Randall
Evangelical organisation Christian Action Research and Education (CARE) is calling for the government to ‘step in and hold the betting industry to account,’ following the revelation that the number of gambling adverts featured during the Premier League season's opening weekend has tripled since last year.
A study by the University of Bristol, funded by Gamble Aware, found that the opening round of fixtures across the weekend of 17 August saw 29,000 advertisements promoting gambling across the ten matches, marking a 165% increase on the previous year. West Ham’s evening clash with Aston Villa featured 6,500 ads, which works out to about 30 every minute.
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Do Sunday convictions make or break Christian athletes?
Luke Randall
This summer’s Paris Olympic Games saw much made of Scottish runner Eric Liddell’s gold medal triumph in the 400-metre race in the same city 100 years ago.
There are many athletes who profess to having a Christian faith today, as was seen recently at the Olympics, as well as in some of England’s footballers, and perhaps most notably, the world’s best golfer, Scottie Scheffler.
Scheffler’s 'inevitable' domination and Christ's inevitable return
It may be a few weeks since The Open Championship, but one thing struck me during Scottie Scheffler’s victory procession, as one of the crown jewels of the British sporting summer came to an end.
Scheffler, who is well known for being a devoted Christian, stormed to victory at Royal Portrush, shooting 17 under par to finish four shots clear in what was a fairly uncompetitive affair by the final day, as every would-be challenger failed to keep up with his supreme consistency and deadly putting on the greens.