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2025: A Defining Year for British Sporting Excellence
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Across cricket, rugby, football and beyond, 2025 has showcased the scale, depth and ambition of UK sport — a year where established icons delivered again and rising stars pushed boundaries in ways impossible to ignore.
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Across cricket, rugby, football and beyond, 2025 has showcased the scale, depth and ambition
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of UK sport. The year where established icons delivered again and rising stars pushed boundaries
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in ways impossible to ignore. Joe Reut reaffirmed his status as England's most dependable modern
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batter, adding another heavy haul of international runs and underlying why he is influenced and
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remained central to the team's evolution. Despite their poor performance at the away Ashes series,
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individually, Reut has become the MVP for the nation.
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That's lovely to hear. That is really nice to hear. I'm very grateful for that support.
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But, you know, this, I've said a few times, this tour isn't all about me. It's not about me scoring
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100 in Australia. It's about us trying to win the Ashes. And my job is to score as many runs as I
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can. And as a senior batter within that team, you know, I expect that of myself. And I'll go out
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there with the same attitude every single time. I felt like I'm, you know, over the last couple of
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years, I've got a really good understanding of how I want to approach different conditions and an
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understanding of my own game and how I'm going to apply myself against different attacks.
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In rugby, Rosie Galligan's set-piece authority helped drive England women to another dominant
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year, capped by a landmark World Cup triumph in front of a record Twickenham crowd that underlined
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their global supremacy. It displayed a new level for the women's game, moving their win streak to
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a staggering 33 matches.
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Yeah, the World Cup will be a day that I will never, ever forget. It will definitely stay as part of
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history, but also fully ingrained in my brain. And it was just surreal. And I think at the time,
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lifting that trophy didn't even really think of my journey in that moment. But being able to say
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that I have been in some of the darkest places, could have been amputated from the waist down if
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I'd come into hospital a day later with meningitis. Like, I really have just taken every opportunity
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that I've been able to over the last few years. And there has been many setbacks, but those have
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only made me stronger both as a player and a person. And so it's a bit weird, but I would
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never change my journey for the world, even with those real big lows. I think that if you have those
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lows, it's about how you navigate them, how you use your people around you and how you bring
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yourself back up. And I really feel like I did that. And now I can say that I'm a World Cup winner as
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ever. International football told its own story of renewal under Thomas Tuchel, England's men,
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produced a string of controlled and confident performances, part of a larger run that saw them
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win nine of their first 10 matches under the new boss, achieving a 90% win ratio for the calendar
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year, their best ever when playing 10 or more games. It's good. I just told the guys, I think we
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constantly progressed throughout the three camps. This is what we wanted. Congratulations to them.
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It was a pleasure to fight with them and push them from the sideline. It's hard to imagine now to
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not be on Wednesday, Saturday with them. Very hard to imagine that I only see them back in March,
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but they did ever so well.
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The Lioness is still shaped by the standards under Serena Weidman, continued to operate with a level
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of connection and attacking fluency that has redefined expectations for women's football in this
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country. The coach reached her 50th win in charge after an 8-0 thrashing of China.
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To cope with these standards, so they have to step up and show the levels. But off the pitch and also
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on the pitch, I think we have a team that really, really welcome players and trying to make them feel
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comfortable while you know on the pitch is uncomfortable anyway, because it's a big competition
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going on.
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In darts teenage sensation, Luke Littler added another dimension to the sport landscape,
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collecting six major titles and becoming the youngest ever world number one at a pace rarely
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seen in the sport. He's now drawing big comparisons to a certain someone called Phil Taylor.
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You two are literally right now the best two players, by far better than anyone else on
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the planet?
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Yeah, I think we are. The finals show it, the stats show it. And like Luke said there, if
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everyone's getting bored of me and him, then someone needs to stop us, otherwise we're going
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to keep winning one and two. We're always going to meet in the final if we get past our opponents
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and we'll make it continue.
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Around them, British stars such as Lando Norris, Harry Kane and Rory McIlroy delivered their own
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flashes of elite level excellence, reminders that the UK sporting influence stretches across
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almost every major global stage.
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