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Video: Emotional times for the sports stars retiring from the biggest spotlight of all

Lauded British footballers and managers made the difficult decision to end their playing careers last weekend – from a weeping David Beckham to a teary-eyed Sir Alex Ferguson revealing that retiring from sport is not easy for anybody

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Video: With friends like these… drunken football fan clad all in Lycra is ‘helped’ by his mate

It probably seemed unlikely at the time that London would be sunny and warm for the Scotland versus Brazil friendly match

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Video: Extremely awkward kiss cam moment

Excruciatingly painful for Brits to watch at the best of times this kiss-cam clip just turns up the squirm factor

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Highlights and lowlights: a gymnast inspires, a distasteful gift and a rotten family trial

Since when are gymnasts on lists of influential sports stars with the likes of Usain Bolt? Now, that’s when

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Video: sensational two-year-old ballroom dancer

That’s right, I’m stuck in a YouTube hole

SportChick interviews

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Five women climbers dealing with very different real-life issues

From entrepreneur to film-maker to a recently turned pro to a life-changing injury to depression these women are dealing with real-life issues alongside their sport.

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Behind the scenes with Mo Farah as he is grilled by school kids and journos – not sure which is more scary for him

SPORTCHICK EXCLUSIVE: Mo Farah, double gold-medal winner at London 2012, talks about engraving his medals with his twins’ names and his wife’s soft spot for quirky London mayor Boris Johnson

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So, is it just the UK that has problems encouraging young girls to take up sport? The two fastest women in the world think so

London Olympic 100m gold and silver medalists, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Carmelita Jeter, respectively, talk to SportChick

Bite size: Highlights and lowlights

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H&L: a moving tribute, a hilarious ad…

… and footballers feature heavily in the lowlights

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H&L: an impeccably observed minute’s silence and a well dodgy tattoo

Marathoners in solidarity

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H&L: a sudden death, a gentle ribbing, and a tough call

When most people would curl up and hibernate…

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H&L: an engagement and a heart-wrending move

An engagement is usually happy news, right?

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SportChick tries…

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SportChick tries… a supercar track day

Boyfriend loses driving licence? SportChick steps in

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SportChick tries… those bouncy shoe thingies

Okay so the technical term might well be power skips

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SportChick tries… hang gliding

SportChick tandem hang glides with a Croc Dundee-alike guide

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Bite size: Video selection

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Video: The jaw-dropping 86-year-old gymnast

Be inspired by the world’s oldest gymnast

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Video: a feel-good sport story

Have faith, there are good people out there

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Video: alligators on golf courses… you heard

Yeah, if I saw an alligator on a golf course, I’d get closer

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Video: Officials can’t contain their glee when their countryman wins gold

Exuberance amid disaster

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