West Ham say they will be able to increase the capacity of the London Stadium to 66,000 after resolving a legal row with its landlord.

He smiled, charmed, and quipped his way through a relatively stern interrogation from the media yesterday but, after the dust had settled on Jose Mourinho’s press

Shock wasn’t the right word, nor could you say it was a huge surprise, so if anything Thomas Barr’s bronze medal at last night’s European Championships proved a delightful deliverance on his talent, an ode to his outstanding ability at the event they call the man-killer.

Brendan Boyce went through the pain barrier to finish 19th in the men’s 50k walk at the European Athletics Championships in Berlin – having been in a medal position at halfway – as Ireland’s three track representatives bowed out back at the Olympic Stadium.

Few people know a thing about it but the brains behind the inaugural European Championships, starting this morning and continuing over the next 10 days in Glasgow and Berlin, plan to change all that.

So there we are last Sunday, Tim and Finn and Greg and Russ and Edward and Ken and the bloke next to Ken (more of whom anon) and meself, bubbles floating past us amid the arctic tundra of Stratford, writes Enda McEvoy

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is putting the spotlight on women in his attempts to win over world opinion.

Our man inside the game wonders where the stewards were at the London Stadium.

Manchester United are missing out on over £26m (€29m) a season in potential revenue for Old Trafford’s naming rights, a new study claims.

In an extraordinary show of unexpected unity, North and South Korea sat side by side yesterday under exploding fireworks that represented peace, not destruction, as the 2018 Winter Olympics opened on a Korean Peninsula riven by generations of anger,

Scratch beneath the political permafrost and the frozen vials of Russian urine, set aside a far-from-thawed Cold War, and a Winter Olympics is threatening to break out in Pyeongchang.

Seamus O’Connor will be Ireland’s flag bearer tomorrow morning as the coldest Winter Olympics in decades gets underway with the opening ceremony in Pyeongchang, South Korea.

Leicester continue to impress under Claude Puel and the Foxes moved into the top 10 in the Premier League with a 2-1 home win against Tottenham.

Less than two weeks out from the World Championships in London, this was always going to be a fact-finding mission for Ciara Mageean, Mark English, Brian Gregan, and Thomas Barr, and though each of them faced a test of differing degrees of difficulty, they all passed with flying colours.

The map of Europe presents a very different picture now to the days John Caulfield was gnawing at the ankles of elite club defenders.

West Ham United 1 Tottenham Hotspur 0: Manuel Lanzini all but killed off Tottenham’s lingering title hopes with the goal that ended their nine-game winning streak in the league and ensured West Ham’s own top-flight survival.

Tottenham beware: a new ground means new gripes, writes Brenda O’Brien.

An Anglo-French investigation into suspected tax fraud in football has seen several men arrested in dawn raids at Newcastle United, West Ham and France.

West Ham boss Slaven Bilic compared Dimitri Payet to Lionel Messi after his latest wonder goal.

Swimming sensations Ellen Keane and Nicole Turner continued their successful Games, both reaching the final of their respective events yesterday.

With the exception of Michael McKillop’s glorious gold medal, yesterday proved a disappointing day for much of the Paralympic team in Rio.

Usain Bolt hopes he has achieved a feat no man will be able to match as he completed his 'triple triple' mission by anchoring Jamaica to gold in the men's 4x100 metres relay on his final Olympic appearance.

Pat Hickey, president of the Irish Olympic Committee who stepped side temporarily yesterday, was described recently as “Teflon Man” but he will need the slipperiness of an eel to slide out of his latest brush with controversy.

Usain Bolt's belief that he could threaten his 200 metres world record at the Rio Olympics did not look misplaced as he sauntered into the semi-finals.

Poor crowds were once again the main talking point at the Rio Olympics on Friday, even as the athletics got under way.

Ethiopia's Almaz Ayana obliterated the 23-year-old 10,000 metres world record to claim the first athletics gold of the Rio Olympics.

Mark English will be the first Irish athlete to take to the track in the Olympic Stadium this afternoon, the 23-year-old getting his campaign under way in the sixth heat of the men’s 800m at 2:55pm Irish time.

Arsenal’s defensive crisis worsened in Sweden as centre-half Gabriel was stretchered off late in the 3-2 win over Manchester City with what appeared a serious leg injury.

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today

Usain Bolt has given a “thumbs up” to the decision to ban the Russian athletics team from the Rio Olympics because of widespread doping.

Dave Ludzik looks at four of City’s best wins at Turner’s Cross...

A superb amphitheatre, a terrific buzz and plenty of football action — no, not the Stade de France, The Courtyard off Sober Lane where hundreds gathered for a night of “oohs” and “aahs” and a result any of us would have taken yesterday morning.

Jesse Owens challenged racists in the US and Nazi Germany. A new film delves into his amazing story, writes Will Lawrence

It is not often you see grown men cry, particularly the sort of shaven-headed burly blokes with tattooed knuckles that tend to follow West Ham, but there are plenty of tears being shed as the Hammers leave Upton Park after 112 years.