Sport in the 21st century - Reuters

Sport in the 21st century inspires high emotion and deep loyalty across the globe. It is an arena of mega-celebrity, big business, towering ideals and - sometimes - scandal. Reuters sports correspondents report from the stadiums, the greens, the pitches, the courts and the circuits, delivering all the action as it happens, and have created some of the finest sporting images of our times. These moments of virtuosity, beauty, comedy, tears, triumph and defeat are captured here in over 500 enthralling photographs of the new sporting century.