Reigning champions Portgual and the Netherlands are both out of Euro 2020 after two entertaining last-16 clashes on Sunday. A Thorgan Hazard screamer edged Belgium past Portugal although both Kevin De Bruyne and Eden Hazard went off with injuries. Tomas Holes and Patrik Schick struck in the second half as the Czech Republic stunned a 10-man Netherlands team in front of a capacity crowd in Budapest. In his column this morning, Ken Early asks how can anybody think VAR is an improvement?

Clare avenged last year's All-Ireland hurling quarter-final defeat by Waterford and maintained the momentum of a drastically turned-around season with a 1-22 to 0-21 victory in Thurles. A total of 22 wides allowed an injury-hit Waterford to remain in the game until the end but with Clare talisman Tony Kelly scoring 1-12 their comeback proved too little too late. Clare will need to be a lot more accurate against Tipperary in the Munster semi-final, writes Nicky English. Earlier on Sunday Michael Murphy limped off as Donegal dismantled Down, and Dublin's eight-time All-Ireland winner Cian O'Sullivan announced his retirement from football.

South Africa's planned warm-up game against Georgia next Friday now looks in serious jeopardy after three Springboks players tested positive for Covid-19. Four weeks out from the first Test against the British and Irish Lions in Cape Town the entire Springboks squad has been put into isolation. Gerry Thornley writes this morning that Conor Murray's appointment as captain is a huge recognition of his Lions status: "Lions tours have marked significant benchmarks in Murray's career. And never more so than now."

Meanwhile, Phil Healy and Rhasidat Adeleke's showdown at the National Track and Field Championships lived up to the hype as Healy – still Ireland's fastest woman over 100 metres - was given the closest of verdicts ahead of her young pretender Adeleke, who last month had taken over Healy's national 200m record when running 22.96.