''Sport'' was a free weekly sports magazine based in London which covered a wide range of events such as football, rugby, tennis and cricket as well as giving exclusive interviews with various sports personalities.

Overview

It started in

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in 2003 as a free monthly and in March 2004 as a weekly. The London edition started on 29 September 2006, the first of its type in the UK and was sold to talkSPORT owners

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(now

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) in 2009. Primarily aimed at males aged 13–45, ''Sport'' had a circulation of 304,700 making it the largest sports magazine in the UK. It was given to commuters outside

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and railway stations on Friday mornings and was also available in sports clubs and centres as well as hotels. In 2011 the magazine launched an

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app version, with the full print edition available for download each week plus video and audio features. The last edition of ''Sport'' was no. 484 that was released on 3 February 2017.

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