Sporting Life: As young stars take over sport, the old try and resist

Sporting Life: As young stars take over sport, the old try and resist

His hips are 78 years old but Mick Jagger can still dance. Keith Richards is a 77-year-old grandad but can still play a mean guitar. On Sunday, undaunted by age, their legendary group started its No Filter tour across America. These old stones keep rolling on.

Musicians rarely retire and writers stay for a lifetime, but sport is a crueller land. You can’t just hang around, you get overtaken, dropped and gradually forgotten.

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