Sport in the 21st century inspires high emotion and deep loyalty across the globe. It is an arena of mega-celebrity, mega business, mega ideals and - above all - mega public enthusiasm. Reuters photographers are there to report it all, creating some of the finest sporting images of our times. Moments of virtuosity, beauty, comedy, tears, triumph and defeat are captured here in over 500 enthralling photographs of the new sporting century, while vivid captions recap the dramas, the personalities and the stories behind every picture.