Category: Sports

Team GB and ParalympicsGB have released the kits their athletes will wear at the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Bearing the red, white and blue of the Union Jack, kit manufacturer Adidas says the collection “celebrates the unique aspects of Great Britain”. Four-time Olympic diving medallist Tom Daley featured in the launch, along with sprinter...

Andy Murray has been named on the entry list for the French Open, but fellow Briton Emma Raducanu is not yet assured of a place in the draw. Three-time Grand Slam champion Murray, 36, ruptured ankle ligaments at the Miami Open last month. Raducanu missed the last eight months of 2023 but has a protected...

It has been called “the season of asterisks” but, with Premier League charges and points deductions dominating the news agenda, understanding football finances has become crucial for fans. With the help of University of Liverpool’s football finance expert Kieran Maguire and his database of club accounts up to 2023, BBC Sport attempts to break down...

Beset by financial difficulties which could have seen athletics governing body in the UK go bust, UK Athletics (UKA) has joined forces with the organisers of the London Marathon and the Great North Run in a bid to secure and transform the future and growth of athletics.  UKA represents British Athletics with its purpose to...

Neither Raducanu nor Boulter can point to huge experience on clay courts, particularly when compared with the French players who learn their craft on the red dirt. However, both players, marshalled well by captain Anne Keothavong, showed the savvy and big-hitting needed to turn this tie around. As she did against Garcia, Raducanu grew into...

Six defending champions have been named in the Great Britain team for next month’s World Para Athletics Championships in Kobe, Japan. Wheelchair racer Hannah Cockroft will be chasing her 15th and 16th world titles at the event from 17-25 May. Javelin thrower Hollie Arnold and shot putter Aled Sion Davies will be hoping to add...

The Football Association has told Sky Sports News that addressing the “stark” under-representation of South Asians in the professional game is now “a long-term aim”. Yasir Mirza, who was appointed FA director of equality, diversity and inclusion last year, said the FA’s key mantra “A Game for All” is about ensuring English football is inclusive...

Great Britain women’s handball team have been given a last-minute chance to qualify for the 2024 Paris Olympics after Cameroon had to withdraw from a qualification tournament. Cameroon’s team could not get visas to travel to Debrecen, Hungary, where the tournament is taking place. GB have been chosen as a wildcard to replace Cameroon by...

Three-time Olympic gold medallist Max Whitlock will retire after the Paris 2024 Games. The 31-year-old, who has won 32 major international medals, is Britain’s most successful gymnast. He will become the first gymnast to win four Olympic medals on the same apparatus if he adds to his two golds and a bronze on the pommel...

Britain’s most successful alpine skier Dave Ryding says his sport needs to “move with the times” by shifting races to higher altitudes, and did not rule out the possibility of competing indoors. Unseasonably warm temperatures hit the World Cup ski season this year, leading to race cancellations, including three out of 13 planned slaloms, which...

Great Britain captain Anne Keothavong says her side are the “heavy underdogs” in their Billie Jean King Cup qualifying tie against France – but they are happy to put “all the pressure” on their opponents. The winner will secure a place in November’s finals in Spain. British number one Katie Boulter will open Friday’s tie...

Great Britain claimed women’s tumbling team gold at the European Championships in Trampoline, Double Mini-Trampoline (DMT) and Tumbling. The British quartet featuring Naana Oppon, Megan Kealy, Comfort Yeates and final reserve Saskia Servini topped the podium ahead of France and Belgium. Oppon, 18, got GB under way with a score of 26.400 – the second-highest...