Reigning Formula 1 world champion Hamilton will go head-to-head with James DeGale, the IBF World super-middleweight champion, and Yorkshire and England all-rounder Adil Rashid, for the coveted Sportsman of the Year award tonight at the British Ethnic Diversity Sports Awards in London.

Britain’s gold medal sprinter Adam Gemili will face some of the fastest men on the planet at the Glasgow Indoor Grand Prix later this month. He is the latest star attraction to be added to the start list for the world’s number one indoor athletics meeting and will face Britain’s reigning World and European Indoor 60m Champion Richard Kilty, 2015 world 100m bronze medallist Trayvon Bromell from the USA, and former world and Commonwealth champion, Kim Collins from Saint Kitts and Nevis.

On Saturday, February 13, Los Angeles will host the 2016 U.S. Olympic Team Trials Marathon where the best athletes in the country will gather to compete for the opportunity to represent the United States at the Rio 2016 Olympics. On the following day, Sunday, February 14, the city will present the 31st Annual Skechers Performance Los Angeles Marathon. Both events will take runners through iconic Los Angeles neighborhoods adjacent to some of the city's famous landmarks and attractions.

Nigeria has won the U23 African Championship and will go to this year’s Olympic Games in Brazil as continental champions after defeating Algeria 2-1 in the final played in Senegal.   After both teams won their semi finals, they automatically qualified for the Rio 2016 football tournament and played the final to determine who was top dog. In the third/fourth place play-offs, South Africa beat hosts Senegal 3-1 on penalties after playing a goalless draw, to clinch the third African slot.

Birmingham footballer Jai Verma who grew up as a child in two cities Birmingham and Wolverhamton has become the first UK footballer to travel to Dubai and join the highest rank football club based in the UAE Al Shabab which he will be travelling in less than one week. He has not only accomplished most things people would dream to do but establish a career that most young footballers would dream to do.

The Laureus World Sports Awards, which celebrate the outstanding achievements of sportsmen and sportswomen around the world, will return to Europe in 2016. The Awards will be hosted in Germany for the first time, held in Berlin on April 18, 2016. In front of a global television and online audience, the Awards will be attended by the biggest names in sport, both past and present.