European Athletics has announced that Glasgow will host the 33rd SPAR European Cross Country Championships in 2027, following a successful bid process led by UK Athletics (UKA).

Real Madrid legend Luis Figo and Cafu, Brazil’s former World Cup winning captain led a team of Laureus superstars back in the sporting arena today – joining in with the young people of the Fútbol Más project in Madrid – one of six programmes nominated for the Laureus Sport for Good Award at the Laureus World Sports Awards.

UK Athletics can today announce the first athletes selected to represent the Novuna Great Britain and Northern Ireland (GB & NI) team at the European Athletics Off-Road Running Championships in Ljubljana-Kamnik, Slovenia from 5-7 June.

Scientists believe footballs could be designed to reduce the impact of heading after research discovered it caused a pressure wave energy transfer to the brain "comparable to those documented in some military gunshots and blasts".

16-year-old George Whitehead from Hillside has won the 45th Peter McEvoy trophy at Copt Heath Golf Club, Solihull.

Novak Djokovic and Eileen Gu, two of the most influential athletes of their generation, will co-host this year’s Laureus World Sports Awards in a historical first for the greatest show in sports.