Olympic champions Tebogo and Hassan top World Athletes’ awards

Botswana's Letsile Tebogo and the Netherlands' Sifan Hassan were named World Athletes of the Year, after they both scooped multiple medals at the Paris Olympics.

Olympic Fan Zones for Paris 2024

Feel the thrill of the Paris 2024 Olympics and experience sports emotions! Visit one of the official free fan zones along our routes, soak in the electric atmosphere and revel in world-class entertainment.

Olympic Futures Programme athletes announced for 2025/26 season

UK Athletics has announced 15 new athletes with a total cohort of 44 athletes on the Olympic Futures Programme for 2025/26.

Olympic gold medallist Dame Denise Lewis named as new UKA president

Former Olympic heptathlon champion Dame Denise Lewis has been elected president of UK Athletics (UKA).

Olympic great Lindsey Vonn to host Laureus World Sports Awards 2022 in Seville

Lindsey Vonn, the greatest women’s skier of all-time, will be the host of the 2022 Laureus Awards Show in the picturesque Spanish city of Seville on Sunday, April 24, when the Winners of this year’s Laureus World Sports Awards are revealed.

First staged in 2000, the Laureus Awards celebrates the greatest achievements of individuals and teams across all sports.

Olympic hero Vivian Kong joins Laureus movement as legends Li Na and Li Xiaopeng launch Laureus Sport for Good Hong Kong

Vivian Kong, the Olympic fencing champion and one of Hong Kong’s sporting superstars, was announced as a new Laureus Ambassador by three legends of sport who are also Laureus World Sports Academy Members: the two-time Grand Slam tennis champion Li Na, Li Xiaopeng, China’s most-decorated gymnast, and leading international explorer Mike Horn.

Olympic history-making champ, Ngamba, set to turn professional

Cindy Ngamba will make her professional debut on the undercard of Natasha Jonas' unification fight against Lauren Price on 7 March in London.

Olympic legend Fraser-Pryce still in front – only this time at school sports day

Jamaica's sprint icon Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce came out on top yet again - only this time it came after she completely demolished other parents in a race at her son's school sports day.

Olympic legend, Hoy, hailed an inspiration following terminal cancer revelations

Six-time Olympic cycling champion, Sir Chris Hoy, has been hailed as an "inspiration" after revealing his diagnosis for terminal cancer.

Olympic legend, Hoy, hailed an inspiration following terminal cancer revelations

Six-time Olympic cycling champion, Sir Chris Hoy, has been hailed as an "inspiration" after revealing his diagnosis for terminal cancer.

Olympic legends join top sports stars in Paris for Laureus World Sports Awards

Many of the world’s greatest sportsmen and women, past and present, will be attending this year’s Laureus World Sports Awards, in Paris on May 8. Led by an elite group of gold medal winning Olympians, it includes Laureus Academy Members Sebastian Coe, Edwin Moses, Jessica Ennis-Hill, Nawal El Moutawakel, Chris Hoy and Paralympic star Tanni Grey-Thompson.  

Olympic legends, Christie and Ngamba among sporting figures honoured at 2024 Sporting Equals Awards

Sporting Equals, an independent body that champions race equality in sport, hosted the 2024 Sporting Equals Awards at the Royal Lancaster Hotel in London, to celebrate the contributions made by ethnically diverse people and communities across the sport and physical activity sector.

Olympic medallist Sotherton appointed as new BEAA Chief Executive Officer

The British Elite Athletes Association have appoint triple Olympic medallist Kelly Sotherton MBE as its new Chief Executive Officer.

Olympic shooter, Bhaker, becomes medallist in Paris

In a moment of pride for India, Manu Bhaker has become the first female Indian Olympic medallist in shooting.

Olympic Silver Medallist Keely Hodgkinson to race at Müller Indoor Grand Prix Birmingham

Olympic silver medallist Keely Hodgkinson will take on the world at the Müller Indoor Grand Prix Birmingham on Saturday 19 February 2022. The British 800m record holder is the first leading athlete to announce their intention to compete at the event, which returns to the Utilita Arena Birmingham in the new year.

Star-studded fields are set to align for the World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold event, one of seven marquee indoor events across the globe, with Hodgkinson to the fore.

Olympic skier Eileen Gu caught in the middle of US-China tension

World champion skier Eileen Gu made her Olympic debut in the women's big air qualification round. But even before that, Ms Gu - also known as China's ‘Snow Princess’ - was already known to millions.

Teenage US-born athlete, Ms Gu is indisputably a gifted skier. At 18, she has already won eight international skiing events, claiming gold for the big air event in the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics in Lausanne and medalling three times at the Winter X Games in Aspen, Colorado, last year.

Olympic stars’ rematches due in Doha and Eugene as the Wanda Diamond League takes shape

The 2025 Wanda Diamond League continues to take shape as the world's biggest track and field stars plot their route to the series final in Zurich on August 27-28.

Olympic women's sport to be limited to biological females

The women's category of Olympic sports will be limited to biological females from 2028.

Olympics agony and ecstasy continues

As American Quincy Hall timed his run to perfection in the Stade de Paris, Great Britain's Matthew Hudson-Smith, despite beating his own European record, missed out on Olympic 400m gold by four-hundredths of a second.

Olympics champion, Hodgkinson wins BBC Sports Personality award of the Year for 2024

Olympic 800m gold medallist Keely Hodgkinson was voted BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2024 at the MediaCity, in Salford last night.