The expansion plans for the yearly Wimbledon tennis championships will involve incorporating additional public parkland, officials announced on Thursday.

Monty Panesar, the ex-England cricket sensation, has stepped down as a candidate for George Galloway's political party a mere eight days after his candidacy announcement.

The drug Trimetazidine, also known as TMZ, has been in recent news because of positive 2021 tests from China’s swimming team and Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva’s four year ban in January. The drug is at the heart of Nikola Bartunkova’s provisional sanction by the Tennis Anti-Doping Programme (TADP).

On the eve of the third stage of the Diamond League in Doha on Friday, reigning Olympic high jump champion Mutaz Essa Barshim hosted and won the first edition of the 'What Gravity Challenge' with some of the best specialists in the discipline on Thursday.

After the arrival of the Olympic Torch at the Vieux Port, Paris 2024 once again invited the people of Marseille to celebrate the first day of the Torch Relay in France in the heart of the city.

Yon de Luisa Plazas, a member of both the FIFA Executive Council and the Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Football (Concacaf), stressed the importance of each host nation having clear objectives for its participation.

World Rugby has announced further details of a trial of a revised red card sanctioning process that will see automatic off-field sanctions for players shown a red card.

Newly re-elected president of the Spanish Basketball Federation (FEB) Elisa Aguilar confirmed that national team coaches Sergio Scariolo and Miguel Méndez, of the men's and women's sides, respectively, will extend their contracts until 2028.

Natalie Robyn has resigned from her role as the chief executive officer of motorsport's governing body, the FIA, after a mere 18 months in the position.

On Europe Day, and the second on French soil for the Paris 2024 flame after a 12-day-long boat journey from Greece, Mariia Vysochanska participated in the relay through the coastal city’s streets to begin an 11-week parade across France before lighting the Olympic cauldron on 26 July.

Ukraine's acting sports minister Matviy Bidnyi says Russia has shown it "disregards the principles of Olympism" by organising the Friendship Games for September. He added that Russia is "merely attempting to use sport for its propaganda".

The Court of Appeals (CA) in the Philippines has upheld the decision of the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) to reject a petition filed by a local sports and leisure store regarding the use of the "Olympic Village" trademark.

Camila Giorgi, a four-time champion on the WTA circuit, has retired from tennis at the age of 32, Italy's tennis federation (FITP) has announced.