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Great Britain's Keely Hodgkinson defended her 800m title in style before team captain Jazmin Sawyers won a stunning long jump gold at the European Indoor Championships in Istanbul.

Hodgkinson carried her form from a superb season into the final, finishing well clear in one minute 58.66 seconds. The Olympic and world silver medallist, who turned 21 on Friday, was almost two seconds clear of Slovene Anita Horvat.

Kiradech Aphibarnrat will add a splash of star quality to next week’s International Series Thailand. The 33-year-old Thai favourite is a late entry for the US$2 million event at Hua Hin’s Black Mountain Golf Club from March 9-12.

The three-time Asian Tour winner is hoping a return to a familiar venue will enable him to continue his rehabilitation and prove a catalyst to regaining past glories.

Caledonia Gladiators weathered a tough challenge from NBL Division 1 side Derby Trailblazers at the Clarence Wiggins Sports Centre, but prevailed 83-65 to reach the BBL Trophy Final.

David Sloan led the Gladiators with 22 points and nine rebounds, whilst Fraser added 15 points to lift Caledonia to a final that takes place at their home venue of the Emirates Arena in Glasgow.

A life-long Bears fan has been honoured by the Prince of Wales for his dedicated community work during the Covid pandemic and contribution to youth cricket coaching.

Tariq Ali – who’s spent 20 years volunteering to help children in the player pathway system – received his MBE from the future king during a ceremony at Windsor Castle.

As the Asian Tour gears up for the third International Series event of 2023 at Black Mountain GC in Thailand, 9-12 March, professionals have been united in praise for the season openers in the Middle East. 161 players representing 31 different countries have teed up in The International Series 2023 to date at tournaments in Oman and Qatar.

Jazmin Sawyers has been named as the team captain for Great Britain and Northern Ireland at the 2023 European Indoor Championships.

Sawyers, the two-time Olympic long jump finalist, and European bronze medallist in 2022, will lead the team in Istanbul, Turkey and the competition gets underway today (Thursday 2 March).

Former England bowler Tim Bresnan used a racial slur towards Azeem Rafiq's sister, a hearing into allegations of racism at Yorkshire has been told. Rafiq claimed Bresnan used the term towards his sister Amna during a media day at Headingley in 2014.

Boldmere Junior School has secured £1,000 worth of building materials and a coaching session for pupils after claiming the top prize in the 2022 Selco Six4Schools campaign. Ran in conjunction with Club Sponsor Selco Builders Warehouse, the initiative saw schools across Warwickshire and the wider region get access to adult tickets for all Vitality Blast group fixtures at Edgbaston last summer at a discounted rate.

Ethiopian Gudaf Tsegay, USAs Grant Holloway and Team GB stars Keely Hodgkinson, Neil Gourley and Dina Asher-Smith were all on record-breaking form as Birmingham hosted a World Indoor Tour Final to remember with seven athletes walking away with overall victory at the Utilita Arena.

Grenada will host the highly anticipated Grenada versus USA football match in the 2022-23 CONCACAF Nations League international football tournament, th the game taking place at the Kirani James Athletics Stadium on March 24.

Currently ranked 24th in the CONCACAF ranking index, the two, along with El Salvador, are in League A Group D, while the United States is ranked 2nd behind Mexico.

The Royal Commission for AlUla (RCU), in collaboration with the Saudi Camel Racing Federation (SCRF), announced today that the inaugural AlUla Camel Cup will be held from March 14-17, 2023.

The tournament will crown a ‘Champion of Champions’ and will complete with a grand prize pool of USD 21.33M. With the highest prize pots in the world per round of camel racing, the tournament honours the Kingdom’s revered sport in the stunning backdrop of AlUla, a place of extraordinary human and natural heritage.

Many people from around the world are still paying their much-deserved respect to the legendary commentator John Motson OBE. Having spent an illustrious 50-year career as the sport’s leading wordsmith - ostensively with the BBC - the ‘voice of football’, popularly known as 'Motty', covered 10 World Cups, 10 European Championships and 29 FA Cup finals.

With only a matter of days to go until the World Indoor Tour Final at the Utilita Arena in Birmingham, this Saturday, February 25, the start lists have been published. A host of global medallists will contest in the finale of the prestigious World Indoor Tour series in front of a huge crowd in Birmingham.

Alauda Aeronautics is seeking OEM partners to join it in a motorsport revolution, as it unveils the Airspeeder Mk4 – the world’s first, and fastest, crewed flying car.

Designed and built in Adelaide, South Australia, the Airspeeder Mk4 is the world's fastest electric Vertical Take-Off and Landing (eVTOL) aircraft. Capable of reaching a top speed of 360 kph (225 mph) in just 30 seconds from a standing start, it’s designed to set the bar for performance and technology in the radical new sport of piloted Airspeeder racing. 

Ellie Baker set a new championship record to win 1500m gold on day two of the UK Athletics Indoor Championships at the Utilita Arena Birmingham on Sunday. The 24-year-old, who held off Katie Snowden to claim a maiden British title and break Zola Budd's 1986 mark with a time of four minutes 6.73 seconds, said: “I knew I was in great shape coming into the indoor season, but it hasn’t been showing in my races which for me has been super frustrating, but I kept my mindset and to come away with the Championship record and my first British Champs Gold, in my very first British Champs competing in the 1500m it’s all a lot of firsts and I’m delighted with everything. I think my coach will want me in the 1500m field more frequently after this!”

Andy Ogletree has ‘got it done’ in a blustery Doha, claiming a three-shot victory in the inaugural International Series Qatar. This result marks a second professional victory for the prodigious 24-year-old talent who captured his first Asian Tour win at the International Series Egypt in November 2022.