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Sporting legends, record-breakers and Olympic heroes have been announced as the first of the sporting names taking part in the latest Laureus Challenge.

Australian cricketer Steve Waugh, British Olympic legend Chris Hoy, South African rugby icon Bryan Habana and world record mountaineer Annabelle Bond will lead a group of 100 inspirational fundraisers for the Laureus Challenge 2022, presented by Sierra Space, a 100km trek through the United Arab Emirates, from 14-19 November 2022.

UK Athletics and The Great Run Company are delighted to announce that the UK Athletics 5K Road Championships will take place on Great North Run weekend on Friday 9 September 2022 at the Quayside in Newcastle.

As UK Athletics continues to review its UK Championships offering across all off-track events from the end of 2022 and 2023 onwards, the announcement of this first of its kind fixture is a key commitment in our road running calendar.

As the Queens Baton reaches its final destination, the Commonwealth Games is set to begin - with ticket sales already breaking the record set by Australia’s Gold Coast Games in 2018. Birmingham’s moment in the sun has finally arrived with the eyes of the world fixed on what will be 10 days of record-chasing, eye-popping, emotion-draining sport, the likes of which the UK’s second city has never seen before.

Birmingham 2022 has released the full schedule for the Basketball 3x3 and Wheelchair Basketball 3x3 tournament with eight men’s teams and eight women’s teams playing the running version of the game and six men’s and six women’s teams taking part in the inaugural Commonwealth Games Wheelchair Basketball 3x3 tournament.

The Hundred is returning to Edgbaston to excite crowds with another year full of world-class sport and live entertainment, and to celebrate, there’s 100 tickets hidden across the West Midlands up for grabs.

The region’s team, Birmingham Phoenix, will be back in action in this year’s competition at Edgbaston for four unmissable home fixtures.

With the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games just around the corner, Birmingham 2022 and Gilbert have unveiled the official match, replica, and supporter balls for both the Rugby Sevens and Netball events.

For the first time, Commonwealth Games fans will have the chance to own a piece of Birmingham 2022 with the launch of the official replica and supporter balls.

An independent review into allegations of racism in Scottish cricket has found the governance and leadership of the sport to be institutionally racist. It also found that those who did raise issues were ignored or side-lined and a culture of "racially aggravated micro-aggression" was allowed to develop.

Hot on the heels of the pools announcement, Birmingham 2022 has released the match schedule for the Rugby Sevens competition which will be held from 29 July to 31 July at Coventry Stadium. Gold Coast 2018 gold medallists, New Zealand will face Sri Lanka in their first match in the men’s competition and Canada in the women’s competition. In the second session of the day they will take on Samoa (men) and Sri Lanka (women).

Around 1,000 Armed Forces personnel will be a part of this year’s Commonwealth Games in Birmingham –by supporting security, competing for medals, officiating competitions, participating in the opening ceremony and supporting the delivery of a safe and secure event.  

Hundreds of Armed Forces personnel will be deployed to Birmingham to support the West Midlands Police Security Operation, the biggest the region has seen.

Birmingham 2022 has unveiled a schedule for the Gymnastics programme for the Commonwealth Games with the action starting in exactly seven days time. The schedules, details of which have now been added to the Birmingham 2022 website, reveal the subdivisions that the teams will compete in during the first couple of days of competition, with places in the Individual All-Around, Apparatus Finals and Team Finals up for grabs.

West Bromwich Albion will celebrate its Official Charity Partner for the 2022/23 season, ‘The Cyrille Regis Legacy Trust’, with a special away kit honouring the iconic centre forward.

Birmingham’s status a Proud Host City for the 2022 Commonwealth Games is celebrated in the city council’s entry for this year’s Chelsea Flower Show. A mixture of flowers grown at the council’s own nurseries and sporting-themed features make up the eye-catching display, which has an interpretation of the official Games logo as its centrepiece.

To mark Mandela Day, Laureus Sport for Good is celebrating the inspirational legacy of its first Patron, sharing the results of its 2021 Annual Review which catalogues Laureus’ impact around the world, using sport to change lives

Nelson Mandela International Day was launched in 2009 in recognition of the Nobel Peace Prize winner’s birthday.

DAZN Group, the leading global sports entertainment platform, today announces that it has secured the global rights to broadcast Naciones MMA to 200+ countries and territories globally in English and Spanish (excluding US Spanish language rights in 2022).

NFL head coaches can leave a long-lasting impact on the success of a franchise. While NFL head coaching salaries aren’t always disclosed, according to The Sports Daily's extensive research and ranked the highest-paid head coaches in the NFL based on their annual salary.

Wolverhampton’s own Olympic champion and five-times Commonwealth Games gold medallist, Anita Lonsbrough MBE, has been unveiled as one of the city’s Batonbearers for the Birmingham 2022 Queen’s Baton Relay.

Anita, one of Britain's all-time greatest swimmers, will be carrying the Queen’s Baton on July 24 to recognise her lifelong commitment to sport.