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With four days to go until the Müller Birmingham Diamond League on Saturday 21 May, a host of global athletics stars – including several Olympic and Paralympic champions - are set to descend upon the newly renovated Alexander Stadium in Birmingham as start lists have gone live.

Australian cricket mourned the loss of another of their greats with the passing of all-rounder Andrew Symonds, who died after being involved in a car crash. The all-rounder, who played 26 Tests, 198 one-day internationals and 14 Twenty20s at international level - between 1998 and 2009 - is another significant loss for Australian cricket, following the deaths of former wicketkeeper Rod Marsh and legendary leg-spinner Shane Warne earlier this year.

Ahead of the first ever eSkootr Championship (eSC) race in London, industry leaders and policy makers gathered today at the first New Mobility Forum to discuss the opportunities and challenges lying ahead for the micromobility sector. 

The event, which was organised by the Commission for Micromobility & Sport in partnership with Zag Daily opened with an address from eSC’s Co-founder Alex Wurz followed by a keynote from Thomas Ableman, Director of Innovation at Transport for London.

Coverage of the inaugural eSkootr Championship (eSC) will be shown across the USA and in Canada on Segi TV throughout the 2022 season. Segi TV is a free on-demand streaming service available in over 100 million households in America, showcasing diverse and underrepresented content.

Edgbaston-based cricket team, Birmingham Bears, is inviting sports fans to join a very special ‘Bear Hunt’ to find 25 pairs of hidden tickets to watch the team in the upcoming Vitality Blast T20 season.

The Birmingham Bears team has hidden five pairs of tickets in five popular locations in Birmingham and Solihull, with a total of 25 pairs up for grabs.

The league-champion Leicester Riders have taken a big double-digit advantage after their BBL Play-off semi-final first leg against Glen Luss Glasgow Rocks, beating their hosts 105-84 at the Emirates Arena in a fascinating shootout in which the teams shot a combined 47% from three-point range, with Riders at an eye-watering 13 makes at 54%.

Almost three years of work to redevelop the city’s Alexander Stadium has reached its most significant milestone yet – with the venue handed over by the city council to Birmingham 2022 for this summer’s Commonwealth Games.

The council has overseen the £72million project to revamp the stadium ahead of the biggest event in the city’s history.

On behalf of Reverend Eve Pitts, Holy Trinity Church, Birchfield, in Birmingham, will be hosting an event on Sunday 24th July 2022, commencing at 4pm.  This event will be in the frame of a service. The theme of the service is “A Celebration of the Commonwealth Games 2022”, which is scheduled to commence on 28th July 2022, in Birmingham.

The shirt Diego Maradona wore when he scored the much vaunted 'goal of the century' for Argentina against England at the 1986 World Cup has sold for a record £7.1m. It is the highest price ever paid for a piece of sports memorabilia.

Former England midfielder Steve Hodge put it up for auction 36 years after he swapped it with Maradona following the famous quarter-final in Mexico. After Maradona died in November 2020, Hodge said the shirt was not for sale.

The eSkootr Championship (eSC) has confirmed that Formula 1 driver Nico Hulkenberg will enter his very own race team into the inaugural season of the new series. His team will be called 27X by Nico Hulkenberg.

The German racing driver, whose career in F1 spans 13 seasons, has been following eSC’s developments since its inception.

Olympic relay bronze medallist Daryll Neita (GBR) will join fellow Briton Dina Asher-Smith (GBR) in the women’s 100m at the Müller Birmingham Diamond League on Saturday 21 May, a stacked field that also features Olympic champion Elaine Thompson-Herah (JAM) and Tokyo medallists, Shericka Jackson (JAM) and Gabrielle Thomas (USA).

The world’s top one-lap hurdlers, including Jessie Knight (GBR), and Tokyo silver medallist, Dalilah Muhammad (USA), will do battle in the women’s 400m hurdles at the Müller Birmingham Diamond League, on Saturday 21 May, the second meeting of the 2022 Wanda Diamond League series. Briton’s Knight, fresh from a successful indoor season competing in the 400m, will also feature as she returns to the one-lap hurdle event.

The Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games athlete’s medals have been unveiled. The gold, silver and bronze medals all feature a design that symbolises the road and canal network in the West Midlands, organisers said.

They have been designed by three students from Birmingham School of Jewellery and made by a firm based in the city's Jewellery Quarter.

With just over four weeks to go until the opening game of this year’s T20 season, the team are gearing up for an exciting set of match days, beginning on Thursday 26 May when the Bears take on Northamptonshire Steelbacks at Edgbaston.

It was announced that Mino Raiola, the agent who represented some of football's most high-profile players, has died. The Dutch-Italian's stable of players included Borussia Dortmund striker Erling Haaland, Manchester United midfielder Paul Pogba and AC Milan forward Zlatan Ibrahimovic.

Olympic silver medallist Laura Muir will open her season over 1500m at the Müller Birmingham Diamond League on Saturday 21 May in an exciting head to head with training partner and Olympic 800m fourth-place finisher Jemma Reekie.

Muir, the reigning European champion and World Indoor medallist (2018), clocked a sensational 3:54.50 in the Tokyo final to improve her own British 1500m record.