The Great Britain and Northern Ireland squad for the 2023 World Para Athletics Championships in Paris, France has been announced by UK Athletics.

Reigning Paralympic champions Jonathan Broom-Edwards, Hannah Cockroft, Aled Davies, Sophie Hahn, Owen Miller, Dan Pembroke and Thomas Young will all compete at the Charlety Stadium next month. Nine athletes receive their maiden call-ups to a GB & NI senior team including Funmi Oduwaiye in the women’s F64 Shot Put and Discus, Commonwealth Games champion Emmanuel Oyinbo-Coker in the T47 100m & 4x100m Universal Relay, and Kevin Santos - who won the UK Athletics Indoor Championships 60m title earlier this year – also in the T47 100m.

The 2023 FA Cup final between Manchester City and Manchester United takes place at Wembley today - the first all-Manchester final in the competition's history, with near 90,000 crowd expected at Wembley despite more national train strikes leaving tens of thousands of fans having to make alternative plans to travel to London.

Pep Guardiola's City, who have already won the Premier League and face Inter Milan in the Champions League final on 10 June, need a victory to stay on course for a remarkable Treble.

Faith Kipyegon set a new 1500m world record in the Florence Diamond League meeting, with the Kenyan champion streaked clear to win in 3 minutes 49.11 seconds, breaking the 3:50 barrier for the first time. Ethiopia's Genzebe Dibaba set the previous record of 3:50.07 in 2015.

Kipyegon has won both world and Olympic gold on two occasions, but this is the first time she has broken the world record. She now holds the first and third fastest times in history, running her previous best of 3:50.37 last August.

Global golf stars are lining up to take on the ‘Toon’ at the acclaimed Close House in Newcastle for the US$2 million International Series England from August 17-20.

Lee Westwood, the former world number one with 44 career victories – including eight on the Asian Tour – spearheads a cohort of 10 LIV golfers set to wow the crowds over the Colt Course, situated just a few miles from Newcastle upon Tyne. Despite being born and raised in Worksop, and an ardent Nottingham Forest FC fan, ‘Westy’ moved to the region a number of years ago and struck up a long-standing partnership with Close House as its attached tour professional.

The Premier League is producing more goals than ever. The trend continued in 2022-23, and Premier League sides scored goals at a record rate. According to the figures gathered by SafeBettingSites.com, every PL game witnessed 2.85 goals on average, the best in league history, in the 2022-23 season. Overall, 1084 goals were scored during the 22-23 PL season.

A comparison of Premier League seasons with the best and the worst goalscoring rate reveals a pattern. The three seasons with the best goalscoring rates have happened in the last five years, and no season before 2011-12 features among the top five seasons.

Multi global medallist Femke Bol will race in the women’s 400m Hurdles at the London Athletics Meet on Sunday 23 July. The Dutch athlete has been one of the leading super stars of the sport in recent times, winning 400m hurdles bronze at the Tokyo Olympic Games, before achieving double silver at the World Championships in Oregon, followed by a hattrick of gold medals at the European Championships in 2022.