The eSkootr Championship™ (eSC) has appointed Tracy Novak as Director of Communications. Novak joins eSC with over two decades’ experience working at the highest level in motorsport, including Formula One teams, the governing body for world motorsport - the FIA - and most recently its national sporting authority Motorsport UK where she was Director of Marketing and Communications. 

Novak’s arrival comes at a pivotal time for eSC as the Championship builds towards its debut season, with the race schedule, rider line-up and details of the eSC Commission soon to be announced.

Olympic 1500m silver medallist Laura Muir (GBR) will target the 1000m world indoor record at the Müller Indoor Grand Prix – a World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold meeting – at the Utilita Arena in Birmingham on Saturday 19 February.

Muir, the 2018 world indoor 1500m silver medallist, is the European indoor 1000m record holder having clocked 2:31.93 in Birmingham in 2017. The current world record is held by Maria Mutola (MOZ), the Olympic 800m champion in Sydney 2000, who ran 2:30.94 in Stockholm in 1999.

 UK Athletics has commenced recruitment of a new Chief Executive Officer to take the organisation forward. The process opened on Tuesday (January 18) and the closing date for applications is 20 February 2022.

This recruitment phase comes at a key time for the organisation which has been under the leadership of Chair Ian Beattie since October, and with four major senior track and field championships scheduled for 2022, the incoming CEO will take their seat at an exciting time for the sport. Interim CEO Mark Munro (pic.) has confirmed that he will not be applying for the permanent role of CEO at this time for personal reasons but will remain at UKA and continue his already successful work area overseeing Development.

Former Wimbledon doubles champion Sania Mirza has announced that she will be retiring from tennis after 2022. She made her decision after her first-round loss in the women's doubles in the Australian Open.

One of India's most celebrated sports stars, she told reporters: "I've decided that this will be my last season. I'm taking it week by week. Not sure if I can last the season, but I want to."

Jamaica will be sending a four-man bobsleigh team to the Winter Olympics for the first time since 1998.

They will be representing the Caribbean island at the 2022 Beijing Games after Team Jamaica confirmed on Twitter a place at the games this year was secured.

With its Engstler racing team, the German motor oil and additive manufacturer become one of the main Honda customer team in the WTCR and TCR Germany. 

In the new season, LIQUI MOLY Team Engstler will be driving Honda Civic Type R TCR vehicles in the WTCR and TCR Germany. Peter Baumann, Marketing Director at the lubricant specialist, is optimistic about the newly agreed cooperation: “We are very excited to be part of the global Honda motorsports program starting next season.