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.

Andrew Pozzi (GBR) and Grant Holloway (USA), the reigning world indoor champion and world record-holder over 60m hurdles respectively, will line up at the Müller Indoor Grand Prix Birmingham – a World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold meeting – at the Utilita Arena on 19 February.

Pozzi, who won the global 60m hurdles title in Birmingham in 2018, finished seventh in the 110m hurdles at the Olympic Games in Tokyo.

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."

World No.4 Stefanos Tsitsipas has said that Novak Djokovic is playing by his own rules and has made vaccinated tennis players look like fools. Record nine-time winner and top seed Djokovic, 34, remains in the Australian Open draw as the decision over whether the defending champion can stay in the country drags on.

"For sure, he's been playing by his own rules and has been doing what not many players had the guts to do," Greece's Tsitsipas told India's said. "Especially after the ATP announced certain criteria for players to enter the country."

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.

Beijing says that it is adopting all necessary coronavirus safety measures for the 2022 Winter Olympics, which start next month.

So what is being planned for the Games, and how successful has China's policy of "zero Covid" been? China is going to great lengths to keep the virus out.