Sports Personality of the Year: Voting open for BBC World Sport Star 2023 award
Venue: MediaCityUK, Salford Date: Tuesday, 19 December at 19:00 GMT Coverage: Live on BBC One, BBC iPlayer and the BBC Sport website and app Voting is now open for BBC Sports Personality’s World Sport Star of the Year 2023 award. Voting will stay open until 22:00 GMT on Tuesday, 12 December, and the award will […]
Paris 2024: ‘No safer place in the world’ – city’s deputy mayor in charge for sport
The athletes of each national delegation will travel on boats along the Seine river as part of the Paris 2024 opening ceremony There will be “no safer place in the world” than Paris during the 2024 Olympic Games, the city’s deputy mayor for sport said following a knife and hammer attack in the city on […]
Women’s sport to make £1bn in revenue for the first time in 2024, says report
The World Cup Final between England and Spain was watched by a peak audience of 12m viewers on BBC One Global revenue generated by elite women’s sport is predicted to surpass £1bn for the first time next year. Finance experts Deloitte predict women’s sport revenue will reach £1.02bn in 2024 after a year of growth […]
Saudi Arabia: New research on extent of country’s investment in sport
Tyson Fury’s fight against Francis Ngannou last Saturday took place in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia New research claims to show the extent and scale of Saudi Arabian state investment and involvement in sport for the first time. The report published by Play the Game – run by the Danish Institute for Sport Studies, which is funded […]
Ireland 24-28 New Zealand: ‘Sport can be cruel but I’m unbelievably proud’, says Andy Farrell
Ireland head coach Andy Farrell said he was “unbelievably proud” of his players as they bowed out of the World Cup quarter-finals with defeat by New Zealand in Paris. The Irish pushed the All Blacks all the way but fell short as they failed to reach the semi-finals for the first time in Johnny Sexton’s […]
Fight climate change or lose funding, warns Sport England
Chris Boardman, the Sport England chairman, won gold in the individual pursuit at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics Sport England will ask sports to do more to fight against climate change as a condition of receiving funding. The body invests more than £300m of public money every year to numerous organisations, including the England and Wales […]
Pat Cummins: BBC Green Sport Award winner on cricket’s ‘opportunity’
Cummins wins BBC Green Sport Athlete of the Year Cricket can use its platform to make a difference in combatting climate change despite its “huge” carbon footprint, says Australia captain Pat Cummins. His Cricket for Climate Foundation aims to make cricket in Australia carbon neutral, and has plans to expand globally. “Cricket is a sport […]
BBC Green Sport Awards: Nominees announced for 2023 awards
These are the second annual BBC Green Sport Awards In a year of accelerating environmental impacts made more likely by climate change, sport has been simultaneously affected and called out for the emissions it generates. In its Green Sport Awards, BBC Sport celebrates the good news – the athletes, former athletes and organisations working hard […]
ICEC report: Ebony Rainford-Brent says cricket can become UK’s most inclusive sport
The ACE Programme was launched by Surrey County Cricket Club in 2020 Ebony Rainford-Brent was the first black woman to play cricket for England and is now a presenter and pundit for BBC Sport. She founded the African-Caribbean Engagement Programme, which creates opportunities for young cricketers from Black communities. She sits on the board of […]