Matt Lawton

Former Olympic swimmer Sharron Davies signs letter that says BBC naming Zambia player Barbra Banda as women’s footballer of the year will have an impact on Sports Personality of the Year

Father and former trainer to stand trial, having denied accusations that relate to physical abuse of Norwegian middle-distance superstar and another of his children

Loss-making streaming service, which has a history of screening Saudi-based events, will show 2025 tournament globally free-to-air next summer

The sporting director, who only started the job at Old Trafford in July, is said to have had a tense working arrangement with co-owner Jim Ratcliffe over the past few weeks

Team GB returned their biggest track-and-field haul since UK Sport started distributing lottery funding in 1999, with only cycling gaining more medals in Paris

Premier League club is looking into complaint about offensive messages that appeared on an X account under academy employee Mark Bonnick’s name

One senior figure describes news as ‘kick in the balls’ with even top athletics coaches at risk of UK Athletics cutting their pay from £40,000 to £15,000 a year

The 49-year-old is expected to leave Sky Sports and join three-person presenting team as part of fresh approach to one of BBC’s flagship programmes

UK Athletics has money reduced for next Olympic cycle, despite delivering ten medals in Paris, while cycling, swimming, sailing and rowing are the other big winners

The newly-crowned BBC Sports Personality of the Year winner will look to break indoor 800m mark set by Jolanda Ceplak in 2002 in Birmingham next year