The multi-year sponsorship agreement between Qatar Airways and Concacaf enters its second year, with the airline taking centre stage as the Presenting Sponsor for the 2022/23 Concacaf Nations League (CNL). The CNL presented by Qatar Airways is a premier international football competition of men’s national teams from North America, Central America, and the Caribbean.

Tom Paulson has been appointed as the Head of Paralympic Performance at UK Athletics following the completion of an open recruitment process which included a para athlete representative.

Paulson, who will take his post in mid-August, will join UK Athletics from the English Institute of Sport (EIS) where he has held the post of Head of Paralympic Performance Support since 2017, working at the British Paralympic Association as Head of Performance for Tokyo 2020, and Deputy Chef de Mission for Beijing 2022.

The Great Britain and Northern Ireland team will be represented by 29 athletes for the European Off-Road Running Championships in La Palma, Spain on 1-3 July.

For the first time at the European edition of the event, the mountain running and trail races will take place at the same event across three days of action in the Spanish mountains.

The University of Wolverhampton has launched a new Performance Pathway Training Programme to support the transition onto the British Judo World Class Performance Programme (WCPP).

The long-standing relationship between the University of Wolverhampton and British Judo continues to thrive, with British Judo relocating its Head Office to the Walsall Campus alongside its Performance Team.

Elaine Thompson-Herah and Trayvon Bromell grabbed 100m Diamond League victories in Eugene, where eight world-leading performances highlighted the action at Hayward Field.

Jamaica's Thompson-Herah, who won back-to-back Olympic 100m-200m doubles in 2016 and last year, captured the women's 100m in 10.79.

The Professional Fighters League, the fastest growing and most innovative sports league, have announced two major back-to-back 2022 Playoffs will be hosted in Cardiff and London this summer in partnership with Live Nation, the world’s largest music and entertainment promoter.  

MMA fans in the United Kingdom for the first time ever will experience the greatest fighters on the planet compete in the PFL’s win-and-advance season format.