Team GB Olympic medallist raises £5m to make health tech as common as iPhone October 14, 2026 Olympic medallist turned health tech entrepreneur Andrew Steele has raised nearly £5m ahead of the US launch of his latest venture, Stride. Steele – part of the Team GB 4 x 400m relay squad awarded bronze in Beijing 2008 – co-founded genetic testing firm DNAfit and sold it to David Beckham-backed global giant Prenetics for [...]
Football regulator warns Burnham: I’ll quit if ministers meddle in Manchester City October 13, 2026 Football regulator boss David Kogan has vowed to quit if prevented from punishing Manchester City’s owners — and is ready to ask government for extra cash to fight any legal challenge from Abu Dhabi. The Independent Football Regulator has the power to disqualify City’s owners and force Sheikh Mansour to sell up following the club’s [...]
Netflix makes first major entry into live men’s football with World Cup deal October 13, 2026 Netflix has made its first major entry into live men’s football by snapping up exclusive rights to the 2030 World Cup in Spain, home of the co-hosts and holders. The agreement builds on the global streaming giant’s deal with Fifa for the exclusive rights in North America to show the next two editions of the [...]
Formula 1 set for Africa return after 40 years with Rwanda race October 13, 2026 Formula 1 will return to Africa for the first time in 40 years after the sport signed a 10-year deal with Rwanda. The East African nation will join the Formula 1 calendar in the early 2030s with a purpose-built circuit in Bugesera, south of capital Kigali. Rwanda has beaten the likes of South Africa to [...]
A Rugby League World Cup starts this week and you didn’t know. That’s a huge problem October 13, 2026 Did you know the Rugby League World Cup starts this week? If you’re reading this in the north of England then the answer is probably yes. If down south then I suspect the answer is much more likely to be no. This is a huge problem. Rugby league has one of the most watchable products [...]
AJ-Fury tickets in Cardiff on sale for £20,000 October 12, 2026 Tickets for the blockbuster boxing bout between Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury in Cardiff are being sold for more than £20,000 each. Hospitality firm Seat Unique is offering “front row, inner ringside with offsite hospitality” for the December fight for £19,995, plus a £999 booking fee. It reflects demand for a fight that has been [...]
Manchester City need a nine-year sanction, says architect of Premier League October 12, 2026 Alex Fynn, who helped formulate the Premier League, discusses the Manchester City case, how it has affected Arsenal and his new book on the north London club. Integrity appears to be the watchword in much of the discourse around Manchester City and the biggest scandal in the history of the Premier League. Only one, at [...]
Prem Rugby: Attendances down but Newcastle Red Bulls see ticket surge October 12, 2026 Prem Rugby clubs with fresh investment have had mixed ticketing success after the overall league saw an attendance dip for its opening block of games. After three rounds and 15 fixtures of the 2026-27 Prem Rugby season, attendances are down 8.5 per cent on the same period last year, with a mixed set of results [...]
LIV Golf players to be banned from DP World Tour and Ryder Cup October 12, 2026 Players who sign up to play on a resurrected LIV Golf tour will be prohibited from competing on the DP World Tour or in the Ryder Cup, its European chiefs have said. The rebel golf league has secured funding from BC Partners to exit bankruptcy proceedings after Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund pulled its backing [...]
Rocket Padel raises £7m ahead of West London and East Croydon club openings October 12, 2026 Rocket Padel has raised €8m (£6.8m) as the international club operator pushes ahead with plans to open two major new sites in West London and East Croydon. The funding round values the business, which runs five clubs in Denmark, four in the UK and is building its first in Spain, at an undisclosed eight-figure sum, [...]