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Former Paralympic champion, Oscar Pistorius will be released from prison after nearly a decade behind bars for murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, after winning his case at a parole board hearing. The double amputee South African athlete shot and killed his partner on Valentine’s Day 2013, and was jailed for …

  The much-awaited fight between WBC champion, Tyson Fury and Francis Ngannou, former UFC heavyweight champion, (who will make his professional boxing debut) will happen tonight, October 28 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and it has been revealed that the British boxer will earn an astronomical amount for the fight.   …

Four-time Olympic champion Simone Biles says “there is no room for racism in any sport” after a video went viral on social media of a black girl not being given a medal at an Irish gymnastics event ceremony.   The incident occurred at a GymSTART event in Dublin in March …

Olympic gold medallist, Walewska Oliveira has died suddenly at the age of 43.     Oliveira played volleyball for Brazil and won gold at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. She also represented her country at Sydney in 2000, where she won bronze before also competing in Athens in 2004.    …

Undefeated Heavyweight boxing champion, Tyson Fury has announced the birth of his 7th child with his wife, Paris Fury. The pair welcomed their 7th child, a boy, on Monday, September 18. The baby joins six siblings, Venezuela, 14, Prince John James 10, Prince Tyson Fury II, five, Valencia Amber, four, …

Noah Lyles honoured Jose Mourinho and Olga Carmona at an Adidas family gathering. Track and Field’s current most popular world champion Noah Lyles, met with football Roma boss Jose Mourinho and Spanish World Cup heroine Olga Carmona at the Adidas family celebration. Noah Lyles, Olga Carmona, and Jose Mourinho Mourinho, …

Bill Richardson, who served two terms as governor of New Mexico and 14 years as a congressman before devoting himself to the cause of Americans who were being held hostage or whom he believed were being wrongfully detained overseas, died on Friday at his summer home in Chatham, Mass., on …

Follow here for Wide World of Sports' LIVE coverage from Day 3 of the US Open as Ajla Tomljanovic and Novak Djokovic take centre stage.

“Knock out hate,” declares Yokasta Valle who has suffered discrimination both for being a woman in a male-dominated sport and as a migrant who journeyed to Costa Rica from Nicaragua. “Many of my colleagues told me that if they, as men, could not become champions, even less so could I …

The media mogul will promote the creative sector with this first-of-its-kind UK-Nigeria collaboration. Mo Abudu has been appointed as the Creatives Champion for the upcoming UK-African Investment Summit.