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Great Britain’s Adele Nicoll and Kya Placide won silver at the Bobsleigh World Cup in Lake Placid just two months after first sliding together competitively.Nicoll, 27, and Placide, 19, finished second in the two-woman event with a time of one minute 54.2 seconds from their two runs.It is only the second medal won by a…

Lauren Price will face Jessica McCaskill for the WBA and Ring Magazine welterweight titles on 11 May in Cardiff.Olympic champion Price, 29, contests her first world championship in her seventh pro bout at the Utilita Arena.The Welsh fighter faces an experienced operator in 39-year-old McCaskill, who is a former undisputed champion at welterweight.Price will be…

Great Britain kept their Women’s World Championship medal hopes alive by beating Slovenia in a dramatic, must-win penultimate game of the tournament.Friday’s 2-1 triumph – Britain’s first victory against Slovenia in almost a decade – leaves them third in the Division 1 Group B standings.Britain came from behind to win through goals from Katherine Gale…

Britain’s Dimitri Coutya and Piers Gilliver have both claimed Epee gold at the European Wheelchair Fencing Championships in Paris.Coutya, 26, finished the event with five medals after GB took Epee team bronze on Sunday’s final day.His individual Epee B title was his third in a row and he also won Foil B gold, Sabre B…

Media caption, Oliver Morgan breaks British record to qualify for Paris OlympicsBy Matthew HenryBBC Sport at London Aquatics Centre2024 Aquatics GB Swimming ChampionshipsDates: 2-7 April Venue: London Aquatics Centre Time: Heats from 10:00 BST; finals sessions from 19:00Coverage: Finals sessions streamed live on BBC iPlayer & BBC Sport website and app, with daily reports on…

The world’s top badminton players will descend on Birmingham for the All England Open from March 12-17, and it is live across BBC Sport.It is the 125th edition of the world’s oldest tournament with spots at Paris 2024 up for grabs as well as the main draw.Players from England and Scotland will compete alongside international…

Image source, InphoImage caption, Jude Gallagher secured a unanimous decision victory over Turkmenistan’s Sukur Ovezov on Monday night to book his Olympic Games spotTyrone featherweight Jude Gallagher says booking his Olympic Games place at the World qualifier in Italy is “unreal stuff”.Gallagher dominated Turkmenistan’s Sukur Ovezov to become the sixth Irish boxer to qualify for…

Image caption, The site is often a flashpoint during flare-ups in the Israel-Palestinian conflictBy Yolande KnellBBC News, JerusalemThere are renewed fears of violence spreading, particularly to Jerusalem, during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, as a truce remains elusive.Hamas has reiterated a call for Palestinians to step up visits to al-Aqsa Mosque.Israel has accused Hamas…

Paralympic athletes will be vetted to make sure they have not supported the war in Ukraine or are contracted with the military, the International Paralympic Committee has said.Para-athletes from Russia and Belarus will be allowed to compete at the Paris Paralympics from 28 August as neutrals.They will not be allowed to wear their national colours…

GILFORD, N.H. — Snow showers lingered Friday as the cleanup began following a major spring storm that brought heavy snow, rain and high winds to the Northeast, left hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses without power, and contributed to at least two deaths.Well over a foot (30 centimeters) of snow was reported in many…