Twenty four year old Rebecca Redfern will compete in her third Paralympic Games with her 25 year old elder brother Matthew, who has come out of retirement for this special occasion. At La Defence Arena, the siblings will not only wear the same uniforms but they will also participate in the same competitions, such as the mixed 4x100m freestyle relay.

Dimitri Coutya of Great Britain has won his first wheelchair fencing gold medal at the Paralympics in the men's foil B division. With obvious delight and more than a little relief, Couta defeated China's two-time defending Paralympic champion Feng Yanke 15-7 at the Grand Palais.

Ed Williams has been reporting for the Yorkshire Times, part of the p.ublished group of online newspapers, on his local club, Wharfedale RUFC.

Alice Tai wins gold medal in the women’s 100m backstroke S8 in a time of 1:09.06 The 100m back is one of my main events. We’ve been focusing on the 100m butterfly which is on the last day which kind of sucks because I’m going to be tired.

17-year-old racing driver Rowan Campbell-Pilling, from Sheffield, is a rising star of British Motorsport and he aims to compete at the pinnacle of racing. He is a part of the Motorsport UK Academy and drives for the Argenti team. Rowan has recently made his much-awaited debut in British Formula 4 single seaters. This is seen as the first step of the ladder towards Formula 1. Rowan joins the British F4 grid off the back of a successful karting career. Competing in both the Daniel Ricciardo Series (DRS) and iame x30 classes, He was crowned champion in 2021 in DRS and won more titles across the iame x30 championships, in junior classes. In senior karting, he took wins in both categories before moving on to his debut year in single seaters. We caught up with him at Donington.

Redcar boxer Tom Hill is celebrating winning his first title as he beat Tyneside’s Ewan Mackenzie by stoppage in the seventh of ten scheduled rounds to secure the Northern Area welterweight belt. "I’d had almost two years out of the ring and then won a fight on a local show in April, after which I got the call proposing the title bout.

There were three more medals for Team GB on Day 12 of Paris 2024, as Team GB’s track cyclists picked up silver and bronze and Matt Hudson-Smith took silver. It was also a productive day for Team GB’s divers and climbers, with more finals to come this week.

There were two more golds for Team GB on Day Ten of the Paris 2024 Olympics as track cycling got off to a flying start and Keely Hodgkinson won Olympic gold. There were also two medals in the kayak cross and a bronze in the mixed relay triathlon.

France's Cassandre Beaugrand won a historic gold in a thrilling Paris 2024 women's individual triathlon on 31 July at Alexandre III Pontoon in the centre of Paris. Switzerland's Julie Derron dug deep to win silver with Great Britain's Beth Potter taking bronze. Beaugrand, the world number one, broke away on the final lap to become the first French athlete to win an Olympic medal in the event.

The Place de la Concorde has hosted one of the greatest Street Skateboarding contests on record. Japan’s Yuto Horigome, who almost didn’t qualify for the Paris Games at all after a mid- qualifier slump, staged the comeback of his life to retain the title of Olympic gold medallist in a Best Trick shootout that pulsated with energy and thrills under azure skies and soaring French temperatures.

The two athletes who will be carrying the Olympic flag on behalf of the IOC Refugee Olympic Team during the Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 are boxer Cindy Ngamba and taekwondo athlete Yahya Al-Ghotany. This was announced today during the 142nd IOC Session in Paris.

Formula 1 returned to the Hungaroring this weekend for the 13th round of this year’s championship, and following an eventful encounter that included an embarrassingly uncomfortable public argument over team radio between McLaren and its driver, Lando Norris, it was McLaren’s other pedaller, Oscar Piastri, who claimed his first Grand Prix victory.