

Snooker stays at the Crucible World Championship commits long term future to Sheffield
Snooker’s World Championship will remain at the Crucible in Sheffield following a landmark longterm agreement between World Snooker Tour and Sheffield City Council. The new deal will see snooker stay in Sheffield until at least 2045, with an option to extend to 2050. Separately, plans are being developed to transform the Crucible Theatre, with the sport’s most famous venue set to benefit from a major refurbishment, including the potential to add up to 500 additional seats in


IPC REFERS ANTIDOPING RULE VIOLATION BY BRAZILIAN ATHLETE RONAN NUNES CORDEIRO TO WORLD TRIATHLON
The Para triathlete returned an adverse analytical finding for a Prohibited Substance at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games. The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has referred an anti-doping rule violation (ADRV) committed by Para triathlete Ronan Nunes Cordeiro at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games to World Triathlon. In its role as major event organiser of the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games, the IPC was responsible for the anti-doping programme at the Paris 2024 Games. Cordei


MILANO CORTINA 2026 CLOSING CEREMONY SPEECH BY IPC PRESIDENT
President of the Chamber of Deputies Lorenzo Fontana, President of the Milano Cortina 2026 Organising Committee Giovanni Malago, Paralympians, Buona sera Italia, Ciao Cortina, grazie mille a tutti, avete reso il nostro tempo qui davvero speciale. Here at the Milano Cortina 2026 Paralympic Games, we celebrated that we are different. Tonight, let us celebrate something even greater: how those differences brought us together and made us stronger. These Paralympic Winter Games ha









