An ECB Level 4 qualified coach, Steve Snell will join Cricket Scotland following a successful career in English county cricket, holding various roles such as player, coach, and administrator, primarily with Gloucestershire and Somerset.

The top athletes of taekwondo will gather in Manchester from December 2 to 3 for the World Taekwondo Grand Prix. The last big event of the year will also give opportunities to the athletes to gain qualification points for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.

David Villa and Paolo Maldini, both world champions and winners of the FIFA Club World Cup with Barcelona and Milan, respectively, were two of the stars in the pre-events held this past Sunday in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, where this year's edition will be held between December 12 and 22.

Val Thorens hosted the first ISMF Ski Mountaineering World Cup event with a high-level spectacle. In the mixed relays category, the French duo of Emily Harrop and Thibault Anselmet delighted the audience by clinching the first victory of the 2023/24 season after a tough battle with the Spanish team (Oriol Cardona and Ana Alonso), who crossed the finish line in second place. Giulia Murada and Nicolo Canclini secured the bronze medal for Italy.

The start of the fourth day in the 2023 IBA World Junior Championships was perfect for the host country. 50 kg boxer Tihran Ovsepyan looked very confident in his first fight of the tournament and defeated Mario Nakic (Croatia) by unanimous decision. In the next round he will meet Crein Moyo from Zimbabwe, who was exempt from the 1/8 finals. The other quarterfinal pair on the top of the bracket formed Achilleas Tsepidis from Greece and Dominik Gombai from Hungary. Both of them won their bouts by unanimous decisions. 

Egypt's Aly Abou Eleinen and Malaysia's Sivasangari Subramaniam are the champions of the Hong Kong Football Club Open after beating men's third seed Eain Yow Ng and women's fourth seed Amina Orfi in the Bronze-level event.

In 1976, Italy reached the pinnacle of world tennis by winning its first Davis Cup in a controversial final, with some sections of the country criticising the team for travelling to Augusto Pinochet's Chile; in the end, they did it, winning 1-4 with Adriano Panatta as the hero.

The Dutch driver claimed the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix in the United Arab Emirates on the Yas Marina Circuit, marking the 22nd (and final) race of the Formula 1 season. Verstappen secured 19 wins out of 22 races (along with 21 podiums), a truly astonishing feat that solidifies his status as the King of Formula 1.

Kodai Naraoka needed five finals to secure his first HSBC BWF World Tour title, the Li-Ning Master China. He achieved this by winning the final against one of the favorites, Kenta Nishimoto, with a score of 21-13, 21-13.

The ring was prepared for the women’s competition in 2023 IBA World Junior Championships in Mika Sport complex, Yerevan. 44 boxers from 7 weight categories stepped to the ring for their 1/8 round fights. 

Most of Russia's best sambists are set to start in the Russian Sambo Cup 2023 which will be held from November 27 to December 1 in the city of Kstovo.

The International Boxing Association (IBA) and the government of Japan deepened their understanding this week with a meeting in Tokyo between Umar Kremlev, President of the IBA, and Nishimura Yasutoshi, Minister of Economy, Trade, and Industry of Japan.

At just 22 years of age, Caroline Ulrich has already proven that she is ready to compete on the world stage alongside elite athletes. In her second season as an U23 athlete, she won the first event of the 2023/24 World Cup season this weekend, with Tove Alexandersson (SWE) and Marianna Jagercikova (SVK) joining her on the podium.

Brazil remains without a gold medal on the last day of the taekwondo tournament of 2023 Parapan American Games in Santiago.

The Austrian Bundesliga’ Final Four tournament took place on November 25. Several judo stars were among the participants, as M&R Galaxy Judo Tigers from Vienna won their 10th anniversary title.