MotoGP returns for its 75th season this weekend with the Qatar Grand Prix. Since 2007 the World Championship has started at the Losail International Circuit, except last year when the season opener was held at Portimão. Bagnaia, who has won the championship twice in a row, is the favourite to win again.

Spanish prosecutors have announced that they will seek a prison sentence of four years and nine months for Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti, who is on trial for tax fraud.

The cutting-edge Nassau County International Cricket Stadium in New York, with 34,000 seats, is swiftly taking shape. A timelapse video marking one month of construction progress has been released, as it prepares to host eight matches of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2024.

On Tuesday 5 March, the Council of the Association of Summer Olympic International Federations met in Lausanne, Switzerland, to discuss various agenda items for the upcoming 48th ASOIF General Assembly on 8th April 2024.

The 2027 Men's Fistball World Championship will be held in Germany. It will be the second time in a row that Germany has hosted the tournament and the fifth time overall. The national team leads the medal count with 13 gold, two silver and one bronze.

The upcoming fourth edition of Steering the Course, World Sailing's global women's sailing festival, will highlight the journeys of female role models within the sport, particularly in this Olympic year, including coaching, officiating, and sports administration.

During the Paris 2024 Opening Ceremony on 26 July, a procession of 180 boats, 94 of which will be used to transport athletes, will sail down the River Seine. Up to 326,000 people will witness the spectacle.

In the first EC meeting chaired by Leonz Eder following his re-election, key highlights included updates on the Healthy Campus Programme, progress reports on the 2025 FISU World Summer and Winter Games and the nomination of new committees.

South Africa defeated Botswana in the final of the continental championship. Both national teams have qualified for the World Softball Championship to be held from 12 June to 14 July. Lesotho finished third in the WBSC Men's Softball World Cup Africa Qualifier.

The Fair Play Awards ceremony took place in Vilnius on Thursday. Olympic champion and LNOC President Daina Gudzinevičiūtė and Lithuanian Fair Play Committee President and Olympian Austra Skujytė presented the awards to the winners of six nominations at the National Olympic Committee of Lithuania.

The organisers of the World Indoor Championships in Athletics aim to raise the standards of international sporting events by prioritising sustainability, equality, diversity, and inclusion, while widening access to sport and physical activity at a local level.

Xammar and Brugman are the 2024 470 World Champions on home waters, followed by Great Britain and Japan. The Nations Cup was awarded to Great Britain for the best national performance.

Recent changes made by football's governing bodies to improve player behaviour did not include the controversial blue card sin bin system. In February, it was reported that blue cards would be tested as part of sin bin trials at higher levels of the professional game.

Devynne Charlton broke her world record in the 60m hurdles, 'Mondo' continued his dominance in the pole vault, and the Netherlands' Femke Bol and Belgium's Alexander Doom added a second gold medal to their 400m gold in the 4x400m at the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championship 2024 in Glasgow.