LIV Golf: Competition secures potential $300m investment to emerge from restructuring

LIV Golf has secured a possible $300m in financing from BC Partners Credit in order to try to move forward with the 2027 season.

The league filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the United States in September after Saudi Arabia withdrew its multibillion-dollar funding, starting a court-supervised "restructuring process" that they hope to complete in early 2027.

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Sportsworld - The Warm UP Track 2026:  Nadine Visser - Good things come to those who wait - BBC Sounds

      <p>Use BBC.com or the new BBC App to listen to BBC podcasts, Radio 4 and the World Service outside the UK.</p><p><a href="https://help.bbc.com/hc/en-us/articles/42652680528659-Update-on-access-to-BBC-Sounds-outside-the-UK">Find out how to listen to other BBC stations</a></p><h2>Episode details</h2><img src="https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/400x400/p0pf379m.jpg" alt="" loading="lazy" /><p>World Service,·06 Oct 2026,·52 mins</p><h2>The Warm UP Track 2026:  Nadine Visser - Good things come to those who wait</h2>Sportsworld<p>Available for over a year</p><p>Nadine Visser has made the last two Olympic finals in the women's sprint hurdles, finishing fifth in Tokyo and then fourth in Paris.  The Dutch athlete also has two European Indoor titles to her name amongst an impressive collection of medals won since her breakthrough championships, the World under-20s in Eugene in 2014. 

Heading into the 2026 European Championships outdoors in Birmingham, there was something she finally wanted to put right. In three previous finals at the Championships, she hadn’t made the podium. Having so often been the top European finisher at the Worlds and the Olympics, that statistic was especially hard to take. Birmingham 2026 was where Visser finally laid that disappointment to rest. She won the gold medal, but faced an agonising wait for confirmation of that fact as the officials studied the photo finish. She takes us back to that night at the Alexander Stadium, explaining how and why it meant so much. The build up had been marred by injury, and she knew that the Dutch media would be ready to ask her why she’d once again failed to live up to her top billing if the gold slipped away once again. This is a candid sharing of an athlete’s thought process as they prepare for a championships, and everything they weigh up when they consider whether it’s been a success. Nadine Visser has been at the very top of her sport for more than 12 years; and that includes competing for several years as both an elite Heptathlete and a Sprint Hurdler. How has she maintained that level of success from 2014 to now, and what does she believe is still possible? Photo: Women’s 100m hurdles medallists, from left, silver, Pia Skrzyszowska of Poland, gold, Nadine Visser of Netherlands and bronze, Laeticia Bapté of France during day two of the European Athletics Championships 2026 at Alexander Stadium in Birmingham, England. (Credit: Sportsfile via Getty Images)

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F1 Q&A: Hamilton, Malaysia, wet races, Red Bull and Ford and the future of engines

Red Bull's Max Verstappen won his first race of the season in a dramatic rain-affected Bahrain Grand Prix in Malaysia.

Kimi Antonelli finished second in the Mercedes and Ferrari's Lewis Hamilton, who fought his way back to the front after an incorrect tyre choice at the start, completed the podium.

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Rugby League World Cup 2026: England name 23-player squad as Jake Connor misses out and Mikey Lewis earns call-up

Brian McDermott has named his 23-player England squad for the 2026 Rugby League World Cup, with Mikey Lewis selected ahead of Jake Connor.

Connor, who won last year's Super League Man of Steel award, is the surprise omission, having enjoyed another standout season with the Rhinos, amassing 43 assists - the most of any player this season.

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Lost Grounds

Football grounds are not just where the game is played but where it is remembered.

They are the places where generations return to the same turnstiles, climb the same steps and take their place in the same stands. They become landmarks in their own right — woven into the identity of a club and the neighbourhood around it.

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Luke Humphries hoping to face Luke Littler in World Championship final after ending major drought at World Grand Prix

Luke Humphries says his World Grand Prix triumph has left him feeling ready to win a second World Championship - and hopes to face Luke Littler in the final.

Humphries landed a first major title since the 2025 Premier League as he recovered from 3-0 down to beat Gerwyn Price 6-4 in the final of the double-start event, sealing victory with an 11-darter having broken his opponents in 10 to clinch the ninth set.

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Bahrain GP in Malaysia: Carlos Sainz says F1 needs to look at itself after software glitches

Formula 1 "needs to have a hard look at" itself in the wake of unprecedented software glitches that affected Sunday's Bahrain Grand Prix in Malaysia, Williams driver Carlos Sainz says.

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Cristiano Ronaldo: A nation divided as forward left with big decision on Portugal future

A sign praising Cristiano Ronaldo and criticising Jorge JesusImage source, EPA

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This sign praising Cristiano Ronaldo and criticising Jorge Jesus was placed outside Benfica's stadium

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Alex Scott withdraws from England squad for Czech Republic Nations League match with injury

Bournemouth midfielder Alex Scott has withdrawn from the England squad to face the Czech Republic on Tuesday with a thigh injury.

The 23-year-old is set to be out for six to eight weeks with the quadriceps issue.

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England Rugby League World Cup squad: Jake Connor out, Mikey Lewis in

Jake Connor missed out on a Rugby League World Cup spot by a "small margin" as England seek the players who can best stick to their gameplan, head coach Brian McDermott says.

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