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New Zealand sports scientists are part of an international partnership formed to focus on helping female athletes fulfill their potential.

Shot put thrower Maddi Wesche flexed her muscles with a comfortable win at the national athletics championships to warm up for the world indoor showpiece.

A General Motors-backed Cadillac entry will become Formula One's 11th team next year after securing formal approval from the commercial rights holders and governing FIA.

Watch: The defending champions slumped to their third loss this season, coach says "we need to be better".

Analysis - When a two-point shot was introduced to Australia's Suncorp Super Netball competition in 2020, there was an uproar across the Tasman.

Leading local hope Paul Coll is through to the semi-finals at the New Zealand Open but the women's top seed was ousted in Christchurch.

To add injury to insult, the Blues lost Beauden Barrett at halftime and couldn't score a point after.

Blues Women fight back to defeat Chiefs Manawa and remain unbeaten in Super Rugby Aupiki.

Netball New Zealand has decided to introduce a two-point shot to this year's ANZ Premiership, following in the footsteps of Australia and the UK.

CEO Jack Mesley admitted "oversights and breakdowns in communications" meant the Fijians having to ride in a luggage truck.

England's top cricketing body has apologised for a joke about the Pope that failed to hit the stumps.

Some 35,000 "tifosi" thronged the event, as seven-times world champion Hamilton performed smoking tyre burnouts.

The team had to jump into the back of a truck to get a ride, and then were denied a late hotel checkout before their clash with the Hurricanes.

India skipper Rohit Sharma has guided his side to Sunday's final of the Champions Trophy, but he's copped a fair bit of flak in doing so... not for the results, but his weight.