Sports Events

Brits account for 29% of World Cup searches

Travellers have already started searching for their hotels during the 2014 FIFA World Cup, according to hotel comparison website trivago.co.uk.

On your marks, get set, go… to Las Vegas for the Rock ‘N’ Roll Marathon

On 17 November 2013, Las Vegas will host the Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon and Half Marathon. In true Vegas style, the race is different from most traditional marathons in that participants run at night. Join runners and well-wishers in this sporting spectacle and see the Strip’s famous lights as competitors thunder across the finishing line.

Carbs & Craic at Baxters Loch Ness Marathon

The Baxters Loch Ness Marathon and Festival of Running is warming up for its annual festival of fun and running in Inverness on 28th & 29th September.

Limber up for the Cayman Islands Triathlon this November

As triathlon-fever sweeps through the UK in the wake of the Olympic gold medallist Brownlee Brothers, a number of British enthusiasts are expected to join over 200 novice and professional athletes in The Arch and Godfrey Cayman Islands Triathlon taking place in the British Overseas Territory later this year.

The Armada set sail becoming World Record breakers

On Sunday 15th September, it was a sunny start to the day when Sir Richard Branson, not one to stay on the side lines, decided it was time to set another world record.

Slide2Sochi Roadshow launches at The Snow Centre

The Snow Centre at Hemel Hempstead is kick-starting the winter season and launching the Slide2Sochi Roadshow and Snowsport England’s new GO SKI GO BOARD campaign with an action-packed weekend of snow sports activities hosted by Winter Olympian and skiing hero, Ed Drake.

Cycling fans get on their bikes in race to Glasgow 2014

Cycling fans waiting to see their heroes compete in the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games won't have to wait much longer to get in on the excitement, as the Tour of Britain, the last major cycling event to take place in Scotland before the Games, begins stage one north of the border on Sunday, 15 September.

Virgin support Snow-Camp's charity kitesurfing challenge

Snowcamp is delighted to announce that Virgin has come on board as new Title Sponsor for our kitesurfing fundraising event the Big Charity Downwinder – which will be renamed from today as the Virgin Kitesurfing Armada.

Abu Dhabi's Volvo Ocean Race stopover to be Cowes of Arabia

Abu Dhabi's planned hosting of the Volvo Ocean Race 2014/15 could become the key sailing and community waterfront event of Arabia on the lines of the UK's highly successful Cowes Week regatta, according to Emirati Adil Khalid who will contest the global sailing race as a member of Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing.

Chris Froome to compete in the USA Pro Cycling Challenge

Chris Froome, winner of this year's Tour de France, is heading for Colorado this month to take part in this year's USA Pro Cycling Challenge, as part of Team Sky.

The Arctic Race of Norway

The most beautiful coastline in the world will make the spectacular backdrop when the world's cycling elite meets in Norway to compete above the Arctic Circle in the northernmost bike race in the world, The Arctic Race of Norway.

Barmy Army to trumpet about Adelaide and South Australia

Billy the Trumpet, as he is affectionately known to England's legion of cricket fans, has been recruited by South Australia to promote the delights of Adelaide and surrounding regions like the Barossa, Kangaroo Island and the Eyre Peninsula, as ideal places to visit during the Australian Ashes Series this December 2013.