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Really need to resell them but there doesn’t seem to be a way because they send them as link to a QR code rather than a PDF or via an App. I don’t want to be found liable for breach of policy saying I can transfer them when as far as I know I don’t know have a clue how to except forwarding the original email.

England tri-series against Pakistan and Sri Lanka at risk of TV blackout
A last-minute deal has not been ruled out, but as it stands, neither Sky nor TNT appears interested in broadcasting the matches

England’s ODI tri-series in Pakistan is at risk of a television blackout with no broadcast agreement in place just three weeks before it begins.
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has sold the TV rights to Trans Group, an agency in Lahore, to sell them on to the UK market. As it stands, no deal has been agreed between Trans Group and a UK broadcaster.
Sources at the PCB were bullish that the rights would be sold to a major player in the UK sports rights market. It is common for such agreements to be put in place at the last minute.
However, there appears to be little appetite from either Sky or TNT, the two pay-TV broadcasters who show most cricket in the UK. Sky have a deal worth £220m per year for the English summer, while TNT have commonly picked up rights for winter tours in recent years, including last winter’s Ashes.

Sky broadcast England’s recent tours of Pakistan in 2022 and 2024, but that deal has expired. A low-value, late deal cannot be ruled out, but there appears little interest in Sky taking the rights, not least because they will show Australia’s hotly anticipated three-match Test series in South Africa, their first visit since the sandpaper scandal of 2018.

In their role as host broadcaster of the recent Test series between England and Pakistan, Sky aired an interview with the sons of the jailed former Prime Minister and cricket captain Imran Khanduring the lunch break of the first day of the Lord’s Test. The PCB, whose chairman Mohsin Naqvi is Pakistan’s interior minister, took a dim view of this and threatened to prevent their team from taking the field after lunch and even cancel the tour if the interview was not pulled. In the event, the players returned to the field and a chaotic tour continued.
Whether broadcasters beyond Sky and TNT could enter the market is unclear. DAZN recently struck a one-series deal with Cricket Australia (CA) to show Australia’s two Tests against Bangladesh.
The PCB also has its own streaming platform, PCB Live, but whether this could be used if a rights deal is not agreed is unclear.
The radio broadcast rights for the tri-series are held by the BBC, which is expected to send a Test Match Special team to Pakistan to cover the short tour.

England’s home summer ended on Sunday with an ODI series victory over Sri Lanka. On Monday the management met to select a squad to depart for Pakistan in just over a fortnight, as well as finalising central contracts.

The ODI tri-series, which also features Sri Lanka, begins on October 18 and ends with a final between the two best-performing teams in Lahore on Halloween.
The tour is the first of five for England’s men this winter, which will span four different countries. After Pakistan, they travel to Australia for three ODIs and five T20s, then to South Africa for three Tests and three ODIs. The winter ends with two Tests in Bangladesh in February followed by a one-off, day-night Test in Melbourne to celebrate 150 years of the longest format.
Sky and talkSPORT will cover the South Africa tour, and the BBC has a long-term radio deal with CA. The TV rights for the Australian legs of the winter remain up in the air; TNT have signed deals for recent action Down Under, while DAZN stepped in for the short-term Bangladesh deal in August. It is thought that CA are exploring selling rights for the one-off Test in March separately to the rest of their home summer, given the ceremonial significance of the fixture.
TV deals for bilateral (and in this case trilateral) cricket have dropped in value in recent years, with broadcasters particularly eschewing longer-term arrangements because of the difference in offering from one season to the next. For instance, South Africa host eight Tests in their home summer in 2026-27, compared to no Tests last season.

BBC accused of harming GB’s Olympic medal hopes with job cuts
 
 
Exclusive: Minority sports fear broadcaster’s fixation on Premier League is denying them coverage they need to attract vital funding
 
The BBC has been accused of harming the country’s Olympic medal-winning hopes by cutting its sports budget and becoming fixated on Premier League football.
Before a planned announcement on Wednesday of major job cuts within BBC Sport, those responsible for delivering gold, silver and bronze at the LA 2028 Olympics are preparing for further reductions in the corporation’s coverage of sports reliant on the exposure it provides.
Telegraph Sport has been told that Alex Kay-Jelski, the BBC’s director of sport, warned Olympic and Paralympic sports last year he was not in a position to guarantee such coverage, despite the broadcaster’s mission of “serving all audiences” and not merely chasing viewers and clicks.
 
He has now been accused of focusing BBC resources too heavily on football’s richest league, to which the corporation holds highlights rights through Match of the Day.
 
 
It has also been claimed that the BBC has devoted a disproportionate amount of its wider sports coverage to athletes and teams from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, at the expense of those from England.
Olympic and Paralympic sports, like the BBC, receive hundreds of millions of pounds in public money but have been spending more and more on surging operational costs amid conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East.
With the likes of ITV Sport, Sky Sports and TNT Sports also ploughing the bulk of their budgets into football, BBC coverage is therefore seen as crucial to attracting additional revenue from the private sector and avoiding undermining one of sports’ core, government-mandated, objectives – to win medals.
Chasing mass audience
Drew Barrand, the chief executive of swimming and diving governing body Aquatics GB, told Telegraph Sport: “The changes that the BBC is going through at the moment – the cost-cutting and all the rest of it – is absolutely affecting Olympic sport on a massive basis.
 
“There is a general viewpoint that most Olympic sports are not getting anything from it, and not just in terms of live rights, but also in terms of news coverage.
“One of the biggest benefits has been keeping these sports relevant through the news cycle by the power, basically, of BBC Sport online. That’s been a massive thing.
“My understanding is BBC Sport online are moving away from that editorial position and essentially going more with a kind of, ‘What does the mass audience want?’, rather than essentially hitting their remit of giving a broad, diverse range of subjects.”
The BBC stopped showing major international live swimming outside the Olympics under Kay-Jelski’s predecessor, Barbara Slater, although it has continued to broadcast the national championships on iPlayer.
 
Barrand said: “You need to feed in the news report side to feed to the live. And that’s what they don’t do because there’s always an argument that there’s 20 football stories that the national audience wants to read, rather than reading about a swimming meet.
“You could play that argument out if you’re Sky or a commercial broadcaster, because you’re chasing the audience. The BBC has got a slightly different remit and that’s where I think it needs to be held to account a bit more.”
He added: “Before Alex came in, there was an element of, ‘OK; we’ll still do some basic kind of reportage around some of these events’. What’s happening now is even that’s getting squeezed. So, the line that seems to be coming out is that, ‘We’re interested in stories, telling stories, and mass audience. We’re not interested in writing match reports’, for want of a better expression. You take that off and a lot of these Olympic sports are just going to fall by the wayside.
 
“The biggest problem is, when you lose relevancy, it makes the commercial sell so difficult.
“In a world where operating costs for everybody are going through the roof, and the government cheque can only stretch so far, it’s creating a big problem.
“The governing bodies are financially distressed. And when they’re financially distressed, it means they can’t invest in the performance programmes to the level that they’ve maybe been doing historically. Which means that the athletes potentially aren’t as prepared as they should be, or we can’t invest in the pathway and create the broader volume of athletes to select from. And, ultimately, that is going to have an impact.”
Telegraph Sport has been told similar concerns have been expressed to elite funding body UK Sport, as well as claims that the BBC has been giving “outsized” coverage to Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish teams and athletes.
Indeed, last year the corporation lost the remaining rights it held to England men’s football, rugby or cricket matches outside “Crown Jewels” events that must be shown on free-to-air television by law, while shoring up those for other UK nations.
 
Kay-Jelski is also said to have held a meeting with Olympic and Paralympic sports at which he laid out his vision for BBC Sport and encouraged them to provide the corporation with “compelling human interest stories”.
Symptomatic of what has been a lurch away from these sports has been the BBC’s surrender this year of rights it held for most of its existence to the likes of the Commonwealth Games and Boat Race and its decision this month to axe Ski Sunday after nearly half a century.
 
Vicky Gosling, GB Snowsport chief executive, said: “We fully understand what it means to operate under tight constraints, but we also know that the BBC has a unique role in highlighting the best of our nation’s achievements to the country, and we fervently hope that nobody loses sight of that as any final decisions are made.
“Many Olympic sports, and ours are no exception, find BBC coverage invaluable in raising awareness and driving interest in our sports. The combination of sporting excellence and public service broadcasting is something we do brilliantly in this country, and we believe that is something everyone involved in these decisions must keep at the front of their minds in the coming days.”
 
Jon Dutton recently started work as the chief executive of the British Olympic Association, having held the same role at British Cycling.
He said: “We’re fortunate to have seen time and time again how brilliant it can be when the BBC gets behind Olympic sport, and it’s clear from the record-breaking results across Milano Cortina 2026 and Paris 2024 how much audiences love it. The Olympic movement in the UK is a treasure trove of personalities and stories that make for compelling viewing well beyond the Games themselves.
“Maintaining the BBC’s capacity to showcase those stories throughout the four years between Games is crucial, not only for the audiences they entertain and inspire, but for the athletes and sports themselves. Without the visibility that comes with public service broadcasting, we risk making it much harder for those sports to attract new fans, bring in investment and inspire the next generation to take part.”
UK Sport published a survey last year that found 69 per cent of the public wanted Olympic sports broadcast more regularly on free-to-air TV, with 66 per cent of respondents calling for more Paralympic sports to be shown too.
 
A UK Sport spokesperson said: “The BBC is a vital partner for Olympic and Paralympic sport and major sporting events.
“Team GB and ParalympicsGB are among the most loved institutions in the country and that is because of, in no small part, brilliant BBC coverage bringing the extraordinary sporting moments our athletes generate to the nation over many years.
“We recognise that consumer habits are changing at pace, and we are working with Olympic and Paralympic sports to evolve the way they tell athletes’ stories and grow their reach and relevance. We look forward to collaborating with the BBC on this basis as we build towards the 2028 Games in LA so that Olympic and Paralympic sport can continue to enjoy its special place in our national life.”
 
David Clarke, the ParalympicsGB chief executive, said: “ParalympicsGB recognises the importance of national television and online coverage of para athletes and the Paralympic Games in raising the profile of disability sport in the UK. The BBC has always shone a light on the amazing stories and sporting achievements of Paralympians and as a public service broadcaster we hope that continues.”
A BBC spokesperson said: “The Olympic Games remains one of the BBC’s crown jewel sporting events, and we are committed to providing free-to-air coverage of Olympic sport across TV, radio, digital and social, bringing people across the UK together. We proudly demonstrated this with our record-breaking coverage of Paris 2024 and Milano Cortina 2026, and will do so again with our ambitious plans for LA 2028.
“Through extensive rights agreements, year-round reporting and independent editorial coverage, we bring audiences the biggest athletes, events and stories from across a huge breadth of Olympic sports. This summer, our European Athletics Championships coverage reached 17.2 million people across TV and iPlayer, while related social content generated 46 million video views. In the last month alone we have shown the European Gymnastics Championships, the Burghley Horse Trials, Cycling’s World Road Championships, Athletics’ Ultimate Championships and the Great North Run – all on BBC1 or BBC2.
“Like Olympic sporting bodies, we have a responsibility to invest funding carefully, ensuring we maximise value for licence fee payers while reaching the widest possible audience.”

Have a feeling CAS will rule in favour of Russia as it tends to do so.

Germany’s ruling conservative party is drawing up plans to overhaul the country’s liberal citizenship laws to fight back against the Alternative for Germany (AfD).

Senior figures in Friedrich Merz’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) are discussing a ban on dual citizenship and tougher language requirements to counter the hard-Right party.

In an interview with The Telegraph, Günter Krings, a senior CDU MP, said previous governments had made gaining German citizenship “too fast and too easy”.

“Naturalisation should only be the last step at the end of an integration process into our workforce, society and constitutional order,” he said. “We cannot accept that people live in a parallel society and want to be German citizens at the same time.”

Under the proposals, those seeking to become German would need to pass a tougher language skills test showing they can discuss highly complex topics, rather than a simple “B1” test of conversational German.

They would also be required to give up the citizenship of their home country, prove that they are fully financially independent and renounce all forms of anti-Semitism.

Mr Krings was speaking to The Telegraph before pivotal elections in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt, where the CDU was set to be trounced by the AfD.

Reform of citizenship laws

Mr Krings, the deputy chairman of the CDU in the Bundestag, the German parliament, has cited new citizenship laws as one path towards that goal.

The reforms would make financial independence and fluency in German compulsory for those applying for citizenship in Germanyafter five years’ residence.

“One area is certainly language skills. Right now we only need the level of B1, which would allow you only to participate in very easy conversations,” Mr Krings told The Telegraph.

“But if you really want to participate in the political process, which we expect from people who are German citizens, you have to have a better knowledge of the German language, and so B1 is not enough.”

The current system, which allows immigrants to obtain German citizenship even if they receive social benefits, was also “not fair to the German taxpayer”, he said.

“The present rules say it’s sufficient if you get the majority of your livelihood [from your own income], so 51 per cent would be, according to many court decisions, sufficient and I think that’s not OK,” he said.

“If almost half of your income comes from the German welfare state, it’s not a proof of economic integration when you apply for citizenship,” Mr Krings said.

Scrapping of dual citizenship

Another key pillar of the reform would be scrapping a 2024 law from the previous Olaf Scholz-led government that permitted dual citizenship in Germany.

“I think the rule should be that if you get German citizenship, you have to give up your former citizenship,” he said. “If you move from one country to the other, and plan to stay here permanently, I don’t see the point why it should be so important for you to retain the citizenship of your old country.”

Mr Krings said the lax requirements on citizenship in Germany were mainly the product of reforms by the government of Mr Scholz. But he also cited decisions by previous CDU leaders, such as Angela Merkel, the former German chancellor.

There is mounting speculation that Mr Merz could be forced to step down as chancellor as he struggles to quell discontent within his party and from his coalition allies, the Social Democrats.

It’s been nearly 20 years since I last went and back then meal plans didn’t exist as far as I remember and Breakfast at your hotel was included in the price with the option to add a buffet dinner at the Hotel as well. But now adays everything has changed and it looks nobody goes without a complicated meal plan and everything preplanned. Mainly had dinner at the now gone Planet Hollywood or the Hotel if that was too busy and only ever had counter service within the parks themselves. Wouldn’t mind doing something similar if possible

Just by missing these tests and seeing Cox and Lawrence potentially secure their spots ahead of him for the coming year.

After multiple pitch issues.

As when it disconnects it won’t then reconnect until I take it out of standby again. I’ve tried several things but nothing fixes it. Anyone know any tips.