A boxing trainer has launched legal action against his star fighter over claims the middleweight champion walked out on their contract shortly after the trainer suffered a major stroke.

New properties will be built to house almost 7000 athletes and officials during the 2026 Commonwealth Games in an unprecedented regional construction boom.

A surgeon at the centre of a colonoscopy recall affecting about 2000 patients was also separately investigated over the death of a patient post-emergency surgery.

And in sport, Nick Kyrgios has called it: the serial showman is getting serious.

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