Dame Louise Martin will return for a second spell as President of the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) after it was confirmed she will not be challenged at the organisation's General Assembly in Kigali.
An Opening Ceremony marked the completion of Sea Forest Waterway, the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games venue for rowing and canoeing events.
Irish Sports Minister Shane Ross has confirmed that former Olympic Federation of Ireland (OFI) President Pat Hickey will not represent the country at the European Games here after receiving an invitation to attend from the European Olympic Committees (EOC).
Federal Pacific Finance have been announced as the latest supporting sponsor of the Samoa 2019 Pacific Games.
The executive director of Luge Canada Tim Farstad says he is "thrilled" Whistler has stepped up to host the 2021 World Championships after original hosts Calgary were forced to withdraw.
World champion and two-times European artistic gymnastics gold medallist Nina Derwael is the star of the 50-strong Belgian team for the Minsk 2019 European Games.
A statue of footballer Nilla Fischer in Linköping has been vandalised while she represents Sweden at the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup in France.
Cyprus' National Olympic Committee (COC) have announced that 39 of their athletes will compete at the Minsk 2019 European Games here, including seven Olympians.
The Papua New Guinea Olympic Committee (PNGOC) has accepted fencing as its newest member sport.
After waiting 20 years for a gold medal at the World Archery Championships, Chinese Taipei secured their second within 24 hours as they defeated South Korea 6-2 to win the women's recurve team title in 's-Hertogenbosch in the Netherlands.
Sweden eased into the FIFA Women’s World Cup last 16 with a 5-1 thrashing of Thailand, who nonetheless stole the show by netting their first goal of the tournament.
The United States won their first World Rugby Women's Sevens Series round and confirmed their place at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
Sergey Shubenkov genuinely scraped a victory here in the Moroccan capital as he slid painfully across the line after being tripped in the final steps of the men’s 110 metres hurdles by his falling rival Omar McLeod.
China's masterful Xu Xin sealed a memorable hat-trick of titles at the International Table Tennis Federation Japan Open in Sapporo today.
Hosts Japan won the men's team foil title as the Asian Fencing Championships continued in Chiba.
At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Iranian judoka Arash Miresmaeili was disqualified for weighing in at nearly four pounds above the limit for his weight class of his under-66 kilograms match against an Israeli opponent Ehud Vaks in the first round. It was claimed Miresmaeili had gone on an eating binge to protest the International Olympic Committee's recognition of the state of Israel. Iran does not recognise the state of Israel, and Miresmaeili's actions won praise from high-ranking Iranian officials. Mohammad Khatami, the country's President at the time, was quoted as saying Miresmaili's actions would be "recorded in the history of Iranian glories". He was later awarded $125,000 by the Government - the same amount given to Olympic gold medallists.
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