Europe will take a commanding 6.5 to 1.5 lead into the second day of the Ryder Cup after making a sensational start at the Marco Simone Golf and Country Club in Rome.

An Aaron Smith hat-trick helped three-time winners New Zealand to thrash Italy 96-17 at the men's Rugby World Cup in Lyon.

China’s dominant weightlifting team will not know what sort of challenge to expect from North Korea at the Asian Games because their rivals have not lifted in international competition since December 2019.

Legendary American athlete Simone Biles is set to make her return to the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) Artistic Gymnastics World Championships which starts tomorrow in the Belgian city of Antwerp.

Los Angeles 2028 chief executive Kathy Carter has compared organising the Olympics to "hosting about seven Super Bowls a day", and hopes it can "showcase all of what is great" about the city and the United States.

The inaugural World Athletics Road Running Championships that will be held over the weekend in Riga will offer “really important clues and messages about the way our sport has to develop over the coming years”, according to the World Athletics President Sebastian Coe.

Beijing is preparing to host China's first major women's tennis event since the disappearance of Peng Shuai.

A group of 24 countries will bid for six places at next year's Olympics at three Road to Paris men's volleyball qualifiers due to start tomorrow.

New Zimbabwe Olympic Committee (ZOC) chief executive Marlene Chiedza Gadzirayi has revealed that she wants to raise people’s awareness of the Olympic Games in the periods between them taking place.

The International Hockey Federation (FIH) have chosen Oman to replace Pakistan as host country for the Men’s Olympic Qualifiers, it has been announced.

The International University Sports Federation (FISU) took part in the first edition of the European Sport Congress, a three-day event bringing together sports administrators from across the continent.

Worldwide Olympic and Paralympic partner Procter & Gamble (P&G) is to award $24,000 (£19,500/€22,000) grants to 20 athletes who will use the cash to help charities they support.

Australian Taekwondo President Jean Kfoury has described the country's achievements at the World Cadet Championships in Sarajevo as "extraordinary".

The University of Vienna has hosted a spectacular ceremony celebrating the 175th anniversary of university sports in Austria.

Kamila Valieva's hearing at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) into her failed drugs test which has left the results of the team figure skating event at the 2022 Winter Olympic Games in Beijing in limbo has been adjourned until November, it was announced today.