Newcastle and Gateshead has announced its intention to bid for the 2026 European Championships, the third edition of the multi-sport event.

Richard Lim, Chef de Mission for the Philippines at the upcoming Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games (AIMAG), has backed the postponement of the event and believes it could benefit the nation.

The World Games Greatest Athlete of All Time candidate list has been reduced to ten after the first round of voting.

Councillors in Kraków have pledged to support the establishment of Poland’s first refuge hostel for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people in a bid to combat discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.

The European Olympic Committees (EOC) has announced that badminton is the latest sport to be added to the programme for the Kraków-Małopolska 2023 European Games.

Sustainability is to be the focus of the next year's European Championships in the German city of Munich.

Redmont Distillery has signed up to be the official vodka of the Birmingham 2022 World Games and will produce special bottles to commemorate the multi-sport event.

Cricket could make its debut in the African Games when it is hosted by Ghana in 2023, it has been reported.

Papua New Guinea's athletics great Elanga Buala, who won three gold medals at the 1983 Pacific Games in Apia in Samoa, has died at the age of 56.

Malaysian squash star Nicol David holds a comfortable lead as the World Games Greatest Athlete of All Time race heads towards its first milestone, which will see only the top ten candidates continue receiving votes.

Qatar Olympic Committee (QOC) secretary general Jassim Rashid Al-Buenain has been appointed as an Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) vice-president.

Centro Caribe Sports inspection visits to potential new hosts for the 2022 Central American and Caribbean Games have been postponed because coronavirus-related travel restrictions.

Ningbo, one of the cities to host events as part of the Hangzhou 2022 Asian Games, has nearly completed construction of its sailing venue for the event.

This year's Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games (AIMAG) in Thailand have been postponed until March 2022 because of the coronavirus pandemic.