Faith Kipyegon, twice Olympic and twice world 1500 metres champion, became world record holder also in Florence tonight as she clocked 3min 49.11sec in the third Diamond League meeting of the season.

An independent survey has revealed unprecedented levels of home support for the 2023 Rugby World Cup (RWC) to be held in France.

Local hero Soufiane El Bakkali, the world and Olympic 3,000 metres steeplechase champion, lived up to his billing once again at the Rabat Diamond League meeting as he broke his own meeting record with a personal best of 7min 56.68sec, the fastest time this season.

America’s Ryan Crouser added 19 centimetres to his own world shot put record at the Los Angeles Grand Prix with a fourth-round throw of 23.56 metres.

Cuba plans to have around 400 athletes competing at this year’s Pan American Games in Santiago according to the general secretary of its National Olympic Committee, former basketball star Ruperto Herrera.

Proud Texan Eddie Southern, who won Olympic 400 metres hurdles silver at the 1956 Melbourne Games as an 18-year-old in only his fifth career race at the event, has died aged 85.

Basketball player Sarah Gates from McMaster University and Tokyo 2020 Olympian swimmer Gabriel Mastromatteo from the University of Toronto have received Lois and Doug Mitchell Awards as the 2022-23 Female and Male Athletes of the Year for U SPORTS - the Canadian university sports body.

The Solomon Islands, due to host the Pacific Games from November 19 to December 2, has lifted all COVID-19 entry requirements.

The recently proposed quadrennial International Ski and Snowboard Federation (FIS) Games were one of the main topics of discussion today at its 54th Congress.

World Athletics will introduce the term "short track" to replace the current term "indoor" to describe events and performances that are set on a 200 metres track, traditionally staged indoors, in order to encourage temporary venues in city locations.

Britain's Jonny Brownlee, who had planned to retire after the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, will head to the Paris 2024 Games seeking a fourth Olympic triathlon medal.

A survey of readers by the Los Angeles Times has shown a narrow majority are in favour of building a gondola "sky ride" to ferry spectators between Union Station and the Dodger Stadium, which is expected to host baseball and softball if they are added to the programme for the 2028 Olympic Games. 

New details and full routes for the road races and team time-trial mixed relay at this year’s Cycling World Championships in Scotland have been revealed by the International Cycling Union (UCI).

More than 75 community instructors attended a workshop organised in Kampala City by the Uganda Olympic Committee (UOC).