Rio 2016 Olympic champions Serbia beat Romania in Bucharest today as they continued their perfect start to the European qualification stage of the 2017 International Swimming Federation (FINA) Men's Water Polo World League.

Hosts Germany celebrated double gold today at the 2017 World Para Nordic Skiing Championships in Finsterau as Martin Fleig and Anja Wicker triumphed in the respective men's and women's biathlon individual sitting events.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has said "a number" of Russian athletes have already returned their medals as requested following the re-testing of samples from the Beijing 2008 and London 2012 Olympic Games. 

The 2017 International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) Beach Volleyball World Tour is set to continue this week on Iran's Kish Island as Qatar's Cherif Younousse looks to defend the title he won last year with Jefferson Santos Pereira. 

The European Tour has unveiled a new short-form golf tournament, which will be added to its schedule later this year.

The International Tennis Federation (ITF) has confirmed a total of 4,899 tests were carried out last year under the sport’s Anti-Doping Programme, 466 more than in 2015.

An International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Taskforce led by British Rowing chief executive Andy Parkinson has said Russia's ban from competition should continue because the country is turning a blind eye to claims of a doping cover-up.

Paris’ Eiffel Tower, the proposed setting for beach volleyball competitions as part of the French capital’s bid for the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, is set to be put behind a 2.5 metres-high wall of reinforced glass to protect it against terror attacks.

Ethiopia’s Genzebe Dibaba is among those set to compete at tomorrow’s International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Indoor Tour meeting in Polish city Torun, fresh from breaking the world 2,000 metres record earlier this week.

International University Sports Federation (FISU) secretary general and chief executive Eric Saintrond has confirmed that there is interest from Lake Placid in staging the 2023 Winter Universiade.

Russia successfully defended their Winter Universiade men’s ice hockey title here tonight after beating hosts Kazakhstan 1-0 in a closely-contested final.

International University Sports Federation (FISU) President Oleg Matytsin has said the organisation is currently more focused on providing anti-doping education to its athletes than issuing sanctions in light of the second part of Richard McLaren’s report into Russian state-sponsored doping, which concluded that the 2013 Universiade in Kazan was used as a testing ground for sample manipulation.

Kazakhstan’s Galina Vishnevskaya claimed her second biathlon gold medal of the 2017 Winter Universiade after winning the women’s 12.5 kilometres mass start event today.

Great Britain claimed the 2017 Winter Universiade men’s curling gold medal here today after beating Sweden in dramatic fashion.