Russia's double Olympic pole vault gold medallist and world record holder Yelena Isinbayeva believes she has virtually no chance of being elected to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Athletes' Commission after she was barred from competing at Rio 2016. 

USA Taekwondo is offering fundraisers the chance to attend next month’s Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro as an honorary team captain.

Holders Japan qualified as Group One winners for the double-page playoff stage of the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) Women's Softball World Championship after beating New Zealand 9-2 in Surrey in Canada.

Two-time Olympic gold medal-winning sprinter Donovan Bailey has been announced as the President of the 2016 SPORTEL Awards Jury.

Home favourite Konrad Bukowiecki smashed the global junior shot put record today as action got underway at the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Under-20 Championships in Polish city Bydgoszcz.

The names of the 24 men and women who will compete for Great Britain in rugby sevens at Rio 2016 have today been announced by the British Olympic Association.  

The European Olympic Committees (EOC) has said it will "maintain ongoing discussions" with other potential host cities of the 2019 European Games after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) confirmed today that it will not organise and give patronage to any sport event or meeting in Russia, the nation seen as firm favourites to stage the second edition in three years' time. 

Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko has not been suspended from his post following yesterday's publication of the World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA) independent report here as he is not directly accused of covering up doping, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has postponed a decision on Russia’s participation at next month’s Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro until the end of the week, but is exploring legal options over a possible total ban.

International football’s governing body FIFA has said it will request from the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) all details concerning the individual cases of doping in Russian football that are referenced in Richard McLaren’s explosive Independent Commission report which was released here yesterday.

The International Judo Federation (IJF) has released the seventh episode of the "Judo for the World" video series, showing the "amazing hope" the sport has brought to Hungary.

A total of 1,518 athletes have been entered to compete at the 2016 International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Under-20 Championships in Bydgoszcz, where competition is due to begin tomorrow.

Alex Schwazer’s bid to get his latest positive doping test quashed has today been rejected by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), which has said it will soon say if the Italian race walker can go to next month’s Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. 

The University of Rijeka claimed women’s handball gold at the European Universities Games (EUG) after beating the Lithuanian Sports University to the delight of the home crowd at the Zamet Hall.