More than 500 athletes performed a show of unity at the European Karate Championships in Guadalajara to ask Paris 2024 and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to include their sport at the Olympic Games in the French capital.
The French Government has pledged to either renovate or build 13 sports facilities across the Ile-de-France region surrounding Paris, in preparation for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
A delegation from UniSport, the governing body of university sport in Australia, has paid a visit to the United States to tour universities and share expertise.
Fourteen-time Major winner Tiger Woods will play Northern Ireland’s Rory McIlroy in the last 16 of the World Golf Championship Dell-Technologies Match Play in Austin after both players won their final group games today.
World number two Mohamed Elshorbagy breezed through to the semi-finals of the Professional Squash Association Grasshopper Cup in Zurich with a straight games victory over Colombia's Miguel Rodriguez, but world number one Ali Farag was dumped out.
China's world number one Ding Ning has advanced into the semi-finals of the International Table Tennis Federation Qatar Open with a comfortable 4-0 win over Germany's Han Ying.
A team from Cameroon fell to a narrow defeat to a United States side today as pool action took place at the International Volleyball Federation’s (FIVB) inaugural snow volleyball event in Austria.
Freestyle World Cup leader and reigning Olympic champion Sarah Hoefflin finished third in qualifying today at the final slopestyle skiing event of the season in Silvaplana.
Albert Woods OBE will stand unopposed for re-election as President when the 14th Ordinary Congress of the European Canoe Association (ECA) gets under way in Serbian capital Belgrade.
Mohamed Moustahsane has been elected Interim President of the International Boxing Association (AIBA) by 23 votes to zero, with two abstentions.
The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) has reportedly established a three-member Committee to determine dates for the country’s National Games.
Mexico’s Para athlete Rebeca Valenzuela Alvarez has been named Americas Paralympic Committee athlete of the month for February after winning the women's F12 shot put at the Dubai Grand Prix with a new Americas record.
The United States is reportedly attempting to form a blind football team to compete at the Los Angeles 2028 Paralympic Games.
The Olympic Federation of Ireland (OFI) has announced an increase in funding of €250,000 (£213,500/$282,000) for its Member Federations in 2019.
Canada’s Zoe Chore was crowned women’s world junior ski cross champion today in the Austrian resort of Reiteralm.
Canadian show jumper Ian Millar holds the record for the most Olympic appearances by an athlete in any sport. When he competed at London 2012 at the age of 65 it was the tenth time he had competed in the Games since making his debut 30 years earlier at Munich 1972. He had won his only Olympic medal at Beijing 2008 when he was part of Canada’s team that took silver in the team jumping event. Millar won a gold medal in the Pan American Games team jumping event at Toronto 2015. He announced his retirement in 2019.
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The coronavirus pandemic forced a near global shutdown of sport across the world, but sports governing bodies have staged successful events despite the COVID-19 crisis. Mike Rowbottom speaks to those who have been able to do so.
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