Shinshiro, which is due to host the start and finish of the road cycling races at the Aichi-Nagoya 2026 Asian Games, has launched a campaign to encourage cyclists and motorists to share the road safely.
Former Kazakhstan ice hockey player Yevgeni Pupkov, who represented his country at the 2006 Winter Olympic Games, has died at the age of 45 from coronavirus.
Organisers of the Rugby League World Cup 2021 (RLWC2021) are set to make a call on the tournament's future in the next week.
The International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) has released an updated Code of Points for rhythmic gymnastics.
Fifteen countries are set to compete across three disciplines when the African Sambo Championships begins in Cairo, Egypt tomorrow.
Competition is open for the right to reconstruct the Kalininets sports complex for the Yekaterinburg 2023 Summer World University Games.
The International Mixed Martial Arts (IMMAF) director of regulatory affairs Marc Goddard has predicted mixed martial arts (MMA) is "ready to explode" in France after hosting an officiating course for the French Mixed Martial Arts Federation (FMMAF).
Lee6 Jeong-eun put herself in a strong position to win her second major after a third round of 68 gave her a five-shot advantage going into the final round of the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) Amundi Evian Championship.
A record-equalling low round of 61 helped South Korea’s Lee6 Jeong-eun take a three-shot lead at the halfway point of the Ladies Professional Golf Association Amundi Evian Championship at Evian Resort Golf Club.
Organisers of the Yekaterinburg 2023 Summer World University Games say they are hoping to recruit more than 11,000 people as part of their volunteering programme.
Powerhouses Australia and New Zealand have withdrawn from this year's Rugby League World Cup in England, citing "player welfare and safety concerns" because of COVID-19.
The International Federation of Teqball (FITEQ) has congratulated the participants involved in setting a record for the world’s longest teqball match.
Italy’s Stefano Ghisolfi and Natalia Grossman of the United States are the top seeds for the men’s and women’s lead finals at the last International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC) World Cup, before the sport makes its scheduled Olympics debut at Tokyo 2020.
South Africa’s Louis Oosthuizen holds a one-shot lead heading into the final round of The Open Championship at Royal St George’s after seeing his overnight advantage halved by Collin Morikawa of the United States.
Italy will face Serbia in the final of the International Volleyball Federation Women’s Under-20 World Championship after both sides won their last four encounters in Rotterdam.
Denver were awarded the 1976 Winter Olympic Games ahead of Sion in Switzerland, Tempere in Finland and Vancouver in Canada at the International Olympic Committee Session in 1970. But in a Colorado referendum in November 1972, voters rejected funding for the event. It is the only time a city has been awarded the Olympics but pulled out. The IOC then offered the Games to Whistler in Canada, but they too declined owing to a change of Government following elections. Salt Lake City offered to host the Games, but the IOC, still reeling from the Denver rejection, declined and selected Innsbruck, the 1964 host city, as a replacement.
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