Urs Scholl, President of the Zug Organising Committee for Lucerne 2021, is hopeful the Bossard Arena stands will be full when it stages ice hockey matches at this year's Winter Universiade.
Britain’s back-to-back Olympic champion Helen Glover made a successful return to the water as she booked her place in the women’s pair final at the European Rowing Championships in Varese in Italy.
France’s Marie Oteiza captured gold in the women’s final at the International Modern Pentathlon Union (UIPM) World Cup in Bulgarian capital Sofia.
Budapest in Hungary is set to stage the second leg of the Artistic Swimming World Series and first in-person meet of the season after February's virtual event.
The Professional Squash Association (PSA) has pushed the Manchester Open back by two months to enable health authorities to "find a solution" to the England's contact-tracing system, which it claims could "severely affect" major sporting events.
USA Bobsled and Skeleton (USABS) has announced a new one-year partnership with hose manufacturer and distributer Kuriyama.
World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) vice-president Beatrice Allen insists the organisation must "double down" on its efforts to make the two sports "more accessible than ever before" in response to the coronavirus crisis.
A number of Britain’s leading sports governing bodies have united behind plans for "vaccine passports" to be used to enable fans to return to venues this year.
World Table Tennis (WTT) has announced plans to stage the "China Hub" after this year’s rescheduled Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, claiming it is the "fairest and safety decision" for players.
Canadian Jessica Zi Jia Guo struck gold in the women’s individual cadet foil event to claim her second medal of the Junior and Cadet World Fencing Championships in Egyptian capital Cairo.
Tadej Pogačar pipped Slovenian rival and overall race leader Primož Roglič to win stage three of the Tour of the Basque Country.
Olympic decathlon gold medallist and reality television star Caitlyn Jenner is reportedly considering entering the race to become the next Governor of California.
Bulgarian capital Sofia is poised to stage the European Taekwondo Championships, where athletes will get the chance to find their form ahead of the continent's qualifier for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.
USA Bobsled and Skeleton (USABS) has teamed up with athlete-exposure platform GMTM.com to unearth the "next generation of sliders".
The Global Association of International Sports Federations (GAISF) has launched a content-sharing partnership with online platform sportanddev in a bid to promote its members' sustainable development initiatives.
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.
Commonwealth Games Federation - Sport Manager - London, United Kingdom
The Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) is the international governing body that oversees the quadrennial Commonwealth Games and Commonwealth Youth Games. The CGF is a small passionate team, wholeheartedly committed to its vision, mission and values. Based in our central London headquarters and reporting to the CGF’s Sports Director, this role will play a key role within the team, providing operational and strategic support across all areas of the sport programme, including bespoke projects and events.
Tributes from across sport have been paid following the death of Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, at the age of 99. Philip Barker recalls the Prince's deep connection to sport and his influence on it.
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