For those who don’t follow American television, one of the best shows in recent years is called Yellowstone. A spinoff, also hugely popular, is called 1923 – it features Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren, and purports to trace the backstory of the Dutton family in Montana roughly 100 years ago.

New South Wales, Queensland and Western Australia's positive experience of hosting the FIFA Women's World Cup in Australia and New Zealand in 2023 has served as an endorsement for their bid to host the competition. In Australia, the aim is to use the event as a catalyst for the growth of the game in the country. The official host cities will be announced in May.

The NY Times and ARD were the first to report on the World Anti-Doping Agency’s alleged mishandling of positive doping tests from Chinese swimmers before Tokyo 2021. Then came harsh pushback by the international governing body. Mounting uproar followed from USADA, Global Athlete and now Germany.

Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin called reports surrounding positive tests for 23 Chinese swimmers ahead of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics "fake news and not factual" on Monday, according to AFP.

Global Athlete, the international athlete-led pressure group, claims the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) "failed to abide by its own rules" by not provisionally suspending 23 Chinese swimmers who tested positive for the banned substance Trimetazidine (TMZ) in early 2021.

Gracenote, Nielsen's content solutions business unit, has projected the top 10 nations in the medal table for Paris 2024 with the Games hosts expected to finish third behind the two Olympic superpowers.

Despite his most recent and high-profile gambling scandal,Shohei Ohtani topped Hideki Matsui with his 176th Big League home run on Sunday and is now the sole leader among Japanese players. The Dodgers superstar had tied the previous total from the Yankees legend a week ago.

World number one Novak Djokovic misses the Masters 1000 tournament for the third time in four years. His old rival Rafael Nadal will begin his campaign against 16-year-old American Darwin Blanch.

Britain’s Kerenza Bryson built on her best-ever fencing performance to clinch the second UIPM World Cup win of her career in the Turkish capital with Seo Chang-wan securing men's gold.

The Ugandan Olympic Committee (UOC) says it is ready for this summer's Olympic Games with a record medal haul expected. The UOC launched its road map to Paris 2024 last week in an event attended by France's ambassador to Uganda, Xavier Sticker.

After a week of competition in Durban, the tournament came to a close on Sunday with boxers from DR Congo claiming 10 titles on finals day. IBA and the Thembekile Mandela Foundation also signed a Memorandum of Understanding in order to develop young people's talents.

Two athletes alongside Bajrang Punia and Sakhshi Malik were protesting against former president of Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) president Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, who was accused of sexually harassing six female wrestlers. 

After UWW lifted the ban from WFI, the ad-hoc committee organised Olympic trials in March, and Vinesh and Anshu earned their places in the National team, while Bajrang failed to reach the finals.

All Europe Taekwon-do Federation (AETF) Secretary General Yavor Tasev spoke exclusively to Inside The Games at the European Taekwon-Do Championships in Lublin, Poland, which featured pre-juniors for the first time.