by Matthew Smith at the Nippon Budokan in Tokyo
Christian Coleman has claimed he is confident of being cleared at a hearing on September 4 with the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) confirming the American sprinter has been charged with three whereabouts failures.
The medals for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics have been revealed as celebrations were held today marking one-year-to-go.
A plan to restrict use of Tokyo's Metropolitan Expressway during next year's Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo to help ease traffic restrictions based upon the random selection of private vehicle licence plates is set to be scrapped, it has been reported in japan.
The results of an International Cycling Union (UCI) survey on the future of road events has revealed fears over a small number of teams dominating competition.
Nigeria's former long jumper Yussuf Alli has claimed that the African Games are "no longer glamorous" as this year's edition continues in Morocco.
World Sailing has released a video to promote the new mixed two person offshore keelboat event which will debut at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
World Snooker Federation President Jason Ferguson has hailed snooker's debut as a full medal event at the African Games.
An "Impossible to Ignore" campaign has been launched by ParalympicsGB to mark one year until the start of Tokyo 2020.
Daria Bilodid won her second International Judo Federation (IJF) World Championships gold medal by the age of 18 after defeating Funa Tonaki in a repeat of their under-48 kilograms final from 12 months ago.
India's PV Sindhu ended her wait for the women's singles title at the Badminton World Federation World Championships by dominating Japan's Nozomi Okuhara in the final in Basel.
New Zealand's Lisa Carrington claimed her second gold at the International Canoe Federation Canoe Sprint World Championships in Szeged as competition drew to a close.
Madagascar’s Randafiarison Rosina earned weightlifting gold at the African Games in Morocco.
Martin and Valent Sinković of Croatia topped their heat in the men's pairs event on the first day of the World Rowing Championships in Linz Ottensheim in Austria.
Hosts China claimed the final gold medal of the World Taekwondo World Cup Team Championships with victory in the mixed gender competition in Wuxi.
At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Iranian judoka Arash Miresmaeili was disqualified for weighing in at nearly four pounds above the limit for his weight class of his under-66 kilograms match against an Israeli opponent Ehud Vaks in the first round. It was claimed Miresmaeili had gone on an eating binge to protest the International Olympic Committee's recognition of the state of Israel. Iran does not recognise the state of Israel, and Miresmaeili's actions won praise from high-ranking Iranian officials. Mohammad Khatami, the country's President at the time, was quoted as saying Miresmaili's actions would be "recorded in the history of Iranian glories". He was later awarded $125,000 by the Government - the same amount given to Olympic gold medallists.
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All eyes are on Tokyo this week as the World Judo Championships bring the martial art back to the country of its birth. Mike Rowbottom reports as IJF President Marius Vizer makes a return of his own among sport's biggest players.
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