Italy will benefit financially if Milan and Cortina D'Ampezzo win the race for the 2026 Winter Olympics and Paralympics, a new survey commissioned by the Government has revealed.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has said that its verdict in the Caster Semenya testosterone case will now not be announced until the end of April.
Xavier Gonzalez has left his role as chief executive of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC), the organisation announced today.
Hamilton appears to be back in the running to host the 2030 Commonwealth Games after Councillors in the Canadian city voted unanimously to weigh up the pros and cons of staging the multi-sport event.
Danish badminton player Joachim Persson has been suspended for 18 months after being found guilty of four violations of the sport's code of conduct in relation to betting and irregular match results.
Fort Lauderdale will host three important events for the Olympic Movement and the development of sport in the Americas this December, Panam Sports has announced.
The International Canoe Federation (ICF) will stage a World Cup in stand-up paddle (SUP) in September as they continue their promotion of the sport.
Chinese Vice-Premier Han Zheng has urged Beijing 2022 organisers to stay committed to delivering a "fantastic, extraordinary and excellent" Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games.
British weightlifter Sonny Webster has been banned for a further three years for operating as a coach while suspended.
This month's Winter Universiade has been given an immediate legacy after the 2020 World Junior Curling Championships were awarded to Krasnoyarsk.
China's Wenjing Sui and Cong Han won pairs gold at the World Figure Skating Championships but the event was overshadowed by a claim that South Korean Lim Eun-soo was deliberately injured by American Mariah Bell.
The winners of this year's Women’s World Cup in France will get prize money of $4 million (£3 million/€3.5 million), just over one-tenth of the $38 million (£28.8 million/€33.5 million) which the French team received for winning last year's men's tournament.
A Street League Skateboarding (SLS) World Tour event will be held in London for the second year running in 2019, it has been announced.
The International Skating Union (ISU) has awarded the 2020 European Short Track Championships to Hungary.
Recently-crowned world champion Anastasiya Kuzmina of Slovakia secured the sprint crystal globe and moved into fourth in the race for the overall title with victory on the opening day of the International Biathlon Union World Cup season finale in Oslo.
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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