Replays of the 2019 finals are in store at the European Sitting Volleyball Championships, as defending champions Russia and the respective runners-up two years ago reached the men's and women's gold-medal matches.

Second seed Paul Coll defeated Mostafa Asal at the Qatar Classic to set up a final showdown with Diego Elias, who will be playing in one of the biggest matches of his career.

New dates for the International Wheelchair Basketball Federation (IWBF) Men's Under-23 World Championship have been confirmed by organisers in Japan.

Mahjabin Hakimi, a member of the Afghanistan women's youth volleyball team, has reportedly been beheaded by the Taliban in the country's capital of Kabul because of its objection to women's sport.

Alexander Ratner is the new President of the European Shooting Confederation (ESC) after receiving just shy of 55 per cent of votes in a straight shootout with Luciano Rossi.

A plot to kill world bronze medallist Agnes Tirop could have been hatched during the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, after it was found that most of her property had changed ownership while she was competing in the Japanese capital.

The flexible sports programme outlined in the Strategic Roadmap approved by the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) General Assembly earlier this month has been described as "a really positive step towards New Zealand hosting another Commonwealth Games" by the nation's Commonwealth Games Association (CGA) President.

UK Athletics chief executive Joanna Coates and performance director Sara Symington have both resigned from their roles.

The Boston Celtics' first game of the National Basketball Association (NBA) season was taken off Chinese streaming service Tencent Sports hours after centre Enes Kanter criticised China's President Xi Jinping and backed Tibetan independence.

The International Boxing Association (AIBA) has pledged to support Russian boxer Ilya Medvedev in his recovery from a bear attack.

A 10-athlete shortlist for World Athletics' Male World Athlete of the Year award has been announced - headlined by Karsten Warholm and Ryan Crouser, who both set new world records in 2021.

Olympic boxing champion Paul Gonzales has been sentenced to three years and four months in state prison, and ordered to register as a sex offender for life, after pleading no contest to two molestation charges.

The Birmingham 2022 Queen's Baton Relay has arrived in The Gambia, two weeks after departing Buckingham Palace in London.

The International Hockey Federation has extended its long-running partnership with sport surfaces company Polytan until 2024.