2021 Vuelta a España is set to become the first Grand Tour event on the International Cycling Union (UCI) WorldTour to use a water dispenser model that will enable a move away from single-use plastic bottles.
The National Basketball Association (NBA) is to launch a series of initiatives to celebrate its 75th anniversary season in 2021-2022, including honouring the 75 greatest players in its history.
The United States claimed a thrilling victory in the FIBA 3x3 Women's Series Klaipeda Stop in Lithuania to win its first tournament in nine appearances.
Monday and Tuesday's (August 2 and 3) Suncorp Super Netball League (SSN) fixtures will run under strict COVID-19 protocols next week to enable matches to take place in the southeast of Queensland state after a snap lockdown was imposed.
The 2021 United States of America (USA) Bobsled Push Championships concluded on July 31 with Sylvia Hoffman, Frank Del Duca, Charlie Volker and Elana Meyers Taylor ending victorious in Lake Placid.
The USA Luge Slider Search has added three more stops in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Utah during the autumn months, as the recruitment event attempts to attract young people to the sport.
Kazakhstan President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev met with the country's record 25-strong team for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics, which was officially unveiled at the Akorda, the Presidential Palace.
Alexandra Kosteniuk has taken the lead in an all-Russian Women's Chess World Cup final in Sochi, winning game one against top seed Aleksandra Goryachkina.
Russia won seven under-18 gold medals on the final day of the International Mixed Martial Arts Federation (IMMAF) Youth MMA World Championships, as Ukraine finished top of the medal table with 17 world titles won over three days of action in Bulgarian capital Sofia.
Germany won both the men's and women's under-18 Fistball World Championships in Grieskirchen today, capping a perfect weekend for the country.
Two Georgian judoka who won silver medals at the delayed Tokyo 2020 Olympics here were told to leave the Games after breaking COVID-19 rules by going sightseeing, it has emerged.
International Olympic Committee (IOC) medical and scientific director Richard Budgett has acknowledged current guidelines around transgender athletes are no longer fit for purpose, with the organisation set to publish an updated framework to guide International Federations in devising their own rules.
Athleten Deutschland has slammed the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for allowing athletes to spend their quarantine period in "prison-like conditions" at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics here.
Nigerian sprinter Blessing Okagbare has been provisionally suspended and will miss the remainder of Tokyo 2020 after testing positive for human growth hormone.
An anti-doping agreement has been concluded prior to next month’s Paralympic Games here, it has been announced.
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.
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