Olympic champion prevails in clash of Chinese titans at World Table Tennis Championships
By James Crook
May 18 - Olympic champion Li Xiaoxia booked her place in the singles final at the World Table Tennis Championships in Paris after she came out on top against Chinese compatriot and reigning world champion Ding Ning in a repeat of the London 2012 final.
May 18 - Olympic champion Li Xiaoxia booked her place in the singles final at the World Table Tennis Championships in Paris after she came out on top against Chinese compatriot and reigning world champion Ding Ning in a repeat of the London 2012 final.
May 17 - Nintendo and Sega have a new partnerhsip to develop computer game Mario and Sonic for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, it was announced today.
May 13 - A suspension on the Boxing Association of Korea has been been lifted by the International Boxing Association (AIBA) following the election of Yoon Seok Chang as the sport's new President in the country.
May 16 - Australia has appointed Brendan Joyce as the new coach of its women's team to guide them to the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, the first time the job has been a full-time appointment for more than a decade.
May 17 - A meeting next month to let Ireland's cyclists decide whether or not they back Pat McQuaid for a third term as President of the International Cycling Union (UCI) is to go ahead even though he has controversially sidestepped the process.
May 15 - London 2012 bronze medallist Michael Johnson is set to lead the five-member Paralympic New Zealand shooting team at the UK World Cup in July at Stoke Mandeville – the birthplace of the Paralympic Movement.
May 1 - The Lee Valley Regional Park Authority have begun their search for a venue manager to oversee the cycling hub on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford.
May 14 - Channel 4's coverage of the London 2012 Paralympics has earned the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) award for Digital Creativity.
May 18 - Serbia's Nenad Lalovic has been officially elected as the new President of International Federation of Associated Wrestling Styles (FILA), as part of the Extraordinary Congress held today at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Moscow.
May 19 - Iran have cut short a trip to the United States which was supposed to help showcase wrestling's campaign to stay in the Olympics and flown home abruptly.
May 14 - British Cycling has announced the appointment of Tony Purnell as their new head of technical development.
May 18 - Former Danish goalball player Jannie Hammershøi is the first candidate to declare that she will stand to become the new President of the International Blind Sports Federation (IBSA) after Michael Barredo, from the Philippines, announced that he would not seek a third term.
May 17 - Despite the on-going tensions between the two countries, North Korea and South Korea came together in total harmony at the World Table Tennis Championships at the Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy in Paris
May 17 - UK Sport have awarded £1.3 million ($1.8 million/€1.5 million) to the England blind squad and GB Disability Football Association to help them prepare for the 2016 Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro.
May 14 - Denmark will a have golf tournament on the European Tour from 2014 to 2016 in what is a major boost for the country as the sport prepares to gears up to return to the Olympic Games for the first time in over 100 years at Rio 2016.
