Klaus Leistner has ended his 15-year spell as a member of the International Biathlon Union (IBU) Executive Board and stepped down as treasurer with immediate effect.

A former top-level Australian swimming coach accused of historical child abuse has been remanded in custody until next month.

A Russian weightlifter has been provisionally suspended after being charged with doping offences nine years apart and will miss the 2021 International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) World Championships in Uzbekistan in December.

The President of the International Boxing Association (AIBA) Umar Kremlev has met with the referees and judges who will be part of the AIBA Men's World Boxing Championships here in Belgrade, pledging fights will be fair at the tournament.

The Beijing Marathon has been postponed amid a surge in COVID-19 cases as China aims to stamp out the outbreak prior to the 2022 Winter Olympic Games in the capital.

Olympic gold medallist Ilya Kovalchuk will join the Russian men's national ice hockey team as general manager at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games.

Germany dominated day one of the Beijing 2022 Olympic test event at the Yanqing National Sliding Center, winning all four disciplines as the newly constructed venue held its first international competition.

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) International Conference against Doping in Sport is to meet in Paris tomorrow for the eighth session of its Conference of Parties (COP8).

Baseball5 is poised to feature at the next African Beach Games after the Executive Committee of the Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa (ANOCA) endorsed it being added as a full medal event.

Tributes have been paid to former world luge champion and Olympic silver medallist Sergey Danilin of Russia after his death at the age of 61.

The first six netball teams to have qualified for the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games have been confirmed, and represent four continents.

The Bahrain Olympic Committee (BOC) has signed various cooperation agreements with National Olympic Committees from around the world in Athens, prior to the Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC) General Assembly.

Tlali Rampoona has been elected as the Lesotho National Olympic Committee's (LNOC) new President.

France's Minister for Sports Roxana Mărăcineanu has launched French Sport Internationally, a new Government arm of international sports, prior to the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games.