Venezuela have been forced to call upon emergency replacements for the Copa América after being hit by a COVID-19 outbreak before their opening match against hosts Brazil.

Mohamed Abdul Sattar has been elected President of the Maldives Olympic Committee (MOC) after seeing off rival Moosa Nashid in the vote at the organisation's Extraordinary General Assembly.

NBCUniversal (NBCU) has announced that it plans to broadcast more than 7,000 hours of content on several channels during the rearranged Olympic Games in Tokyo - its most ever.

Britain will not set a medal target for the rearranged Olympic Games in Tokyo due to the problems caused in preparation by the COVID-19 pandemic, Team GB’s Chef de Mission Mark England has revealed.

India's 1951 Asian Games marathon bronze medal winner and 1952 Olympian Surat Singh Mathur has died aged 90.

Paralympic powerlifting champion and record holder Roland Ezuruike has been hit with an 18-month ban for committing an anti-doping rule violation, it has been announced.

Swimmer Mack Horton has agonisingly missed out on the chance to defend his Olympic title after failing to make the Australian squad for Tokyo 2020.

The World Association of Kickboxing Organizations (WAKO) President Roy Baker has vowed to "raise the bar" after being recommended for full International Olympic Committee (IOC) recognition.

World Athletics President Sebastian Coe has hailed the news that parkrun is set to return in more than 500 locations in England on June 26 after several local authorities gave the popular fun runs a green light.

The Trinidad and Tobago Olympic Committee (TTOC) has vowed to continue collaboration with Ōsaki, despite the Japanese town cancelling a pre-Olympics training camp, and is focused on ensuring bio-security ahead of the Games.

The International Judo Federation's (IJF) IT partner for the World Championships, Huawei, has awarded wearable devices to all medallists at the competition, which is set to conclude today in Budapest.

Argentina's match against Venezuela at the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) Women's AmeriCup in Puerto Rico has been postponed due to "inconclusive" COVID-19 test results in the team's camp.

Major sports brand Nike is among eight companies to have signed sponsorships deals amounting to €2.7 million (£2.3 million/$3.3 million) with the Estonian Olympic Committee (EOK), it has been announced.

The European University Sports Association (EUSA) has helped hold another workshop as part of the Innovating Football Leadership through Practice and Policy (iFlipp) project.