China is hoping to compete at weightlifting in the Asian Games, which start in Indonesia this weekend, despite being suspended from the sport until October 20.

Alfons Hörmann, President of the German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB), is considering a German boycott of the European Games 2019 in the Belarus capital of Minsk following recent arrests of journalists there.

Controversial reforms to the Davis Cup will be voted on at a key International Tennis Federation (ITF) meeting in Orlando tomorrow as President David Haggerty continued to lead calls for the sweeping changes to be passed.

Reigning Olympic super heavyweight boxing champion Tony Yoka has failed with his appeal against a one-year ban for missing three drugs tests in a 12-month period.

Polina Kovaleva is free to compete at the 2022 Winter Olympic Games in Beijing after the Russian Cross-Country Skiing Federation reversed its decision to ban her for four years and instead suspended her for 24 months.

The recently concluded European Championships proved "hugely popular” with television audiences, according to the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), with viewers in the ten key European markets tuning in for a total of more than 567 million hours.

A Japanese researcher has warned residents of Tokyo to expect serious overcrowding at railway stations during the Olympic and Paralympic Games, as a second study raised concerns over how the city's network will cope with congestion.

World Curling Federation President Kate Caithness and International Ski Federation (FIS) secretary general Sarah Lewis were both invited by the Beijing Sports University (BSU) to speak to students in Chateauroux.

An investigation has been launched after a 23-year-old Nepalese worker died while working on one of the venues due to be used at the Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup.

Biathletes Ekaterina Beh, Anastasiya Rasskazova and Oksana Moskalenko are all set to switch their nationality from Russia to Ukraine in a bid to improve their chances of success on the international stage.

The Torch Relay for the 2018 Asian Games has continued with the flame travelling from Cianjur to Cipanas.

Mexico will host its first World Curling Federation (WCF) event next year when it stages the organisation's Congress and Annual General Assembly, it has been announced.

A translation service has been launched in Indonesia to help foreign visitors attending the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta and Palembang.

The Government of Indonesia say they are working hard to ensure Jakarta and Palembang will be "haze free" for the duration of the Asian Games, which officially begin this Saturday (August 18).