Former United States Olympic Committee’s (USOC) director Dr Peter Vint has been appointed as and academy director at English Premier League football club Everton.

swimming, athletics, shooting, equestrian, and weightlifting.Those sports went on to win 64 Olympics medals

112 seasons.They have won a number of major honours, including the League Championship nine times and

Wayne Rooney, who left the club in 2004 to join Premier League rivals Manchester United for a then record

transfer fee of £25.6 million ($37.8 million/€34.8 million)He has since gone onto become England's record

have secured a person with the experience of Peter, someone who has always had a meticulous focus on all

“Race”, the film based on the life of athletics legend Jesse Owens, is garnering increasing levels of publicity ahead of its official launch date of February 19.

William Hurt.This week another of Owens’s daughters – Marlene Owens Rankin – has spoken up, telling The Times

irony of Owens’s historic performance at the 1936 Berlin Olympics - where he managed to win four gold medals

Owens ©Focus FeaturesIn winning the first of his four golds, the 100m, Owens equalled the Olympic record

long jump qualifying distance was 7.15 metres - no cause for concern for Owens, who held the world record

You can melt down all the medals and cups I have," Owens wrote.

Thailand propelled themselves back to the top of the medal standings at the ASEAN Para Games in Singapore after claiming gold medal sweeps in archery, shooting and boccia today.

the gold medal in the R4 10 metres air rifle standing mixed SH2 event, ensuring a clean sweep of all

Chaichamnan edged Indonesia’s Bolo Triyanto to the top spot, setting a Games record with a score of

and nine of the 12 medals overall.Thailand ensured a clean sweep of the shooting gold medals today ©

classification with her latest triumphs coming in the women’s 50m freestyle and 100m backstroke in times

for her in all. 

Three-time Olympic champion Martina Sábliková continued her superb start to the International Skating Union (ISU) World Cup Speed Skating season as the Czech Republic skater claimed women’s 3,000 metres gold in Inzell, Germany.

The 28-year-old had won gold medals at the Calgary and Salt Lake City World Cups in the longer distance

on the podium by American rivals Brittany Bowe and Heather Richardson-Bergsma after they recorded times

even closer with Poland’s Artur Was, Canada’s Laurent Dubreuil and The Netherlands’ Hein Otterspeer all

world speed skating recordNovember 2015: Russian returns from drugs ban to set world speed skating record

in CalgaryNovember 2015: Richardson-Bergsma breaks world record to beat team-mate Bowe to World Cup

The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) today claimed it was not "complacent about doping" and it was a "pioneer" in the fight against blood doping as its President Sebastian Coe prepared to face British politicians about the problems of performance-enhancing drugs in the sport.

"When all of the necessary information is considered, however there are clearly plausible explanations

Radcliffe's urine samples for rEPO, and her blood samples for evidence of blood transfusions, and all

ARD and The Sunday Times reported that a total of 146 medals, including 55 golds, in events ranging from

The Sunday Times also claimed the London Marathon was won seven times in 12 years by athletes suspected

"Instead it has both a right and an obligation to set the record straight."

South Africa’s Chad le Clos claimed a hat-trick of gold medals on the opening day of the International

time of 2:10.22, followed by the US’s Caitlin Leverenz and then Japan’s Sakiko Shimizu.It wasn’t all

the women’s 200m backstroke.Australia’s Emily Seebohm came out on top in both events, registering times

were distributed in all, South Africa’s Cameron van der Burgh continued his domination of the sprint

second and Japan’s Keita Sunama in third.Related storiesOctober 2015: Ikee clocks second world junior record

World Cup event in styleOctober 2015: Japanese swimmer sets FINA World Cup alight with world junior record

name into the history books at the Artistic Gymnastics World Championships once again by securing a record-breaking

The 18-year-old, winner of a record third consecutive all-around title on Thursday (October 29), produced

most favoured discipline saw her become the first female gymnast to win 10 World Championships gold medals

, overtaking Russia’s Svetlana Khorkina, Gina Gogean of Romania and Ukrainian Larisa Latynina, all

The highlight of these Championships is my beam - if I was told that I would be two-times world champion

ImagesThe competition in Glasgow concluded in fitting fashion as Japan’s Kohei Uchimura, who broke his own record

The world’s top squash players must feel they are beating their heads against a wall - which of course is precisely what they do with the ball.

with just 64 athletes, two competition courts that can be built in days and we have a great track record

There would, certainly, be a few more medals for Great Britain, too, as we are quite nifty at the game.Just

“Squash is growing all over the world, and we owe it to the future of our sport to get that Olympic

“There have been so many times in the past that we’ve got our hopes up.

Reigning Paralympic T42 100 metres champion Martina Caironi headlines a 13-strong Italian squad for the upcoming International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Athletics World Championships in Doha, which was announced today by the Italian Federation of Paralympic and Experimental Sports.

Caironi, who has enjoyed a superb year so far after she broke the 200m world record three times in the

to participate.The Italian team at the IPC Athletics World Championships will be captained by seven-times

Monica Contrafatto, who will compete in the 100m T42 race.The Italian team will be captained by seven-times

Korean capital Seoul.Veteran De Vidi, who claimed four golds at Sydney 2000, also secured two bronze medals

ChampionshipsOctober 2015: South Africa names 23-strong team for IPC Athletics World ChampionshipsSeptember 2015: All

of Athletics Federations (IAAF) President Sebastian Coe has come out in support of world marathon record

are the latest development following German television station ARD and British newspaper The Sunday Times

from as many as 800 athletes despite suspicions that blood doping had occurred.They claim a third of medals

2012 were reportedly won by athletes who submitted such samples.In her statement Radcliffe claimed all

samples, which have led to her name being on their database of names given to ARD and The Sunday Times

2015: Mike Rowbottom: Paula Radcliffe - a clean athlete in a muddy worldSeptember 2015: Marathon world record

There is a cruel irony in the fact that an investigation alleging widespread doping abuse in athletics, prompted at least in part by laudable motives, should have turned into a story about an athlete who is innocent of any such charge.

“In all of these three cases referred to by the Sunday Times (as well as on many more occasions) I

or races, including all my appearances at the London Marathon.”Really, this is all that need be said

just one letter.The high point - Paula Radcliffe sets the world record which stands today in winning

The world marathon record holder refers in her statement to  how she “wrestled long and hard with a

2001 IAAF World Championships in Edmonton as an Ethiopian trio headed by Derartu Tulu take the 10,000m medals

Boxing has been getting short shrift in the public prints of late. Are sports editors giving it the elbow?

been going on in the pro game, the fact that GB had its best-ever European Championships, with six medals

call them that) in the European Championships was grossly underplayed despite the annexing of six medals

in Boxercise, to improve their fitness, which has to be good for the well-being of the nation in times

already qualified for the world championships, along with those who medalled in Bulgaria, is already on record

Some 80,000 saw the 2014 re-match between Carl Froch and Groves at Wembley Stadium, a post-war record

Is Brendan Foster right when he says that Mo Farah is now the greatest-ever British sportsman?

His name remains synonymous with English football throughout the world.I have lost count of the times

Incidentally the simple spikes worn by Sir Roger, CBE, now 86, when he broke the record at Oxford’s Iffley

the track when asked about Farah’s worthiness to be called The Greatest.He says: “If you look at the medals

“But then there are other things that you need to throw into the balance: world records, times, speeds

, all those sort of things.

So Victoria Pendleton now has another silver medal to add to her collection – albeit that this one came saddled on a horse rather than a bike.

the privileged glimpse of the working practices of the man who has moulded the minds of Britain’s all-conquering

cyclists over the last decade, Dr Steve Peters.Pendleton and six-times Olympic champion Chris Hoy are

"He has gone on record as saying his achievements are all about 'boxing the chimp'.

You’ve won your medals. You’ve had the open top bus parades.

On the day when Liu Hong duly delivered the host nation its first gold of the World Athletics Championships in today’s women’s 20 kilometres race walk, with team-mate Xiuzhi Lu adding silver, Dafne Schippers of The Netherlands became the first European winner of the world 200 metres title since 2003.

and bronze in, respectively, a personal best of 21.66 and 21.97.Schippers now stands third on the all-time

persistent rumour regarding doping, and fellow American Marion Jones, 21.62A, who was stripped of five medals

I do all the dope controls - I mean, what more can I say about that?"

from her exertions.All three medallists surpassed the fastest time of the year, 21.98, set by three-times

I felt the responsibility, the mission,” said Liu.The result lifted China to seventh in the overall medals