Finland's three-time International Biathlon Union (IBU) World Cup winner Kaisa Mäkäräinen has hung up her skis after years of deliberation.

, the Finn, who became a world champion in 2011 in the 10-kilometre pursuit, retires with six world medals

Cups, with her last one coming in the 2017-2018 season.She also made the overall podium a further two times

, with a record of five in the last decade.Mäkäräinen made the announcement on Instagram, with the final

to safety measures put in place by the Finnish government amid the COVID-19 pandemic.She added: "I'm all

Today I'll enjoy my last World Cup race with a full heart with all my wonderful colleagues."

The plethora of comment, support, celebration and information marking yesterday’s International Women’s Day included, as one would expect, a huge amount of material in the sporting realm.

had been campaigning long and hard to get Women’s Pentathlon into the Olympics, and I think we were all

, certificates or an asterisk in the record book.But the IOC Executive Board announced it would not be

Francois Carrard, the IOC's director general.Australian board member Kevan Gosper told the New York Times

You do wonder if things in your life might have been different if all this had come to light nearer the

of East German success was the doubt that had been raised about performances of other nations, not all

Forty years ago yesterday, a 21-year-old American sat in the stands at the Field House International Ice Rink in Lake Placid watching the United States ice hockey team achieve what would forever after be known as the 'Miracle on Ice' by defeating the Soviet favourites at the 1980 Winter Olympics.

and became the first - and thus far only - athlete to bring home five individual gold medals in a single

Chronicle:"To come back each time for five races with your head together, to step out on the ice five times

US Olympian Bill Rodgers, who won the New York and Boston marathons four times each, commented in the

What he accomplished will never be done again, period," said five-times Olympic speed skating gold medallist

Bonnie Blair, who won her medals over the span of three Olympics in 1988, 1992 and 1994.Meanwhile, Heiden

French star Martin Fourcade equalled the all-time record for individual Biathlon World Championships

The five-times Olympic champion produced a dominant display to move level with Norwegian legend Ole Einar

whose only blemish was a failure to hit the last of 20 targets.Fourcade's victory saw him equal the all-time

World Championships record and ended a barren run at the event, which stretches back three years.He

has now won 27 World Championships medals, including bronze in the 10km sprint in the Italian resort

coaches the Chinese national team, if he triumphs in the mass start on Sunday (February 23).The five-times

The Laureus World Sportsman of the Year award has been shared for the first time, with Lewis Hamilton and Lionel Messi the recipients, while Simone Biles has won the women's award for the third time in four years.

Biles, the 22-year-old American gymnast many already view as the greatest of all time, won five gold

medals at the 2019 World Championships.She has 25 World medals in total now, the most in history, and

only Serena Williams has won this award more times than Biles.Messi won the Ballon d'Or for a record

he won his sixth Formula One title.That takes the Briton just one behind Michael Schumacher on the all-time

celebrating a 20th anniversary and held in the  German capital Berlin.Simone Biles won five gold medals

Australia added more medals to their tally on day two of the first World Para Swimming Series as the

 Crothers also won the 100m yesterday, narrowly missing the world record for his classification.

sure how that 50m went and I won’t know until I speak to my coach and he tells me, because really the times

Dedekind would be a fair distance behind with 836 points for silver and Katherine Downie ensured it was an all-Australian

A stirring rendition of La Marseillaise sent a happy French crowd into the evening Paris rain on a high dreaming of Olympic success after Clarisse Agbegnenou defeated one of her main rivals for Tokyo 2020 gold, Nami Nabekura, to win the women's under-63 kilograms at the International Judo Federation (IJF) Grand Slam here tonight.

The 27-year-old Frenchwoman, a four-times world champion, rode the waves of "Clarisse, Clarisse" sweeping

 It meant Bilodid keeps her remarkable record of having faced Japanese opponents nine times and

two countered a modified kata-guruma with te-waza for a waza-ari score with 40 seconds remaining to record

December.The first bronze medal was won by Mongolia's Tsogtbaatar Tsend-Ochir, who beat Japan's three-times

Olympic over-100kg gold medallist Teddy Riner follow Agbegnenou and deliver a French victory.Watch all

A remarkable performance by the 20-year-old super-heavyweight Ali Davoudi has brightened Iran’s prospects of making the weightlifting podium at Tokyo 2020.

Games as one of Iran's weightlifters © Getty ImagesWith Rostami, the 85kg champion in Rio, failing with all

levels in both those competitions to make it – but he is the world record holder in snatch and total

and training programmes under doctors and coaches” and would definitely compete in Dubai.Rostami is all

the competition saw Kianoush easily lift 170kg in the warm-up hall but he dropped the weights three times

371kg.Another Iranian contender for Tokyo, Ali Hashemi, won the 109kg with 388kg.Three Indonesian lifters won medals

Russia took three of the six gold medals on the first day of the Para Nordic Skiing World Cup event in

Finsterau in Germany. with half of the 18 medals won on the day going to the nation.

of the year with gold in the men’s sprint, in a time of 18 min, 24.7 seconds.The Russian had a clean record

podium, finishing forty seconds behinds Davidovich with a perfect record ahead of Danila Britik, who

standings.The bronze medallist Grygorii Vovchynskyi came in behind nearly 90 seconds afterwards in the times

, holding a perfect shooting record to finish ahead of Norway’s Nils-Erik Ulset.Behind Lekomtsev in the

standings is Ihor Reptyukh, who only managed fifth.In the women’s event, Ukraine dominated, taking all

The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) has complained of "bias and a sensationalist style" by makers of a television documentary in a 20-page document that was presented to its Executive Board before Tamás Aján stepped aside as President of the governing body last week.

false.It was read out page by page before the IWF Executive Board’s discussions began in earnest.Not all

2017 and 2019.The ARD team interviewed Lidia Valentin, the Spanish lifter who won three Olympic medals

Russia but states that Valentin’s rival athletes from Belarus and Kazakhstan had been tested three times

in 2012 and a rival from Kazakhstan had been tested more times than her in 2015.The IWF is concerned

TV documentary and Olympic Games doping violations, the athletes - including super-heavyweight world record

Japan, Bahrain and South Korea completed the semi-final line-up at the Asian Men's Handball Championship as group play concluded in Kuwait.

finishes in the last five tournaments.Their run of being the event's nearly men has included losing all

as they prevailed by a margin of just two goals.Record winners South Korea have won the event nine times

but not since 2012.Iran have never won the event, with their best finish the bronze medals in 2014.Holders

already qualified for the semi-finals with a game to spare, ensured they won Group Two with a perfect record

The semi-finals are due to be played on Saturday (January 25) before the final on Monday (January 27).All

A good signifier of the state of British sport is the annual BBC Sports Personality of the Year Awards. 

 All of those nominated - Stokes, Dina Asher-Smith, Katerina Johnson-Thompson, Lewis Hamilton, Alun

Alice Tai has had a stunning year, breaking multiple world records and claiming seven gold medals at

She was also announced as The Sunday Times Disability Sportswoman of the Year.Alice Tai claimed seven

gold medals at the World Para Swimming Championships in London ©Getty ImagesFellow swimmer Adam Peaty

 There, he broke his own world record in the semi-final of the 100 metres breaststroke with a time

In 1958, while on a golfing holiday in Cuba, Johnny Weissmuller ran into a serious problem. A group of rebel soldiers involved in the Cuban Revolution who were threatening to kidnap him and his US companions.

announced that its most decorated member was giving up as an Olympic swimmer, having earned five gold medals

as a 15-year-old and won the Mr Universe title aged 20, going on to win the Mr Olympia contest seven times

star for five consecutive years from 1978 to 1982 in the annual Top Ten Money Making Stars Poll, a record

of them, with four knock-outs and two draws.But Rourke had started as a boxer, establishing a 27-3 record

hugely well-known operators.Michael Jordan, considered by many as the greatest basketball player of all

On December 1, 2006 the French sport newspaper L”Equipe arranged a reunion for the three marathon medallists from the Melbourne Olympic Games on the 50th anniversary of their race.

I won four Olympic medals while I was living in a small, two-room apartment without heating, shower and

London 1948, with French rival Alain Mimoun in silver medal position ©Getty ImagesThe first of those medals

He said afterwards that at this most difficult stage of the race he had thought back to all he had endured

"I look at my career as a castle: my London silver medal is the foundation, my two Helsinki silver medals

gorged myself on 40 km a day for two years, without telling a soul," he said,"He would train three times

In July this year two freestyle swimming medallists at the World Aquatics Championships refused to stand on the podium alongside the multiple champion Sun Yang, of China, because they regard him as a cheat.

are surrounded by cheats.Of the 10 female winners since 2009 only three have an unblemished doping record

Nothing will give us back what we all lost…but my medals have a bigger meaning."

 "As a National Federation with a strong record in anti-doping, we have serious reservations about

Championships to June 2016 when his retrospective positives were announced, Ilyin competed a total of four times

only because of an administrative oversight regarding his two violations - he has competed as many times