Brian McKeever won a record-equalling 16th men's Winter Paralympic gold medal in the middle-distance

kilometres.McKeever now has the chance to become the outright leader in men's Winter Paralympic gold medals

in tomorrow's relay events.The 42-year-old has won his gold medals across a span of 20 years, with the

Paralympic medal, a gold in the men’s visually impaired middle distance cross-country eventHe ties the record

for most decorated male Winter Paralympian of all time with 16 gold medals ?

Masters of the United States had to settle for cross-country silver once again.The pair registered times

Olympic silver medallist Robbie Brightwell, one half of British athletics' "golden couple", has died at the age of 82, it has been announced.

Fortunately, Packer heeded the advice and raced to victory in a world record time of 2min 01.1sec and

In some ways it pre-empted Seb Coe and others if you look at their intermediate times."

Robbie Brightwell and Ann Packer were Britain's golden couple after winning Olympic medals at Tokyo 1964

he played in Packer’s career, rather his own achievements, which were considerable.He had won gold medals

in the Turkish Airlines Flight 981 crash near Paris in 1974.At the time of the disaster, which saw all

There are not many Commonwealth Games countries where French is the first language.

- all of those things.

, all in weightlifting.They have only claimed one more title since then, and also have 10 silver medals

 Françoise Mbango Etone won two Olympic gold medals for Cameroon in triple jump ©Getty Images"We're

in Italy.Then aged 38, Milla was always named as a substitute but came off the bench to score four times

made a dream run to the quarter-finals.At the 1994 World Cup in the United States, Milla broke his own record

Olympic champions Nils van der Poel and Irene Schouten were crowned all-around champions as the World

needing to beat Roest by 21.7 seconds in the longer 10,000m event.He stormed to victory in a track record

the women’s event for the first time in her career, adding the world title to the three Olympic gold medals

title.The final standings saw Schouten end on 158.974 to claim the all-around crown, with Takagi second

.The Netherlands’ Antoinette de Jong completed the top three on 159.798.De Jong has won bronze four times

in the all-around event, with the 26-year-old having now finished third at the last three editions of

The Netherlands and Norway earned team sprint titles as the World Speed Skating Championships continued in Hamar.

pic.twitter.com/Wn4p0uu4FW— ISU Speed Skating (@ISU_Speed) March 5, 2022The first of two days of individual all-around

ISU_Speed) March 5, 2022Takagi was fifth in the women’s 3,000m race, 4.73 seconds down on the track record

time of 3:58.00 set by Irene Schouten.Schouten, who won three gold medals at Beijing 2022, was nearly

down, followed by Ragne Wiklund of Norway and the Czech Republic’s Martina Sáblíková who finished in times

It was to be expected that the Paralympic Opening Ceremony would be superbly executed not least because it was masterminded by Zhang Yimou, the supremo behind Beijing's Olympic extravaganzas in 2008 and last month.

had been carried by Paralympic badminton gold medallist Liu Yutong, javelin champion Yao Juan, six-times

greater knowledge of the barriers and discrimination persons with disabilities face on a daily basis at all

champions included alpine skier Liu Sintong,sprinter Wen Xiaoyan who took her Paralympic haul to five gold medals

Liu Cuiqing shooting gold medallist Dong Chao and 2012 sitting volleyball champion Tang Xuemei.They all

triple jump gold medallist Li Duan.For Li it was an emotional return to the stadium where he set a world record

The Malaysian Hockey Confederation has decided against sending their men’s and women’s teams to the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, opting to focus on the Hangzhou 2022 Asian Games instead.

for the Asian Games before making the decision," Slevaraj, was quoted as saying by the New Straits Times

schedule is currently being "finalised" and will be unveiled soon.The Australian men’s team has won all

six gold medals since hockey became a part of the Commonwealth Games programme in 1998.The Australian

women’s team also holds the record for the number of most golds with four while India and defending

The two-day 2022 World Athletics Race Walking Team Championships, moved from Minsk in Belarus last June amidst concerns over political unrest, start in the Oman capital of Muscat tomorrow, showcasing the new distance of 35 kilometres.

sprint for the line by Zhaxi Yangben just four seconds behind.Zhenhao Wang, Lu Ning and Gao Yingchao all

went sub-2:33 in the same race, and the only race walker from outside Spain and China in the top 11 times

favoured to dominate tomorrow’s women’s 20km race given that its athletes have recorded the top-five times

this year, and in Yang Jiayu they boast the world record-holder who recorded a time of 1hr 23min 49sec

in all colours, four more than nearest challengers, Japan.

Sir Jason Kenny, who has won a British record of seven Olympic gold medals, has become sprint coach for

already begun working on preparations for the Paris 2024 Olympics, where Britain will seek to continue a record

titles.Sir Jason Kenny has retied following a competitive cycling career which included seven Olympic gold medals

impossible to comprehend the level of talent, dedication and resilience needed to top the podium seven times

February 25, 2022"In many ways Jason’s final race, the Tokyo keirin, was the perfect embodiment of all

has made a magnificent contribution to our team, and I’m thrilled that we’ve been able to hold on to all

The look of shock on the face of home sprinter Ewa Swoboda said everything about the magnitude of her achievement in Toruń tonight as she beat Jamaica’s Olympic 100 and 200 metres champion Elaine Thompson-Herah over 60m in the concluding event of the Copernicus Cup.

The 24-year-old Pole, who has European indoor gold and silver medals over 60m, got away to her usual

the end it was Swoboda who crossed first in 7.03sec - just 0.03 off the season's best and national record

nevertheless got up to win.Elliot Giles, running on the track where he set the second-fastest 800m of all

3:54.77 to lead an Ethiopian 1-2-3-4-5 in the 1500m, less than two seconds off her own world indoor record

Lamecha Girma from his Ethiopian compatriot, Olympic 10,000m champion Selemon Barega, with respective times

Japan's figure skating superstar Yuzuru Hanyu, whose ambition of winning a third consecutive Olympic title in Beijing was undermined by an ankle injury and a freak fault in the ice, is undecided about taking part in next month’s World Championships.

World Championships in Montpellier ©Getty ImagesHanyu, who at that point held the short programme world record

the first to have a quad axel attempt officially recorded as such.But he finished one place off the medals

I've packed lots of stuff in there and can't describe it all...

of me being successful from winning in Sochi and Pyeongchang, but I have also hit rock bottom many times

Having become an adult, I've realised that life isn't all about being rewarded and I'm happy with this

A tearful Kamila Valieva recorded the highest score in the women’s short programme event one day after being cleared to compete amid an ongoing doping case, as the most controversial event of the 2022 Winter Olympics began.

grandfather's medication had led to her positive test for the banned substance trimetazidine.The world record

scored 79.84, ending 5.24 clear of the ROC’s third skater Alexandra Trusova.The three ROC skaters are all

Karen Chen claimed afterwards that the distraction of the Valieva situation had been "overwhelming at times

programme beginning a spectacle likely to last several months, to discover where potentially two sets of medals

were awarded.Bangkok hosted the Asian Games for the first of four times in 1966 ©OCA Back To TimelineBangkok

time.The Azadi Sport Complex was purposely built for the Games, which saw Iran’s capital play host to a record

world records - six in archery and one in cycling - and 89 Asian records were broken, while one world record

from 44 countries competed in 38 sports.It was the first time in the history of the Asian Games that all

the second city in West Asia, following Tehran in 1974, to host the Games.It was the first time that all

Qatar won the Asian Men's Handball Championship for the fifth time in a row, beating Bahrain in the gold-medal match in Dammam in Saudi Arabia.

The defending champions won an enthralling match 29-24 to equal South Korea's record of five straight

hold off their opponents and secure the title at the Ministry of Sports Hall.Bahrain have now lost all

five finals that they have appeared in, matching Japan's record for silver medals.Bahrain are yet to

medals table after previously sharing it with Kuwait on four titles each.Qatar ??

January 31, 2022South Korea are the most successful nation and have won the continental crown nine times

Thirteen is seen as an unlucky number in many parts of the world, including Merlene Ottey's homeland of Jamaica.

Ottey's remarkably long career and some might say she was unlucky to end up with a bronze medal 13 times

sportsperson of the year 13 times.A 2.4 metre statue of Ottey - known as the Queen of the Track and revered by all

 Ottey had already made the first of her record-breaking seven Olympic Games appearances (she finished

Brisbane Commonwealth Games.She won in 22.19sec from Kathy Cook (then Kathy Smallwood), one of the all-time

Montreal Olympics in 1976 inspired her, and soon after that her career was off and running.She put in record-breaking