by Michael Pavitt and Matthew Smith in Apia
Chinese organisers of the 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games will get the opportunity to show off the environmentally-friendly technology it plans to use when the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Coordination Commission starts its fourth visit here tomorrow.
FairSport, an independent foundation striving to eradicate doping in sport, has described the decision of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) to uphold Russian Deputy Prime Minister Vitaly Mutko’s appeal against a lifetime ban from the Olympic Games as an "absolute travesty and mockery of justice".
Samoa 2019 chairman Loau Solamalemalo Keneti Sio has joined the debate over weightlifter Laurel Hubbard's participation in the women's over-87 kilograms here, calling it "unfair" after the transgender lifter won two gold medals.
Russian Sports Minister Pavel Kolobkov has praised the student athletes who finished second in the medals table at the Naples 2019 Summer Universiade.
Problems obtaining visas have prompted Pakistan to pull out of the Commonwealth Table Tennis Championships that start in Cuttack, India, tomorrow.
Britain's former world judo champion Craig Fallon has died at the age of just 36.
The Wimbledon men's singles final came out on top in the British sport ratings war on Sunday (July 14) – with a peak audience of 9.6 million watching Serbia's Novak Djokovic and Switzerland's Roger Federer produce a classic encounter.
South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (SASCOC) President Gideon Sam has said the country's athletes will use this year's African Games in Morocco's capital Rabat as a "benchmark" on their road to the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
The Asian Karate Federation (AKF) is set to hold an Executive Committee meeting and Congress in Tashkent over the coming two days, prior to the start of its Senior Championship in Uzbekistan's capital on Friday (July 19).
Germany's Florian Wellbrock won the men's 10 kilometres open water swimming gold medal by just two-tenths of a second following a dramatic race at the World Aquatics Championships in Gwangju.
Fiji's Banuve Tabakaucoro and Papua New Guinea's Toea Wisil set Pacific Games records in the 100 metres on their way to securing gold at Samoa 2019 here today.
Germany’s former world champion and Rio 2016 silver medallist Lisa Unruh made ominous progress today in the early rounds of the women’s recurve in the archery test event for next year’s Tokyo Olympics.
Top seeds Kento Momota and Tai Tzu-ying booked their places in the second round of the men's and women's singles respectively on day one of the Badminton World Federation Indonesia Open in Jakarta.
New Caledonia dominated the individual judo competitions at the 2019 Pacific Games here by winning six of the 12 medals on offer at the Faleata Sports Complex.
At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Iranian judoka Arash Miresmaeili was disqualified for weighing in at nearly four pounds above the limit for his weight class of his under-66 kilograms match against an Israeli opponent Ehud Vaks in the first round. It was claimed Miresmaeili had gone on an eating binge to protest the International Olympic Committee's recognition of the state of Israel. Iran does not recognise the state of Israel, and Miresmaeili's actions won praise from high-ranking Iranian officials. Mohammad Khatami, the country's President at the time, was quoted as saying Miresmaili's actions would be "recorded in the history of Iranian glories". He was later awarded $125,000 by the Government - the same amount given to Olympic gold medallists.
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