Music from Tchaikovsky approved as replacement for Russian national anthem at Tokyo 2020

Music from composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky has been approved as the replacement for Russia's banned national anthem at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
Music from composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky has been approved as the replacement for Russia's banned national anthem at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
Munich has been confirmed as a host city for this year's European Championship, but the UEFA Executive Committee has moved games away from Bilbao and Dublin because it was deemed unlikely that fans would be able to attend.
Further pressure has been put on United States President Joe Biden to order a "diplomatic boycott" of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games.
Organisers of this year's SportAccord World Sport and Business Summit in Yekaterinburg are considering offering complimentary COVID-19 vaccines for delegates attending the event.
Organisers of next month's World Athletics Relays have been dealt a major blow following the withdrawal of a star-studded Jamaican team due to travel restrictions caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
The International Hockey Federation (FIH) has confirmed British company Lumi will operate the voting in the Presidential election at its remote Congress next month.
The Olympic artistic swimming qualification tournament is now due to take place in Barcelona, after scheduling clashes brought about by the coronavirus pandemic led to it being taken away from Tokyo.
In a first for the United States Olympic broadcaster, NBC Olympics' primetime coverage of the Tokyo 2020 Games will be anchored from an outdoor location.
International Ski Federation (FIS) Presidential candidate Sarah Lewis has predicted there will be "many new Chinese champions" at the country's home Winter Olympic Games in Beijing.
The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) has sign an agreement with Dentsu to market its commercial properties exclusively in Japan, and has also announced a partnership with planned Saudi Arabian city Neom.
Austria’s Michael Wiederer is set for another four years as President of the European Handball Federation (EHF) after being re-elected at the organisation’s Congress.
Former world champion and Olympic medallist Eric Radford has come out of retirement to form a new figure skating partnership with Vanessa James.
Håkon Brusveen, a gold medallist in cross-country skiing at the 1960 Winter Olympics, has died age 93.
Britain's Michael Beckett and Denmark's Anne-Marie Rindom are one step closer to claiming wins at the International Laser Class Association (ILCA) Vilamoura International Championship on the penultimate day of competition.
Some of the best young women's heptathlon athletes are set to compete in Lana in Italy at the 34th edition of the Multistars World Athletics Combined Events Challenge meeting, tomorrow and Sunday (April 25).