Panama’s Sydney 2000 Olympian Estela Riley has been appointed to lead the Pan American Judo Confederation's (PJC) newly-established Gender Equality and Equity Commission.

FIBA Europe has cancelled the season for three of its major tournaments and confirmed no titles will be awarded as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.

Vlad Marinescu, who became President of the International Esports Federation (IESF) last month, is "conflicted" over the question of whether esports should strive to become an Olympic event.

Karsten Warholm achieved his mission at the Impossible Games in Oslo tonight as, running alone in a largely empty stadium – but watched worldwide via a live TV link – he marked the sport’s first big break-out from coronavirus lockdown with a world best for the 300 metres hurdles of 33.78sec.

The International Esports Federation (IESF) and the International School Sport Federation (ISF) have reached an agreement to promote health among high school students playing esport games.

Esports and gaming has increased "unbelievably" during the COVID-19 lockdown, Vlad Marinescu, the recently elected President of the International Esports Federation (IESF), has reported.

The largest and most significant athletics meeting of the pandemic-blighted year will take place with Oslo’s Bislett Stadium at its centre tomorrow night – the self-styled Impossible Games – with another similar event, the Inspiration Games, based in Zurich set to take place on July 9.

France’s world decathlon record holder Kevin Mayer won the third and latest of the World Athletics Ultimate Garden Clash events involving pole vault, shot put and a gruelling shuttle run.

The World Cycling Union (UCI) will use the Paris-Nice 2020 race – the last event of the UCI WorldTour held before the coronavirus lockdown – as a template for the safe return of elite road racing events.

The three top-ranked decathletes of the moment will step up to action on Sunday (June 7) in the third of the Ultimate Garden Clash events staged by World Athletics.

World Athletics will launch a new campaign to support those who have discovered the sport in lockdown, during which research indicates that exercise has increased by 88 per cent.

Kenya’s world 800m record holder David Rudisha, who has targeted winning a third consecutive Olympic title at that distance in Tokyo, today underwent surgery for a fractured ankle.

The most comprehensive database about the Olympic Games re-emerged for public view today at www.olympedia.org

Double Paralympic 100 metres champion Martina Caironi is among Italian athletes training on sections of track sent to them during lockdown by Mondo, the company which has supplied track and field surfaces for the last 10 Olympic Games.