Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev will be among the VIP guests for Friday's (June 21) Opening Ceremony here at the second European Games.

With 100 days to go until the start of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Championships in Doha, home athletes Mutaz Essa Barshim and Abderrahman Samba are set to challenge for gold in two of the highest profile events.

Sergey Shubenkov genuinely scraped a victory here in the Moroccan capital as he slid painfully across the line after being tripped in the final steps of the men’s 110 metres hurdles by his falling rival Omar McLeod.

There is enough talent waiting to ignite at tomorrow’s sixth leg of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Diamond League series here in the Moroccan capital for it not to be recalled in future times as the event Caster Semenya did not make.

The main part of a sell-out 14,200 crowd in Oslo tonight saw half their dream come true tonight when home runner Karsten Warholm won the men’s 400 metres hurdles in a European record of 47.33sec.

Cool and wet conditions are expected for tomorrow’s Bislett Games in Oslo – the fifth of this season’s International Association of Athletics Federations Diamond League meetings – but home athletes such as Karsten Warholm and the Ingebrigtsen brothers will be guaranteed to raise the temperature.

Nathan Benderson Park has been selected as the site for the 2020 United States Olympic and Paralympic rowing team trials, with competition due to take place in April.

Argentina followed Brazil in earning their first win at the International Blind Sports Federation (IBSA) Football Americas Championships in São Paulo.

Two outstanding 21-year-old American sprinters pushed each other to outstanding performances over 200 metres tonight at the International Association of Athletics Federations Diamond League meeting in Rome, with Michael Norman winning narrowly in 19.70 seconds, the fastest time in the world this year, and Noah Lyles finishing just two hundredths of a second behind.

Italy lost ground at the top of the round robin in the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) Women’s Nations League after losing their first match in the third week‘s series of preliminary matches.

Mattia Camboni of Italy and Lilian de Geus of the Netherlands held top positions in the men's and women's RS:X after three days of racing at the Hempel World Cup Series Final in Marseille.

Rio 2016 bronze medallist Milena Olszewska earned a surprise win over Iran’s Olympic champion Zahra Nemati today in the semi-final of the recurve women’s open at the World Archery Para Championships in the Dutch city of ‘s-Hertogenbosch.

France’s women will seek to emulate the feat of their male counterparts in 1998 by winning the FIFA World Cup – which gets under way tomorrow - on home soil.

European 10 metres platform champion Celine van Duijn is among the leading lights taking part in the fourth leg of the International Swimming Federation (FINA) Diving Grand Prix Series that starts in Madrid tomorrow.