German viewers will be able to view live and highlights coverage from the next two Winter and Summer Olympics via free-to-air television following a new agreement between Discovery Communications and the ARD/ZDF channels.

Viktor Ahn, the world's most successful Olympic short track speed skater with six gold medals, will have the opportunity to seek more at next year's Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang after being named in the Russian team.

Lendlease, the Australian Property and Infrastructure company previously involved in the Sydney 2000 and London 2012 Olympic Games, has been appointed an overlay delivery partner and official supporter property and infrastructure for Gold Coast 2018.

Tributes are arriving from all sides for Australia’s 2004 Olympics track cycling champion Stephen Wooldridge, who has died at the age of 39.

Kenya has plans to build three new stadiums as part of a bid for the 2023 International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Championships - according to the country's Sports Minister Hassan Wario.

On the final day of an International Association of Athletics Federations World Championships that have produced a succession of surprise results, the last two field event golds in the men’s high jump and women’s discus went to the disciplines’ undisputed, pre-eminent performers - Mutaz Essa Barshim and Sandra Perković.

Yohann Diniz, who turns 40 on January 1 next year, became the oldest male athlete in the history of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Championships to win a title as he earned France its third gold here in the men’s 50 kilometres walk - on a day when Portugal’s Ines Henriques secured a historic victory in the inaugural women’s event.

Oleg Matytsin, President of the International University Sports Federation (FISU), is seeking to extend the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed last year with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) by putting together a similar agreement with the Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC).

Mariya Lasitskene became the first athlete to win a gold medal competing under a neutral banner as she justified her tag as the pre-event favourite in the women's high jump at the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Championships here today.

In the Stadium where she won Olympic long jump gold five years ago, Brittney Reese of the United States claimed her fourth International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Championships title after a third-round effort of 7.02 metres earned her victory in a hugely competitive final.

Renaud Lavillenie, the pole vault world record holder, remains in search of the one major gold medal to elude him - world outdoor gold.

A monumental women’s triple jump final here ended - eventually - with Colombia’s 33-year-old world and Olympic champion Caterine Ibarguen being deposed by her exuberant 21-year-old rival Yulimar Rojas, who thus claimed Venezuela’s first gold in the history of the International Association of Athletics Federations’ World Championships here.

The men and women’s marathons took place on the same day here for the first time at the International Association of Athletics Federations World Championships and Geoffrey Kirui of Kenya and Bahrain’s Rose Chelimo responded with suitably historic - not to mention dramatic - victories on a four-lap course that began and ended at Tower Bridge.

Katie Sadleir, appointed as World Rugby's first general manager for women's rugby in November, has defended the Rugby Football Union's (RFU) commitment to the women's game.