London 2012 Paralympic gold medallist Helena Lucas has urged the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) to reconsider its decision to exclude sailing from the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic sports programme by “moving away from the politics behind it”.

A nationwide Dutch bid for the second edition of the European Games in 2019 has been confirmed today by the Netherlands Olympic Committee and Sport Federation (NOC*NSF), with Amsterdam, The Hague and Eindhoven, but not Rotterdam or Utrecht, likely to play a role.

Additional events at the Olympic Games will be selected from sports with International Federations (IFs) recognised by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and not currently included on the sports programme, Tokyo 2020 have announced. 

Rio 2016 has approved CoSport as the Authorised Ticket Reseller (ATR) in Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the British Olympic Association (BOA) has announced.

A team of visually impaired veterans from the charity Scottish War Blinded is set to begin a centenary bowling tour at Baxter Park Bowling Club in Dundee. 

Port Moresby 2015 has conducted a Games-time security operations workshop, with more than 50 members of its Public Safety and Security Committee in attendance.

The inaugural Wheelchair Rugby National Championships is set to take place at the Copper Box Arena in London’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park this weekend, marking the culmination of the 2014-2015 season.

Rio 2016 has revealed that the Paralympic Torch Relay will take place across all five regions of Brazil, as well as Stoke Mandeville, the birthplace of the Paralympic Games, in Great Britain.

Svein Arne Hansen, the newly-elected President of European Athletics, has claimed he is fully supportive of the model for the 2018 European Sports Championships, which will be held in Glasgow and Berlin.

Hosts Russia were eliminated from the World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship after suffering a quarter-final defeat to Hungary at the Ice Cube in Sochi. 

The first-ever international display of Iranian women’s belt wrestling has been hosted here by United World Wrestling (UWW) and the Iranian Wrestling Federation here. 

Volleyball’s Mariusz Wlazly and bobsleigh’s Kaillie Humphries claimed the respective sportsman and sportswoman of the year titles at the inaugural edition of the SportAccord Awards here tonight.

SportAccord President Marius Vizer has taken a stab at Lamine Diack, his International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) counterpart, in the wake of his sport's decision to resign from the organisation earlier this week.

Norway qualified for the quarter-finals of the World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship after completing the round-robin stage with their undefeated record intact at the Ice Cube in Sochi.