Grandmaster (GM) Fabiano Caruana of the United States has won the Superbet Chess Classic at the Grand Hotel Bucharest to claim a first prize of $100,000 (£79,883/€91,880).

Olympic basketball gold medallist and National Basketball Association (NBA) Hall of Famer Ray Allen has predicted that American dominance of the sport could end at the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles.

Paris 2024 President Tony Estanguet has welcomed the addition of Groupe Aeroports de Paris (Groupe ADP) as the latest official partner of the Games.

Rain has failed to dampen enthusiasm in the Chinese city of Yinchuan in the Ningxia region, as local fitness walkers and athletes took part in a display designed to promote the Asian Games in Hangzhou this September.

Olympic organisers have revealed that over one million tickets have been purchased in the space of 48 hours, leaving 20 sports sold out for Paris 2024, including the new discipline of breaking.

The Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) is to use a building where Pierre de Coubertin celebrated the revival of the Olympic Games as the "Casa Italia" hospitality headquarters at Paris 2024.

Switzerland’s Marlen Reusser produced a superb finish on the final stage to clinch overall victory in the International Cycling Union (UCI) Women's WorldTour Itzulia Women's race in San Sebastian.

Organisers of the 2026 FIFA World Cup have pledged to "unite fans across the continent" in a special  #WeAre26 launch event to reveal the "faces and places" of the 16 cities due host the tournament in the United States, Canada and Mexico,

Finland's International Olympic Committee (IOC) member Sari Essayah has led tributes to Olympic gold medallist and women's winter sports pioneer Siiri Rantanen, who has died aged 98.

More than 3,000 student tenants in Île-de-France have been told that they will have to vacate their accommodation next year to make way for workers and support staff working on the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris. 

The announcement of the death of British Olympian Shaun Pickering at the age of 61 has shocked the athletics world.

Hellenic Olympic Committee (HOC) President and International Olympic Committee (IOC) member Spyros Capralos has welcomed the return of giant Olympic Rings to the stadium in Athens which staged the first Olympic Games of the modern era.

Pacific Games organisers have called for bids to provide a "world-class" sound system for the showpiece Opening and Closing Ceremonies at the 2023 Pacific Games in the Solomon Islands.

Australia’s men’s netball captain Dylan Nexhip believes that the sport's hopes of inclusion at Brisbane 2032 could be boosted by the inclusion of a mixed event, possibly in the short form Fast5 discipline.