Olympic medalist Emma Coburn said in an Instagram post Thursday, that her dream of competing in the Paris 2024 Olympics is over; after breaking her ankle in Shanghai last month. 

Tiger Woods nearly lost his right leg after a 2021 car accident but vowed to return to the PGA Tour. Currently ranked 789th in the world, the 15-time major winner and golfing legend has accepted the invite for next month’s signature American tournament.

West Indies cricketer Devon Thomas has been handed a five-year ban from cricket after confessing to seven breaches of anti-corruption regulations, as announced by the International Cricket Council (ICC) on Thursday.

Ten cricket pitches have completed their journey up the East Coast of the United States from Florida to New York state and are being installed in a new stadium built for next month's T20 World Cup, Agence France-Presse reported Thursday. 

Former captain Steve Smith and rising talent Jake Fraser-McGurk were notable omissions as Australia named their T20 World Cup squad on Wednesday, Agence France-Presse reports. 

Newcastle midfielder Sandro Tonali has been handed a suspended two-month ban following his admission of breaching Football Association (FA) betting regulations.

The Slovenian rider is set to attempt something even more ambitious: a double in the Giro d'Italia and the Tour de France in the same year. Only seven riders have ever achieved this. 3,321 kilometres, 21 stages, 60 kilometres of time trials, and a favourite looking to make history again. It's been 25 years since a rider won both Grand Tours in the same year - Pantani did it in 1999.

Following Japan's loss to Malaysia in the quarter-finals of the Thomas and Uber Cup in Chengdu, China, two-time world champion Kento Momota retired from international badminton without playing a single match on Thursday.

The best U19 football teams from the Old Continent will compete in Lithuania from 14-27 July and Daina Gudzinevičiūtė, Olympic champion and president of the Lithuanian National Olympic Committee (LTOK), will be the ambassador of the UEFA U19 Women's Football Championship.

East Africa's largest indoor arena, the BK Arena in Kigali, Rwanda, will host two of Africa's elite table tennis tournaments - the African Cup and the Olympic Qualifying Tournament - from 12-18 May.

Five Taekwondo athletes were named by International Olympic Committee (IOC) to take part at the Paris 2024. With five athletes, Taekwondo is the third most represented sport in the team. The addition of five refugee athletes will result in the largest number of Taekwondo athletes ever at an Olympic Games with more than 130 due to compete in Paris.

The Mexican showdown on Saturday 4 May is heating up. Canelo predicted a "decisive" victory over Munguía in a press conference on Wednesday. He also warned his former promoter, Golden Boy, against "robbing boxers". On Sunday, Canelo will put his four belts on the line at the MGM in Las Vegas.

This Saturday, the best in boxing will descend on the Spanish capital. Madrid will play host to the IBA Champions' Night, with an impressive line-up of boxers from Spain and abroad vying for glory at the Madrid Arena.

While the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) tries to defuse the constant blowback from the Chinese swimmers doping scandal, the American governing body is keeping the pressure on with a new 16-page document emphasizing its “deep concern” over the current state of affairs.

The international delegations for the eighth Jiu-Jitsu Asian Championships, comprising athletes, coaches, and officials, have started arriving in Abu Dhabi as the competitions gear up to kick off on Friday. The championships, held under the patronage of Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Chairman of the Abu Dhabi Executive Council, will bring together over 1,500 male and female competitors from more than 30 countries at the Mubadala Arena from May 3-8.