Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) Acting President Raja Randhir Singh has claimed that the gathering of delegates for the General Assembly here marks the latest step in the organisation returning "back to normal".

International University Sports Federation (FISU) Acting President Leonz Eder has said although it is Chengdu's "last chance" to hold the FISU World University Games, he is confident COVID-19 restrictions will have eased to allow the event to finally go ahead in 2023.

International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) President Petra Sörling is hopeful that the closed-loop management system in place at the World Team Table Tennis Championships will be "different and more positive" than its Beijing 2022 equivalent.

Steve Dainton, chief executive of the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF), believes that the sport should not underplay the importance being able to stage the World Team Table Tennis Championships in China this year.

The International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) is set to follow a closed-loop management system for the Chengdu 2022 World Team Table Tennis Championships after the city extended a strict lockdown because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Badminton World Federation (BWF) has cancelled scheduled events on its World Tour in Hong Kong and Macau for the third consecutive year due to ongoing COVID-19 restrictions.

Australia's Kaden Groves triumphed in a sprint finish to win stage 11 of the Vuelta a España, on a day in which Team BikeExchange-Jayco team-mate Simon Yates dropped out after a positive COVID-19 test.

Finnish Athletics high-performance director Tuomo Salonen has admitted the nation's COVID-19 precautions did not work at the Munich 2022 European Championships, as five athletes look to recover from the virus in time for the traditional athletics meeting against Sweden.

Unvaccinated Novak Djokovic has withdrawn from the US Open and finally admitted defeat in his quest to compete in the last Grand Slam of the year.

President Luc Tardif has insisted that the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) is "financially still alive", despite the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine.

Softball Australia has announced a membership growth of 2.5 per cent over the past 12 months, bucking the trend of a declining number of athletes since 1996.

Responsibility can be challenging. Just one year ago, I was heading the Independent Expert Panel of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to work alongside the Japanese authorities and design together the COVID-19 countermeasures for the postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympics. We were in the middle of the pandemic, vaccination was not yet available across the globe, and we expected 11,300 athletes and tens of thousands of participants to come to Japan.

England's Evie Richards is looking to better her Gold Coast 2018 silver medal in tomorrow's Commonwealth Games mountain bike cross-country race, while defending champion Sam Gaze of New Zealand is tipped for glory in the men's event.

New Zealand's 2014 Commonwealth Games champion Anton Cooper has been withdrawn from the Birmingham 2022 mountain bike event after testing positive for COVID-19.

Emily Kraft, the medical coordinator of the World Flying Disc Federation (WFDF) World Ultimate Club Championships, has praised the athletes for taking responsibility to help the competition to be staged without large-scale COVID-19 disruption.