The Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) ice hockey team will face Latvia in a pre-Beijing 2022 warm-up match, it has been announced.

Belgium has joined a diplomatic boycott of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympics, with Prime Minister Alexander De Croo vowing the Government will not have a presence at the Games.

Defending champions Finland beat Latvia to seal top spot in Group A at the Men's World Floorball Championship in Helsinki.

Kristers Aparjods became the first Latvian athlete to triumph in a men's singles event at the International Luge Federation World Cup in the Russian city of Sochi.

Latvia's Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics gold medallist and former world champion Oskars Melbārdis has retired from bobsleigh at the age of 33.

Czech Republic and Finland's men's curling teams have progressed to the Beijing 2022 Qualification Event alongside the Latvian and Turkish women's teams after triumphing in the Pre-Olympic Qualification Event in Erzurum in Turkey.

The three mixed doubles group winners Latvia, hosts Turkey and Denmark all triumphed in the playoffs at the World Curling Federation Pre-Olympic Qualification Event in Erzurum, advancing to December's Olympic Qualification Event in Leeuwarden in The Netherlands.

Hosts Turkey staged an amazing victory over Kazakhstan to advance automatically alongside Latvia and Denmark to the mixed doubles playoff qualification finals at the World Curling Federation (WCF) Pre-Olympic Qualification Event in Erzurum.

Latvia, Kazakhstan and Denmark continued their winning starts at the World Curling Federation (WCF) Pre-Olympic Qualification Event in Erzurum in Turkey.

Denmark beat Norway 2-0 in the final men's Olympic qualification round to earn its first-ever trip to the Olympic Games as five other deciders also took place.

Latvia and France won high-scoring encounters on the opening day of the final ice hockey qualification tournaments for the 2022 Winter Olympics.

The United States women overpowered the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) to secure the first Olympic Games 3x3 basketball gold medal, before Latvia fought back to beat the ROC in the men's final at Tokyo 2020 here tonight.

It was a good first day for Slovakia and Poland in the men’s standing competition and Latvia in the men’s sitting competition as the Beach ParaVolley Slovenian Open began in Ljubljana.

Latvia has chosen 3x3 basketball captain Agnis Čavars and Grand Slam tennis champion Jeļena Ostapenko as the country's flagbearers for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.