Long jumper Darya Klishina could lead a one-person Russian athletics team at next month's Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro after being named as just the second athlete eligible to compete at the Games by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF).

Australia's Hayder Shkara is hoping to use his appearance at next month's Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro to help draw attention to work he is doing to help young migrants in the country.

Suspicions over the level of doping in Kenya have again been raised less than a month before the start of the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro following the latest joint investigation by German television channel ARD and British newspaper The Sunday Times.

Brazil’s Talita Antunes and Larissa Franca retained their title at the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) Gstaad Major Series event after comfortably beating the United States' April Ross and Kerri Walsh-Jennings in the final.

The Netherlands went undefeated on their way to winning gold at the Under-22 Women’s European Softball Championship in Czech city Pardubice, beating Russia in the final to cap off a dominant display across the six-day event. 

United World Wrestling (UWW) has reinstated places in next month's Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro to several countries whose athletes tested positive for meldonium, they have announced.

Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) President Alexander Zhukov has claimed the country will have a successful Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro next month despite their athletics team being suspended from competing.

Fears over Argentina’s participation in the men’s Olympic football tournament at Rio 2016 have been eased after newly-appointed head coach Julio Olarticoechea vowed to lead the team even if they only had “13 or 14 players”.

Home fans celebrated witnessing two Venezuelan boxers claim spots at Rio 2016 on the final day of the World Series of Boxing (WSB)/AIBA Pro Boxing (APB) Olympic Qualification Tournament in Vargas.

Canada and hosts Russia will battle it out for Pool A supremacy at the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) World Continental Cup Olympic Qualification tournament in Sochi after both nations recorded 2-0 victories today to remain unbeaten.

Italian race walker Alex Schwazer has been provisionally suspended by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) after his B-sample came back positive.

Suspended Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has been invited to the Opening Ceremony of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games in a “place of honour”, Sports Minister Leonardo Picciani has confirmed.

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) "welcomes" the decision of the Court of Arbitration for Sport’s (CAS) decision to dismiss an appeal lodged by Turkish middle distance runner Aslı Çakır Alptekin, who was attempting to get her doping ban lifted five years early because she acted as a whistleblower.

South Korean swimmer Park Tae-hwan looks set to compete at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro after the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) upheld his appeal against a controversial Korean Olympic Committee (KOC) ruling.

Former world champions Amnat Ruenrong of Thailand and Cameroon’s Hassan N’Dam both secured places at Rio 2016 with semi-final victories at the World Series of Boxing (WSB)/AIBA Pro Boxing (APB) Olympic Qualification Tournament in Vargas.