Belarus’ Paralympic champion Andrei Pranevich will compete at the International Wheelchair and Amputee Sports Federation (IWAS) World Cup that starts in Kyoto tomorrow hoping to end 2018 on a high.
The Russian Ice Hockey Federation (FHR) has signed a four-year deal with the mining and smelting company Norilsk Nickel (Nornikel).
A Ryder Cup-style match between Europe and the United States is set to be be staged in the Dinamo Stadium in Minsk, Belarus, on September 9 and10 next year.
Representatives of World Taekwondo and the International Taekwondo Federation are due to meet during this week’s Grand Slam Champions Series in Wuxi to discuss the accord proposed last month.
Defending champions Norway kept their hopes of reaching the semi-finals at the European Women’s Handball Championship alive as they beat The Netherlands 29-16 in France.
Japan’s Daiya Seto and the United States men's 4x100 metres freestyle relay team each broke world records on the opening day of the International Swimming Federation (FINA) World Short Course Championships in Hangzhou in China.
Belgium and The Netherlands claimed the last two quarter-final places at the International Hockey Federation (FIH) Men’s World Cup in Bhubaneswar today as they earned respective 5-0 cross-over play-off wins against Pakistan and Canada.
Real Madrid will seek to win a record fourth FIFA Club World Cup title at the 15th edition of the tournament which begins in the United Arab Emirates tomorrow.
Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj was among the guests at a gala evening held by the Kosovo Olympic Committee to mark the fourth anniversary of their recognition from the International Olympic Committee.
Denmark’s former European champion Edina Lents has been appointed vice chair of Taekwondo Europe’s Poomsae referee committee.
Leading world class fighters, including the previous Grand Slam winners and gold medallists in the year’s Grand Prix events, will take part in the lucrative World Taekwondo (WT) Grand Slam Champions Series starting tomorrow in Wuxi in China.
Concluding races in the decathlon and heptathlon events at the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Under-20 Championships in Nairobi in 2020 will see the introduction of handicapped starts based on previous points, it has been announced.
Edwina Tops-Alexander won the seventh leg of the International Equestrian Federation (FEI) Jumping World Cup Western European League series in La Coruna in Spain today.
Egypt’s Karim Abdel Gawad is the 2018 Black Ball Squash Open champion after he defeated compatriot and world number two Ali Farag in the final at the Black Ball Sporting Club in Cairo.
Fiji beat the United States 29-15 in the final of the HSBC World Rugby Seven Series in Cape Town to secure their first title win in South Africa since 2009.
At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Iranian judoka Arash Miresmaeili was disqualified for weighing in at nearly four pounds above the limit for his weight class of his under-66 kilograms match against an Israeli opponent Ehud Vaks in the first round. It was claimed Miresmaeili had gone on an eating binge to protest the International Olympic Committee's recognition of the state of Israel. Iran does not recognise the state of Israel, and Miresmaeili's actions won praise from high-ranking Iranian officials. Mohammad Khatami, the country's President at the time, was quoted as saying Miresmaili's actions would be "recorded in the history of Iranian glories". He was later awarded $125,000 by the Government - the same amount given to Olympic gold medallists.
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FINA is facing an unprecedented threat with the top swimmers taking legal action against them after they were barred from competing in the new International Swimming League. But FINA President Julio Maglione claims the new concept would represent a threat to the future wellbeing of the sport, as he tells Mike Rowbottom
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