World Athletics President Sebastian Coe has warned the Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee against what could be a "perfect storm" of exhaustion and disappointment following the postponement of the Games until next summer.
The World Athletics Championships could be moved from next year to 2022 to accommodate the rearranged Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, according to World Athletics President Sebastian Coe.
Canada's Mark McMorris made sporting history tonight at the Winter X Games in Norway’s Hafjell Resort as he beat the record of 18 winter discipline medals he shared with Shaun White by winning the men’s Snowboard Big Air gold.
Norway’s Olympic and World Cup champion Maren Lundby topped qualifying today for tomorrow’s final of the women's International Ski Federation (FIS) Ski Jumping World Cup Raw Air Tournament in her native Oslo.
India’s world number one, world silver medallist and Asian champion Amit Panghal narrowly escaped an upset today as he reached the men’s flyweight 51 kilogrammes quarter-finals of the Asia-Oceania Olympic boxing qualifier in Amman.
Austria’s skiers made a flourishing start to the Alpine Junior World Ski Championships at Narvik in Norway today as they took gold and silver in the opening women’s downhill event.
Nadine Messerschmidt, top qualifier for today’s women’s skeet final at the International Shooting Sport Federation’s Shotgun World Cup at Nicosia in Cyprus, followed through to claim gold.
Women's world number one and top seed Chen Meng cruised into tomorrow’s singles final at the International Table Tennis Federation Qatar Open in Doha with victory over defending champion Wang Manyu.
Australia’s Breanna Walker, joint winner of the Königssee race in this season’s International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (IBSF) women’s monobob series, earned outright gold in La Plagne today.
The United States won three of the six Greco-Roman gold medals contested on the opening night of the Pan American Wrestling Championships in Canadian capital Ottawa.
Argentina’s men’s and women’s hockey teams earned positive results in the first of their two scheduled International Hockey Federation (FIH) Hockey Pro League matches in Australia.
La Plagne will play host this weekend to the penultimate event in the season’s women’s monobob competition, which is due to make its Olympic debut at Beijing in 2022.
Ukraine won the two gold medals at stake as the initial leg of the International Swimming Federation (FINA) 2020 Artistic Swimming World Series got underway in Paris.
Canada's Mark McMorris will seek to make sporting history at the Winter X Games that start in Norway’s Hafjell Resort tomorrow by beating the record of 18 winter discipline medals he currently shares with Shaun White.
The current coronavirus crisis has prompted the postponement of this month’s World Athletics Half Marathon Championships in Gdynia, Poland.
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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