Palm trees scattered around the edge of the venue by the departed Hurricane Irma helped distinguish the Florida location of Sarasota-Bradenton, where the 2017 World Rowing Championships got underway today with the first round of heats on the Nathan Benderson Park regatta course.
Doubts remain over how much funding the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) will receive for the next four years after public authorities refused to sign-off the 2018-2021 budget.
Slovenia's Janja Garnbret got back to winning ways in the International Federation of Sports Climbing (IFSC) Lead World Cup series as she earned victory in Edinburgh today.
Sir Craig Reedie, President of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), has hinted that Russia is moving in the right direction to be declared compliant before next year's Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang.
Kenya's Olympic champion Eliud Kipchoge, the favourite to win the Berlin Marathon, duly did so today in wet conditions that effectively ruled out a world record in the German capital.
Jean-Christophe Rolland, President of the World Rowing Federation (FISA), has signalled a potentially bleak future for lightweight rowing at the Olympics.
Prince Harry and the United States First Lady Melania Trump met for the first time before attending the Opening Ceremony of the Invictus Games in Toronto.
Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal teamed up give Team Europe a 9-3 lead over the World Team after the second day of the inaugural Laver Cup in Prague as they beat Sam Querrey and Jack Sock 10-5 in the tie break after winning the first set 6-4 but then losing the second 6-1.
Slovenia’s Janja Garnbret, seeking to get back to winning ways in the International Federation of Sports Climbing's (IFSC) Lead World Cup series, made a strong start to the fifth edition in Edinburgh as she finished joint first with six other women in the opening day’s qualifying.
The most eagerly expected victory at the World Rowing Championships due to get underway at Sarasota-Bradenton in Florida tomorrow would probably be that of the United States women’s eight, unbeaten at this level since 2006.
Dennis Kimetto’s men’s world marathon record of 2 hours 02min 57sec will be under extreme pressure with the convergence of three huge athletics talents in tomorrow’s Berlin Marathon - Olympic champion Eliud Kipchoge, former world record holder Wilson Kipsang and the man with the second fastest marathon, plus a mountain of global track golds, to his name, Kenenisa Bekele.
A Europe team guided by Bjorn Borg took a 3-1 lead over the Rest of the World, whose non-playing captain is John McEnroe, on the opening day of the inaugural Laver Cup in Prague.
Egypt’s Omar Assar, fresh from beating Hong Kong’s top seed Wong Chun Ting at the International Table Tennis Federation’s Austrian Open, reached the quarter-finals today with another surprise win over Sweden’s fourth seed, Kristian Karlsson.
China's Piena Chen outshone her rivals on the fifth day of the RS:X World Championships on the Tokyo 2020 course at Enoshima to take an almost unassailable lead into tomorrow's concluding medal race.
Slovenia's Janja Garnbret will seek to return to business as usual this weekend at the International Federation of Sports Climbing's (IFSC) fifth lead and speed World Cup event of the season in Edinburgh.
When Liechtenstein made its Olympic debut at Berlin in 1936 they discovered that the country's flag of two equal horizontal bands of blue on the top and red was identical to that of Haiti. It led to a crown being added to the top left hand corner of Liechtenstein's flag the following year to differentiate it. But it was not until 1976 that it got hoisted at an Olympic medal ceremony when Hanni Wenzel won a bronze in the giant slalom at the Winter Games in Innsbruck.
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France's World Rowing Federation President Jean-Christophe Rolland is a relieved man after this week's World Championships in Florida escaped the destruction of Hurricane Irma. But as Mike Rowbottom discovers, he still has some tricky waters to negotiate.
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