The United States today put a spanner in the works of Russia’s title defence by overcoming last year’s Winter Olympic hosts at the Men’s Ice Hockey World Championship in the Czech Republic.
The Baku 2015 European Games flame is continuing its journey across Azerbaijan and has now reached Jalilabad one week after it was captured in Ateshgah.
Ottobock UK has signed up to become the first official sponsor of the United Kingdom’s first ever stand-alone mass-participation disability sports event, Para Tri.
United World Wrestling has reinstated the five-point throw for Greco-Roman competition and brought in a number of rule revisions, including increased penalties for illegal actions and the elimination of one-point exposure.
Gwangju 2015 has taken Seoul Tent Corporation on board as an official partner to provide temporary construction for this year’s Universiade.
The Asian Table Tennis Union (ATTU) will be brought under the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) umbrella following the signing of a historic agreement.
The international Women and Sport Seminar has taken place at the Polish Olympic Committee headquarters in Warsaw with the nearly 70 participants reflecting back on how far gender equality in sport has come in recent years.
Russian world champion Yana Kudryavtseva will be looking to defend her European crown as she leads a stellar line up of athletes competing at this year’s European Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships in Minsk.
Fiji hosted a series of Oceania National Olympic Committee (ONOC) workshops and meetings ahead of the regional sporting governing body’s General Assembly.
Olympic medallists Dimitrij Ovtcharov and Ai Fukuhara have made their surprise exits from the International Table Tennis Federation World Championships after suffering defeats at the hands of lower ranked opponents in Suzhou, China.
The class of 2015 have graduated from the International Coaching Enrichment Certification Programme (ICECP) with a special ceremony at the International Olympic Committee (IOC) headquarters in Lausanne.
Paralympic table tennis silver medallist Will Bayley has become the first ever Paralympian to be inducted into the English Institute of Sport (EIS) Hall of Champions.
The World Equestrian Games looks set to undergo a series of changes as the International Equestrian Federation’s (FEI) flagship event came under the spotlight on the opening day of the FEI Sports Forum in Lausanne.
Emmanuelle Assmann, President of the National Paralympic Committee of France, has been awarded the Légion d'Honneur, the nation’s highest decoration.
Rio 2016 has marked the 500 days to go until the Paralympic Games milestone with celebrations and a flash mob on Copacabana beach.
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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