Holders China beat Japan in both the boys’ and girls’ team finals as action continued today at the International Table Tennis Federation World Junior Championships in Australia.
The Brazilian Olympic Committee (COB) has launched its Policy on the Fight Against and Prevention of Moral and Sexual Harassment, which will apply to all levels of national sport.
A new Rugby League World Cup 9s event will be staged in Sydney next year, it has been announced.
Cross-country skier Katerina Paul is among the first athletes confirmed for selection on Australia’s team for the 2019 Winter Universiade in Krasnoyarsk in Russia.
The director of the Organising Committee for next year's Pacific Games in Samoa has resigned from his position with less than eight months until the start of the event.
Canadian weightlifter Christine Girard has received Olympic gold and bronze medals from London 2012 and Beijing 2008 respectively during a special ceremony at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa.
The United States made it two wins out of two at the Para Hockey Cup by comfortably beating South Korea 9-0 in London in Ontario today.
Top seed Mohamed Elshorbagy begun his bid for a home triumph at the Professional Squash Association (PSA) Black Ball Open by beating Hong Kong’s Max Lee in Egypt’s capital Cairo today.
The second leg of the inaugural Curling World Cup is scheduled to begin in Omaha tomorrow with the United States’ Olympic gold medal-winning men’s team among those set to compete.
Italy beat the United States 2-0 in the team-of-five final on the penultimate day of competition at the Men's World Tenpin Bowling Championships in Hong Kong.
Two-time Olympic gold medallist David Wise heads a strong home line-up with the first halfpipe competitions of this season’s International Ski Federation (FIS) Freestyle Skiing World Cup tour set to take place in Copper Mountain in Colorado this week.
The director of Olympic Solidarity, Pere Miró, has today written to National Olympic Committees (NOCs) to invite them to contact the body’s athletes’ unit to discuss the re-activation of boxing-related activities.
China and Japan will contest both the boys’ and girls’ team event finals following a successful day for the two nations at the International Table Tennis Federation World Junior Championships in Australia today.
The United States begun their bid for a fifth consecutive Para Hockey Cup title by beating hosts Canada 3-0 in London in Ontario today.
Progress in the construction and upgrade of the facilities for the 2019 European Games in Minsk has been reviewed during a meeting of the Organising Committee, led by Prime Minister Sergei Rumas.
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.
World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) - Deputy Director, Education - Montreal, Canada
Reporting to the Director of Education and Communications, the Deputy Director, Education will be responsible for leading the development and implementation of WADA’s strategic education priorities, programs and activities; including, managing WADA’s Social Science Research Grant Program and coordinating the activities of WADA’s Education Committee.
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 well-being of the sport, as he tells Mike Rowbottom.
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