FIFA Presidential candidate Chung Mong-joon has said he is facing a 15-year suspension by the football governing body’s Ethics Committee on charges stemming from his "support" for South Korea’s 2022 World Cup bid and his proposal to launch a Global Football Fund (GFF).

The 2015 International Boxing Association (AIBA) World Championships have been officially declared open here by Sheikh Joaan bin Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, President of the Qatar Olympic Committee (QOC).

The Lesotho National Olympic Committee (LNOC) has launched the 32nd edition of the African National Olympic Committee Association’s (ANOCA) "seminar of secretaries general" at the AVANI Lesotho Hotel and Casino.

Fiji Association of Sports and National Olympic Committee (FASANOC) has expressed its deepest condolences to the family of Paul Yee, a former vice-president of FASANOC who passed away yesterday.

Japan’s Ai Ueda and South Africa’s Richard Murray claimed the respective women’s and men’s titles at the International Triathlon Union (ITU) World Cup in Cozumel, Mexico.

Top seeds Canada and Czech Republic claimed the Junior Davis Cup and Junior Fed Cup titles respectively at the Caja Magica in Spain's capital Madrid, despite being pushed all the way by their final opponents.

Glasgow 2014 silver medallist Ruan Snyman has put his judo career on hold for the time being to focus on studying mechanical engineering.

Algeria’s Minister of Youth and Sports El Hadi Ould Ali has said the country “will mobilise all resources” to ensure the success of the 2018 African Youth Games in Algiers at a recent extraordinary meeting of the Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa (ANOCA) Executive Committee.

Qatar’s capital Doha is braced to host the 2015 International Boxing Association (AIBA) World Championships, marking the first time the event has taken place in the Middle East.

China secured qualification for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games after beating the Philippines 78-67 in the final of the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) Asia Championship on home soil.

The Colombian Paralympic Committee has named the nine athletes that will represent the South American nation at this month’s International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Athletics World Championships in Doha.

Meseret Mengistu Biru, the winner of the Paris Marathon in April, will head a strong Ethiopian women’s quartet at this month’s Frankfurt Marathon.

The International Wushu Federation (IWUF) was “disappointed” but “not completely surprised” after the sport it governs missed out on a recommendation to be added to the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic programme, executive vice-president Anthony Goh has said.

FIFA President Sepp Blatter insists he will not resign from his position early despite calls from four major sponsors of world football’s governing body for him to step down with immediate effect.