Ukrainian weightlifter Yulia Kalina has been stripped of her Olympic bronze medal by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) after she became the first athlete to be officially sanctioned by the body as part of re-tests of samples provided at London 2012.

Children in Australia have been encouraged to send messages of support to the athletes who will represent their country at the Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro by Australia Post.

Organisers of the 2016 Asian Beach Games in Vietnam plan to broadcast the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the event live on television alongside coverage of several sports on the programme, it was announced after the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) conducted an inspection visit to the country.

Expansion of the men’s and women’s National Championships and the introduction of new under-18 tournament for boys and girls were among changes approved at Curling Canada’s Annual Congress in Cornwall in Ontario.

Budapest 2024 has received an accommodation boost after the Hungarian Hotel & Restaurant Association (HHRA) agreed to help provide a provisional total of 8,799 rooms in the Balaton Corridor region of the country.

Italian rower Niccolo Mornati has been officially ruled out of next month's Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro after he was handed a four-year ban for doping by his country’s Anti-Doping Tribunal (NTA). 

Three-time European Tour winner Francesco Molinari of Italy has become the 20th male player to withdraw from the Olympic golf tournament at Rio 2016 as the sport’s worldwide governing body published the final qualification rankings for next month’s men’s and women’s competitions.

World Rugby have unveiled the official ball which will be used during the men’s and women’s sevens tournaments at next month’s Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.

Olympic skeleton champion Lizzy Yarnold of Britain believes her triumphant Sochi 2014 experience may prove vital in the bid for gold at Pyeongchang 2018 but is expecting a tougher challenge than ever before at the Games in South Korea.

African debutants Algeria, Egypt and Tunisia all booked their place in the main draw of the International Tennis Federation (ITF) Beach Tennis World Team Championship with preliminary round victories at Russia’s National Tennis Centre in Moscow.

Baseball’s potential inclusion at the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo has received a further boost after a Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) official claimed they had agreed to take a break in the season to avoid a clash with the Olympic tournament.

Controversial new sports laws in Kuwait, which have been described as "human rights threatening" by critics, have officially come into effect amid the Gulf nation's continued exile from world sport.

Slovenia clinched two gold medals as they won both the men’s and women’s lead finals at the International Sport Climbing Federation (IFSC) World Cup in Chamonix.

Danielle Huskisson of Britain earned the biggest international honours of her career as she clinched gold in the five kilometres race at the European Open Water Swimming Championships in Hoorn today.