In 1976, Italy reached the pinnacle of world tennis by winning its first Davis Cup in a controversial final, with some sections of the country criticising the team for travelling to Augusto Pinochet's Chile; in the end, they did it, winning 1-4 with Adriano Panatta as the hero.

The International Handball Federation (IHF) has awarded the organisation of the 2023 Women's World Championship to Denmark, Sweden, and Norway. The tournament will take place between 29 November and 17 December in three countries where handball is extremely popular.

Tokyo Olympics canoe slalom gold medallist, Jessica Fox, and double world champion para-athlete Lauren Parker reaffirmed themselves among the greatest NSW athletes of all time when they were named Athlete of the Year and Athlete of the Year with a Disability at the Rebel NSW Champions of Sport ceremony.

Richardson Stadium in Kingston, Ontario, hosted a thrilling final of the 58th Canada Life Vanier Cup on Saturday as the Montreal Carabins took advantage of their role as favourites to defeat British Columbia's UBC Thunderbirds of 16-9.

Great Britain Wheelchair Rugby (GBWR) has announced a three-year partnership with Allied Mobility, Europe's leading specialist in transport for people with reduced mobility. Fours and Allied Mobility WR5s leagues aim to promote inclusivity and expand wheelchair rugby.

Switzerland's project to host the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games in 2030 or 2034 has received a major boost with all of the country's sports federations voting in favour of the bid, confirming a shared ambition to move on to the next stage with the International Olympic Committee (IOC), known as the 'targeted dialogue' phase.

The memory of that special summer moment still gives Ugandan athlete Knight Aciru goosebumps. This year in Chengdu, the 25-year-old became the third female Ugandan student to win a medal at the FISU World University Games, taking silver in the 800m final with a time of 2:04.34.

As part of the recent FISU General Assembly, the 8th FISU Gender Equality Awards were presented in Geneva. The annual Awards consist of the Gender Equality Project Award and the Gender Equality Champion Award. 

Retired Japanese baseball stars Ichiro Suzuki and Daisuke Matsuzaka (pictured) played an exhibition game against a girl's High School Team at the Tokyo Dome as part of an initiative to encourage girls to play baseball (Kobe Chiben won 7-1, in front of 16,000 fans).

The details of the Paris 2024 Olympic Torch Relay, which will take place in Greece from 16 to 26 April next year, were presented by the Hellenic Olympic Committee at an event held at its headquarters. 

Such has been the dominance of North African teams in Africa over the past quarter of a century that only eight of the 27 editions of the CAF Champions League since its inception have failed to produce a winner, and only two finals have been contested without the presence of a North African side.

World Archery has announced the shortlists for the 2023 Athlete of the Year Awards for nine of the prizes, including the six category trophies - recurve men, recurve women, compound men, compound women, Para men and Para women - which will be open for public voting from 10 November to 10 December 2023.

With today (Wednesday 22 November) marking just 100 days to go until the start of the World Athletics Indoor Championships Glasgow 2024, the Local Organising Committee has confirmed that the Museum of World Athletics (MOWA) will bring an exhibition to Glasgow.

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has launched a new digital campaign - created by research, content and creative agency Redtorch - to raise awareness of the dangers of anabolic steroid use among young people aged 15-24.