Organisers have postponed the World Team Table Tennis Championships in Busan due to the outbreak of coronavirus in the South Korean city.
Colombia face the prospect of being banned from participating at Tokyo 2020 weightlifting competitions after three of their athletes were suspended for anti-doping rule violations.
Tokyo 2020 has celebrated six-months-to-go before this year's Paralympic Games by holding an event at a school in the Japanese capital.
The 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar is now only 1,000 days away and preparations for the tournament are going well, organisers and FIFA boast.
India’s hosting of a separate Commonwealth Archery and Shooting Championships before Birmingham 2022 could be replicated with other sports in the future, according to Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) chief executive David Grevemberg.
Sir Mo Farah has faced increased scrutiny after a BBC Panorama programme revealed the four-time Olympic champion changed his account over reportedly receiving injections of the legal supplement L-carnitine when questioned by United States Anti-Doping Agency investigators.
Former Swiss professional cyclist Pirmin Lang has confessed to involvement in the Aderlass doping network.
The Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT) has placed the largest order for electric busses ever seen in the United States as the city looks to become more eco-friendly in time for when it hosts the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
The International Biathlon Union (IBU) has denied instructing Italian authorities to conduct a raid on Russian Alexander Loginov and his coach Alexander Kasperovich during the World Championships in Antholz-Anterselva.
Organisers of this week’s International Skating Union (ISU) World Allround Speed Skating Championships in Norwegian town Hamar will not allow athletes to compete without an appropriate certificate of medical examination due to the coronavirus outbreak.
An Olympic gold medal won by Steve Christoff, a member of the United States ice hockey team that stunned the Soviet Union at Lake Placid 1980, a victory dubbed the 'Miracle on Ice', has sold for $319,800 (£245,900/€295,000) in an online auction.
Katherine Nye has capped a remarkable run of weightlifting achievements by the United States by becoming the first American to be named world weightlifter of the year.
The World Para Swimming World Series leg in Lignano has been cancelled amid rising fears about coronavirus in Italy.
China's men's football team will play two FIFA World Cup qualifiers behind closed doors in Thailand due to the coronavirus outbreak.
Swimmer Mack Horton is among a group of six sports stars announced by Optus who will represent the telecommunications company’s sponsorship of the Australian Olympic team on the road to Tokyo 2020.
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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