By Michael Pavitt and Matthew Smith in Budapest
By Nancy Gillen in Yekaterinburg
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By Patrick O'Kane at the Gloria Sports Arena in Antalya
Camilo Pérez López Moreira has vowed to help the International Tennis Federation (ITF) increase its resources and development funding, should the International Olympic Committee (IOC) member be elected to the governing body's Board later this month.
Global Association of International Sports Federations (GAISF) President Raffaele Chiulli said he is "very happy" with the inaugural World Urban Games here – but warned against "unnecessary" future expansion.
Trinidad and Tobago sprinter Michelle-Lee Ahye has been provisionally suspended by the Athletics Integrity Unit for three alleged whereabouts failures.
Canada's double Olympic bobsleigh champion Kaillie Humphries has alleged that head coach Todd Hays "verbally and mentally abused her" during the 2017-2018 season.
Uzbekistan powerlifter Navruzbek Abdurasulov has been given a four-year doping ban by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC).
Shogo Nakamura and Honami Maeda won the men's and women's races respectively at the Tokyo 2020 marathon test event.
Spain won the International Basketball Federation World Cup for the second time as they beat Argentina 95-75 in today's final in Beijing.
Suzann Pettersen holed the winning putt as Europe edged out the United States to regain the Solheim Cup on a dramatic final day at Gleneagles in Scotland.
Triple Olympic gold medallist Sebastian Brendel of Germany was among the winners on the final day of the Tokyo 2020 canoe sprint test event.
Georgia claimed a pair of gold medals on the first day of Greco-Roman finals at the World Wrestling Championships in Nur-Sultan.
Brazil's Italo Ferreira led his country to their first team gold since 2000 at the World Surfing Games in Miyazaki after sealing the individual men's title with an audacious full rotation aerial which earned a perfect 10-point score.
Azerbaijan's Milad Beigi Harchegani earned a victory of such flair and technical merit in the concluding contest of the World Taekwondo Grand Prix in Chiba that it drew the unusual tribute of a standing ovation.
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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Paraguay's Camilo Pérez López Moreira is a newly-elected International Olympic Committee member who has set his sights on making an impact in tennis. Michael Pavitt sat down with the influential South American.
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