North Korea made a spectacular return to international weightlifting when its top women broke five world records, won two gold medals and defeated Olympic and world champions from China, during the Asian Games.

Europe recorded the biggest ever individual match win at golf’s Ryder Cup, as their team continued to dominate against United States at Rome in Italy.

A current European Games bronze medallist was among the winners at the Balkan Karate Championships for seniors and veterans held at Tirana.

Defending champion Daiki Hashimoto has been chosen as one of Japan's two representatives to advance to the men's all-around final at the International Gymnastics Federation Artistic Gymnastics World Championships in Antwerp, even though he ranked third among his compatriots in qualifying.

Faith Kipyegon, the world and Olympic 1500 metres champion who has set world records in three events this year, will seek to round off her season in Riga tomorrow with victory in the first road mile event to carry world title status.

Skateboarders will hope to add to their Paris 2024 ranking points as the 2023 Park World Championships begins in Rome tomorrow.

U SPORTS, the governing body of university sport in Canada, has announced changes to its policies on eligibility for athletic scholarships, which will come in for the 2024-2025 season.

Five nations are set to compete at the inaugural Blind Baseball European Championship in the Italian city of Bologna next Saturday (October 7) and Sunday (October 8).

The head coach of the Israeli sambo team Pavel Musin believes a recent national competition will help the country’s preparations for the World Youth and Junior Championships.

The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has voted to partially suspend the National Paralympic Committees (NPC) of Russia and Belarus, allowing their athletes to compete as neutrals at Paris 2024.

Athletics Federation of India (AFI) President Adille Sumariwalla is set to launch an investigation after he returns home here from the Asian Games into a race that saw seven athletes withdraw shortly before it started. 

The Pan American Flame has been lit at the Pyramid of the Moon in the pre-Hispanic Mexican city of Teotihuacan, and is set to make its way to Chile's capital Santiago.

France's budget for sport and the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games is to decrease by around €90 million (£78 million/$95 million) next year when compared to 2023.

Los Angeles 2028 chief executive Kathy Carter has compared organising the Olympics to "hosting about seven Super Bowls a day", and hopes it can "showcase all of what is great" about the city and the United States.

Afghan boxer Mohammad Khaibar Nooristani has become the first athlete to be announced as failing a drugs test at the Asian Games here.