Daniel Andrews, the Premier of Victoria, has announced the Rod Laver Arena will host the opening matches of the biennial International Basketball Federation (FIBA) Oceania Championships.

It is 6pm in the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi. Delegates to SportAccord Convention are reaching for their black ties and frocks in preparation for that night’s gala awards ceremony. The local frogs are cranking up for their evening chorus.

Bernard Lapasset, President of World Rugby, is just back from a visit to a nearby national sports coaching and training centre. The calibre of the medical facilities has particularly impressed him.

The approachable 67-year-old Frenchman, from the Pyrenean army town of Tarbes in the deep south, has been an increasingly influential figure in international sports for some time now, helping to secure the right to host the 2007 Rugby World Cup for France and overseeing the sport’s return to the Olympic programme.

The Spanish Olympic Committee (COE) has signed an agreement with JOMA, which will see the sports clothing manufacturer supply the nation’s athletes with uniforms for all competitions from the Baku 2015 European Games through to the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. 

United World Wrestling has reinstated the five-point throw for Greco-Roman competition and brought in a number of rule revisions, including increased penalties for illegal actions and the elimination of one-point exposure.

Ticket provider Kingdom Sports Group are "thrilled" with the response one month after the opening of its sales window for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, with applications having surpassed those for London 2012 over the same period. 

ParalympicsGB Chef de Mission Penny Briscoe insists the British Sailing team will continue to exert pressure on Rio 2016 organisers to improve the conditions of the water at the sailing venue for next year's Olympic and Paralympic Games.

UK National Lottery contributions to good causes are on the rise again, in a turnaround that should come as good news to UK Sport, the elite sports funding body, as the countdown to Rio 2016 continues.

London 2012 Paralympic gold medallist Helena Lucas has urged the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) to reconsider its decision to exclude sailing from the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic sports programme by “moving away from the politics behind it”.

Rio 2016 has approved CoSport as the Authorised Ticket Reseller (ATR) in Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the British Olympic Association (BOA) has announced.

Rio 2016 has revealed that the Paralympic Torch Relay will take place across all five regions of Brazil, as well as Stoke Mandeville, the birthplace of the Paralympic Games, in Great Britain.

USA Knockouts ended the Regular Season of the World Series of Boxing (WSB) with a comfortable 4-1 victory over Pan American rivals Puerto Rico Hurricanes in Miami.

Paralympic table tennis silver medallist Will Bayley has become the first ever Paralympian to be inducted into the English Institute of Sport (EIS) Hall of Champions.

Rio 2016 has marked the 500 days to go until the Paralympic Games milestone with celebrations and a flash mob on Copacabana beach.

Great Britain’s Giles Scott sealed his maiden International Sailing Federation (ISAF) World Cup Hyères gold medal as he stormed to victory in the Finn medal race on the final day in France.

Italia Thunder ended the Astana Arlans Kazakhstan’s unbeaten streak as they booked their place in the knockout round of the World Series of Boxing (WSB) with a 3-2 home victory in Bergamo.