Britain’s overall world champion Elise Christie built on her strong start at the International Skating Union (ISU) Short Track World Cup in Budapest as she won her 1000 metres heat – but South Korea’s overall men’s world champion Seo Yi-Ra failed to progress from his heat at the same distance.

Home canoeing fans erupted in celebration today as France’s C2 pair of Gauthier Klauss and Matthieu Peche won gold at the 2017 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships in Pau.

Argentina’s 31-year-old world and Olympic women’s under-48 kilograms champion Paula Pareto, returning to competition after concentrating for the last year on her work as a doctor, won a bronze medal on the opening day of the International Judo Federation’s Grand Prix in Zagreb.

Ireland - and more specifically the Irish city of Cork - had double cause for celebration at the World Rowing Championships in Sarasota-Bradenton today as Paul O'Donovan retained his lightweight men's single sculls title and Mark O’Donovan, who is no relation, and Shane O’Driscoll secured gold in the lightweight men’s pair.

Home runner Matthias Kyburz set himself up to earn a fourth International Orienteering Federation World Cup title today as he won the opening event of the final in the Swiss Alpine resort of Grindelwald, the long distance race - with Elena Roos completing a Swiss double thanks to an unexpected first place in the women’s long event.

The Deodoro Olympic Whitewater Stadium that hosted canoe slalom at last summer’s Games has become the first Rio 2016 venue to be re-opened as a legacy for the local population.

Britain’s overall world champion Elise Christie made a dominant start on the first day of competition at the International Skating Union (ISU) World Cup Short Track Speed Skating in Budapest – the first of four events that will help determine qualification for next year's Olympic Winter Games in Pyeongchang.

The British men’s four managed to reach the final despite having to make a last-minute medical substitution in today’s racing at the World Rowing Championships, with Ollie Wynne-Griffith coming in to replace the unwell Will Satch.

France’s Olympic champion Denis Gargaud-Chanut responded to a capacity home crowd by posting the fastest C1 qualifying time at the International Canoe Federation Canoe Slalom and Whitewater World Championships in Pau.

This year’s International Orienteering Federation World Cup final will take place on previously unmapped territory in the picturesque location of Grindelwald in the Swiss Alps – but the leading contenders will be entirely familiar.

Tony Estanguet, President of Paris 2024, has maintained that the Paris laboratory provisionally suspended by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) will be back up and running efficiently within six months.

Day three at the World Rowing Championships in Florida proved doubly historic as para-rowers raced over the full 2000 metre distance for the first time at global level and the home women’s eight, unbeaten in world and Olympic competition since 2006, suffered a defeat in the opening heat by New Zealand that may signal the end of an era.

Germany, Slovakia, Britain and the Czech Republic secured gold medals in the team events that got the Canoe Slalom World Championships underway at Pau in south-west France.

Palm trees scattered around the edge of the venue by the departed Hurricane Irma helped distinguish the Florida location of Sarasota-Bradenton, where the 2017 World Rowing Championships got underway today with the first round of heats on the Nathan Benderson Park regatta course.