Britain’s multiple world and Olympic champion Mo Farah signed off as a track athlete on a winning note in what was perhaps the closest race in his illustrious career at the first of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Diamond League finals at the Letzigrund in Zurich.

Argentina, medallists at the last nine editions of the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) AmeriCup, will seek a third title on home soil as the 2017 competition, in which the early rounds will be co-hosted by Medellin in Colombia and Montevideo in Uruguay, gets underway tomorrow.

Riikka Rakic, newly appointed by the International Ski Federation (FIS) Academy as programme director of the Get Into Snow Sports (GISS) initiative, is overseeing a first launch in China. 

Top ice hockey referees with ambitions to officiate at next year's Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang and at the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) World Championships gathered in the Swiss town of Magglingen for an intensive training camp.

Germany's Timo Boll, top-seeded for the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) Czech Open that gets underway in Olomouc tomorrow, is seeking a 20th career title on the ITTF World Tour.

Britain's Mo Farah will make his final track appearance at tomorrow's meeting in Zurich - the first of the two 2017 International Association of Athletics Federations Diamond League finals - but the 5,000 metres race will be anything but a victory parade for the 34-year-old Londoner. 

Scotland's new £3.15 million ($4 million/€3.4 million) National Curling Academy - described as "unbeatable" by Britain's Pyeongchang 2018 Olympic team skip Eve Muirhead - has officially been opened. 

Four Olympians - John Robert "JR" Celski, Jessica Kooreman, Katherine Reutter-Adamek and Lana Gehring - are in the 10-strong American short track squad for the upcoming International Skating Union World Cup season, which starts in Budapest on September 28.

Russia's Alina Kabaeva, a gold medallist at the 2004 Athens Olympics who also earned nine world titles, has been chosen as the gymnastics ambassador for the 35th Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships in Pesaro, Italy. 

Three Rio 2016 Olympic gold medallists will be among athletes from more than 60 countries competing at the International Canoe Federation (ICF) Canoe Sprint World Championships in Racice, Czech Republic.

Shalane Flanagan of the United States, who has been upgraded to become the Beijing 2008 Olympic silver medallist in the 10,000 metres, was happy to receive her medal without ceremony after insisting she had "a wonderful moment" at the original award in the Chinese capital.

World Sailing has invited nominations for the 2017 Rolex World Sailor of the Year Awards.

International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Presidential candidate Zhang Haidi believes the crowds at the World Para Athletics Championships in London and its junior equivalent in Switzerland shows that the sport is "booming".

Justin Gatlin has offered an "official apology" to those who booed him at this month's International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Championships at the Olympic Stadium in London.