An early own goal from Roger Aholou gave Al Ahly of Egypt a tense 1-0 victory over Tunisian side Esperance helping them claim a record-extending 12th CAF Champions League title on Saturday.

Esperance had already secured spots in FIFA's expanded 32-team Club World Cup, slated to take place in the United

States in June and July of the following year.

Amidst New York's towering skyscrapers, a new field of dreams is unfolding. Unlike the usual baseball diamond, this one is for cricket, a bat-and-ball sport that supporters hope will finally capture the American imagination.

The timeless English game boasts a fervent global following, yet the United States, with its enduring

Waqas Ashiq of Long Island United CC remains optimistic.

Talented youngsters Olivia Reeves and Hampton Morris head the United States' five-strong weightlifting

🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/oKAATOivtJ— USA Weightlifting (@USWeightlifting) May 24, 2024The United States won

Nurkhon Kurbanova broke the women's javelin T54 world record three times as Uzbekistan won three golds in the field. Britain's Hannah Cockroft won the women's 800m T34 for her second gold in Kobe and her 16th world title in total.

season-best times for silver and bronze, respectively.Defending Paralympic champion Michael Brannigan of the United

States went one better than his silver from Paris last year in the men’s 1500m T20.

The United States lie third with six golds out of a total of 19 medals.

The National Olympic Committee of Azerbaijan organised a breakdancing competition to celebrate the 130th anniversary of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). Some 64 schoolchildren, aged from six to 16, took part with breaking making its Olympic debut in Paris this summer.

and sporting excellence among young people.Breaking is a style of urban dance that originated in the United

States in the 1970s.

World Baseball Classic Inc. has unveiled the venues for the upcoming sixth edition of the global baseball tournament scheduled for March 2026.

with Olympic Baseball (until 2008) and the Baseball World Cup (until 2011).Japan's victory over the United

States in 2023 made them the second team to win the World Baseball Classic without losing a game in

amateur athletes has for a long time been a high-voltage debate within college sports circles in the United

States, as well as the Olympic movement.

Day seven of the Kobe 2024 Para Athletics World Championships was action-packed, with 22 events concluding on a bustling Thursday, several of which saw new world records being set.

put F64, China secured gold with Yao Juan's impressive 12.50m throw, while Arelle Middleton of the United

States claimed silver with 11.84m.

David Blair of the United States won gold in the men’s discus throw F64 with a 60.13m throw, while Uzbekistan

The United States currently holds third place with five gold medals and 19 total medals.

The WNBA is expanding, and in 2026 it will do so in Canada with the arrival of a new franchise. It will be the fourteenth team to play in the league and it will play in an 8,000-seat arena, which will be shared with the city's Professional Women's Hockey League club. Vancouver and Montreal will also host games.

The calendar includes competitions in eight countries currently scheduled for 2024 and early 2025. Two events, one in the Czech Republic and one in Sweden, will take place next June. It is designed for both male and female boxers from U15 to elite level.

There will also be a torunament in the United States, the USA Boxing Women's Championships in Kansas,

Nepal reaffirmed their ongoing efforts to incorporate the contentious talent Sandeep Lamichhane into their T20 World Cup lineup on Thursday, despite encountering hurdles with his US visa application.

week.Initially excluded from Nepal's 15-member squad for the upcoming tournament, set to take place across the United

States and the Caribbean, he was reportedly on the verge of being included in their roster.Lamichhane

'Blade Jumper' Markus Rehm won his seventh consecutive long jump world title on day six of the Kobe 2024 Para Athletics World Championships, as wheelchair racer Noemi Alphonse claimed a first ever gold for Mauritius.

Trentem Merrill, also of the United States, was third.Rehm said, "I had a competition just four days

Just two months before the start of the Olympic Games in Paris, the controversy surrounding the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and its handling of certain cases, notably that of the 23 Chinese swimmers allowed to compete at Beijing 2020, is growing.

The United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) stated that confidence in the World Anti-Doping Agency (

The whole world lives by one anti-doping rule and the United States lives by another.

British swimmer David Wilkie, who won 200m breaststroke gold at the Montreal 1976 Olympics, has died at the age of 70.

2024Two years later, Wilkie took a surprise bronze at the Munich 1972 Olympics behind John Hencken of the United

States.

The United States achieved a significant upset by defeating Bangladesh by five wickets in the first T20