Hosts Sweden will collide with Paralympic champions Lithuania in the men's group stage of this year's World Goalball Championships after the draw was made in Malmö.

meet the Paralympic champions after being selected with Turkey in Group C.Russia, Japan, Australia and Israel

A record 71 athletes from 22 countries are due to participate at the 2018 International Surfing Association (ISA) World Longboard Surfing Championships in Wanning in China.

Bay at the event due to start tomorrow, including non-traditional surfing nations such as Germany, Israel

Dutchman Sjinkie Knegt and Arianna Fontana of Italy were crowned overall champions as the European Short Track Championships concluded in Dresden today.

earned bronze.Knegt topped the overall standings with a total of 107 points, with Vladislav Bykanov of Israel

Japan remains the top-ranked nation in the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) Baseball World Rankings for men, which have been updated to reflect the final standings for 2017.

climbing to number six and seven respectively.The Mexicans have 3,012 points, while Australia have 2,634.Israel

International Olympic Committee (IOC) member Alex Gilady has filed a ILS2 million (£431,000/$583,000/€487,000) lawsuit against two women who publicly accused him of sexual harassment.

lawsuit was submitted to a Tel Aviv court this morning against Oshrat Kotler, a broadcaster at Channel 10 Israel

If one believed in spirits, it would be tempting to imagine that of Baron Pierre De Coubertin, father of the modern Olympics, hovering approvingly over the proposed meeting between representatives of North and South Korea in the demilitarised zone that lies between them.

Palestine had been invited, but was uninvited in May 1948 following the creation of Israel.

The IOC then acted to prevent a potential Arab boycott by ruling that Israel could not compete as it

before killing two Israelis and taking another nine hostage, demanding the release of 200 prisoners from Israel

Arab countries and China, the Indonesian Government refused to issue visas to the delegations from Israel

TimelineBangkok 1966The fifth edition of the Asian Games was held in Bangkok in December 1966.Taiwan and Israel

as the action got underway with the Arab nations, China, North Korea and Pakistan refusing to face Israel

Bangladesh and India.It led to Bangkok stepping in and hosting the Games again.On the political front, Israel

World Para Ice Hockey organised a training camp in Israel to bring the sport to the country for the first

Eight people took part in Tel Aviv with the Israel Ice Hockey Federation and German Ministry of Foreign

the start of the Para-hockey project are going hand in hand," said Boris Chait, the President of the Israel

There are a lot of young and middle-age people who were injured during the wars and other events in Israel

hockey experts from the Czech Republic, Germany and Slovakia help out in the sport's development in Israel

German Ministry of Foreign Affairs in providing the funds to help us organise the training camp in Israel

23-man squad for next year's International Federation of Lacrosse (FIL) Men's World Championships in Israel

to working with this squad over the coming months as the preparations and intensity builds towards Israel

Israel was awarded the 2018 FIL Men's World Championship in May.It came after English Lacrosse withdrew

Ukraine's Anna Muzychuk is skipping the ongoing World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships in Riyadh in protest of the way women are supposedly treated as "secondary creatures" in Saudi Arabia.

Players from Israel have also allegedly been denied visas for the week-long event taking place at the

the International Chess Federation (FIDE) due to its players being denied visas.Saudi Arabia and Israel

by FIDE insisted that visas for players from Qatar and Iran had been granted but made no mention of Israel

Hundreds of refugee children are among the 35,000 to have visited the Olympic Experience Visitors Centre in Tel Aviv over the past year.

The refugees which visit the centre, run by the Olympic Committee of Israel (OCI), are those who are&

The fourth edition of wheelchair rugby's Women's Cup has been held in French capital Paris.

from hosts France and Germany, Italy, Great Britain, Ireland, Poland, Finland, The Netherlands and Israel

France's Théo Revil and Gautier Guevel came out on top in a three-way fight for the gold medal in the boys' 29er class at the 2017 Youth Sailing World Championships in Sanya.

Ido Bilik and Noam Homri from Israel completed the podium line up.American twin sisters Carmen and Emma

United States' Charlotte Rose and Uruguay's Dolores Moreira Fraschini are locked in a see-saw battle for the women's laser radial lead at the 2017 Youth Sailing World Championships in Sanya.

Luciana Cardozo of Argentina lies a distant third on 32 points.Yoav Cohen of Israel is among the contenders

Belgium's Lucas Claeyssens and her crew Anne Vandenberghe held on to the overall lead in the 15 helm category after another good display at the 2017 Youth Sailing World Championships in Sanya in China.

The boy’s 420 event saw overnight leaders Ido Bilik and Noam Homri of Israel drop down to third after