Sifan Hassan from The Netherlands and Norway’s Karsten Warholm have been crowned the 2021 European Athletes of the Year at the Golden Tracks awards ceremony which was held in Lausanne in Switzerland.

accolade after Dafne Schippers in 2014 and 2015.Hassan beat fellow Olympic champions Anita Włodarczyk of Poland

12.72sec at the World Athletics U20 Championships in Nairobi in Kenya.Javelin thrower Maria Andrejczyk of Poland

UEFA is to investigate an allegation of racist abuse aimed at Manchester United and Sweden's Anthony Elanga during this week's Under-21 European Championship qualifier in Italy, while Polish Football Association (PZPN) President Cezary Kulesza has said it will complain to FIFA over claims of racism made against its defender Kamil Glik during last month's match against England.

ImagesIn a development on a melee that occurred at half-time of the FIFA World Cup qualifier between Poland

The men's singles draw at the Indian Wells Masters was blown wide open as second and third seeds Stefanos Tsitsipas of Greece and Alexander Zverev of Germany suffered shock defeats, while Belarus' Victoria Azarenka will contest the women's singles final for the chance of her third title at this event against Spain's Paula Badosa.

rankings left in the competition.Additionally, yesterday's defeat of eighth seed Hubert Hurkacz of Poland

Tunisia's Ons Jabeur and Spain's Paula Badosa complete the women's singles semi-final line-up at the Indian Wells Masters as they both earned straight-sets victories in California.

Masters 1000 semi-final as the 23rd seed came from a set down to beat world number 12 Hubert Hurkacz of Poland

Athletics, has said an agreement has been signed and paid for guaranteeing the 2023 European Games in Poland

Top seed Daniil Medvedev is out of the Indian Wells Masters men's singles after losing to Bulgaria's Grigor Dimitrov, while second seed Stefanos Tsitsipas of Greece had to go the distance to beat Australia's Alex de Minaur in California.

but let's see the result," Medvedev commented.Dimitrov will face world number 12 Hubert Hurkacz of Poland

FIFA has opened disciplinary proceedings following clashes between Hungarian supporters and police at Wembley Stadium in London during a World Cup qualifying fixture.

global governing body said that it is also investigating incidents during the game between Albania and Poland

FIFA has opened disciplinary proceedings in relation to yesterday's England v Hungary and Albania v Poland

during this year's European Championship.Yesterday's game between England and Hungary finished 1-1.Poland

Chief Polish teqball referee Marcin Szyda says he wants to see the sport grow in the country, which is set to host the European Games in 2023, where teqball will make its debut.

the first-ever European Teqball Tour event in Cervia in Italy last month, wants to grow the sport in Poland

 "My primary goal is to further develop teqball in Poland and the wider world," Szyda said.

The International Federation of Teqball says it aims to develop more female referees in Poland and globally.Kraków

more highly-ranked seeds were knocked out of the Indian Wells Masters in California as Iga Świątek of Poland

Italy, South Korea and Poland are through to the final round of women's ice hockey qualifying for the

showdown with the Dutch - who scored 30 goals in their first two games.A three-goal third period saw Poland

Two-time winner Victoria Azarenka of Belarus knocked the Czech seventh seed Petra Kvitová out of the Indian Wells Masters in the headline women's singles third-round clash in California.

Romania's 11th seed and 2015 Indian Wells winner Simona Halep 7-5, 6-4.The second seed Iga Świątek of Poland

Dates have been officially set for the 2025 World Games in Chengdu, it has been announced.

Kaohsiung in Chinese Taipei in 2009.They were last held in 2017 when they were staged in Wroclaw in Poland

The newly-crowned US Open champion and men's singles top seed Daniil Medvedev got his Indian Wells Masters campaign off to a winning start with a comfortable victory against home favourite Mackenzie McDonald in California.

2 and will play South Africa's Lloyd Harris in the next round, as did eighth seed Hubert Hurkacz of Poland

Csaba Bányik and Zsanett Janicsek have moved back to the top of the mixed doubles world rankings for October 2021, toppling Brazil's world champions, Natalia Guitler and Marcos Vieira.

 Former men's world number one Adrian Duszak of Poland displaced Bányik in third, with Romania's

Lionel Messi, Jorginho and N'Golo Kante have been named on the 30-man shortlist for the men's Ballon d'Or award while Barcelona trio Jennifer Hermoso, Lieke Martens and Alexia Putellas feature on the women's nominations.

Ruben Dias and Bruno Fernandes.Erling Haaland of Norway, Denmark's Simon Kjaer, Robert Lewandowski of Poland