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Road cycling and mountain biking quota places secured for Santiago 2023

  • Santiago 2023

A total of 38 athletes have qualified for this year's Pan American Games at the Pan American Road Cycling Championships in Panama City, and the line-up for mountain biking is nearly complete.

Ecuador's Jimmy Santiago Montenegro Narváez.In the women's road race in Panama, Skylar Schneider of the United

States triumphed to qualify along with silver medallist Alison Jackson of Canada and bronze medallist

Catalina Anais Soto Campos of Chile.Skylar Schneider of the United States clinched her place at Santiago


Stellar talents converge on opening Diamond League meeting in Doha

  • Athletics

In a year when all roads lead to the Budapest World Athletics Championships, the opening Diamond League meeting of the season in Doha offers its usual quota of stellar talents the chance to get a serious measure of their form and fitness.

together the Briton who won world 200m gold in the Qatari capital in 2019, Dina Asher-Smith, mercurial United

States talent Sha’Carri Richardson and Jamaica’s current world 200m champion and world 100m silver medallist

tomorrow.Meanwhile the men’s 200m will involve another intriguing showdown, matching as it does two United

States world champions - 100m gold medallist Fred Kerley and 400m winner Michael Norman - as well as

States at the age of 32, saying "we lost a champion, we lost a sister".


UCI agrees to reopen consultation on trans participation after Killips victory

  • Cycling

The International Cycling Union (UCI) has agreed to reopen consultation with athletes and National Federations on the participation of transgender athletes at its competitions with a view to taking a decision at its next Management Committee meeting in August.

when American Austin Killips, a transgender woman, won the fifth stage of the Tour of the Gila in the United

States to secure the overall title.Killips started racing in 2019, and is the first openly trans woman

on February 10 and 11, followed by two in Brisbane in Australia on February 24 and 25.Tulsa in the United

States is set to host a double header on April 27 and 28, with the last two rounds taking place in Papendal


Exclusive: Cricket at LA 2028 a "win, win, win" for the Olympic Movement says ICC chair

  • Cricket

International Cricket Council (ICC) chairman Greg Barclay says including cricket at the Los Angeles 2028 (LA28) Olympics is a "win, win, win" scenario for the Olympic Movement.

incredible breakthrough of T20, the unanimous support of our members, and our growing footprint in the United

States - we see mutual benefits of including cricket at the Games, for our sport, for the Olympic Movement

With 30 million fans, the United States is already one of cricket’s biggest markets, and this is expected

Cricket at LA28 will be a defining moment for the Olympics and sport in the United States, helping to



SolTuna unveiled as official canned tuna supplier for Pacific Games

  • Solomon Islands 2023

Solomon Islands 2023 has scored a catch by unveiling SolTuna as the official supplier of canned tuna for the Pacific Games.

million/$222 million/€201 million) in funding including for the construction of the main stadium.The United

States has sought to counter this, re-opening an Embassy in the Solomon Islands' capital Honiara for


NBCUniversal and Twitter team up to amplify Paris 2024 coverage

  • Paris 2024

Games broadcaster NBCUniversal (NBCU) have expanded their collaboration with Twitter for Paris 2024 in an arrangement expected to bring greater reach and scale to advertisers, the companies have said.

on July 26, Twitter will feature NBCU’s pre-Olympics coverage, including competition highlights, key United

States Olympic Team trials moments and a Paris 25-day countdown, with daily features on athletes or


Greg Barclay: Why cricket can deliver another "win-win-win" for the Olympic Movement

  • Inside the Blogs

There are certain moments in time when the cards seem to fall perfectly. When complex scenarios become, for a brief period, relatively logical and clear. 

States - we see mutual benefits of including cricket at the Games, for our sport, for the Olympic Movement

 The United States in particular is a key pillar of our Global Growth Strategy, making this iteration

With 30 million fans, the United States is already one of cricket’s biggest markets, and this is expected

Next year, the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup will be hosted in the United States, alongside the West Indies

 Cricket at LA28 will be a defining moment for the Olympics and sport in the United States, helping



Olympic all-around champion Lee resumes training in pursuit of Paris 2024

  • Gymnastics

The United States' Olympic all-around artistic gymnastics champion Sunisa Lee has resumed training in

kidney-related issue, but insisted she would "not stop pursuing my dreams for a bid to Paris in 2024".The United

States' Sunisa Lee plans to end her collegiate career to focus on Paris 2024 ©Getty ImagesLast November


Amos issued with three-year ban by AIU for doping offence

  • Athletics

The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) has banned Botswana's men's 800 metres Olympic silver medallist Nijel Amos for three years after testing positive for a banned metabolite, with Kenya's Esther Macharia handed a four-year ban following a positive testosterone test.

on a medal as he placed eighth in the final, which he reached on appeal after a collision with the United

States' Isaiah Jewett in the semi-final.GW1516 was added to the World Anti-Doping Agency's prohibited




Russia claim "no international law in sport" after fencers miss FIE World Cup events

  • Fencing

Russian Fencing Federation (FFR) President Ilgar Mammadov has complained that there "is no international law in sport" after complaining that the International Fencing Federation (FIE) are refusing to answer their questions about the neutral status of fencers and support staff from Russia and Belarus.

My foreign colleagues from the United States, who were waiting for us in Acapulco, were very surprised


Americans hoping to dominate Pan-American Wrestling Championships

  • Wrestling

The United States look set to dominate again at the Pan-American Wrestling Championships in Buenos Aires

year ago, when the competition was in Acapulco.Three-times Pan-American champion Patrick Smith of the United

States looks to be the man to beat at 72kg.In the 77kg bracket, three medallists from 2022 are back

year.Alan Vera, who won at 80kg in the colours of Cuba seven years ago is now registered to compete for the United

States in this division.At 97kg, Kevin Mejia of Honduras dominated in 2022 and is bidding for three

 He fights in the 74kg category.Jordan Burroughs of the United States believes he can qualify for