Fourteen women’s and men’s teams have qualified for the 3x3 basketball competition at next year’s Commonwealth Games here in Birmingham, it has been announced.

Coast 2018.The women’s draw also features regional qualifiers Kenya, Canada, Sri Lanka, Saint Lucia and New

Zealand.The men’s line-up consists of Kenya, Canada, Sri Lanka, Trinidad and Tobago and New Zealand

five-a-side format of the sport has featured at Melbourne 2006 and Gold Coast 2018.Australia, Canada and New

Zealand will be among the favourites in the men’s competition, with hosts England determined to be in

to contest Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) qualifying for the Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup, with New

Zealand starting as the favourites to take the one available playoff berth.

process is still several months away from getting started and will not unfold in the continent.Top seeds New

Zealand, who are ranked 110th in the world, will be expected to top Group B, despite meeting solid opposition

from New Caledonia and Fiji.Papua New Guinea are the other team they will face.The Solomon Islands are

Travel chaos caused by a new COVID-19 variant has left teams struggling to return home from Zimbabwe

Indies had all travelled to Zimbabwe to compete in the event, scheduled to conclude on December 5.Papua New

Tetley.West Indies, Bangladesh and Pakistan have now qualified for the World Cup, scheduled to be held in New

Zealand from March 4 to April 3 next year, based on their current world rankings.Courtney Walsh, head

Rugby chief executive Alan Gilpin has claimed the future of rugby sevens is "incredibly bright" after new

Tokyo this year after a memorable debut at Rio 2016 which was estimated to have attracted 30 million new

fans.Fiji and New Zealand won the respective men’s and women’s titles at Tokyo 2020 as rugby sevens

and welcomed International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach to witness the women’s final as New

Zealand overcame France."

the pitch, clearly demonstrate the huge impact that Olympic participation has in enabling us to reach new

The Men’s World Team Squash Championship, scheduled to take place in Kuala Lumpur next month, has been cancelled after Malaysian authorities refused to issue visas to players from Israel. 

situation regarding Israel, the WSF admitted that they and "SRAM both have concerns surrounding the new

travel to Malaysia for the event".The Championship was originally due to take place in Tauranga in New

Zealand, but was moved to Kuala Lumpur in May due to concerns over COVID-19.

Can it be really be less than a week since the International Olympic President Thomas Bach, minus mask in order to address the Smart Cities & Sport Summit in Copenhagen, joked about feeling "naked" without it, and warmly welcomed the return to face-to-face meetings, with all their "body language"?

Universiade has been cancelled less than a fortnight before it was due to start due to the emergence of the new

Australia has now paused its plan to reopen its borders to some foreign nationals amid fears over the new

rule change made earlier this month allows permanent residents and fully vaccinated travellers from New

Zealand and Singapore into Australia.As from December 1, the country was due to add fully vaccinated

Seven Paralympians who represented New Zealand across six Paralympic Games were honoured at the ParaFed

It is an honour to be part of this historic occasion," said Jana Rangooni, chair of Paralympics New Zealand

They join 165 New Zealand Paralympians who have already received their official numbered pins."

The Paralympians represent New Zealand Paralympic teams from across the many decades that New Zealand

Zealand ©Getty ImagesWilliams played boccia for New Zealand at Sydney 2000 before turning his efforts

Since debuting at Tel Aviv 1968, New Zealand has won a total of 232 Paralympic medals, competing in 14

Cycling New Zealand high-performance director Martin Barras has resigned following confirmation of an

The New Zealand Olympic Committee (NZOC) commissioned an independent investigation in September, led

from his position at the national governing body.Cycling New Zealand chief executive Jacques Landry,

Cycling New Zealand was extremely disappointed to learn of this incident."

Landry said Cycling New Zealand acknowledged the valuable contribution Barras had made since starting

He is highly regarded within Cycling New Zealand and the wider cycling community, and has deepened the

Britain's Katie Archibald claimed wins in the women's scratch and elimination races on the second leg of the International Cycling Union (UCI) Track Champions League, taking place in Panevežys in Lithuania.

top five.In the men's elimination race, Mora added a second win too, this time beating Aaron Gate of New

Zealand to the line.O'Brien was third and Italian Michele Scartezzini was fourth.

Bicycles - gloriously, laboriously - are ever-present on the streets of Copenhagen. And so it seems right and fitting that one of the most cycling-friendly of cities should eventually be involved in the greatest of cycling races.

The Capital region of Denmark and the regions of Zealand and Southern Denmark are financially contributing

They came up with this brand-new huge football stadium in Stockholm.

As she is a new person in this new Mayor position it is very good that she says now 'I love the big events

Already a new event is being discussed for 2029 - to be announced.

Either the Euro 2020 winners Italy or Euro 2016 champions Portugal will not make the Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup next year, after both footballing giants were drawn in the same path today for the playoffs.

to play the fifth-placed team from South America, while the winner of Oceanian qualifying - likely New

Zealand - takes on the fourth-placed team from North and Central America.

A promotional video has been released to mark one-year-to-go before the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) Men's Softball World Cup in Auckland.

New Zealand is scheduled to host the tournament between November 26 and December 4 next year.The country

 New Zealand's team, nicknamed the Black Sox, will be hoping for a return to form in 2022 after

tournament seven times, more than any other nation.Their last win came in 2017 in Whitehorse in Canada.New Zealand

Men's Olympic champions Fiji will seek to start the HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series with victory as the new

teams in each pool will advance to the quarter-finals, as well as the two best third placed teams.New Zealand

absent due to travel issues caused by the coronavirus pandemic.Samoa’s men’s team are also absent.New Zealand

captains of the teams competing at the HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series in Dubai are looking forward to a new

We have a really new team with a lot of opportunities for the young girls."

Australia is poised to host the Rugby World Cup in 2027 after being named the preferred candidate by the World Rugby Council, while England has been given the same status for the women's competition in 2025.

to be awarded by the Council in May 2022.It is the first time World Cups are being awarded under a new

The new approach to electing Rugby World Cup hosts is more flexible and collaborative, with World Rugby

Ireland's first-ever win against New Zealand came in Chicago - and the city could well host matches as

France is staging the next 15-a-side men's World Cup, in 2023, while the next women's event is set for New

Zealand next year, having ben delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic.The 2025 tournament will be the first

England is to welcome Australia, New Zealand and South Africa in January for the Netball Quad Series,

remains challenging and our thanks must go to the staff and players from Netball Australia, Netball New

Zealand and Netball South Africa who have worked tirelessly to confirm this event.Introducing your Netball

due to COVID-19 restrictions in the country.They had been preparing for competition with a tour of New

Zealand but were unable to get to the neighbouring nation due to lengthy quarantine periods.The Constellation

Cup, a competition between Australia and New Zealand, was postponed in September due to the virus.