The Swedish Olympic Committee (SOK) has found that there is public support for the country to bid for the 2030 Winter Olympics and Paralympics following the outcome of a survey.

from Vancouver in Canada was also shelved due to a lack of Government support.Salt Lake City in the United

States remains in contention but said it would prefer to bid for 2034 to avoid a clash with Los Angeles

World number 189 Peiyun Chien of Chinese Taipei has taken a surprise lead at the Chevron Championship after a superb opening-round in Texas.

five-under par 67 at Carlton Woods to move out in front - one ahead of world number two Nelly Korda of the United

States - in the first women’s major of the year.The 32-year-old bogeyed the opening hole before landing

Hans von Uthmann has been elected as President of the Swedish Olympic Committee (SOK) for a two-year term at the governing body's Annual General Meeting in Stockholm.

scandal.A Vancouver bid was shelved due to a lack of Government support.The 2002 host Salt Lake City in the United

States is the only one who could stage the event as it stands.However, the International Olympic Committee

and United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee are in agreement that the 2034 edition would be more

A joint bid is set to be launched by the United States and Mexico to secure the hosting rights for the

having been crowned champions on four occasions including the past two editions in 2015 and 2019.The United

States will be aiming to win their third straight Women's World Cup crown and fifth overall when the

event is staged in Australia and New Zealand later this year ©Getty Images"The United States has always

A record six teams from CONCACAF will play in the Women’s World Cup this summer, and the United States

World champion Loredana Toma added another continental title to her long list of achievements here with an easy win at the European Weightlifting Championships.

year-old medical student Sturludottir posted 96-121-217.Gold, who won a Pan American junior title for the United

States, switched to Israel and made a lower total at 76kg at the IWF World Championships.Sturludottir

A group of British politicians from the Westminster for Democracy (WFD) has visited 2023 Pacific Games hosts Solomon Islands to work with their counterparts on "Parliamentary oversight of the Budget".

Islands Government although many details of the arrangement have not been made public.In response, the United

States has decided to re-open their embassy before the Pacific Games to counter Chinese influence.Meanwhile

The International Tennis Federation (ITF) has advanced its plans for a return to China after the Peng Shuai scandal, awarding October's World Tennis Tour Junior Finals to Chengdu.

pandemic led to the event's cancellation.Haggerty, an International Olympic Committee (IOC) member in the United

States, said he was pleased to return to the Sichuan International Tennis Center from October 16 to

Sports doctor George Nagobads, who was the physician for five United States Olympic ice hockey teams

famous victory over the Soviets by timing the tactical substitutions.In all, he was team doctor for 15 United

States national teams from 1967 to 1990.We are saddened to learn the passing of our team physician,

Frankfurt.During the Second World War, he escaped the Soviet Union to Germany and later moved to the United

States where he began work as a doctor.In 1958, Nagobads became team physician for the University of

The United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) have announced that bobsledder Quentin Willey accepted the

encouraged to take up bobsled by a strength coach at UNC and competed as a brakeman.He was selected for the United

States squad in 2022.Willey's ban is set to expire a month before the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics

The United States Embassy in France has launched a new campaign to celebrate the fact that Los Angeles

team.She said that "our goal through this campaign is to highlight the strength of the ties between the United

States and France in the field of sport, as well as the importance of the health of body, mind and spirit

Bali's Governor Wayan Koster has doubled down on his opposition to Israel's participation at this year's Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC) World Beach Games in the Indonesian province.

14 sports.Qatar's capital Doha held the first in 2019 following the withdrawal of San Diego in the United

States, and a planned second edition in 2021 was postponed because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

More than 8,000 candidates from 111 countries have registered applications to become volunteers at this year's Kraków-Małopolska 2023 European Games - including one aged 93.

The nonagenarian is a Polish woman living in the United States, who has applied to visit her homeland

candidates.Europe leads the way in terms of the number of applications - Spain is the leader ahead of the United

A top Scottish ultra-marathon runner who finished third in a race this month has been disqualified for covering two and a half miles of the route in a car.

retracted his confession but was banned from running races.In the 1904 Olympic marathon, Fred Lorz of the United

States became infamous after breasting the finishing tape in the stadium and claiming victory, only

Serbian Boxing Federation (SBF) President Nenad Borovčanin is planning to run against Russian Umar Kremlev for the post of International Boxing Association (IBA) President, if it helps in securing the sport's future at the Olympic Games.

Boxing.Officials from the National Federations of Germany, Britain, the Philippines, Sweden, and the United

States are also represented in the rival governing body.World Boxing has claimed it is "not in a fight

The International Basketball Federation (FIBA) has rejected Russia's hopes of featuring in men's Olympic Pre-Qualifying Tournaments for Paris 2024, effectively banning the London 2012 bronze medallists from the Games.

Tournaments, with the next best-placed European team in Bulgaria taking their place.Mali, Chile, Cuba, the United

States Virgin Islands, Chinese Taipei, Indonesia, South Korea and Syria join the four European teams