Defending champions the United States reached the semi-finals of the World Baseball Classic after beating

Weightlifters from Russia and Belarus will not be able to join the Olympic qualifying pathway to Paris 2024 at their own Continental Championships in Armenia next month.

next weekend in Bariloche in Argentina, the biggest teams come from the host nation, Colombia, the United

States, Canada, Mexico, Ecuador and Venezuela.Olympic champions Maude Charron from Canada in the 64kg

Australian head coach Santiago Nieva has claimed that his team are "staying out of politics" after facing Russian boxers at the start of the International Boxing Association (IBA) Women’s World Championships here.

recommendations.Boxing Australia is a member of the group but chose not to follow governing bodies from the likes of the United

States, Britain, Ireland and The Netherlands in boycotting the World Championships.Nieva told insidethegames

Defending champions Switzerland won both their matches on the opening day of the World Women’s Curling Championship in Sandviken, Sweden.

Switzerland, who are seeking a fourth world women’s title in the space of five years, edged past the United

States in the first session of round-robin matches at the Goransson Arena.Despite not scoring more than

Switzerland’s world champion Julie Zogg secured a fifth consecutive women’s parallel slalom Snowboard World Cup title and a second overall title as a nervous spectator on the final day of racing at Berchtesgaden in Germany.

beaten in the big final by Obmann and Slovenia’s 36-year-old Rok Marguc beating Cody Winters of the United

States in the small final to secure the last podium place.Obmann finished on 485 points in the men’s

United States athletes were banned from wearing Ukrainian symbols at the foil International Fencing Federation

Stockholm.Ukrainian-born Ohio State fencer Dasha Myroniuk claimed in an Instagram post shared by the United

States' women's foil Olympic champion Lee Kiefer that American athletes attempted to war the Ukrainian

individual fencers, teams and officials from Russia and Belarus to return to its events.Fencing athletes united

Digital collectable card game Hearthstone has been removed as an esports medal event at the delayed 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou because it is unable to satisfy "preconditions for inclusion".

in Hangzhou.Hangzhou 2022 blamed the expiry of a commercial cooperation agreement between the game's United

States-based producer Blizzard Entertainment and its operator in China NetEase, which meant "the operation

Perrine Laffont of France and Canada’s Mikael Kingsbury replicated their previous day’s single moguls wins on a day of double moguls at the Freestyle Ski Moguls and World Cup finals in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

Laffont beat Beijing 2022 silver medallist Jaelin Kauf of the United States 21-14 in the Big Final to

Switzerland's Marco Odermatt secured another giant slalom victory as he broke the record for total points in a season with 2,042, while Petra Vlhova of Slovakia won her second event of the season at the season finale of the International Ski and Snowboard Federation (FIS) Alpine World Cup in Soldeu.

Croatia,  who was 0.43 seconds behind Vlhova, while the overall champion Mikaela Shiffrin of the United

States claimed third.

Japan continued their dominance as they defeated Italy 9-3 in Tokyo, while Mexico edged past Puerto Rico 5-4 in a thrilling contest in Miami to set up a huge semi-final between the two sides at the 2023 World Baseball Classic.

favourites Japan in Miami on Monday (March 20).The final quarter-final match-up is set to be between the United

States and Venezuela in Miami tomorrow night.The winner is set to face Cuba in the semi-final on Sunday

Afghan boxer Sadia Bromand has underlined the sorry situation facing women in her Taliban-controlled country as she bids for glory at the International Boxing Association Women’s World Championships here and a chance to fulfil her dream by competing at next year’s Olympics in Paris.

restricted from playing sport.The Taliban returned to power in August 2021 following the withdrawal of United

States troops, leading to hundreds of thousands of Afghan citizens fleeing the country.The hardline

under Taliban rule ©Getty ImagesHer comments come just days after Roza Isakovna Otunbayeva, head of the United

Sweden’s skip Anna Hasselborg, the Pyeongchang 2018 gold medallist, will make a sixth appearance at the World Women’s Curling Championships as they start tomorrow on her home ice at Sandviken’s Göransson Arena.

while those from the Pan Continental Championships, again in order, are Japan, South Korea, Canada, United

States and New Zealand.Silvana Tirinzoni will skip defending champions Switzerland at the WCF Women's

Perrine Laffont of France produced her fifth consecutive win of the season but had to settle for second place overall in the women’s single moguls standings at the Freestyle Ski Moguls & World Cup finals in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

disappointing performance in the World Championships.Second spot on the day went to Jaelin Kauf of the United

States, who finished third overall in the women’s single moguls standings, while her teammate Tess Johnson

A record of more than 3,000 medal designs from 120 countries have been submitted for next year's Winter Youth Olympics in Gangwon.

2024 is 10 times that for the last Winter edition in Lausanne four years ago.Mexico, India and the United

States were the top three countries for submissions, followed by hosts South Korea.A panel of judges

Kerttu Niskanen won her second women's distance event of the season as she took control of first place in the rankings, while Norway dominated the men's leaderboard at the International Ski and Snowboard Federation Cross-Country World Cup in Falun, Sweden.

Kalvå of Norway, who was 22.3 seconds behind.Niskanen increased her lead over Jessie Diggins of the United

States in the overall rankings for distance, as she now has 1,070 points to Diggins' 1,048."