Sport resuming across the world has provided encouragement to the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) that the rearranged Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games can go ahead next year, according to the IPC's chief marketing and communications officer Craig Spence.

Speaking to LockerRoom on the New Zealand-based website Newsroom, Spence highlighted events starting

up again in Australia and New Zealand, and the completion of the UEFA Champions League in Portugal, as

claimed some Governments had reverted to type with attitudes towards disabled people ©Getty Images"In New

Zealand and Australia, sport is coming back again.

The International Rugby League's (IRL) Women and Girls Working Group (WGWG) has appointed So'oletaua Motuliki as its first secretary, a position she has taken up immediately.

Others in the WGWG include the head of women's rugby league for New Zealand Rugby League, Luisa Avaiki

; Papua New Guinea Orchids international player Tahina Booth; general manager of the National Rugby League

Amy Tinkler has claimed she would “give up” her Olympic medal to have "not have gone through what she did" as she spoke of her experiences at British Gymnastics.

relation to its treatment of gymnasts and consideration of their welfare will be reviewed.Gymnastics New

Zealand and the Royal Dutch Gymnastics Union have announced similar independent review processes in

England's netball head coach, Jess Thirlby, will miss her team's trip to New Zealand after she tested

stated that Thirlby had no symptoms, but did return a positive test - meaning she cannot travel to New

Zealand for the three-game series.All other members of the team, including the 16 players and the remaining

coaching and support staff, received two negative tests results and will follow strict protocols while in New

Zealand, including quarantining after arriving in the country and undergoing regular tests.For the past

England are set to face the world champions New Zealand on October 28, October 30 and November 1.

Pace bowling legend Courtney Walsh has been named as the new head coach of the West Indies women's cricket

women's side until at least the end of 2022.This will include the Women's Cricket World Cup in 2022 in New

Zealand, an event which was pushed back a year due to the COVID-19 crisis.In the same year the Women's

This is indeed an honour to be named as the new head coach," Walsh, who has served as assistant coach

A new date of June in 2022 has been proposed for the Pacific Mini Games in the Northern Mariana Islands

hoped a date in December 2021 could be found.But now members of the PGC are to be asked to approve a new

Athletics Championships that have moved from 2021 to 2022," PGC chief executive Andrew Minogue told Radio New

Zealand (RNZ)."

A decision on the new dates for the Pacific Mini Games is expected this month."

Men's singles world number one Kento Momota is reportedly among 15 Japanese players to have withdrawn from the Badminton World Federation (BWF) Denmark Open next week, because of concerns over the rise of COVID-19 cases in Europe.

several changes to its World Tour calendar due to the coronavirus pandemic.World Tour events in France, New

Zealand, Macau, Germany, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, India, Malaysia, South Korea and Thailand have

The Russian Rugby Federation (FRR) has announced it is looking to bid for the 2031 Rugby World Cup, as well as the 2027 edition.

never hosted the Rugby World Cup and has twice qualified for the tournament since 1995 – in 2011 in New

Zealand and 2019 in Japan.The 2023 Rugby World Cup is scheduled to take place in France.The bidding

The draw for the 2023 Rugby World Cup is scheduled to take place later this year in Paris, preceding France's hosting of the tournament in three years' time.

into account the World Rugby rankings from January 1, 2020 - which see world champions South Africa, New

Zealand, England and Wales sit as the top seeds.The second seeds will be Ireland, Australia, hosts France

Tony Gustavsson has been appointed head of the Australian women's football team for next year's Olympic Games in Tokyo and beyond.

waiting for – to lead the Matildas for four years and also at the FIFA Women’s World Cup in Australia and New

Zealand in 2023."

World Rugby has appointed Nigel Cass as competitions director as part of a restricting of the rugby functions of the international federation.

Zealand Rugby.He worked on both the Men’s Rugby World Cup in 2011 and preparations for next year’s Women

’s Rugby World Cup, as well as the New Zealand round of the World Rugby Sevens Series and the World Rugby

U20 Championship in 2014.He has also led New Zealand Rugby’s hosting of international competitions,

including The Rugby Championship and Super Rugby, and domestic competitions in his native New Zealand

“Firstly, I would like to acknowledge the honour it has been to work within rugby in New Zealand,” Cass

This year's Cook Islands Games, the first major sport event to take place in the nation since the coronavirus pandemic hit, are set to get underway tomorrow.

participating, including the capital Rarotonga," CISNOC President Hugh Graham said, according to Radio New

Zealand."

Rugby Australia has confirmed captain Sharni Williams and Shannon Parry have re-committed to helping the team defend the women’s rugby sevens Olympic title at Tokyo 2020.

Tokyo to 2021, due to the coronavirus pandemic.Both players were co-captains of the side that beat New

Zealand 24-17 in the gold medal match at Rio 2016."

champions are due tol face the challenge of hosts Japan, Brazil, Britain, Canada, China, Fiji, Kenya, New

Zealand and the United States.Two more teams are due to secure qualification to complete the 12-team

field in the coming months.Australia’s women’s sevens team is currently completing a camp in the New

New Zealand's Joelle King beat world number one Nouran Gohar in a straight shootout for a place in the

victory over the Egyptian at the Mall of Arabia to secure second spot in Group A ahead of Gohar.The New

will appear in the semi-finals for the first time after he overcame world number five Paul Coll of New

Zealand 11-3, 11-5.Makin's victory saw him take second place in Group B and set up a meeting with Karim

men's 470 class, Paul Snow-Hansen and Dan Willcox, have officially been selected for Tokyo 2020 by the New

Zealand Olympic Committee (NZOC).

The pair are the first athletes to be selected for the New Zealand team since COVID-19 forced the postponement

Zealand," said Snow-Hansen."

Zealand Team heading to Tokyo 2020!

#KoTatauTeKapaOAotearoa pic.twitter.com/gENJ0iejBZ— The New Zealand Team (@TheNZTeam) September 29,

2020Nine sailors have now been confirmed for the New Zealand team with the 470 pair joining Peter Burling