Kuwait has been granted provisional membership of the International Luge Federation (FIL) by the governing body's Executive Board.

status.There are 50 full members of the FIL.Kuwait can only be approved as a full member by the FIL Congress ©USA

Ukraine were the dominant force on day two of the International Swimming Federation Artistic Swimming World Series in Barcelona as they won three gold medals.

was won by Mayya Gurbanberdieva and Aleksandr Maltsev of Russia.Natalia Figueroa Vega and Bill May of USA

The United States Olympic Committee's Athlete Career and Education Programme (ACE) has given more than $240,000 (£190,056/€215,06) of higher education tuition grants to athletes.

€72,858) earmarked for active US Olympians and Paralympians, $63,530 (£50,314/€56,929) for other Team USA

Career and Education Programme director Leslie Klein said she was "proud and honoured" to support Team USA

 “The tuition grants programme is one of the many important ways we aim to support Team USA athletes

their career, education and life skills development, such as providing mentoring programmes with Team USA

Li Wenwen, the most remarkable teenage talent in weightlifting, finished ahead of the reigning Olympic and world champions in the first two international competitions of her career this year.

71kg, in which she is rated well ahead of her rivals.Others have a chance of making the podium and the USA

“We have never won two golds at the Juniors before,” said Phil Andrews, chief executive of USA Weightlifting

The United States is set to host the 2020 International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) Under-18 World Championship.

The Championship will be staged at the 3,800-seat USA Hockey Arena in Plymouth, Michigan and the smaller

Nikesha Harding has added incentive to make sure Australia stay top of the International Federation for Athletes with Intellectual Impairments (INAS) Global Games medal table, as she competes in front of her home crowd.

acknowledges it will be tough and has identified who she feels is her biggest rival – Leslie Cichocki from the USA

Australia beat defending champions Great Britain today to set up a final with the United States at the International Wheelchair Basketball Federation Women's Under-25 World Championships in Thailand.

for tomorrow evening.It will be a repeat of the 2011 gold medal match, which the US won.U25 NEWS - USA

Eight new members have been added to the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) Hall of Fame following a ceremony in Slovakia’s capital Bratislava.

when the nation won at both the Olympics and the World Championship in the same year.Recognition for USA

Mathieu van der Poel and Chloe Woodruff of the United States were the victors in the short track races at the International Cycling Union (UCI) Mountain Bike World Cup event in Nové Město na Moravě.

ensures another top step of the podium for Team USA! ?

The USA Bobsled and Skeleton Federation (USABS) has announced that Jimmy Shea, Curtis Stevens, John Hubert

Tayler Wiles of the United States was the victor in the third stage of the Emakumeen Euskal Bira, the International Cycling Union Women's World Tour race in Spain’s Basque region.

https://t.co/f88rWJRyOB— USA Cycling (@usacycling) May 24, 2019Still leading is second stage winner Amanda

Italy made it a perfect three wins out of three in Pool One as the first week of International Volleyball Federation Women's Nations League action came to an end today.

.#13 @SarahWilhite leads USA ??

Double Olympic champion Angelo Taylor has been provisionally suspended  by USA Track & Field

USA Softball have announced Ken Eriksen as head coach of the women’s softball team for next year's Olympic

Eriksen’s nomination does not come as a surprise having been the women’s national team leader since 2011.USA

The former men’s fast pitch player began coaching within the USA Softball programme in 2002 and currently

Thank you to the USA Softball national team selection committee and Board of Directors."

To be handed the keys to this programme back in 2011 after all the great players retired from Team USA

Winning the World Championship and the Olympic bid in 2018, it was an affirmation of how Team USA has

Further allegations of misconduct against late figure skater John Coughlin have emerged after one of his former pairs partners claimed he had sexually abused her for two years.

Think about the victims," she added.In a response sent to USA Today, Tara Modlin, Coughlin's former agent