The Tonga Netball Association is set to create history in the sport having sealed qualification for the 2021 World Youth Cup for the first time.

There are Tongan players in New Zealand and Australia who did not get the opportunity to make the team

international borders open early next year, to allow Tongan players to come over from Australia and New

Zealand.

An eight-team tournament will now replace the traditional autumn tests in rugby union due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

the same as well as third and fourth.This means that Scotland's autumn matches against Argentina and New

Zealand have been cancelled.When the Six Nations resumes after its postponement in March, Scotland will

Nations, but the Rugby Football Union (RFU) – the governing body for English rugby union – hopes that the new

Paralympics New Zealand (PNZ) has officially recognised the achievements of boccia player Tom Simeon

 He was the first New Zealand representative to compete in boccia at the Paralympic Games, featuring

Henk Dijkstra.PNZ chief executive Fiona Allan attended the event, alongside Scott Martin of Boccia New

Zealand.

It is Paralympians like Tom who have contributed to New Zealand Paralympic Teams success by representing

The International Cricket Council (ICC) has confirmed the launch of the Men’s Cricket World Cup Super League, which will determine seven qualifiers for the 2023 World Cup.

League, including the 12 full ICC members Afghanistan, Australia, Bangladesh, England, India, Ireland, New

Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa, Sri Lanka, the West Indies and Zimbabwe.The Netherlands will also feature

Offices for the 2023 Pacific Games have been officially opened in the Solomon Islands, just a few days after the country's Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare promised that the Government were committed to the event, despite the worldwide coronavirus crisis.

capital Honiara for the first time in the country's history.He has now backed that pledge by opening the new

next 1,089 days to ensure all preparations are completed prior to the Games," he said.Workers at the new

delayed because the Chinese Government is helping fund and build many of the facilities, including a new

 Other countries providing resources include Australia, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, New Zealand

ability to live up to its financial commitment to fund the Games," he said at the official opening of the new

A petition launched to convince organisers of the 2022 World Games to allow the Iroquois Nationals lacrosse team to compete has called for 10 countries to boycott the event in Birmingham in Alabama over their exclusion.

calls on Australia, Canada, Germany, Britain, Ireland, Japan, United States, Czech Republic, Israel, New

Zealand to boycott the World Games, which had been due to take place in 2021 before being postponed

International Olympic Committee (IOC) vice-president John Coates has been added to Rugby Australia's Rugby World Cup Advisory Board.

Coates is one of two new appointments to the Board, alongside former international Gary Ella, as Australia

Rugby Australia announced its bid in 2017, having hosted the tournament alongside New Zealand in 1987

to host in the coming years, with the country also bidding for the Netball World Cup.Australia and New

Zealand were awarded the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup last month, after seeing off competition from Colombia.Queensland

A new weightlifting competition for mixed-gender teams could be a formula to follow around the world

is open to all athletes anywhere in the world who have been unable to train and compete normally.The new

compete against each other over the next eight months.The heaviest athlete in action in round one, New

, weighed 171 kilograms - more than four times the weight of a 14-year-old girl representing Papaua New

Zealand, will qualify if she finishes qualifying at the end of next April in the top eight, or if Stowers

, Samoa, Fiji, Nauru, New Zealand, Australia, Solomon Islands, Kiribati and two conglomerate teams from

The Olympic Flame was to have been lit tonight at the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo as the climax of the Opening Ceremony. Instead, the day signals 364 to go until the Games.

Engel-Kramer, double diving gold medallist at the 1960 Rome Games.Yesterday marked a year until the new

Anita Lonsbrough and her female teammates wore precisely the same shade of pink as the Germans.New Zealand

They wore 'LBJ' hats, so called because they resembled the headgear of the new President Lyndon Baines

Johnson.There were also new flags at the Tokyo Games.The two Cameroonians were among those making their

On the final day of the Games, Northern Rhodesia was no more and the new republic of Zambia came into

The World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) has begun an Olympic rewind series which will show previous matches to coincide with the original schedule for Tokyo 2020.

(@WBSC) July 23, 2020Two matches from Sydney 2000 will be shown, with New Zealand and Canada's opening

The World Rugby Executive Committee has recommended a revised and temporary international calendar for 2020, with the aim of making the most of the recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.

international borders and travel.The Rugby Championship 2020, which features Argentina, Australia, New

Zealand and South Africa, will be hosted in full in a single country over six weeks from November 7

UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) has announced a two-year ban for boxer Roseanna Cox, who failed a drugs test while believing career in the sport was over.

on the World Anti-Doping Agency Prohibited List as it can be used as a masking agent.Cox represented New

Zealand at the 2014 International Boxing Association (AIBA) Women's World Boxing Championships, losing

New Zealand's Winter Olympian Christy Prior has announced her retirement from the country's national

Prior won two World Cup gold medals during her career ©Getty ImagesShe was provisionally selected for New

Christy was at the forefront of taking New Zealand snowboarding to the world stage," said Snow Sports

Alain Rolland is to step down from his role as World Rugby's 15s high performance match official manager at the end of this month.

international, who refereed the final of the 2007 Rugby World Cup, said he had stepped down to seek new

the time is right to dial back the travel, spend more time with my family and move forward with my new

superb group of match officials who, I am sure, will be in excellent shape at Rugby World Cup 2021 in New

Zealand and Rugby World Cup 2023 in France."

Prospective Olympians are among weightlifters from 15 countries who are competing this weekend, more than four months since the last competition on the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) calendar. 

Uzbekistan, France, Canada, the United States and Bolivia, while officials are carrying out their jobs from New

Zealand, Serbia, Nigeria, Japan, Britain and elsewhere.The sponsors of this potentially significant

I hope this will show us a new way of doing things," said Quiñones, who started thinking about hosting

continents volunteered their time to review the trial runs, suggested changes to the regulations, and tested new

through 11 drafts of the IWF technical regulations before it was finalised with modifications for the new