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The United States' former heavyweight boxing world champion and IBA ambassador Roy Jones Jr, centre,

Sweden's pole vaulter Mondo Duplantis and 400m hurdler Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone of the United States

home World Championships in Eugene was honoured.World 200m bronze medallist Erriyon Knighton of the United

States, 18, has been named as World Athletics Rising Star for a second year running ©Getty ImagesOn

USA Archery has adopted a new logo it is claimed will help the organisation grow the sport leading up to and during the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics and Paralympics.

The new logo is a bow and incorporates the colours of the United States flag, as well as a star and stripes.It

There are calls for the International Bowling Federation (IBF) to hold an Extraordinary Congress as the dispute continues over who is leading the world governing body.

return but rejected claims they had colluded to establish a rival organisation with the help of the United

States Bowling Congress.

A member of the Soviet Union’s famed basketball team that controversially won the Olympic gold medal at Munich 1972, Alzhan Zharmukhamedov, has died at the age of 78, it has been announced.

ethnic Kazakh to win an Olympic gold medal.He was an important member of the Soviet team that beat the United

States 51-50 in the final that still ranks as one of the most argued-about results in Olympic history.It

Canada’s Olympic silver medallist Laurent Dubreuil hailed "a perfect weekend" as he won three gold medals at the International Skating Union’s Four Continents Speed Skating Championships in Quebec City.

 They clocked a combined time of 1min 20.596sec to win from South Korea in 1:21.252.The United States

Chinese trio of Chong Pei, Binyu Yang and Lina Zhang skated to team sprint gold in 1:30.596, from the United

States who finished in 1:31.389.Canada took bronze with a time of 1:31.610.

The International Basketball Federation (FIBA) has conditionally approved to host some of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games' basketball competitions away from the capital in Lille.

Paris.The basketball competitions at Paris 2024 are set to take place from July 27 to August 11 with the United

States due to defend their titles in both tournaments.

Russia's Stanislav Pozdnyakov is one of only three Presidents of National Olympic Committees (NOCs) to be invited to the Olympic Summit in Lausanne later this week, despite his country's invasion of Ukraine, it was announced here today. 

represent the NOCs along with Gao Zhidan and Susanne Lyons, Presidents of the Chinese Olympic Committee and United

States Olympic and Paralympic Committee, respectively at the Summit chaired by International Olympic

Executive Board members Emma Terho, chair of the IOC Athletes' Commission, and Nenad Lalovic, President of United

Fears over the heat have led Japanese organisers to announce that the 2025 World Athletics Championships will take place in September, despite initial plans to stage the event in August.

climate change.Tokyo last hosted the World Athletics Championships in 1991, an event remembered for the United

States' Mike Powell breaking the world record in the long jump ©Getty ImagesThe decision to award Tokyo

we prepare to stage the meet," he said.This year's World Championships took place in Oregon in the United

States after being postponed last year because the Olympics had been moved to 2021 due to coronavirus.The

Legendary tennis coach Nick Bollettieri has died at the age of 91 - two weeks after denying his own death on social media.

of Italian American immigrants, Bollettieri graduated in philosophy in 1953 and later served in the United

States Army.He studied Law at the University of Miami but dropped out in 1956 before his tennis coaching

Less than a year after home pole vaulter Holly Bleasdale finished sixth in the London 2012 Olympic final her career turned golden at the European Indoor Championships in Gothenburg.

and competitive cookie.Indeed, this week the current women’s Olympic champion, Katie Nageotte of the United

States, described Bradshaw, who earned bronze in that delayed Tokyo 2020 competition, as "the toughest

Holly Bradshaw has been defended by her friend and rival Katie Nageotte, the Olympic champion from the United

States, after receiving abuse on social media ©Getty ImagesThe report also found that abuse "tended

At the end of a year when weightlifting news has been dominated by reforms, election controversies, politics and doping, the athletes return to centre stage tomorrow at the 2022 International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) World Championships in Bogotá, Colombia.

Bogotá, is one of the four nations with a maximum team of 20.The others are Colombia, Mexico and the United

States, while countries with large teams include Japan and Korea with 18, Canada with 17, and Ecuador

of the IWF grace the platform," said Ursula Garza Papandrea, the IWF's first vice-president from the United

States."

At last, I proclaimed on Thursday (December 1) evening. Not at last have I finally "got into" this year's FIFA World Cup - an event that in the past has effectively put my life on hold, but on this occasion I have struggled to embrace for a host of reasons. 

That is quite an ask for 2026 hosts the United States, Canada and Mexico, plus players' clubs, to accept.Qatar

Nico Gleirscher was in fine form on the final day of the Luge World Cup season opener in Innsbruck as he won both the men's individual and sprint events.

Madeleine Egle, also of Austria, won the women's sprint ahead of the United States' Emily Sweeney and

Australia won the Men's Softball World Cup for the first time since 2009 as they defeated Canada 5-2 in the final in Auckland.

Zealand's total of 13, although the latter has the most titles with seven.Earlier on, five-time winners the United

States claimed third place with a 2-0 victory over defending champions Argentina, to bag their first