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Qatar and Morocco to host next five U-17 World Cups

  • FIFA

FIFA has announced that Qatar will host the U-17 boys' tournament for the next five editions from 2025 to 2029, while the U-17 girls' tournament will be held in Morocco.

 Morocco will co-organise the 2030 World Cup with Spain and Portugal, with three matches to be played


Arena MRV of Atletico Mineiro is the best stadium of 2023

  • Football

The striped stadium in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, was chosen from among the 35 stadiums that entered the competition, making the Brazilians the winners of the stadium and fan competition.

;In 2022, in the 12th edition of the competition, first place went to Estadio El Sadar in Pamplona, Spain


Dutch footballer Quincy Promes, detained in Dubai, faces extradition

  • Football

Promes, who currently plays for Spartak Moscow, was sentenced to six years in prison in February for his part in the smuggling of more than a thousand kilograms of cocaine. He was arrested in Dubai and Dutch prosecutors are seeking his extradition.

Before his spells in Spain and the Netherlands, he played in Russia from 2014 to 2018.


Paris 2024 Men's Handball Qualification: 12 teams, three venues and six tickets

  • Handball

top two placed teams in the three Olympic Qualifying Tournaments, which will be held in Granollers (Spain

Paris 2024 Olympic Games, with the teams' dreams and history forever intertwined with these arenas.Will Spain

Spain have only missed out on the Olympic Games once since 1980, at Rio 2016, and will be hoping to write

nbsp;After an underwhelming experience at the EHF EURO 2024, where they finished on the 13th place, Spain

comes in the Olympic Qualification Tournament #1, but both Brazil and Bahrain are underdogs against Spain


Denmark to host Mountain Bike Marathon European Championships in 2024

  • Cycling

The Management Committee of the European Cycling Union has awarded Denmark the right to host the European Mountain Bike (MTB) Marathon Championships in 2024, which will take place in Viborg on 18 August. The continental body is also considering awarding Denmark three additional junior championships between 2024 and 2028.

Mountain Bike Marathon Championships will be held in the town of Ramales de la Victoria in Cantabria, Spain

Endurance mountain biking will also come to Spain for the first time as a European Championship, in a


Firearms to protect athletes in the Olympic Village?

  • Paris 2024

Security is on everyone's mind in France because the Organising Committee and the government do not want the Olympic Games to be overshadowed by criminal acts or terrorism, even in the Olympic Village, where more than 14,000 people will live.

which has been copied and used in many European countries with their own versions (England, Italy, Spain


IWGA and French National Olympic and Sports Committee sign Memorandum

  • News

This agreement will be of great importance for the promotion of physical activity and all the disciplines that are part of the programme of The World Games (TWG). It's an initiative that will give greater visibility to French athletes and, of course, to the TWG. It also commits both parties to playing their part in communication, marketing and broadcasting.

This meeting will take place in Madrid, Spain, in October 2023.


Krpalek wins his first tournament of the year

  • Judo

Over the last three days, the eyes of the judo world were focused on the capital of Upper Austria, Linz, which hosted the second edition of the Upper Austria Grand Prix. If the 2023 edition was already a success, this year the bar was raised even higher.

Francisco Garrigós (Spain).2. Cedric Revol (France).3. Dilshot Khalmatov (Ukraine).3.

Tristani Mosakhlishvili (Spain).3. Giorgi Jabniashvili (Georgia).3.


Paris 2024 European qualifiers: Taekwondo world champion Golubic wins quota

  • Taekwondo

Croatia has won its third Olympic quota in taekwondo. On the final day of the European Qualification Tournament, 2023 World Champion in men’s 74 kg category  Marco Golubic defeated Sweden's Ali Alian to reach the final and secure his place at Paris 2024 in the men's -68 kg category. Golubic joins Lena Stojkovic (women's -49k g) and Ivan Sapina (men's +80 kg) who qualified through the rankings.

Spain, Italy, Denmark, Slovenia, Norway, Ireland, Croatia, Czech Republic and the refugee team had one


Bagnaia chases third successive title as MotoGP celebrates 75th anniversary

  • Non-Olympic Sports

MotoGP returns for its 75th season this weekend with the Qatar Grand Prix. Since 2007 the World Championship has started at the Losail International Circuit, except last year when the season opener was held at Portimão. Bagnaia, who has won the championship twice in a row, is the favourite to win again.

"I can hardly wait, I'm like a child with new shoes, as they say in Spain.


Ancelotti tax fraud case: Spanish prosecutors seek four years and nine months

  • Football

Spanish prosecutors have announced that they will seek a prison sentence of four years and nine months for Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti, who is on trial for tax fraud.

"Although he himself claimed his status as a tax resident in Spain and declared that his domicile was

simulated" the transfer of his rights to companies that "lacked real activity" and were based outside Spain


Paris 2024: Hockey tournament schedules announced

  • Hockey

The President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Thomas Bach, and the President of the International Hockey Federation (FIH), Tayyab Ikram, have announced the hockey competition schedule for Paris 2024, which will take place from 27 July to 9 August.

The first hockey match will be an all-European affair with Great Britain taking on Spain in the men's


Glasgow: World record for Charlton, Duplantis reigns, Bol and Doom also 4x400 champions

  • Athletics

Devynne Charlton broke her world record in the 60m hurdles, 'Mondo' continued his dominance in the pole vault, and the Netherlands' Femke Bol and Belgium's Alexander Doom added a second gold medal to their 400m gold in the 4x400m at the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championship 2024 in Glasgow.

gold in the men's 800m with an impressive time of 1:44.92, while defending champion Mariano García of Spain


ISA World Surfing Games: Five surfers qualify for Paris 2024

  • Paris 2024

Andy Criere, Joan Duru, Ramzi Boukhiam, Rio Waida and Tim Elter qualified for Paris 2024 on the final day of waves in Puerto Rico. Brazil leads the women's team category at the World Surfing Games. France leads the men's category.

The three of them qualified for the Olympic Games, along with Andy Criere (Spain), who along with Yago

WSG 2024 Women: Anat Lelior (Israel), Camilla Kemp (Germany), Janire Gonzalez-Extabarri (Spain

), Nadia Erostarbe (Spain), Siqi Yang (China), Sol Aguirre (Peru), Taina Hinckel (Brazil) and Yolanda

Sequeira (Portugal).Men: Alonso Correa (Peru), Andy Criere (Spain), Joan Duru (France), Ramzi Boukhiam


Xammar and Brugman new 470 World Champions

  • Sailing

Xammar and Brugman are the 2024 470 World Champions on home waters, followed by Great Britain and Japan. The Nations Cup was awarded to Great Britain for the best national performance.

It was been five days of competition with varying climates in Palma de Mallorca, Spain.