Officials from the Global Association of Mixed Martial Arts (GAMMA) Committees and Member Federations met in Amsterdam to review 2021 and plan global development initiatives for the future.

take place from December 7 to 11 but was postponed following strict COVID-19 measures introduced in Germany

The Swiss city Geneva has been named the host of the World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship, as well as the World Senior Curling Championships, due to take place in April 2022.

Olympics.Scotland, Norway, Sweden, Canada, Italy, Switzerland, Czech Republic, United States, China, Germany

Capacity will be limited to 50 per cent at Rogers Place and the WP Centrium for the International Ice Hockey Federation’s (IIHF) World Junior Championship, following a tightening of COVID-19 restrictions in the Canadian province of Alberta.

Omicron variant.Rogers Place in Edmonton, which is set to host the opening match between Finland and Germany

The United States-led diplomatic boycott of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games has been condemned by Iran.

at restoring a 2015 nuclear deal Iran signed with the US, China, United Kingdom, France, Russia and Germany

Lithuania’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) has said it was the victim of an "information attack", denying suggestions athletes from the nation would boycott the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Zealand are among the nations to declare they will not send Government officials to the Games.France, Germany

Four-time Paralympic cycling champion and former Formula One driver Alex Zanardi has been released from hospital 18 months after a life-threatening road crash that left him with a traumatic brain injury, as he continues his rehabilitation from home.

having won the 1997 and 1998 titles.However at the 2001 American Memorial at the EuroSpeedway Lausitz in Germany

Spanish wheelchair basketball player Amadou Diallo Diouf has been disqualified from the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games following a positive drug test.

Group A with a 100 per cent record.Diouf scored six points in Spain’s 71-68 quarter-final win over Germany

Women's Luge World Cup front-runners Julia Taubitz of Germany and Austria's Madeleine Egle both won a

100 points further back in third after placing 12th in the sprint.Toni Eggert and Sascha Benecken of Germany

Francesco Friedrich won his 10th race from 10 on the final day of the International Bobsleigh & Skeleton World Cup in Altenberg, as the German continues his impressive unbeaten streak on home soil.

Gibbs.Anastasiia Makarova and Elena Mamedova of Russia were fifth, while World Cup leader Laura Nolte of Germany

There are now less than 50 days until the start of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and the challenges seem to have piled up for organisers recently.

 Unanimity has not been reached in the European Union, however, with France, Germany and Italy among

The International Luge Federation (FIL) has updated its qualification system for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games after organisational difficulties at World Cup events in Yanqing, Sochi and Altenberg.

the Luge World Cup in Sochi ©Getty ImagesThere were also issues in Sochi in Russia and Altenberg in Germany

Germany has traditionally been the most successful luge nation at the Olympics, and won three of the

The men's singles overall Luge World Cup leader Johannes Ludwig of Germany won his third event of the

Italy's Emanuel Rieder and Simon Kainzwaldner were third in 1:19.452.Toni Eggert and Sascha Benecken of Germany

Jarl Magnus Riiber won a fifth event in a row as his dominance of the Nordic Combined World Cup continued - as he secured victory by almost half a minute in Ramsau today.

than anybody else could manage and earned 12 more points than the next-best scores.Julian Schmid from Germany

Swedes Sandra Näslund and Erik Mobärg will start the women's and men's brackets as top seeds after topping qualification at the Ski Cross World Cup competition in Innichen in Italy.

Midol was third, followed by Switzerland's Tobias Baur and Austrian Tristan Takats.Daniel Bohnacker of Germany

Francesco Friedrich continued his tremendous run of wins in the two-man bobsleigh with a fourth of the season on the second day of the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (IBSF) World Cup in Altenberg.

Friedrich and brakeman Thorsten Margis gave Germany a home victory and the pilot's ninth of the season