The recent evocative pieces on the 50th anniversary of the 1972 Olympic Games by my insidethegames colleague Philip Barker brought personal memories flooding back. Not that they were ever far from consciousness.

month of September to inflict the worst atrocity since the Second World War, the horror of 9/11 in the United

States?

The International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC) is planning to stage three Paraclimbing World Cup events in 2023, in addition to World Championships.

Innsbruck in Austria, Swiss venue Villars and an unspecified location in the United States are planned

The opening day of the 2022 International Basketball Federation (FIBA) Women's World Cup in Australia is set to proceed on September 22 unaffected by the national day of mourning for the death of Queen Elizabeth II.

Canada play Serbia and Japan face Mali in the same pool.Elsewhere in Group A, 10-time champion the United

States face Belgium as South Korea and China meet and Puerto Rico challenge Bosnia and Herzegovina.Prior

Triple Olympic medallist Riza Kayaalp returned to the top of the world stage after beating Iran's Amin Mirzazadeh in the Greco-Roman over-130-kilogram division at the World Wrestling Championships in Belgrade.

pic.twitter.com/uHqpoFpNu8— United World Wrestling (@wrestling) September 13, 2022Aidos Sultangali of

Ozaki of Japan tasted gold in the women's freestyle under-62kg class, dominating Kayla Miracle of the United

States 10-0 by superiority.The bronze medallists in the category were Ukraine's Ilona Prokopevniuk and

#HERstoryMaker | #WrestleBelgrade pic.twitter.com/mJYnuVOs8v— United World Wrestling (@wrestling) September

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) Coordination Commission for the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games has started a three-day visit to the host city, with progress made so far due to be assessed six years out from the event.

Multiple Coordination Commission members are expected to make the trip to the United States, including

The International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC) has published its 2023 events calendar, which includes five standalone qualifiers for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.

Korea, Indonesia, China, Italy, Austria, Switzerland, France, the Czech Republic, Slovenia and the United

States are all due to hold World Cup events.

After two years of COVID, inflation has taken over as the chief economic problem for the Olympic Movement.

irrespective of whether or not Governments contrive to tame inflation.From the late 1980s onwards, the United

States broadcasting deal has constituted a high percentage of the IOC's quadrennial income.The agreement

billion.This implies that the proportion of overall broadcast revenues derived from a single country - the United

States - was a towering 52.4 per cent, up from some 48 per cent in the 2013-2016 period.Well - guess

Teams from the United States and Portugal won gold medals at the International University Sports Federation

Marcus Stroman, who was named Most Valuable Player (MVP) when the United States won the World Baseball

Brazil, the reigning men's title holders and the Paralympic champions, are set to play a rematch of the 2018 final after being drawn against Germany in Group C of the 2022 International Blind Sports Federation (IBSA) Goalball World Championships.

Portugal make up the remainder of the group.In Group D, the other men's group - China, Lithuania, Ukraine, United

States, Iran, Egypt, Mexico and Colombia were drawn together.Russia will be unable to defend their women's

The United States is among the contenders to host the 2023 FIFA Club World Cup, after agreements could

League.The defending champions are English side Chelsea, who beat Brazilian outfit Palmeiras in the United

Argentina secured the 2022 AmeriCup title in the final seconds of the game, beating hosts Brazil through a two-point shot from Gabriel Deck to separate the teams.

but Lucas Dias missed a three-point jump shot, four seconds from time.A brilliant second-half saw the United

States claim bronze by beating Canada 84-80.The Americans were seven points down at half-time, but outscored

Women's football clubs are to feature in FIFA 23, the final EA Sports edition of the football video game, following a boost to the sport this year with the 2022 Women's European Football Championship.

team.Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, England, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Spain, Sweden and the United

States were the 12 international teams that debuted on the game in 2016, but this has since been expanded

Australia and Fiji both shocked defending champions New Zealand in the respective women's and men's tournaments at the Rugby World Cup Sevens in Cape Town.

Zealand won bronze.Third place in the World Cup was comfortably claimed by France as they beat the United

States 29-7.Fiji ended New Zealand's nine-year reign as men's champions with a 29-12 victory in South

Italy achieved several gold medals while competing on home soil at the Terni 2022 World Archery 3D Championships.

Faletti and Cecilia Santacroce.Faletti defeated France's Guillaume Qurtel 28-26 in the men's final as the United

States' Shiloh Butts bested Austria's Alfred Mühlburger by the same scoreline to settle for bronze.In