At the end of one of the most intensive summers of athletics action, with World Championships, Commonwealth Games and European Championships taking place in swift succession, the best of the best are now in Zurich for the Wanda Diamond League final.

shorter distance.Jackson plans to double in the 200m, a distance at which men’s runner Noah Lyles of the United

States, the double world champion, will seek to earn a fifth Diamond League trophy.Three weeks after

Tourism and Events Queensland (TEQ) and the Brisbane Economic Development Agency (BEDA), two key bodies in Brisbane's preparations for the 2032 Olympics and Paralympics, have been credited with providing support for the Australian city's staging of the Nitro World Games.

Travis Pastrana expects Brisbane to be a superb host for the event, which is set to be held outside the United

States for the first time since its inaugural edition in 2016."

The International Mixed Martial Arts Federation (IMMAF) held an online event to discuss transgender athletes in the sport.

Fallon Fox, a transwoman, has competed against female fighters in the United States, ending with a 5-

Norwegian world chess champion Magnus Carlsen has withdrawn from the Sinquefield Cup in the United States

It was a happy Labour Day holiday for home fans at the US Open tennis as Frances Tiafoe of the United

States stunned second seed Rafael Nadal of Spain in the fourth-round.

champion Świątek closing it out 6-0.Elsewhere in the women’s draw eighth seed Jessica Pegula of the United

States defeated double Grand Slam champion Petra Kvitová of the Czech Republic 6-3, 6-2.More follows

The most successful competitor of the Munich 1972 Olympics has been recalling when he was told to leave the Olympic Village for his own safety, in the aftermath of the terrorist attack in which 11 members of the Israeli team died 50 years ago today.

Swimmer Mark Spitz won what was then an unprecedented seven gold medals for the United States but he

Austria won the battle for supremacy against Britain in the cloth discipline after the two nations met in each of the three finals at the World Dodgeball Championships in Edmonton.

task as they bested Britain 21-11 at the Saville Community Sports Centre.In the bronze matches, the United

States took two of the three cloth bronzes.They dominated hosts Canada, winning 29-3 in the men’s event

mixed foam event, Canada imposed a 5-3 defeat on Malaysia to secure a gold on their home floor.The United

States achieved bronze after bettering Australia 8-4.More follows.

The Mayor of Sapporo Katsuhiro Akimoto has cancelled a planned visit to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) headquarters in Lausanne, where he was due to discuss the city’s bid to host the 2030 Winter Olympics with IOC President Thomas Bach.

Vancouver in Canada has been given City Council backing, while Catalonia in Spain and Salt Lake City in the United

States have both expressed an interest in bidding for the 2030 Winter Olympics.

Olympic champion Kārlis Lasmanis starred for Riga as the Latvian team achieved their first Masters triumph of the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) 3x3 World Tour of the season in Montreal.

Krūmiņš and Agnis Čavars.Austria's Vienna finished third in the standings while Omaha 3ball of the United

States and China’s Beijing rounded off the top five.In the individual events, Steve Sir of Mongolian

The United States topped Cuba 4-3 to reclaim their World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) Under

champions Poland are through to Men's Volleyball World Championship quarter-finals and will play the United

States, who saw off a Turkish comeback to also advance at the Gliwice Arena.

in Denmark, with Brianne Jenner scoring both goals in the second period in a 2-1 final win over the United

States.

No doubt it was mere coincidence that both Mondo Duplantis and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, respective world champions in the men's pole vault and women’s 100 metres, saw their long unbeaten runs ended during Friday's Wanda Diamond League meeting in Brussels.

Olympic 200 and 400m champion Michael Johnson of the United States, and Canada’s Olympic 100m champion

USA Judo is eyeing a podium spot at the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games after David Leiva won the nation's first-ever medal at the Cadet World Championships in Sarajevo last month.

Leiva beat Mahammad Mamishov of Azerbaijan to clinch an under-50 kilograms bronze medal.The United States

World Curling Federation (WCF) Presidential candidate Bent Ånund Ramsfjell has advocated for maintaining the authority of the national governing bodies and insisted that the WCF should "embrace new and innovative ideas".

WCFFellow WCF vice-presidents Hugh Millikin of Australia and Graham Prouse of Canada, as well as the United

States' Beau Welling, are also running for the WCF Presidency, and Ramsfjell believes that the competition