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US Open tennis attendance record broken during Serena Williams first-round match

  • Tennis

Fans flooded in record numbers to the United States Tennis Association Billie Jean King National Tennis

tribute including compatriots in golfer Tiger Woods, basketball stars Steph Curry and Chris Paul and United

States vice-president Kamala Harris.Woods, who watched from the stands as Williams defeated Kontaveit


Olympic champions set to star at Paris World Taekwondo Grand Prix

  • Taekwondo

Thailand's Panipak Wongpattanakit is one of four Tokyo 2020 Olympic champions due to compete at the Paris World Taekwondo Grand Prix.

Uzbekistan’s Ulugbek Rashitov, the United States’ Anastasija Zolotic and Croatia's Matea Jelić are the

Magda Wiet Henin is bidding to follow up her Rome Grand Prix triumph.Anastasija Zolotic is one of the United

States best chances of claiming gold at the Grand Prix in Paris ©Getty ImagesIn the men's under-58kg


BT/Eurosport joint venture to be prelude to new UK sports brand

  • News

The process of consolidation in the media sector, one of sport’s main paymasters, has continued with news that Warner Bros. Discovery and BT Group have closed a deal to form a new sports joint venture.

that assets of BT Sport and Eurosport UK have been combined to produce a line-up for viewers in the United

closed today ©Getty ImagesLast year, Discovery was combined with WarnerMedia, the content unit of the United

States-based telecoms company AT&T.Marc Allera, chief executive of BT’s consumer division and chairman



WBSC reveals $10,000 prize for winners of inaugural Virtual Cup

  • Baseball and Softball

The World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) has revealed that there will be a prize of $10,000 (£8,700/€10,100) for the winning team at its Virtual Cup.

inaugural esports competition begins today in various cities in Japan, Mexico, South Korea and the United

States, and is aimed at people with no prior professional experience of baseball or softball.There are


Exclusive: WCF Presidential candidate Welling wants to build on Caithness' "groundwork"

  • Curling

World Curling Federation (WCF) Presidential candidate Beau Welling has said he is not intimidated by the weight of succeeding outgoing head, Kate Caithness.

drawn into the curling world by watching the sport on television.Welling became a Board member of the United

States Curling Association in 2007 and he served as his nation's representative at the WCF from 2010


Calls for Panam Sports statute change to boost female leaders

  • Pan American Games

Calls are being made for Panam Sports to implement a rule to ensure women make up at least 30 per cent of the organisation’s Executive Board.

female voting members on the Executive Board along with Canada's Tricia Smith, Susanne Lyons of the United

States, Veda Bruno-Victor of Grenada, Nicole Hoevertsz of Aruba and Guyana's Aliann Pompey who is head


UN report finds "serious human rights violations" committed in Xinjiang

  • Beijing 2022

The United Nations (UN) has found that "serious human rights violations have been committed" in the Xinjiang

Winter Olympics and Paralympics, and sparked a diplomatic boycott from Western nations including the United

States, Australia, Britain and Canada.China faced accusations of using forced Uyghur labour, operating


Men's 800m champions converge for Brussels Diamond League meeting

  • Athletics

The men's 800 metres in tomorrow’s Wanda Diamond League meeting in Brussels - the last points-scoring opportunity before next week’s series finale in Zurich - promises to be one of the races of the season.

States, who has also run that time and will be seeking to re-state her credentials after failing to

States looks likely to be his closest challenger.In the women’s high jump, Australia's world champion

States and Japan’s world bronze medallist Haruka Kitaguchi.Newly established European champion Elina

States will be the one to look out for in the men's shot put ©Getty ImagesLike Duplantis, men's 400m

States and New Zealand's 2017 world champion Tom Walsh.


Third seed Sakkari stunned by world number 75, Williams marches on at US Open

  • Tennis

Third seed Maria Sakkari of Greece was on the end of the biggest upset during the third day at the US Open while Serena Williams continued her journey into the third round  in New York.

Ludmilla Samsonova of Russia 3-6, 6-7.Elsewhere in the women’s singles draw, 12th seed Coco Gauff of the United

States beat Romania’s Elena Gabriela Ruse 6-2, 7-6.Gauff’s compatriot Madison Keys, the 20th seed, also


Olympic bobsleigh medallist Meyers Taylor elected to USOPC Board of Directors

  • PASO

Olympic bobsleigh medallist Elana Meyers Taylor has been elected to the United States Olympic and Paralympic

medals in the two-woman event at Vancouver 2010 and Beijing 2022.The 37-year-old was selected as the United

States team flagbearer for the Opening Ceremony of Beijing 2022, but was unable to fulfil the role after


FISU praises Chungcheong's bid for 2027 Summer World University Games following visit by Evaluation Committee

  • Chungcheong 2027

The International University Sports Federation (FISU) has praised Chungcheong's 2027 Summer World University Games bid, after its Evaluation Committee completed a six-day visit to South Korea.

vice-governor Lee Pil-young.Chungcheong Megacity is rivalling the Triangle Region in North Carolina in the United

States in the race to host the Games.The successful candidate is set to be announced at a FISU Executive


Gorbachev, whose era as Soviet leader redrew Olympic landscape, dies aged 91

  • Olympics

Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union before its dissolution in 1991 which changed the Olympic map forever, has died in Moscow at the age of 91.

Korea.Many felt that Gorbachev’s policies had been instrumental.Mikhail Gorbachev's political meetings with United

States President Ronald Reagan also softened the atmosphere in sport ©Getty Images"This year's resumption