Women who may be pregnant are being urged by the Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) to carefully consider whether to attend this summer's Olympic and Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro due to growing fears over Zika virus.

taken part while in the early stages of pregnancy.Malaysia's Nur Suryani Mohd Taibi took part in the shooting

America’s Vincent Hancock has been named as the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) Male

A six-month prison sentence handed to Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC) President Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah has been overturned by the Court of Appeal in his native Kuwait, according to reports in the Gulf country.

unsuccessfully in 2014 to replace Mexico's Olegario Vázquez Raña as President of the International Shooting

country.The ISSF have since announced that they are investigating Sheikh Salman, who stepped down as Asian Shooting

Russia’s Ekaterina Yurlova-Percht shot clean in the final standing stage to help her clinch the gold medal in the women’s 10 kilometres pursuit event at the International Biathlon Union (IBU) World Cup in Antholz today.

“I just needed to do good work on the skis and shooting today and that would be good enough.

Indian Olympic Association (IOA) President N Ramachandran officially launched the ticket selling process in the country for this year's Olympic Games after the signing of sport travel company Fanatic Sports as their authorised reseller.

Delhi today.The team will be chasing a first gold since Abhinav Bindra claimed the 10 metre air rifle shooting

Germany’s Simon Schempp got his International Biathlon Union (IBU) World Cup season back on track as he clinched a commanding victory in the men’s 10 kilometres sprint event in Antholz in Italy today.

established an early lead with a slow yet clean prone stage, before 30 other competitors followed suit by shooting

Olga Podchufarova of Russia shot clean as she claimed her maiden International Biathlon Union (IBU) World Cup success with victory in the women’s 7.5 kilometres sprint race in Antholz, Italy today.

she crossed the line 22.1 seconds adrift of the winning pace, though she matched her teammate by shooting

Pidhrushna, who would eventually finish fifth, was the early leader as she demonstrated good prone shooting

More than 2,000 volunteers and school children have taken part in the start of the 2016 South Asian Games Torch Relay in India's capital New Delhi.

region of India, killing at least seven security personnel, including India's former Commonwealth Shooting

National Federations representing basketball, boxing and weightlifting, football, swimming and volleyball have been sued by the Kuwait Government as relations been sport and political authorities continue to deteriorate in the country.

unsuccessfully in 2014 to replace Mexico's Olegario Vázquez Raña as President of the International Shooting

decision to sue some of the country's Federations ©ASCSheikh Salman remains President of the Kuwait Shooting

LeBron James and Stephen Curry headline USA Basketball’s 30-strong list of candidates for their country’s men’s squad at this year's Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. 

earned a chance to represent the country and believes they will be strong enough to triumph again.The shooting

Italy’s Guendalina Sartori earned her second Indoor Archery World Cup victory of the season after defeating South Korea’s Park Sehui in the recurve gold medal match in Nimes, France.

different training centre with head coach Wietse van Alten since October, I’ve been working very hard, shooting

Ukraine clinched women’s 4x6 kilometre relay gold to bring an end to the fifth leg of the International Biathlon Union (IBU) World Cup in Ruhpolding.

Slovakia and Italy, with Belarus now leading the event.However, Semerenko made up for her early error by shooting

Gabriela Soukalova earned the 10th International Biathlon Union (IBU) World Cup victory of her career by triumphing in the women’s 12.5 kilometre mass start event today in Ruhpolding, Germany.

impressively during the opening stages of the race to start to move clear, but a missed shot at the third shooting

fashion as the Frenchwoman picked up four penalties on the final standing section, with the clean shooting

which sees her in front of Dorin Habert who has 538 and Hildebrand who has collected 520.Meanwhile, shooting

Table tennis player Melissa Tapper is closing in on becoming the first Australian to appear at both the Olympics and Paralympics.

is now disgraced South African sprinter Oscar Pistorius.The blade runner was convicted of murder for shooting

Convicted murderer Oscar Pistorius has reportedly been used in a promotional video for the Rio 2016 Paralympics - which was posted on the Games' official Twitter page.

The 29-year-old South African blade runner is a pariah in sport after shooting dead his girlfriend Reeva