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Brazil avenge Argentina to take Youth Parapan football gold

  • Paralympics

Brazil capped another superb day at the Youth Parapan American Games in São Paulo by edging arch-rivals Argentina in the football five-a-side final.

secured gold medals today in both women’s goalball and sitting volleyball.They followed a 2-1 sitting volleyball

States with a 10-0 goalball thrashing over Mexico.Colombia beat Venezuela 3-0 in the men's sitting volleyball



Sports complex backed by Chilean Olympic Committee opens

  • PASO

A new multi-sport facility backed by the Chilean Olympic Committee (COCH) has opened in the country.

IOC) OlympAmerica project and helped pay for a sports field, football goals, basketball hoops and a volleyball


Mexican brothers star on opening day of Youth Parapan Games

  • Paralympics

Mexican brothers Raul and Juan Gutierrez lit up the first day of action with swimming medals at the 2017 Youth Parapan American Games in São Paulo.

 Sitting volleyball and table tennis are also featured, as are wheelchair basketball and tennis.The


Youth Parapan Games opened in São Paulo

  • Multi-Sport Games

The fourth Youth Parapan American Games have been officially opened at the Exhibition Pavilion of the Anhembi Events Centre in São Paulo in Brazil.

 Powerlifting, sitting volleyball, swimming and table tennis are also on the programme, as are wheelchair


Paris 2024 chairman pledges safe Games after latest security scare

  • Paris 2024

Paris 2024 co-chairman Tony Estanguet has pledged to ensure a safe and secure Olympics and Paralympics if the city is awarded them, in light of the latest terror scare in the French capital.

International Olympic Committee (IOC) in Lausanne.Paris' iconic Eiffel Tower, the proposed setting for beach volleyball






Olympic qualification points at stake at World Women's Curling Championships

  • Curling

The 2017 World Curling Federation (WCF) World Women's Curling Championships are set to begin at the Capital Gymnasium in Beijing tomorrow with teams aiming to qualify for next year's Winter Olympics.

originally opened in 1968, has a seating capacity of more than 17,000 and was renovated and used for volleyball




Ghana Olympic Committee elects new President

  • ANOCA

Ben Nunoo Mensah has been elected as the new President of the Ghana Olympic Committee (GOC) after defeating Francis Dodoo, who had held the position since 2011.

affiliated to the GOC, with two representatives of the Athletes' Commission.Paul Atchoe of the Ghana Volleyball