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IFF confirms amended Women’s Under-19 World Floorball Championships to take place

  • Non-Olympic Sports

The International Floorball Federation (IFF) has confirmed the Women’s Under-19 World Floorball Championships will take place in September as scheduled with a modified format amid withdrawals.

proceed from September 1 to 5 in Uppsala.Czech Republic, Finland, Latvia, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, Germany



Nigeria beat US in major basketball shock before Tokyo 2020

  • Basketball

Nigeria's basketball team stunned six-time defending Olympic champions the United States with a shock victory in a warm-up match for the delayed Tokyo 2020 Games.

at Tokyo 2020, alongside Iran, France and the Czech Republic.Nigeria are due to take on Australia, Germany


UEFA give Hungary two-game spectator ban for homophobic and racist abuse

  • Football

UEFA has given Hungary a two-match ban on spectators due to "the discriminatory behaviour of it supporters" at Euro 2020, where its fans were accused of homophobia and racism.

Budapest and Munich.Hungary played Portugal and France at home at the Puskás Aréna, before playing Germany


Michael Pavitt: Tokyo 2020 - No fans, no regrets?

  • Inside the Blogs

Most of Europe has been left enthralled by the UEFA European Championships over the past month, with the delayed tournament having been portrayed as an uplifting event in troubled times.

capped at 22,500, before an increase to 40,000 for the England and Italy’s last-16 matches against Germany



Italy bag hat-trick of golds at World Rowing Under-23 Championships

  • Rowing

Italy claimed three gold medals on an impressive day at the World Rowing Under-23 Championships in Račice in the Czech Republic.

final.The duo clocked a winning time of 7:31.61 in front of Antonia Michaels and Cecilia Sommerfeld of Germany

out on top in 6:44.31.Eva Hohoff, Romy Dreher, Natalie Weber and Antonia Wuerich clinched silver for Germany

beating Caitlin Esse and Lucy Koven of the US by more than two seconds.Lena Sarassa and Hannah Reif of Germany


Barty wins first Wimbledon title with three-set victory over Plíšková

  • Tennis

Ashleigh Barty became the first Australian to win the Wimbledon women’s singles title in 41 years after overcoming Czech Republic’s Karolina Plíšková in three sets.

wait for a female Australian finalist when she defeated former Wimbledon winner Angelique Kerber of Germany


PSA appoint MEDsan UK to conduct COVID-19 testing at World Championships

  • Squash

MEDsan UK has been appointed to carry out rapid antigen testing during the Professional Squash Association (PSA) World Championships in Chicago, it has been announced.

competition, with results generated within just 20 minutes.The rapid antigen test is manufactured in Germany


Two golds for Ukraine on day one of IWAS Wheelchair Fencing World Cup in Warsaw

  • Wheelchair Fencing News

Ukraine won two golds on the opening day of the International Wheelchair and Amputee Sports Federation (IWAS) Wheelchair Fencing World Cup in Warsaw - the final major competition before the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics.

advanced with a 15-13 win over Greece’s Vasileios Ntounis, while Fedyaev had beaten Maurice Schmidt of Germany



Philip Barker: God-like Lewis, a united Germany and Akabusi's anchor leg - when Tokyo hosted the World

  • Inside the Blogs

When World Athletics President Sebastian Coe visited Tokyo’s rebuilt Olympic stadium for the first time, he admitted: "I saw a stadium that will be a fitting venue for a future World Championships in track and field."

independence on the final day of the Games.The 1991 World Championships also held special resonance for Germany

That it should come in Tokyo completed another circle.In 1964, official sporting recognition for East Germany

We should look at the methods of East Germany when building the new system.

Illustrated dubbed her "Katrin the Great" but noted that Krabbe "and many other athletes from the former East Germany


IBSF sign long-term strategic partnership with IMG until 2030

  • Bobsleigh and Skeleton

The International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (IBSF) has signed a long-term deal with global sports, events and talent management company IMG which lasts until 2030.

audience and expand the footprint globally," said Christian Salomon, senior vice-president for IMG in Germany


Alan Hubbard: How Southgate’s squaddies may have outgunned Ramsey’s elite troops of 1966

  • Inside the Blogs

Bearing in mind that my thoughts here are being compiled before England have played their European Championship semi-final against Denmark, there is still no doubt in my mind that the celebrations we have witnessed so far following the pulsating progress of Gareth Southgate’s foot soldiers have exceeded even those which surrounded the World Cup victory of 1966.

I was there when England defeated West Germany 4-2 in extra time at Wembley and while that glorious afternoon

England conquered the whole world of football (albeit overcoming only half a nation in the final as Germany

was then still split in two, though East Germany was not much of a force in the game) while what England