One can only imagine the month Afghanistan’s Paralympic athletes Hossain Rasouli and Zakia Khudadadi have had, with the pair’s hopes of competing at Tokyo 2020 having been dashed last week, only to now be in the Japanese capital.

outlined its efforts to evacuate a large number of women footballers and athletes from Afghanistan to Australia

Britain finished with the last two gold medals at the Sea Forest Waterway as rowing competition at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games reached its climax.

creating a gap of more than 12 seconds to his nearest competitor in a time of 9:48.78.Erik Horrie of Australia

Up to 10 England cricketers may withdraw from the Ashes tour in Australia unless the players' families

back for the start of term.Another major barrier is the hard quarantine which forces those arriving in Australia

days.There is said to be increasing frustration in the England camp about a lack of progress from Cricket Australia

Cricket Australia continues to work closely with the ECB [England and Wales Cricket Board] and government

authorities in Australia regarding the upcoming Ashes series, which will be the centrepiece for one

Nicholl and Kim Anderson to leads its marketing and commercial teams for the 2023 Women's World Cup in Australia

https://t.co/DkrMqklCgy— FIFA Women's World Cup (@FIFAWWC) August 21, 2021Anderson led the marketing of Australia

and New Zealand's bid to host the World Cup.She added: "During the Australia and New Zealand bid, we

Many sporting events have been cancelled in Australia and New Zealand due to strict COVID-19 countermeasures

fears.The 2020 and 2021 Formula One Australian Grands Prix were each cancelled due to COVID-19, while Australia

China’s Feng Panfeng captured the sixth Paralympic title of his career after withstanding a stirring fightback from Germany's Thomas Schmidberger to win an epic men’s table tennis singles C3 final at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics here.

ImagesBelgium's Laurens Devos came from a game down to beat four-times Paralympic champion Ma Lin of Australia

Yevhenii Bohodaiko and Maksym Krypak led a Ukrainian gold-medal charge at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre as the nation saw five of its athletes top the podium today at the Paralympics.

Catchpole won the mixed 4x100m freestyle S14 relay event in a time of 3:40.63.The quartet were followed by Australia

Some of weightlifting’s most popular Olympic champions of the 21st century - and a 92-year-old who won Olympic gold nearly 70 years ago - have added their voices to the clarion call for the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) Executive Board to put the sport before their own interests.

President Mike Irani of Britain, who is not supported by his own National Federation, Sam Coffa of Australia

Belarus' Ihar Boki has set his sights on matching his gold-medal tally of six achieved at Rio 2016 after winning three titles in as many days at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games here.

women’s S12 400m freestyle.Carlotta Gilli of Italy clinched silver in 4:26.14 with Katja Dedekind of Australia

Double Olympic 100 metres champion Elaine Thompson-Herah, whose winning time of 10.54sec in Eugene last Saturday (August 21) was the second-fastest time ever, will seek to maintain her breath-taking form here tomorrow as the Diamond League moves on to the French capital.

Paris, although the Tokyo 2020 bronze medallist Patryk Dobek of Poland and fourth-placer Peter Bol of Australia

A senior member of the Japanese Government has weighed into the controversy over Beijing’s hosting of the 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games, with chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee Makoto Nagamine calling on the country to help apply pressure on China over human rights concerns.

Canadian opposition leader Erin O'Toole, have called for the Games to be moved.Others from Britain, Australia

Thailand will be aiming to continue their rich vein of form in boccia at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, with competition set to start tomorrow at the Olympic Gymnastics Centre.

relatively new player in Rio, where she finished fifth.Greece lead the pairs BC3 rankings, but Hong Kong and Australia

Britain’s Jaco van Gass marked his Paralympic debut with a world record and a gold medal after winning the men’s C3 3,000 metres individual pursuit at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics here.

gold.Van Gass clinched victory in 3min 20.987sec as Graham came second in 3:22.000 and David Nicolas of Australia

world record in the men's C2 3,000m individual pursuit with a time of 3:31.478 to beat Darren Hicks of Australia

The Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF) has refreshed its international women's competitions - with a new W Gold Cup added to the calendar and the W Championship tweaked.

finishers will additionally advance to the inter-continental playoffs for the 2023 Women's World Cup in Australia

The postponed Rugby League World Cup 2021 (RLWC2021) will now take place from October 15 to November 19 2022.

take place this autumn but were  postponed after reigning champions men's and women's champions Australia

Zealand Rugby League cited "the risk of COVID-19 infection in the United Kingdom", rising case numbers in Australia

Dutch rider Sanne Voets is aiming for a hat-trick of equestrian gold medals as she sets her sights on team, individual and freestyle glory at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics here.

also be challenges from world number two Rebecca Hart of the United States as well as Emma Booth of Australia