New Zealand's Alexandra Maloney and Molly Meech won two 49erFX races today to take a clear lead in the

Australia and Japan topped their groups at the Asia Oceania Floorball Confederation qualifiers to book their place at this year's Women's World Championships.

Australia defeated New Zealand 7-0 in their final Group A fixture to get three wins out of three at the

semi-final against Malaysia, Group B's third place team.Sweden crushes France in #WFCQ2019 EUR1 with a new

pic.twitter.com/IoQmH5CYje— IFF (@IFF_Floorball) January 30, 2019This and the other semi-final, Singapore against New

Zealand, will be played tomorrow.

 World number one side Sweden set a new International Floorball Federation record when they annihilated

Australia entered the Asia Oceania Floorball Confederation qualification tournament for the Women's World Championships with a bang as they thrashed hosts Thailand 8-2.

Kuiraphanew scored for Thailand, ranked 19th in the world, who could not back up their 6-1 victory over New

Zealand yesterday.The Kiwis recovered from that reverse as they beat tournament outsiders The Philippines

Baseball World Cups at age-group level will be contested over seven innings rather than nine and instant replays are set to be implemented at Softball World Cups under changes approved by the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC).

competitions, the WBSC confirmed, while the Under-12 World Cup will keep its original six-inning format.New Zealand

also announced plans to introduce instant replays at the Men's and Women's Softball World Cups, while New

Zealand was awarded the hosting rights for the Under-18 Men's Softball World Cup 2020."

Hosts Thailand made a winning start at the Asia Oceania Floorball Confederation qualifying tournament for the Women's World Championship.

Swedish-born player Nelly Johansson bagged a hat-trick for the Thais as they brushed aside New Zealand

watching the Thai victory.Tomorrow's matches see South Korea play Singapore, Thailand meet Australia and New

Zealand play Philippines.

On October 30 last year Tamás Aján, President of the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF), said: "While we will not take anything for granted we are confident that weightlifting will remain part of the Olympic programme at Paris 2024."

In the three months since then four Olympic champions have featured in a seemingly endless list of new

Weightlifting positives from the 2008 and 2012 retests now stand at 54.• December 23 - Eight new suspensions

super-heavyweights, and Eko Irawan, Sohrab Moradi, Simon Martirosyan, Lu Xiaojun and Deng Wei.The names on a new

panel were announced as heavyweight anti-doping experts from Germany, the United States, Canada and New

Zealand - a scary line-up for those still willing to risk cheating.Perhaps most significantly, in November

Lee Wai Sze earned her second gold of the International Cycling Union (UCI) Track Cycling World Cup in Hong Kong in front of a home crowd. 

second time this month that Lee has won two golds in one World Cup event, having done so in Cambridge in New

Zealand last week.

bronze after beating France's Quentin Caleyron with times of 10.258 and 10.319.In the men's madison, the New

Zealand duo of Thomas Sexton and Campbell Stewart finished first with 33 points, while Australia's Sam

Fiji won the World Rugby Seven Series event in Hamilton with the United States finishing as runners-up for the third consecutive time this season.

champions secured a comfortable 38-0 victory over the Americans in the final at the FMG Stadium Waikato in New

Zealand.

champions South Africa 29-7 in the last four.The US won 19-14 against Scotland and then knocked hosts New

Zealand out of the competition with a 17-7 victory.The United States have finished as runners-up at

all three World Rugby Seven Series tournaments this season ©Getty ImagesNew Zealand, who won the opening

Zoi Sadowski-Synnott became the first snowboarder from New Zealand to win gold at the Winter X Games

Argentina in a repeat of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games final as the Dutch recorded two victories against New

Zealand during the latest round of the International Hockey Federation Pro League.

Argentina's women had earlier ousted Belgium 2-0 at the same venue.The Netherlands proved too strong for New

Zealand as their men and women both claimed wins in Auckland today, bringing the fourth Pro League matchday

to a close.The Dutch women narrowly edged New Zealand 1-0, while their men's team held off a stirring

Zealand in Auckland ©Getty ImagesIn the men's contest, Olympic silver medallists Belgium struck first

The Pro League resumes with the latest set of fixtures on Friday (February 1) as New Zealand host Belgium

Philippines will make their Asia Oceania Floorball Confederation (AOFC) qualifying event debut in their bid to compete at the International Floorball Federation (IFF) 2019 Women's World Championships.

Bangkok.It will be Philippines debut appearance, with the country competing against Australia, Thailand and New

Zealand in Group A.Japan, Singapore, South Korea and Malaysia are in Group B.

Hosts New Zealand went unbeaten and scored the most points on the first day of the HSBC World Rugby Sevens

After winning all three of their games at the FMG Stadium Waikato in Hamilton, New Zealand ended the

day having scored 125 points and 19 tries, the highest at the tournament.Competing in Pool D, New Zealand

Agreements have been reached for over 100 countries to broadcast coverage of the 2019 European Games in Minsk, according to the European Olympic Committees (EOC).

106 territories for the Games, claiming many are top broadcasters in Europe.Sub-Saharan Africa and New

Zealand are among the territories and countries outside Europe where agreements have been reached.ISB

The United States will look to win their first HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series title of the season in Hamilton after finishing as runners-up in the previous two competitions. 

The American team finished as runners-up to New Zealand in the Series opener in Dubai before losing to

overall this season, the US now top the Series standings with 38 points, their highest ever position.New Zealand

set to face tough competition from both of these teams in the third Series event of the season, with New

Zealand playing in front of a home crowd and defending champions Fiji looking to retain their title.

Its good to be back and be back training with the boys and especially in Hamilton, where I’m from," New

A weightlifter who tested positive for testosterone has been cleared to return to competition because of an administrative mix-up.

forwarded to the Independent Member Federations Sanctions Panel, set up by the IWF last year as part of its new

three or more positives within a year, that panel can impose a suspension of up to four years under new

Law, and who chairs the World Anti-Doping Agency's (WADA) Governance Working Group;• Ben Sandford, a New

Zealand lawyer who competed in skeleton at the Winter Olympics and who is a WADA Athlete Committee member