China has confirmed it is funding the renovation of eight venues for the Dakar 2026 Summer Youth Olympic Games.

, renovating sports facilities and creating chances for Senegalese athletes to compete and train in France

Group B heavyweights China and Chinese Taipei cruised into the quarter-finals of the Uber Cup with their second victories in as many days in Bangkok.

victory over Algeria in Group B, defeating Youcef Sabri Medel 21-9, 21-11.Ten-time winners China thrashed France

The Netherlands clinched the men's and women's classic titles at the World Draughts Federation (FMJD) World National Teams Championships in the Turkish city of Antalya.

seven and Lithuania on one.Cameroon claimed the men's blitz title with 13 points, a 3-3 draw against France

in their last game enough to ensure their success.Three teams finished on 12 points, with France taking

In rugby union it’s a handshake. In boxing it’s raising another’s gloved arm. In swimming it’s ducking under the lane marker to tread common water. In athletics, in women’s athletics at least, it’s a kind of bumper-car embrace with optional "mwah mwah" kisses.

inflation.The football ritual of swapping shirts is believed to have been established in 1931, when France

One of the lasting thoughts when leaving China after the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics was "how exactly do they get out of this?"

than allowing them to get off in China and become part of a myriad of COVID-19 protocols.Arrivals in France

Australia's Rebecca McConnell made it back-to-back cross-country wins to begin the International Cycling Union (UCI) Mountain Bike World Cup season with victory in Albstadt.

finishing well clear of the 2021 overall Mountain Bike World Cup cross-country champion Loana Lecomte of France

standings after two of the nine events on this season's circuit with 538 points, with Maxime Marotte of France

Britain’s Mark Cavendish sprinted to his 16th stage win at the Giro d’Italia as Hungary’s hosting of the race start concluded in Balatonfüred.

career, following a battle with the Epstein-Barr virus, and equalled Belgian great Eddy Merckx’s Tour de France

kilometre route from Kaposvár to Balatonfüred.Cavendish held off the challenge of rivals Arnaud Démare of France

World champions Natalia Grossman and Kokoro Fujii lived up to those labels with boulder victories at the International Federation of Sporting Climbing (IFSC) World Cup in Seoul in South Korea.

the final, Grossman solved all 13 boulder problems she faced.Seventeen-year-old Oriane Bertone from France

Mayenne in north-west France has become the first department to formalise that it plans to receive the

We want to reach as many people as possible," he said, as reported by Ouest-France."

departments know their territory better than we do," the Paris 2024 President was quoted as saying by Ouest-France

Indonesia and China are set to defend their Thomas and Uber Cup titles in Bangkok less than seven months after they triumphed at the delayed 2020 edition in Aarhus.

medallist Tai Tzu-ying are thus due to face off in the same group.Japan feature in Group A with Indonesia, France

Angers is set to host the Internationaux de France for the first time in 2022 and also stage the event

previously been staged in Paris and Bordeaux before being held in Grenoble from 2017.The Internationaux de France

Grand Prix.French publication L'Équipe reported that it is now due to move to Angers in western France

silver medallist Yuma Kagiyama triumphed in the men's singles event at last year's Internationaux de France

New Zealand’s Samuel Gaze and Australia’s Rebecca McConnell secured short track victories at the International Cycling Union (UCI) Mountain Bike World Cup in Albstadt in Germany.

Gaze recorded a time of 21min 29sec in fending off Jordan Sarrou of France and Nino Schurter of Switzerland

becmcconnell)McConnell clocked in at 18:56 to claim the women's win, edging Pauline Ferrand-Prévot of France

Olympic gold medallist Laura Collett and London 52 have taken the lead on day two of the Badminton Horse Trials following an exemplary dressage performance.

Oliver Townend and Piggy March are still level in sixth.Debutant Gireg Le Coz is the leading rider for France

World silver medallist Carolin Schäfer is set to compete in her first heptathlon since the Tokyo 2020 Olympics when she lines up in Ratingen in Germany for the latest Gold leg of the World Athletics Combined Events Tour.

Weissenberg are also set to be among the contenders at the Ratingen Mehrkampf-Meeting.Léonie Cambours of France

American Olivia Fiechter and Indian Saurav Ghosal downed Egypt's Rowan Elaraby and Youssef Ibrahim respectively to reach the semi-finals of the Professional Squash Association (PSA) Tournament of Champions at Grand Central Terminal in New York City.

 Mazen Hesham of Egypt defeated Victor Crouin of France, and now takes on Farag.