The United States has formally announced that it is going to bid for the Rugby World Cup, which could potentially help expand the footprint of the sport into a lucrative new market.

officially bid for the men’s event in 2027 or 2031 and the women’s edition in 2013.As it stands, Russia and Australia

are also bidding for events, with Australia currently favourites to host the men’s competition in 2027

Hosts Puerto Rico got their International Basketball Federation (FIBA) Women's AmeriCup campaign off to a winning start with a comfortable victory over Venezuela on the opening day of the tournament in San Juan.

Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, will qualify for the 2022 Women's World Cup in Australia

The Olympic medal chances of athletes from around the world have changed dramatically after China decided not to select Rio 2016 gold medallist Deng Wei, its leading female athlete in the Tokyo 2020 rankings.

Zealand has five qualifiers - including Laurel Hubbard, the first trans athlete at the Olympic Games - Australia

Britain has pulled out of this year’s World Athletics U20 Championships in Kenya because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

missed that event after withdrawing due to security concerns.Britain were part of a group that included Australia

Brazil lead the men’s Volleyball Nations League competition after the third week of action following a straight sets win over Poland in the men’s event in Rimini.

day’s other matches Bulgaria beat The Netherlands 25-18, 18-25, 17-25, 25-22, 15-13, Italy overcame Australia

Italy, hosts Spain and Greece earned the three Tokyo 2020 team berths at the International Swimming Federation's (FINA) Artistic Swimming Olympic Games Qualifying Tournament (ASOGQT) in Barcelona.

and Greece are the final three teams to qualify for Tokyo 2020, where they will face Egypt, Canada, Australia

South Africa’s 31-year-old Simone Ackermann lived up to her billing as favourite to win the Africa Triathlon title at Sharm El Sheikh in Egypt.

Ackerlund.In the men’s event Canada’s Tyler Mislawchuk looks ready to challenge strongly and Aaron Royle of Australia

Nations in the Pacific region are set to benefit from a sports programme which will allow teams and athletes an opportunity to qualify for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics through training and qualification events.

The Australia-Pacific Olympic and Paralympic partnership is helping to unlock the potential of a whole

, Kiribati, Samoa and Tonga at Tokyo 2020.Papua New Guinea will be aiming to train weightlifters in Australia

Double Olympic swimming silver medallist Maddie Groves has withdrawn from Australia's Tokyo 2020 trials after taking aim at "misogynistic perverts" in the sport.

Pan Pacific relay gold in 2018.In 2015, Groves won a relay bronze at the World Championships.Swimming Australia

Swimming Australia reached out to Maddie in December 2020 to enquire about a tweet sent by her that referenced

All allegations concerning child abuse or sexual misconduct are taken seriously by Swimming Australia

She's at no time contacted Swimming Australia.

Three Argentina players have been temporarily banned from the Volleyball Nations League (VNL) bubble in Rimini for breaking COVID-19 regulations.

host nation, 21-25, 25-22, 22-25, 25-15, 15-9 to move to five wins from eight.Argentina beat winless Australia

Plans have been revealed by the International Wheelchair Rugby Federation (IWRF) to launch its own Hall of Fame.

Paralympic Games at Atlanta 1996 and became a full medal event in Sydney four years later when the US beat Australia

32-31 in the final.Since then, New Zealand won at Athens 2004, the US at Beijing 2008 and Australia

The International Swimming Federation's (FINA) Artistic Swimming Olympic Games Qualifying Tournament (ASOGQT), offering 13 Olympic berths across two disciplines, started today in Barcelona with team technical routines.

final three Olympic berths.Greece currently occupy third in the qualifier's standings.Egypt, Canada, Australia

lists 25 duets as having entered this competition, with representatives from Egypt, Canada, Japan, ROC, Australia

Norway’s 20-year-old Jakob Ingebrigtsen earned a landmark 5,000 metres victory at the Diamond League meeting in Florence over a field including Uganda’s world record-holder Joshua Cheptegei as he set a European record of 12min 48.45sec, the fastest run this year.

in a contest won by Authorised Neutral Athlete Ilya Ivanyuk on countback after he, Brandon Starc of Australia

Australia have become the latest team to withdraw from the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC

Australia join Chinese Taipei, who announced last week they had pulled out of the tournament in Puebla

host.China had already withdrawn from the Final Olympic Qualifier before it was moved to Mexico.Baseball Australia

Even if Team Australia were successful in winning the event, the timing didn’t allow for the team to

complete quarantine in Australia and meet the requirements of entry to the Tokyo Games."

As always, they’ve continued to commit to Team Australia and it’s really disappointing they won’t have

Beijing 2022 has established an international working group dedicated to COVID-19 countermeasures, while the ticketing policy for the next Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games has not yet been finalised because of the pandemic.

to a genocide, has led to boycott calls from politicians in the United States, Britain, Canada and Australia