Police raids across 10 warehouses in Poland, Slovakia and Czech Republic have seized 550,000 packages

The inaugural European Games Esports Championships, officially opened here tonight, will also feature at the next European Games, the chair of the European Games Coordination Commission Hasan Arat has confirmed.

Kamil Bortniczuk, Minister of Sport and Tourism of Poland, expressed how "very satisfied" he was at the

EOC added: "Today is a very exciting day for EOC, for you the athletes, for sport, for Katowice, for Poland

Ireland and Olympic hosts France both won two of the remaining eight Paris 2024 quota qualification places available during the boxing semi-finals at the Kraków-Małopolska 2023 European Games here.

For those who did not secure Paris 2024 places in Poland, two further opportunities are expected in the

The first European Games Esports Championships run alongside the sport programme is set to begin in Katowice tomorrow, with titles in Rocket League and eFootball 2023 set to be on offer with 100 athletes from 28 countries expected to compete.

The European Games in Poland began on June 21, and have featured approximately 7,000 athletes from 48

More than 40 countries have issued a collective statement here insisting that Russia "should not be allowed to use sport to legitimise its illegal and unprovoked war" on Ukraine.

, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Norway, New Zealand, The Netherlands, Poland

Reigning Olympic champions Kellie Harrington and Busenaz Sürmeneli were among the 36 athletes to secure Paris 2024 quota places in boxing at the Kraków-Małopolska 2023 European Games here.

Hámori.Tokyo 2020 silver medallist Buse Naz Çakıroğlu of Turkey won unanimously against Natalia Rok of Poland

Estonia’s Ministry of Culture has ruled that it is "unthinkable" for Russian and Belarusian athletes to compete on the global stage while war continues to rage in Ukraine.

Poland is currently staging the European Games where Russian and Belarusian athletes have been banned

Kraków-Małopolska.According to the United Nations Refugee Agency, nearly one million refugees from Ukraine are recorded in Poland

Vetle Thorn of Norway timed his final challenge in today's men's triathlon to perfection as he burst clear from a lead group of eight and sprinted home for gold a day after his team-mate Solveig Løvseth had won the women's title.

Thorn had only arrived in Poland on Monday having travelled back from the World Triathlon Championship

Representatives from Britain and Germany have visited the former Auschwitz concentration camp during the Kraków-Małopolska 2023 European Games here to pay respects to the victims of the Holocaust.

complex of concentration and extermination camps.It was liberated by Soviet troops in January 1945, and Poland

delegation, we see it as an obligation not only to focus on the sport here at the European Games in Poland

Members of the English and German teams at the men's 2012 UEFA European Championship held in Poland and

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goalposts became tangled with the tarpaulin in the wind ©Kraków-Małopolska 2023Britain's women beat hosts Poland

Britain's women and Ireland's men won the rugby seven tournaments at the European Games here, clinching qualification places for next year's Olympics in Paris.

with play resuming a further half-an-hour later.Britain went on to beat Belgium 36-12, while hosts Poland

, triumphing 33-0 helped by two tries from Emma Uren.Britain advanced directly to Paris 2024, while Poland

male winner against Sercan Koç of Turkey at under-60kg.Martyna Kierczyńska provided home success for Poland

Marcin Nowak, President of the European Games Organising Committee, has described the inclusion of the European Athletics Team Championships for the first time as "a very important innovation."

and also those individual athletes who shone on to their occasion during our time together here in Poland

🇵🇱😘Alicja Konieczek wins the 3000m steeplechase for Poland again in 9:38.72!

World Taekwondo's leadership met with their counterparts from the European Taekwondo Union (ETU) alongside the European Games here to discuss the future for the sport on the continent.

 World Taekwondo President Chungwon Choue and secretary general Jeongkang Seo travelled to Poland

Germany's Dang Qiu and Nina Mittelham won the first table tennis gold and first direct Paris 2024 Olympics qualification at the Kraków-Małopolska 2023 European Games with a straight-games victory in the mixed doubles final.

day with a 17-13 victory in the women's 50m rifle three positions final against Natalia Kochańska of Poland

Winterberg-Poulsen in the men's foil decider.Michal Seiss, right, provided a fencing gold for hosts Poland

The United States shot up to second place in the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) men's world rankings after recording four wins from four in the second week of the Nations League.

Serbia before beating both China and Iran 3-0.A crucial straight-game thrashing of world ranking leaders Poland

cruised past Iran, China, and Serbia with resounding 3-0 wins in each before suffering a 3-1 defeat to Poland

and the Philippines' Pasay City.Japan are due to face off against China, The Netherlands, Italy, and Poland