By Mike RowbottomAleksander Lesun earned his second gold at the modern pentathlon World Cup final in Sarasota as he and his Russian team-mate Ekaterina Khuraskina won the mixed relay.

Lesun trailed China's Jianli Guo after the final round of shooting in the climactic combined event, but

together for their entire leg and together before handing over to Lesun and Guo.The Chinese athlete was shooting

Russian, but the individual gold medallist was gaining an advantage in running and, though he left the shooting

By Mike RowbottomAleksander Lesun dominated modern pentathlon's World Cup final in Sarasota rom start to finish to add a gold medal to the world bronze he won last year.

eventual 17th place overall on the second running loop, and Tymoschenko came past Frolov on the last shooting

By Paul OsborneA new 170-strong Advisory Meeting, comprising leading figures from major domestic stakeholders, has been set-up by the Executive Board of Tokyo 2020 to help whip up excitement for the Games.

2000 Olympic marathon gold medallist Naoko Takahashi, Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso, a competitor in shooting

By Nick ButlerA long-awaited announcement has finally been made as to which company will take charge of construction and renovation for the northern portion of the second main Rio 2016 venues cluster at Deodoro.

slalom, hockey, modern pentathlon swimming, mountain biking and BMX cycling, as well as the National Shooting

main cluster in Barra de Tijuca to the south of Deodoro, consists of venues requiring renovation, for shooting

By Paul OsborneThe International University Sports Federation (FISU) is continuing its 14-day inspection of Gwangju as the city prepares to host next year's Summer Universiade.

of the Games' sporting venues - for archery, artistic and rhythmic gymnastics, athletics, fencing, shooting

By Paul OsborneThe Cayman Islands is set to send its largest ever delegation to the Commonwealth Games after naming 28 athletes to represent them at Glasgow 2014. 

that the athletes will compete in seven sports at the Games - athletics, boxing, cycling, gymnastics, shooting

By Nick ButlerOscar Pistorius has sold the Pretoria home where he shot dead girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine's Day last year. 

death of Reeva Steenkamp continues ©AFP/Getty ImagesPistorius is accused of murdering Steenkamp after shooting

languages are being called on to lend their time at this summer's International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Shooting

The city of Suhl is due to host the biggest Para-shooting competition of the year from July 18 to 26,

support of volunteers is always essential for transforming a good competition into a great one," said IPC Shooting

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By Paul OsborneTriathlete Nicky Samuels is set to compete at this year's Commonwealth Games in Glasgow after successfully appealing her omission from the women's individual event.

Zealand name track cycling and triathlon squads for Glasgow 2014April 2014: New Zealand names nine-strong shooting

By Paul OsborneEmpty seats across venues at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games could become a reality, with nine sports, and the Opening and Closing Ceremonies, showing "high availability" for tickets.

Additional sports for which there is currently no availability are judo and shooting which join aquatics

By Nick ButlerFIFA President Sepp Blatter has vowed to help the Palestinian Football Association and declared himself an "ambassador of the Palestine people" during a visit to the region.

police officers.Following this, an online petition supporting the removal of Israel from FIFA after the shooting

By Nick ButlerWalking around the National Sports Centre in the heart of the Kosovan capital city Pristina last week, I spent a few moments engrossed in the plight of two young wrestlers training.In a facility where enthusiasm and camaraderie accounted for shortages in equipment and resources, one wrestler was clearly smaller and technically inferior to the other.Time and time again he charged forward and was duly flipped, thrown or driven into the school gymnasium-style mat. But he refused to be disheartened and surged forward again only to suffer the same result.

Others are restricted completely, with the governing bodies for athletics, aquatics and shooting all

By Gary AndersonOceania champion Tayla Ford is the leading medal contender and only woman in the six-strong New Zealand wrestling team named for the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games.

Zealand name track cycling and triathlon squads for Glasgow 2014April 2014: New Zealand names nine-strong shooting

By Paul OsborneAn International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Shooting World Cup scheduled to take place

in Thailand will not be sanctioned, IPC Shooting has revealed.

The event, which was unconfirmed on the 2014 shooting calendar, was set to take place between August

20 and 27 in Bangkok, however, IPC Shooting today decided the competition will not go ahead following

"ongoing uncertainty around the current situation in the country".IPC Shooting said it "would not be

the event" following the political turmoil that has engulfed the nation, reducing the number of IPC Shooting

calendar for future seasons is now being kept under review by IPC Shooting to determine the location

By Duncan Mackay at the Floxenia Conference Centre in NicosiaAlpy, the mascot for the 2015 European Youth Olympic Festival (EYOF) Vorarlberg Liechtenstein, made a special appearance during the 35th European Olympic Committees Seminar here today. 

about was the decision to move the biathlon competition to Bürserberg after it was agreed a temporary shooting