Reigning Olympic champion Shingo Kunieda thrashed Tokito Oda in an all-Japanese men’s wheelchair singles semi-final to move within one victory of an eighth French Open title.

and Ymanitu Silva of Brazil who beat second seeds Andy Lapthorne of Britain and David Wagner of the United

States 6-1, 6-4, 10-8.The two quarter-finals of the men’s wheelchair doubles took place with Fernández

Poland’s National Treasure, three-times Olympic women’s hammer champion Anita Włodarczyk, is set to offer home fans another performance to remember at the Irena Szewińska Memorial in Bydgoszcz tomorrow.

Hungary’s world bronze medallist Bence Halász.Olympic pole vault silver medallist Chris Nilsen of the United

States will return to the arena where he set a meeting record of 5.92m last year that looks very likely

is unbeaten this year but will be tested to the limits by two-time world champion Joe Kovacs of the United

States and double Olympic bronze medallist and 2017 world champion Tom Walsh of New Zealand."

More than 300 people who had jobs with the 2023 Summer World University Games in Yekaterinburg have had their employment terminated after the event was suspended.

concerns.Rhine-Ruhr in Germany will host the 2025 Games and a two-way battle between North Carolina in the United

States and Chungcheong in South Korea is in progress for 2027.This means Yekaterinburg could not host

Huntington Beach in the United States has been confirmed as host of this year’s International Surfing

Steve Prefontaine was an American distance runner who competed nearly half-a-century ago and whose career was cut tragically short at the age of only 24 when he was killed in a car crash.

He was brash, cocky, charismatic and crowds in the United States loved him.Internationally, though, he

Officials of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) have inspected competition venues in Sapporo in Japan as they continue the process of awarding the 2030 Winter Olympics hosting rights, according to AFP.

participate in a cooler climate.The Japanese city is likely to be competing against Salt Lake City in the United

States, Vancouver in Canada and Barcelona-Pyrenees in Spain.A delegation of the IOC has already travelled

World number one amateur golfer Rose Zhang of the United States has become the first student-athlete

Iga Świątek and Daria Kasatkina have set-up a French Open semi-final showdown after they both achieved straight-sets victories at Roland Garros.

women’s singles semi-finals are scheduled to be held tomorrow with Italy’s Martina Trevisan and the United

States' Coco Gauff competing in the other tie.

John Wroblewski has been named head coach of the United States women's ice hockey team for the 2022 World

 The United States women lost to Canada in the gold medal match at Beijing 2022 ©Getty Images"John

Finnish Olympic Committee President Jan Vapaavuori has survived a vote of confidence after the organisation staged an Extraordinary Meeting in response to the controversy surrounding Mika Lehtimäki.

Rahkamo faces opposition from Patricia St Peter of the United States, South Korea’s Kim Jae-youl and

Organisers of the 2023 Pacific Games have launched a competition to name the event's mascot.

a bilateral security cooperation agreement in recent months which raised alarm in Australia and the United

States, as well as other nations in the Indo-Pacific region.The agreement could allow the Solomon Islands

Two Tokyo 2020 medallists are due to be in action at wheelchair rugby's Canada Cup, which starts tomorrow at the Richmond Olympic Oval.

Canada face France in the second match, before Denmark play Tokyo 2020 bronze medallists Japan.The United

States - runners-up at Tokyo 2020 and winners of the Canada Cup when it was last played in 2018 - have

Joe Gebbia, the co-founder of worldwide Olympic partner Airbnb, has joined the Board of the Olympic Refuge Foundation (ORF).

displaced young people through sport.The Board features individuals from both the Olympic Movement and the United

the Olympic Partner Programme in 2019.He has experience of supporting refugees around the world, as a United

States representative on the UNHCR Advisory Council."

Olympic 400 metres hurdles bronze medallist Femke Bol of The Netherlands shattered the world best time for the rarely-run 300m hurdles by more than a second as she clocked 36.86 seconds at the Golden Spike meeting in Ostrava.

overcame a hesitant start to clock 12.56sec, finishing strongly to overtake world champion Nia Ali of the United

States, who eventually finished third in 12.69 behind Poland’s Pia Skrzyszowska, who clocked 12.65.Grenada

States won the men’s shot put with 22.25 metres, ahead of former world champion Tom Walsh of New Zealand

record of 22.21 as with Allyson Felix, the 36-year-old multiple world and Olympic champion from the United

States who is retiring this season finishing second in 22.78 - just 0.03 slower than her winning time

South Korea were one of the most successful nations today in team events at the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Cup in Baku, with victories in air, rifle and pistol disciplines.

took team trap bronze with brother Anton, as well as Giovanni Cernogoraz ©Getty ImagesKuwait and the United

States claimed the men's and women's trap titles respectively too.In the men's final, Naser Meqland,