Norway’s Jon-Hermann Hegg won the men's 50 metres rifle three positions title at the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) Grand Prix in Granada.

stage elimination with 407.9 points, in front of Hegg, who scored 406.4, and Timothy Sherry of the United

States, the 27-year-old Pan American Games champion who had topped qualifying.Zsofia Csonka of Hungary

A total of 45 nations are ready to compete at the next edition of the International Surfing Association (ISA) World Junior Surfing Championship, scheduled for 10 days at Surf City in El Salvador.

participants entered, it is set to surpass the record from 2019.Among those surfers are those from the United

States who are back to defend their title.For many of these surfers, it will be the next step towards

Cherelle Griner, the wife of double Olympic basketball gold medallist Brittney Griner, has called on United

States President Joe Biden to secure her partner's release from Russia.

after the final day of the 139th IOC Session last week, claiming that the case was in the hands of the United

States Olympic and Paralympic Committee and the WNBA.He added that the IOC had not been contacted about

Boris van der Vorst’s appeal at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) after he was not allowed to stand in the election for President the International Boxing Association (IBA) will take place on June 10, insidethegames understands.

has been supported by several National Federations.In addition to van der Vorst, candidates from the United

States, New Zealand, Denmark and Sweden due to stand for positions on the IBA Board were also told that

US Open champion Emma Raducanu was beaten in the second round of the French Open by Aliaksandra Sasnovich of Belarus, and Greece’s fourth seed Maria Sakkari also made an unexpectedly early exit.

Kerber, seeded 21 and another German, defeated France’s Elsa Jacquemot 6-1, 7-6.Sloane Stephens of the United

States, unseeded, earned a 3-6, 6-2, 6-0 win over Romania’s 26th seed Sorana Cîrstea.Stephens was a

International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) President Vladimir Lisin has unilaterally proposed a series of changes to the rules governing the shotgun discipline.

Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Italy, Germany, Britain, Norway, Slovenia, Sweden and the United

States have sent letters to the ISSF calling on Lisin and the International Federation’s secretary general

Timothy Sherry of the United States topped the 50 metres rifle three positions men's qualifying at the

Curaçao is playing host to the Pan American Karate Championships, which starts tomorrow at the World Trade Center.

intellectual impairments.There are also team kumite and team kata events for both men and women.Brazil and the United

States topped the medals table in 2021 with four golds each, followed by Chile and Peru on two golds.Alongside

individual kata events, there are five men's and five women's kumite divisions too.Thomas Scott of the United

States, left, heads to the Pan American Karate Championships as a world bronze medallist ©Getty ImagesThree-time

Paralympics in Los Angeles to become the first "domestic food partner" and will also continue to sponsor the United

States Olympic and Paralympic teams up to the 2028 Games.

Olympic and Paralympic Movement," Dave Mingey, head of partnership management and activation at United

States Olympic and Paralympic Properties (USOPP) said."

passion and pride in celebrating our US Olympic and Paralympic athletes,"The Games are set to return to United

States soil for the first time since the Winter Olympic and Paralympics at Salt Lake City 20 years ago.Los

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Ostapenko, seeded 13, beat Lucia Bronzetti of Italy ©Getty ImagesNinth seed Danielle Collins of the United

States is also through to the second round after beating Bulgaria's Viktoriya Tomova ©Getty ImagesRomania

Eleven candidates have been cleared to stand for the Presidency of the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF), which will hold arguably the most important elections in its history next month.

Of the 11 candidates to become IWF President, two are from the United States, five are current Executive

Committee (IOC) channelled nearly $800 million (£640 million/€747.2 million) of distributions to the United

States Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) over the five years culminating in 2021, analysis of

i.e. with the fifth TOP-related payment from 2021 stripped out.The scale of IOC payments to the United

States NOC - which reflects US bargaining power at the time TOP was being assembled in the 1980s - has

French Open third seed Paula Badosa avoided the fate of defending champion Barbora Krejčíková and Japan’s four-time Grand Slam winner Naomi Osaka as she earned a confident first-round win today.

in the form of Monday’s defeats for Osaka, who was beaten 7-5, 6-4 by Amanda Anisimova of the United

States, and Krejčíková, who won the first set 6-1 against France’s 19-year-old Diane Parry but lost

recovering to take the third set 6-1.Also safely through to round two is ninth seed Danielle Collins of the United

States, who recovered from two breaks of serve in the second set to beat Bulgaria's Viktoriya Tomova

Norway defeated the United States to win gold in the men's air rifle team event at the International

Slovakia delivered a crushing blow to Denmark’s ambitions on the final day of qualifying at the International Ice Hockey Federation World Championship in Finland with a 7-1 win that left the Danes, who had earned a historic win over defending champions Canada the previous day, out in the cold.

seven wins out of seven, including one after overtime.That means Switzerland will meet third seeds United

States in the quarter-finals on Thursday (May 26).The Swiss won the shootout by virtue of goals from

stopped all four German shooters.Despite being beaten in two of their first six Group B matches, the United

States finished off their qualifying campaign today with a 4-2 win over Norway, having taken a 2-0 lead