Ireland has been added to the Wheelchair Rugby League World Cup after Norway confirmed their team would be unable to participate in this year's event.

Norway had been one of six nations selected to join hosts England and holders France in the RLWC2021

top two teams from each group will advance to the knock-out stage of the event.Defending champions France

World Table Tennis' (WTT) first Grand Smash got underway today, with the first round of qualifying in the men's and women's singles starting at the Singapore Smash at the Singapore Sports Hub.

Germany defeated South Korean Cho Seung-min 11-7, 7-11, 11-9, 11-7 to go through and Andrea Landrieu of France

Giorgia Piccolin.Christina Kallberg of Sweden won 11-6, 11-9, 9-11, 11-4 over Pauline Chasselin of France

Sports Ministers from 26 nations have agreed to ban athletes from Russia and Belarus from international sports games held in their countries due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Huddleston.Representatives from the United States, Lithuania, Australia, Japan, Ireland, South Korea, Canada, France

Henrieta Farkašová, Arthur Bauchet and Jesper Pedersen all doubled their Para Alpine skiing gold medal tallies in the rearranged super combined competitions at Beijing 2022 Winter Paralympics.

Fitzpatrick collecting her second medal of the Games with a 2:05.98 effort earning bronze.Bauchet of France

bronze in as many days after finishing in 2:12.17.Eight-time Paralympic gold medallist Marie Bochet of France

Tokyo 2020 Olympic champion Jean Quiquampoix of France won gold in the sole individual final on the penultimate

The International Golf Federation (IGF) has banned golfers from Russia and Belarus from competing in tournaments under its jurisdiction, following the countries invasion of Ukraine.

with its major event scheduled for 2022 the World Amateur Team Championships, due to take place in France

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Marie Bochet won silver for France in the women’s super-G standing ©Getty ImagesThe United States advanced

Tessa Worley completed a French double at the International Ski Federation Alpine Ski World Cup in Lenzerheide as she backed up Romane Miradoli’s shock super-G victory with giant slalom success.

Cup leader Mikaela Shiffrin of the United States to top the podium, Worley ensured another win for France

scheduled to take place in Åre in Sweden on Friday (March 11) and the second set to be held in Méribel in France

Neil Simpson etched his name into British sporting history with a stunning victory in the men's super-G vision impaired event on a day of firsts in the Para Alpine skiing at the Beijing 2022 Winter Paralympics.

Guimond took third in 1:10.02, a time which put him ahead of the downhill champion Arthur Bauchet of France

The World Dance Sport Federation (WDSF) has formed a committee as it pushes towards breaking's inclusion at the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games.

Games in six years.It has established a committee consisting of representatives from the United States, France

Belgium survived a major scare to qualify for the Davis Cup, coming from behind to overcome Finland, while Olympic champion Alexander Zverev was twice victorious as Germany saw off Brazil.

Otto Virtanen.Belgium were runners-up in 2015 and 2017.The side Belgium lost to in the 2017 final, France

Quentin Fillon Maillet of France added to his lead in the overall Biathlon World Cup standings as he

team mate Hanna Oeberg, with one penalty finished fourth, 6.8 seconds back.Anais Chevalier-Bouchet of France

Grégory Baugé, France’s multiple world and Olympic sprint cycling medallist, has been appointed national sprint coach heading into the Paris 2024 Olympics.

France won men's team spring bronze at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics - one of only two cycling medals the nation

Slovenian Tadej Pogačar of UAE Team Emirates put in a solo ride to remember to win his first Strade Bianche race today in Siena.

The two-time Tour de France winner broke away from the pack with 50 kilometres of the 184km course to

Andri Ragettli topped a Swiss one-two-three in the men’s freestyle ski slopestyle event at the International Ski Federation World Cup in Bakuriani, while Canada’s Megan Oldham captured the women’s title.

second successive slopestyle victory on the World Cup circuit following his victory in Font Romeu in France