Australian wheelchair rugby player Ryley Batt said he would not "skip the line" to be vaccinated against COVID-19 for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games.

 "If I have to get the COVID-19 vaccination to play for Australia so be it as long as everyone is

safe and there is no risk of spreading the virus back here in Australia."

The Canadian Olympic Committee (COC) and the Canadian Paralympic Committee (CPC) have released a joint statement saying that a "boycott is not the answer" for Beijing 2022, as part of one-year-to-go celebrations.

Politicians from Britain, Australia and the United States have called for a boycott due to China's alleged

Brisbane has been awarded hosting rights for the 2026 BMX World Championships by the International Cycling Union (UCI), which has also awarded four new titles of "Bike City."

The 2026 World Championships is the second major BMX event the city on the east coast of Australia has

Softball Australia has said it is "bitterly disappointed" to announce the cancellation of this year's

Australia Pacific Cup due to pandemic-related travelling restrictions.

5 to 14, at Blacktown International Sportspark, with the action being broadcast live on Fox Sports Australia

April 9 to 11 for the women’s event and April 23 to 25 for the men’s event.The fourth edition of the Australia

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We’re obviously bitterly disappointed to be cancelling the Australia Pacific Cup, which is usually an

We’ll of course work towards resuming the Australia Pacific Cup in 2022."

Tennis coach Sylvain Bruneau has revealed he has recovered from COVID-19 and is ready to help world number eight Bianca Andreescu prepare for the Australian Open.

Bruneau was one of the five passengers across three charter flights to Australia testewho d positive

But I must say that we had a really good lead-up period before we travelled to Australia, things were

New York has retained top spot on a ranking of cities most associated with sports, with fourth-placed Barcelona the only new addition to the top five.

- is set to become the most high-profile of these, and the successful staging of sporting events in Australia

The International Floorball Federation is reviewing the prevention policies on sexual harassment and abuse in national floorball associations.

this process.The first phase of the study, an online survey, has been completed by nine countries: Australia

Novak Djokovic was unable to prevent defending champions Serbia from being eliminated at the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) Cup as Germany joined the semi-final line-up in Melbourne.

line-up was completed by Spain, who will take on Italy in the last four.The Spanish team had cruised past Australia

Cameroon and Chile's playoff for a place in the women's Olympic football tournament at Tokyo 2020 has been moved to April due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

 Australia have already booked one of the places allocated to Asian Football Confederation teams

A pre-Olympic bubble in Las Vegas for the Untied States, Australia and Spain to train and play exhibition

four-match Test series against England, still feeling the warm glow of their exhilarating victory in Australia

India's series with England follows their remarkable triumph in Australia in January ©Getty ImagesIn

The other Test playing nations, Australia, South Africa and the West Indies were, like India, part of

Olympic moguls champions Perrine Laffont and Mikaël Kingsbury were victorious at the the International Ski Federation (FIS) Freestyle Ski World Cup in Deer Valley, with Laffont's win securing another crystal globe.

Benjamin Cavet in Utah.The Canadian's final score was 88.10, with Cavet on 86.25 and Matt Graham of Australia

Twenty five Young Leaders have been selected by the International Olympic Committee as part of a four-year programme in which they will seek to use sport to make a positive difference in their communities.

Tania Lee, Lawrence Tan from the Philippines, Dhukhilan Jeevamani of Singapore and Jemima Montag from Australia

(France)Tom Madsen (Germany)Wissam Abi Nader (Lebanon)Raymond Philips (South Africa)Stewart Brain (Australia

Tournament director Craig Tiley insists he is "absolutely confident" the Australian Open will go ahead as planned after a coronavirus scare forced the main draw to be postponed and play at warm-up tournaments in Melbourne to be suspended.

absolutely confident the Australian Open will go ahead," said Tiley, who is also chief executive of Tennis Australia

Association Tennis Professionals (ATP) events are due to be concluded this weekend.Tiley said Tennis Australia