Anatoly Fedyukin, an Olympic handball champion with the Soviet Union at Montreal 1976, has died at the age of 68.

Soviet Union made the final again.The Soviets could not defend their title though, falling 23-22 to East Germany

The International Ski Federation Congress, where a successor to President Gian-Franco Kasper is due to be elected, has been postponed until June 2021.

2025 Alpine World Ski Championships between Crans Montana in Switzerland, Garmisch-Partenkirchen in Germany

Mexico 1968 Olympic hockey champion Muhammad Asad Malik has died aged 78 following a road accident in Pakistan.

Tokyo 1964 and Munich 1972 Olympic Games, where Pakistan were beaten in the final by India and West Germany

This should have been the end of the first week of competition at Tokyo 2020, but the Olympic arenas have of course been silent. Olympic organisers may draw some measure of encouragement that 50 years ago another major international multi-sport event which was successfully staged one year later than planned. The Universiade was originally scheduled for 1969 but it finally took place in 1970.

basket in Munich too.There was a similar portent in the men’s pole vault where Wolfgang Nordwig of East Germany

Olympics.A poster advertising the Universiade staged a year later than planned ©CUSIHeide Rosendahl of West Germany

Badminton Europe has announced that six nations will host qualification events for the 2021 European Mixed Team Championships, after the draw for the event was held in Denmark.

Poland.Group Three will see The Netherlands, Slovakia and the Czech Republic travel to Austria, while Germany

The Qatar Olympic Committee has announced its interest in hosting an Olympic and Paralympics as early as 2032.

 In doing so, Qatar joins Australia, India, Indonesia and Germany in expressing an interest to bid

A petition launched to convince organisers of the 2022 World Games to allow the Iroquois Nationals lacrosse team to compete has called for 10 countries to boycott the event in Birmingham in Alabama over their exclusion.

Fearn, had been signed by more than 23,000 people at the time of writing.It calls on Australia, Canada, Germany

Athletes are set to compete from seven different locations during the International Federation of Sport Climbing's (IFSC) first virtual event next month.

competition, which will be streamed live by the IFSC.Athletes from Austria, the Czech Republic, France, Germany

a tweeted video after receiving criticism for showing footage from the Berlin 1936 Olympics in Nazi Germany

It exploited the Games to impress foreign spectators with an image of a peaceful, tolerant Germany."

It exploited the Games to impress foreign spectators with an image of a peaceful, tolerant Germany.

The Olympic Flame was to have been lit tonight at the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo as the climax of the Opening Ceremony. Instead, the day signals 364 to go until the Games.

carried Ethiopia’s flag, and later won the Olympic marathon for a second successive Games.East and West Germany

athletics meeting in Berlin, which is planned as one of the first events to welcome back spectators in Germany

Women's large hill ski jumping will feature at the Nordic World Ski Championships for the first time in 2021, it has been confirmed.

The discipline will debut in Oberstdorf in Germany next year after a request from Norway was initially

Russia's President Vladimir Putin has led celebrations of International Boxing Day in a letter asking the sport's community to continue to use the day to attract people to boxing.

Square, with boxing taking place before a backdrop of St Basil's Cathedral and the Kremlin.Russia and Germany

German Nordic combined athlete David Mach has been named as elite student of the year at the prestigious Ski Boarding School in Oberstdorf.

performances both in competition and academically.He won a silver medal in the mixed team event with Germany

The Olympic Order controversially awarded to East Germany’s former leader Erich Honecker 35 years ago has raised €20,000 (£18,000/$22,000) at auction.

1971, he ordered his country's border guards to shoot to kill citizens trying to escape communist East Germany

the decision to award Honecker the Olympic Order.He claimed the IOC honoured Honecker because East Germany