Finland battled into the quarter-final stage of the women’s Inline Hockey World Championships in Asiago today.

Latvia to reach the quarter-finals ©Roberta Strazzabosco and Max PattisArgentina are now due to face Spain

Top seeds Chantal Laboureur and Julia Sude of Germany recovered from losing their opening match by winning their second to keep their qualification hopes alive at the Beach Volleyball European Championships in Apeldoorn.

15) recovered in their second match of the day by defeating Liliana Fernández and Elsa Baquerizo of Spain

Russia continued their prolific start to the women's European Water Polo Championships as they thrashed Germany to maintain their 100 per cent start to the tournament in Barcelona.

Barcelona today ©LENDefending champions Hungary continued their recovery from their opening loss to Spain

The first 2018 International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC) Paraclimbing Cup is set to take place tomorrow, in Briancon in France, nine months after the last Paraclimbing Cup, in October 2017.

part in Briancon include, in the visually impaired category, Francisco Javier Auguilar Amoedo from Spain

Glasgow 2018 have announced the teams for the inaugural European Golf Team Championships at Gleneagles.

two men’s teams and three women’s.Austria, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Iceland, Ireland, Norway, Spain

Czech Republic overcame defending women's champions United States to top their pool at the Inline Hockey World Championships in Asiago today.

Australia.The winners of the match between Latvia and Switzerland will take on Argentina.Czech Republic and Spain

World champions Croatia eased to victory in their opening match of the European Water Polo Championships in Barcelona.

month, had a tougher opening tie.They eventually emerged as 8-6 winners against France in Group B.Hosts Spain

So the FIFA World Cup, which ended yesterday with France lifting the trophy for the second time with a 4-2 victory over Croatia at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, was officially the greatest in the tournament's 88-year history.

 For other football fans of a certain age, it is Spain 1982 and the unlikely resurrection of Paolo

Holders the United States continued their perfect start to the women's Inline Hockey World Championships with a 5-2 win over hosts Italy in Asiago today.

play each other tomorrow in a Pool A decider.Today’s Pool B action in Roana saw last year’s runners-up Spain

John Degenkolb celebrated an emotional victory on the ninth stage of the Tour de France after a chaotic cobbled stage in Roubaix, which saw Australia’s Richie Porte abandon following a crash.

of the general classification hopefuls as the race heads to its first rest day.Alejandro Valverde of Spain

Russia's two Marias - Bocharova and Voronina - claimed the Beach Volleyball Under-19 World Championships women’s title in Nanjing after an epic final against Raisa Schoon and Emi van Driel.

compatriots in the semi-final - beat Mauro Zelayeta and Bautista Amieva of Argentina 21-18, 21-16.Spain

The holders of the top three prizes in men's water polo will be in action at the European Championships which begin tomorrow in Barcelona.

four.Germany, Georgia, Hungary and Italy will contest Group A with Montenegro, Malta, France and hosts Spain

Czech Republic beat hosts Italy 5-0 as action got underway today in the senior women’s event at the Inline Hockey World Championships.

begun their campaign with a 5-0 win over China in Asiago.There were also two matches in Pool B with Spain

Annemiek van Vleuten extended her overall lead in the Giro Rosa with a flourishing solo victory in the penultimate - and gruelling - ninth stage of the race that finished at the summit of Monte Zoncolan.

Eider Merino, riding for Movistar.Spratt finished at 2min 54sec back from the winner, with Merino, of Spain

Four teams from North America, two each from Canada and the United States, are among the eight pairs through to the women’s quarter-finals at the Beach Volleyball Major Series event in Gstaad in Switzerland. 

 Spain are one of the four countries still in contention to win the men's event ©FIVBAmong those

21, 15-13.The other semi-final pits sixth-seeded Adrián Gavira Collado and Pablo Herrera Allepuz of Spain