Tandem pilot Helen Scott has announced the Great Britain cycling team is seeking a new "stoker" - the blind or visually impaired rider at the back of the tandem who provides the power - following the retirement of reigning Paralympic kilo champion Sophie Thornhill.

Rio 2016 win ahead of the duos powered by Larissa Klaasen of the Netherlands and Jessica Gallagher of Australia

The most popular sports team in Australia is set to take part at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games

finished first in the study, which ranked teams based on their "emotional connection" with fans.It follows Australia

https://t.co/D1aVxiF0Lz pic.twitter.com/6oQ9x6I8br— Commonwealth Games Australia (@CommGamesAUS) June

having won six World Cups and five world T20 titles.The top four on the emotional connection list in Australia

Australian Taekwondo has published a new child protection policy to help keep youngsters involved in the sport safe.

Taekwondo master Paul Mitchell has led an initiative to help use the sport to eradicate bullying in Australia

After three days of competition, regional winners of the inaugural International Basketball Federation (FIBA) Esports Open have been confirmed.

Seventeen nations participated and Australia, Argentina, Italy, the Philippines and Saudi Arabia won

 Saudi Arabia won four of five matches versus Lebanon in the Middle East Conference, while Australia

Japan has dropped out of the race to host the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup, leaving the joint bid from Australia

recognising that the "COVID-19 pandemic has hit the world and also the whole football family hard".Australia

facilities, accommodation, transport, security, event timing and commercial factors.Football Federation Australia

investment and support from both local stakeholders and FIFA" to elevate its bid to the level of the Australia

opening game would take place in Auckland's 50,000-seat Eden Park, with Sydney's 70,000-capacity Stadium Australia

Eileen Cikamatana, one of the brightest young talents in weightlifting, heads for the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra this week clinging on to a remote hope of competing at the postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

was unable to compete in the first phase of qualifying.Coffa said Cikamatana, 20, will be training in Australia

since the turn of the century.Before setting up the Institute in 2001 Coffa, a former national coach of Australia

Cricket Australia has announced a further 40 job losses and a cut to its annual budget of AUD40 million

Cricket Australia chairman Earl Eddings said doing so was need to "partly mitigate the impact of COVID

such as biosecurity costs and match attendances".Despite the cricket season not being due to start in Australia

the organisation has been hit hard by the pandemic.Kevin Roberts recently left his role as Cricket Australia

the Australian cricket season ©Getty Images"We recognise that this is a difficult time for Cricket Australia

Governing bodies across Australia have struggled to cope with the financial consequences of the pandemic

Triple world champion Amy Cure has announced her immediate retirement from cycling, despite being named in the Australian Olympic team ahead of the now-postponed Tokyo 2020 Games.

Cure leaves the sport as one of Australia most successful track cyclists in recent times and having been

I really believe they have the girls to give Australia every opportunity of success in Tokyo as they

Cycling Australia will now nominate a new athlete to be selected for Tokyo 2020 in Cure's place.Cure

If you stood one weightlifting Coffa brother on top of the other they might just about stretch beyond three metres, edging marginally higher than the top of the discs when the giant Georgian Lasha Talakhadze makes one of his world record lifts.

standing in the Olympic Movement.For Paul, who will be fresh out of quarantine on his return to live in Australia

coached Pacific lifters in their homeland.Not since 1994, when Paul felt he had done all he could for Australia

Sam had led the Australia team to the 1970 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, where they won four gold

Weightlifting in Australia and worldwide was on the front pages of sport.

Twenty-six years after leaving Australia I have done a 360-degree turn and I am back," he said, speaking

Paddle Australia has revealed its strategic priorities to support its performance objectives for the

funds to high-performance sport, helping to alleviate the financial cost of the ongoing crisis.Paddle Australia

process with a view to identifying important strategic and operation practices that could help Paddle Australia

successful, there is an aim to make a strategic shift over the next 18 months to ensure its success for Australia

The 2021 Women's Cricket World Cup could be postponed as the International Cricket Council (ICC) prepares revised calendars in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

ICC Board has deferred a decision on the status of the two World Cups until next month, with Cricket Australia

The International University Sports Federation (FISU) launched their inaugural esports competition called the 2020 FISU eSports Challenge Football.

More info here: https://t.co/qrcpovQb6y pic.twitter.com/hkO3w7NbbO— UniSport Australia (@unisportAU)

Financial uncertainty has gripped many sports in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic and the International Olympic Committee have suggested that the cost of postponement of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics is thought likely to be in the region of $800 million (£645 million/€712 million).

They had emphatically beaten Australia 4-0 in the Southern Hemisphere summer of 1969-1970.

The World XI reappeared in Australia two years later as the replacement for another South African tour

The South American Soccer Confederation (CONMEBOL) and the Colombian Football Federation (CFC) have accused FIFA of "discriminatory conclusions" in its evaluation report of Colombia's bid to host the 2023 Women's World Cup.

 Australia and New Zealand's joint bid received an average of 4.1 out of five, with Japan tallying

Australian rugby sevens player Lewis Holland has made a temporary return to the 15s game after the postponement of the Olympic Games in Tokyo left himself and his team-mates' future financially uncertain.

Super Rugby AU tournament has been put in place for the 2020 Super Rugby season - which expands across Australia

Holland previously played for Australia at Rio 2016, where his team made the quarter-finals, losing to