Belarusian Victoria Azarenka saved a match point against Kazakhstan's Yulia Putintseva en route to a 5-7, 6-2, 7-5 win in the first round of the Qatar Open in Doha.

the second round.The only other seeded player in action today was number nine Jessica Pegula of the United

States who dispatched the Czech Republic's Kateřina Siniaková 6-3, 6-2.Spain's Garbiñe Muguruza headlines

Canada's men and women qualified for the Pan Am Male and Female Cup finals after beating Mexico and Guatemala, respectively.

Canada will face Brazil in the men’s final and the United States in the women’s final.Brian Yang brushed

Hosts and defending champions Brazil clinched places in the men's and women's quarter-finals at the International Blind Sports Federation (IBSA) Goalball Americas Championships in São Paulo.

set to meet tomorrow to decide who secures the fourth qualification spot from the pool.In Pool D, the United

States, runners-up in 2019, eased into the last eight with an 11-1 victory over Nicaragua.Tem BRASIL

Chile, with Colombia completing the top four on six points after an important 7-4 victory over Peru.The United

States' men's team are into the quarter-finals after four wins from four in Pool B ©Renan Cacioli/CBDVPeru

The Organising Committee for the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games has sponsored a State Bill which would offer American athletes training in California eligibility for in-state tuition.

amending Section 68083 of California's Education Code.This is aimed at offering access to in-state tuition United

States Olympic and Paralympic Committee-certified athletes training for Los Angeles 2028 in California

Johannes Strolz claimed his second gold and third medal of a remarkable Winter Olympics for the Austrian as he helped his nation capture the mixed team parallel title here.

Germany, beating Strolz but Austria clinched victory by time.Norway claimed bronze as they defeated the United

States by time."

Finland came from one goal down to win the men's ice hockey title for the first time in the nation's long history in the sport, beating the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) at the National Indoor Stadium, being awarded the last gold medal of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games.

players from the Games after COVID-19 postponed several games prior to Beijing 2022, usual suspects United

States and Canada fell at the quarter-finals stage.This paved the way for Sweden and Slovakia to progress

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach met with Chinese President Xi Jinping "multiple times" during the Winter Olympics here, it has been revealed.

Olympics and to meet Chinese leader Xi Jinping Concerns over China’s human rights record resulted in an United

States-led diplomatic boycott of the event in Beijing.Governments in Australia, Belgium, Britain, Canada

A new-look women's squad for 2022 has been picked by the Japan Softball Association, with World Games and Asian Games gold medals the target after home success at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.

Ueno, Miu Goto and Yamato Fujita.Ueno, who is now 39, pitched six scoreless innings as Japan beat the United

States 2-0 in the Olympic final.Fujita - named the tournament's Most Valuable Player (MVP) - scored

The World Athletics Doping Review Board (DRB) has allowed 33 more Russian athletes to compete in international competition as Authorised Neutral Athletes (ANA) after meeting exceptional eligibility criteria.

athletes have now been granted ANA status for 2022, under World Athletics' eligibility rule 3.2.It states

the Indoor Championships in Belgrade in Serbia, the World Athletics Championships in Oregon in the United

States and the Half Marathon Championships in China's Yangzhou.Konstantin Shabanov, who competed at

The group stage of the Davis Cup Finals is to be moved to earlier in the men's tennis season, while competition is set to be spread across four host cities.

in each, can avoid some of the late finishes seen previously, such as in 2019 when a tie between the United

States and Italy, played in Spain, did not finish until just after 4am local time.The quarter-finals

Olympic pole vault champion Mondo Duplantis cleared a season's best of 6.05 metres before coming agonisingly close to a world record of 6.19m in Birmingham, following Olympic silver medallist Keely Hodgkinson's smashing of the British indoor 800 metres record.

amid Storm Eunice-related travel disruption by sharing a taxi from London with Jarret Eaton of the United

States, who was third in 7.60.The women’s 60m hurdles saw another second-place for Kambundji - Mujinga

women's high jump ©Getty ImagesThe men's 400 metres was won in 45.72sec by Kahmari Montgomery of the United

States, with 19-year-old Briton Edward Faulds diving over the line to earn third place in a European

US Figure Skating has confirmed it has lodged an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) to ensure a medal ceremony can be held for their team figure skaters prior to leaving Beijing.

The United States finished as the silver medallists in the event behind the Russian Olympic Committee

And we would leave this Torch with the office of the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee,

Niklas Edin's Sweden finally won the Olympic gold medal in men's curling at his fourth attempt with an extra-end victory over Bruce Mouat's resilient British side here at the National Aquatics Centre on the penultimate day of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games.

Britain.Sweden were favourites to take gold at Pyeongchang 2018 only to suffer a shock defeat to John Shuster's United

States, who finished fourth at these Games.A pattern formed that pointed towards winning the gold medal

Canada started slow, but ended the Games with a bronze medal yesterday after beating defending champions United

States 8-5.Shuster's team had a big challenge with the hammer in the final end and a two-point deficit

Canada have progressed to the Pan Am Male Cup and Female Cup semi-finals today after closing out comfortable victories in Acapulco in Mexico.

Mexico, who produced a 5-0 victory of their own to qualify for the next round.The other tie sees the United

States take on Brazil.Meanwhile, the Canadian women’s team also topped Group A after replicating a 5

means the champions have booked a rematch against Guatemala in the semi-finals.Brazil will play the United

States in the Pan Am Male and Female Cup semi-finals ©Getty ImagesThe second women's tie includes a

The United States had a perfect start to challenging for the International Blind Sports Federation (IBSA