The Tokyo 2020 Olympics are not even a week old, yet the fight for sports to feature at future Games is hotting up. This week one which lays claim to being the biggest outside of the Olympic Movement, cricket, formally joined the race for a Los Angeles 2028 place.

Baseball-softball and karate are the two which appeared in Japan but will be absent from France - and

Team knockout rounds started on the second day of the World Archery Youth Championships in Wrocław in Poland, across seven categories.

Netherlands who defeated Germany 153-151.Denmark are through too with a 153-143 victory over Brazil, France

Men’s top seed Marwan ElShorbagy was given a huge scare in the quarter-finals of the Professional Squash Association Manchester Open, before edging past world number 38 Abdulla Mohd Al Tamimi of Qatar.

of two unseeded players Emily Whitlock of Wales triumphed in straight games against Coline Aumard of France

Mali and the United States swept aside their respective opponents in their round of 16 games as the knockout stage started at the Under-19 Women's Basketball World Cup in Debrecen.

Argentina to expectedly progress, and are now set to play Canada in the next round, who defeated unbeaten France

Colombian Fernando Gaviria of UAE Team Emirates crossed the line at the front for the first time in 2021, after claiming the win on stage three of the Tour de Pologne in Rzeszów in Poland.

The points classification winner of the 2017 Giro d'Italia and two-time Tour de France stage winner finished

Italian and French paddlers each earned two gold medals on the opening day of the Wildwater Canoeing European Championships in León.

win.Panato finished more than 40 seconds ahead of Czech runner-up Marie Nemcova, while Helene Raguenes from France

first, ahead of German pair Normen Weber and Tim Heilinger.Stephane Santamaria and Quentin Dazeur of France

World Taekwondo President Chungwon Choue is set to be re-elected for a fifth full term unopposed, after being confirmed as the only candidate for the Presidency. 

total.Italian Taekwondo Federation President Angelo Cito, two-time Olympic bronze medallist Pascal Gentil from France

Defending champion and 20-time major winner Rafael Nadal has withdrawn from the Canadian Open because of a foot injury.

Jelena Ostapenko and Ukrainian Dayana Yastremska won a deciding tiebreaker 12-10 against Océane Dodin of France

The United States handed a heavy defeat to their third and final group stage opponent Egypt, to start their Under-19 Women's Basketball World Cup campaign undefeated before the knockout stages begin.

or the Czech Republic in the last eight on the same side of the bracket.Australia play Argentina and France

The first day of action took place today at the World Archery Youth Championships in Wrocław in Poland, with the opening round of the men's junior recurve competition proving the highlight.

Sanchez was third on 670.In the women's equivalent event, Japan's Waka Sonoda and Melodie Richard of France

Iban Bariteaud in second on 667 and India's Bishal Changmai in third on 661.Finally, Caroline Lopez of France

More than 100 athletes from 15 countries are expected to compete at the Wildwater Canoeing European Championships, which begin tomorrow in Spanish village Sabero.

Championships, also staged in Spain, in La Seu d'Urgell.Women's K1 world champion Phénicia Dupras from France

the 2019 World Championships.Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the Czech Republic, France

Athletes from across the globe have been feted on their returns home from the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

athletes brought home 10 gold, 12 silver and 14 bronze medals.Elsewhere, the Olympic Flag arrived in France

reporters the flag "is the symbol that now, really, the Paris Games are coming and it will go very fast,".France

Chess Championship with a victory on the opening day of competition, defeating Andreea Navrotescu of France

The Olympic Flag arrived in France today from Japan, symbolising the handover from the Tokyo 2020 Games

really, the Paris Games are coming and it will go very fast," according to the Washington Post.The France

The International Ski Federation (FIS) Ski Cross World Cup and Snowboard World Cup scheduled to be held in Feldberg, Germany has been cancelled due to the ongoing COVID-19 crisis.

hazards linked to this unsteady situation are simply too high," the FIS said.Jean-Frederic Chapuis from France