0 victory over Uruguay on the opening day of hockey's Women's Pan American Cup, with Canada and the United

States also clinching big wins in Santiago.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has insisted its uniforms for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games were not made using forced labour - but an audit revealed "non-conformities" with one of its suppliers.

uniforms made by Hengyuanxiang (HYX) Group did not use cotton from the Xinjiang region of China, where the United

States and other nations allege the country is committing a "genocide" on Uyghur Muslims.Non-conformities

Former short track speed skating star Allison Baver, an Olympic bronze medallist at Vancouver 2010, has pleaded not guilty against nine charges of fraud.

Baver was summed to a Federal Court in Salt Lake City in the United States where she issued the not guilty

that Allison Baver Entertainment had no employees and no monthly payroll.Allison Baver represented the United

States at three Winter Olympics, winning bronze at Vancouver 2010 ©Getty ImagesBaver is accused of using

Italy's Giacomo Bertagnolli snatched the visually impaired giant slalom gold medal away from Austria's Johannes Aigner in stunning style at the World Para Snow Sports Championships in Lillehammer in Norway.

Lillehammer.It is now the third consecutive World Championships in which the Polish athlete has won a medal.The United

States' Andrew Kurka picked up a bronze in 2:21.25 to add to his earlier bronze in the downhill event.Competition

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takes a tumble during his win over Alexander Bublik of Kazakhstan ©Getty ImagesAmanda Anisimova of the United

States celebrates after beating Swiss Olympic champion Belinda Bencic ©Getty ImagesCanada's Denis Shapovalov

Amanda Anisimova of the United States stunned Swiss Olympic gold medallist Belinda Bencic to set up a

The Winter Olympics will soon be upon us but I am afraid the prospect leaves me as cold as the competitors will be in Beijing.

Placid, in 1980 was the worst journalistic assignment of my career.Usually, covering events in the United

States is an absolute joy, so professionally are they organised.

Delta Air Lines has unveiled a custom aircraft livery to celebrate its eight-year partnership with the United

States Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC).

The Men's World Floorball Championship Qualifications in Europe and the United States have been postponed

A study from researchers at the University of Waterloo in Canada has deduced that failure to reduce global emissions may mean that only one of the previous 21 Winter Olympics host cities would be able to produce fair and safe conditions for future events.

The study, involving researchers from Canada, Austria and the United States, warned that climate change

objective is to keep a global temperature rise below two degrees Celsius this century.Squaw Valley in the United

States, Chamonix in France, the German town of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, and Russia's Sochi are already

and fair competitions," said Siyao Ma of the University of Arkansas.As a founding organisation of the United

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has been branded "irresponsible" for requiring participants to use an application devised to monitor the health of attendees at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing "with such glaring security vulnerabilities".

Citizen Lab’s report comes amid espionage concerns from National Olympic Committees (NOC).NOCs in the United

States, Germany, Britain, Canada and The Netherlands have also advised athletes not to take personal

Russia's match against the United States at next month's qualifier for the 2022 Women's Basketball World

The Ghana Athletics Association (GAA) has lifted the ban on Youth Olympic gold medallist Martha Bissah which had been in place since 2016.

GAA of extortion.The claims were made while Bissah was working towards a scholarship to study in the United

States, following winning the country's sole medal at the 2014 Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing in China.Bissah

Qualification for the International Hockey Federation World Cup will be on the line when men's and women's teams compete in the Pan American Cups in Chilean capital Santiago.

have featured in the final of all five editions of the Pan American Cup - have been pitted against the United

States, Mexico and Trinidad and Tobago in Pool B."

The inaugural Baseball5 World Cup has been included on the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) calendar of international events for 2022.

confirmed by the World Baseball Softball Confederation ©WBSCThe Under-18 World Cup will be hosted in the United

States from September 9 to 18, with Mexico currently bidding for the under-15 event.Taiwan will also