By Duncan MackayNovember 7 - Oslo will become the fifth candidate to officially declare that they will bid to host the 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympics before next week's deadline closes.

Zhangjiakou.There is today also due to be official confirmation that there will be a joint bid from Poland

By Paul OsborneNovember 5 - Beijing will launch a surprise bid to host the 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympics with Zhangjiakou as a co-host, the Chinese Olympic Committee (COC) revealed today.

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By Duncan MackayOctober 31 - Poland and Slovakia will bid for the 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympics

tourists from Russia, Ukraine and Hungary.The main obstacle to a successful joint bid from Slovakia and Poland

The High Tatras mountains, which borders Poland and Slovakia, will play a big role in the bid for the

2022 Winter Olympics and ParalympicsUnder the plan, the former royal capital of Krakow in southern Poland

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for 2022 Winter OlympicsNovember 2012: Poland set for 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic bid

By Emily GoddardOctober 30 - Uganda has pulled out of hosting the 2013 African women's Sitting Volleyball World Championship qualifying tournament after it failed to secure the funds needed to hold the event in Kampala next week.

November 4 until 11, could mean that no African women's teams make it to the World Championships in Poland

By Paul OsborneOctober 29 - Pride House International has announced efforts to partner with national houses at Sochi 2014 in a bid to overcome the legal obstacles in place in Russian which prevent their creation in Russia. 

2010 Winter Olympics, we saw Pride Houses activated at the [2012] UEFA Euro Football Championship [in Poland

By Duncan MackayOctober 28 - Japan has been awarded the 2019 women's World Handball Championships while Denmark and Germany will jointly host the men's event that year, it was announced in Doha today.

Committee chose Japan's bid ahead of Norway while Denmark and Germany were selected ahead of rivals Poland

By Duncan MackayOctober 28 - Lviv is set to announce officially next week that it will bid for the 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympics with its campaign to be led by Ukraine's Deputy Prime Minister Oleksandr Vilkul. 

Almaty, there are also expected to be bids from Munich and Oslo.There is also to be a joint bid from Poland

2012, including Germany against DenmarkUkraine had co-hosted the 2012 UEFA European Championships with Poland

matches in Group B, including two matches involving Germany.Lviv was formerly part of the Kingdom of Poland

By Duncan MackayOctober 25 - Norway and Sweden have withdrawn their bid to host the 2019 men's World Handball Championships and instead thrown their support behind the joint application from Denmark and Germany.

their decision earlier this month to join forces having originally launched separate bids.It leaves Poland

By Duncan MackayOctober 25 - Barcelona today officially ruled out bidding for the 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympics, as predicted on insidethegames earlier this month.

bids are expected from Norwegian capital Oslo and Lviv in Ukraine, along with a joint proposal from Poland

By Paul OsborneOctober 24 - Four new world champions were crowned on the second day Judo World Junior Championships at the Stozice Centre in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

judoka Odette Giuffrida with Shime-waza.Junior European Championships bronze medallist Arleta Podolak of Poland

Venezuela's Anriquelis Barrios by scoring fewer penalties than her South American opponent.Arleta Podolak of Poland

By Gary AndersonOctober 24 - Proving herself arguably the athlete of the week so far, Slovakian Veronika Vadovicova claimed her second individual gold medal and set a European finals record on the penultimate day of action at the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Shooting European Championships in Alicante.

centre) and Bawomir Okoniewski (left) made it a Polish top two in the pistol event on day four Poland

By Gary AndersonOctober 23 - Sweden's 17-time Paralympic gold medallist Jonas Jacobsson once again showed why he is one the greatest shooters of all-time by bagging another European title and setting a world record qualification score at the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Shooting European Championships in Alicante.

European record went to Serbia's Rastko Joki with a score of 181.4, ahead of Slawomir Okoniewski of Poland

Chiles started to look forward to England's clash with Poland which, said Chiles - whose mother is Croatian

- was "practically a home game for Poland - 15,000 Poles will be in here, I'm sure."

By Duncan MackayOctober 11 - Denmark and Germany are to join forces to launch a joint bid for the 2019 men's World Handball Championships, they announced today. 

interest last month in hosting the 2019 World Championship to the IHF, along with Sweden, Norway, Poland

By Gary AndersonOctober 5 - History maker Lucas Sithole, the first African to win a wheelchair tennis Grand Slam, and Paralympic champion Richard Whitehead, who completed 40 marathons in 40 days, are among six athletes nominated for the International Paralympic Committee's (IPC) September Athlete of the Month.

named Most Valuable Player (MVP) and Best Setter at the European ParaVolley Championships in Elblag, Poland