Olympic gold medal-winning snowboarder Jamie Anderson has been honoured with an Excellence in Sports Performance Yearly Award (ESPY).

titles during the 2015-16 season.She won two out of the four slopestyle World Cups held, in Cardona in New

Zealand in August and then in Bokwang in South Korea in February.The latter victory was at an event

United States continued their superb start to the World Baseball Softball Confederation’s (WBSC) Women's Softball World Championship by easing to an impressive victory over Brazil.

result also taking Pool A rivals Venezuela through.A meeting of the top two ranked nations in Pool H saw New

Zealand emerge as narrow 8-7 winners over Italy, while Peru earned a consolation 10-3 triumph over Kenya.Mexico

Championship group stage by Australia, who ended second in Pool C after a 13-0 win over Serbia.New Zealand

first round, holders Japan were drawn into Championship Group 1 alongside Britain, Chinese Taipei and New

Defending champions Japan marked the first match of the (WBSC) Women's Softball World Championship with a victory in Surrey, Canada.

 Italy occupy top spot in Pool H after their comfortable 15-0 victory over Kenya, with New Zealand

Richard McLaren's pivotal World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Independent Commission report into allegations of an orchestrated and state-supported doping scheme at the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games is due to be released here tomorrow.

the former head of the under-fire Moscow Anti-Doping Laboratory before turning whistleblower, in the New

Russian ban, aside from just in Canada and the US.Graeme Steel, chief executive of Drug Free Sport New

Zealand, has said that the report's findings, if fitting with the allegations, could leave the IOC with

Venues for the 2017 Rugby League World Cup are set to be revealed when the competition is officially launched on Tuesday (July 19), the Rugby League International Federation (RLIF) have announced.

will also see the official draw for the 11-team tournament, which is being co-hosted by Australia, New

Zealand and Papua New Guinea.Australia are the defending champions after winning their 10th title at

Continued withdrawals from the golf tournament at next month's Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro have dented cricket’s hopes of Olympic inclusion in the future, it has been claimed. 

has sparked widespread criticism.Senior International Olympic Committee (IOC) member Barry Maister of New

Zealand claimed last month that golf should not be an Olympic sport if the top players do not take part

Indian-born Australian wrestler Vinod Kumar is set to miss next month’s Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro after he was hit with a four-year ban for doping.

66kg division to the next best ranked National Olympic Committee.”insidethegames has been told that New

Zealand has been offered the place which is likely to be vacated by Kumar.Craig Miller finished third

in the qualification event in Algiers and the New Zealand Olympic Wrestling Union and Associated Styles

has accepted the spot.The UWW are now waiting for confirmation from the New Zealand Olympic Committee

A Hula Under-15 World Cup Food Festival will take place during the opening weekend of the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) World Cup for the same age group in the city of Iwaki.

are due to compete in the tournament in Iwaki ©WBSCThe United States, Mexico, Panama, Chinese Taipei, New

Zealand and Venezuela will contest Group B, before the knock-out phase of the competition begins.The

for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.A joint bid from men's baseball and women's softball is one of five new

If you want a pointer as to how the athletics competition will go at next month's Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, tomorrow’s Herculis meeting at the Stade Louis II in Monaco - whose participants include Dafne Schippers, Asbel Kiprop, Mo Farah, Mutaz Essa Barshim and Caster Semenya – will offer telling information.

shot put title to the world version she won last year, comes up against the London 2012 champion from New

Zealand, Valerie Adams, who was unable to defend that world title last year as she recovered from injuries.Also

Spanish pole vaulter Didac Salas has blamed budget airline Vueling for his failure to qualify for next month's Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro after they lost his pole during the recent European Athletics Championships in Amsterdam.

the country's sails to their cargo centre, meaning they arrived in Britain without them.Back in 2006, New

Zealand Paralympian Kate Horan’s bid for a world title came to a bizarre end when her prosthetic leg

Padraig Harrington, Seamus Power and Leona Maguire have been selected by the Olympic Council of Ireland (OCI) for the Rio 2016 golf tournaments after three of the top-ranked Irishmen snubbed next month’s event.

Africa is the only female golfer to pull out, citing fears over Zika, and world number one Lydia Ko of New

Zealand says she is too excited about competing at the Games to worry about the disease.

The World Baseball Softball Confederation’s (WBSC) Women's Softball World Championship is due to begin in Canada tomorrow with Japan hoping to clinch a third title in a row.

Philippines and Pakistan making up Pool F.China, Cuba, Guatemala and Greece will lock horns in Pool G with New

Zealand, Italy, Kenya and Peru colliding in Pool H.After the preliminary round of competition is completed

A Gender Equality Taskforce has been established by Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) President Louise Martin to ensure equal opportunities for women across the region, it has been announced.

Commonwealth Games Associations (CGAs).The body, which will be led by CGF vice-presidents Kereyn Smith of New

Zealand and Canada's Bruce Robertson, will “comprehensively audit and explore opportunities for gender

World Rugby have unveiled the official ball which will be used during the men’s and women’s sevens tournaments at next month’s Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.

the opening day of competition, a day after the Opening Ceremony at the Maracanã Stadium on August 5.New

Zealand and Kenya will join France and Spain in Group B, with Australia, United States, Fiji and Colombia

champions Fiji in their first match in Pool A.They will be joined by United States and Argentina, with New

Zealand, Britain, Kenya and Japan featuring in Pool C.

New Zealander Paul Coll has been named as the Professional Squash Association (PSA) player of the month

in his native country, which included a 12-match unbeaten streak.He won the Fitzherbert Rowe Lawyers New

Zealand PSA Classic, beating Australia's Rex Hedrick in the final, and then backed that up with success