Brazil won both team titles at the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) Pan American Championships, taking the country's haul of gold medals from the event in Lima to four.

Bruna Takahashi and Jessica Yamada were within a match of elimination in their semi-final against the United

States, but clutch play from Kumahara saved the day.Having lost of Lily Zhang in the opening match of

Olympic champion Alexander Zverev and world number two Daniil Medvedev are to meet in the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) Finals final, after Zverev upset Novak Djokovic in Turin.

the singles final.French duo Nicolas Mahut and Pierre-Hughes Herbert are up against Rajeev Ram of the United

States and Briton Joe Salisbury.The latter pair beat Croatians Nikola Mektić - a 2020 champion - and

The United States' Erin Jackson continued her dominance of the women's 500 metres event on the International

Japan's Yuma Kagiyama and Russia's Anna Shcherbakova both won their second events of the International Skating Union (ISU) Grand Prix of Figure Skating season with victories in the men's and women's competitions at the Internationaux de France in Grenoble.

216.96, while silver went to their compatriots Iuliia Artemeva and Mikhail Nazarychev on 205.15.The United

States' Alexa Knierim and Brandon Frazier leapfrogged Canada's Vanessa James and Eric Radford to round

Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games champion Ivan Litvinovich suffered a shock elimination in the semi-final of the men's individual event at the Trampoline Gymnastics World Championships in Baku.

final.However, he scored 75.100 to earn a silver, the same medal he won in yesterday's team event.The United

States' Ruben Padilla was relegated to the bronze-medal position with a landing penalty on the second

International Sambo Federation (FIAS) President Vasily Shestakov is used to being faced with doubters when voicing his lofty ambitions for the sport.

2028 Olympics.One potential stumbling block facing the FIAS is the fractious relationship between the United

States and Russia.Sambo - a martial art and combat sport developed and used by the Soviet Red Army in

Combat sambo is close to mixed martial arts which the United States is very famous for."

both USA Sambo and the Pan American Sambo Union, will be tasked with fostering relationships with the United

States Olympic and Paralympic Committee.Shestakov has also set his sights on creating a platform for

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach would realise what the Olympic Games are missing by excluding karate if he attended a major event in the sport, French star Steven Da Costa has claimed after its omission from Paris 2024.

commissioned Nielsen Sports to carry out an independent review of karate's popularity in France and the United

States at Tokyo 2020 compared with the three other additional sports at the Games in the Japanese capital

The Netherlands' Odile van Aanholt and Elise de Ruyter cemented their position at the top of the 49erFX standings on the penultimate day of racing at the 49er, 49erFX and Nacra 17 World Championships in Mussanah in Oman.

ninth-place finishes helping them to finish the day with 87 points.Ian Barrows and Hans Henken of the United

States remain fourth with 90, sailing their drop race in the 15th, while Ireland's Robert Dickson and

The final three places at next year's International Cricket Council (ICC) Women's Cricket World Cup will be decided over the next two weeks as nine teams compete at the qualifier in Zimbabwean capital Harare.

The United States complete the five-team group, opening against Bangladesh at Sunrise Cricket Club on

Estonia’s Kelly Sildaru claimed her first International Ski Federation Freeski World Cup win in three years with women’s slopestyle success in Stubai in Austria, while Norway’s Birk Ruud captured the men’s title.

second run of 86.26.Ferdinand Dahl of Norway finished third with 86.06, while Hunter Henderson of the United

States missed out on a medal despite being the only competitor to post two scores above 80.00.Stubai

A senior International Olympic Committee (IOC) official has admitted the organisation could be forced into taking a hard-line approach to China as concerns increase over the safety of tennis player Peng Shuai.

shared concern over Peng's safety along with leading tennis players, including Serena Williams of the United

States, Naomi Osaka of Japan and Novak Djokovic of Serbia.The British Olympic Association told insidethegames

The Women's Tennis Association (WTA) has threatened to pull out of 2022 events hosted in China due to concerns regarding the safety and well being of Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai.

such as American Serena Williams and Japan's Naomi Osaka, Paris 2024 President Tony Estanguet, the United

Nations and now major world Governments.United States President Joe Biden is "deeply concerned" with

Thomas Krol led a Dutch one-two-three in the men's 1,000 metres at the second leg of the International Skating Union Speed Skating World Cup in Stavanger in Norway, with Irene Schouten providing further success for The Netherlands in the women's 5,000m.

Wiklund - the 1,500m world champion - recorded a 5,000m personal best of 6:56.469 to finish third.The United

States' Britanny Bowe also made it two wins from two and set a track record in the women's 1,000m, clocking

Canadian Olympic bronze medallist and men's 1,000 metres International Skating Union Short Track Speed Skating World Cup leader Pascal Dion eased into the quarter-finals at the Főnix Arena in Debrecen in Hungary.

preliminaries but had to settle for second with 1:30.862 as she progressed from the heats.Kristen Santos of the United

States, second in the season standings, won both her races in 1:30.978 and 1:29.452, with only Arianna

Dutch sailors top two of the standings at the 49er, 49erFX and Nacra 17 World Championships in Mussanah as Bart Labriex and Lars wan de Werken continue to lead in the 49er and Odile van Aanholt and Elise Ruyter enjoyed a fine day in the 49erFX.

two-thirds of the way through racing, with the Finnish duo on 69.Stephanie Roble and Maggie Shea of the United

States finished third in the second race of the day but slipped further off the pace with 81 after recording