The 2021 Boston Marathon has an array of great names in the men's and women's fields, but the return of Kenyan double world marathon champion Edna Kiplagat is the most notable of these.

Tokyo Marathon last year, while Kenyan Diana Chemtai Kipyogei clocked 2:22:06 in Istanbul in 2020.The United

States' top hope is Jordan Hasay, but she has struggled to rediscover her pre-pandemic form.Lelisa Desisa

Beijing 2022 has launched its first international test events as part of the preparations for February's Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games, with the sliding track in the Yanqing cluster used by athletes, including American double bobsleigh world champion Kaillie Humphries.

including one at 360-degrees.Athletes from 23 countries including Germany, Russia, Britain and the United

States took part.Two-time Olympic gold medallist and reigning monobob and two-woman bobsleigh world

Humphries is one of the headline names taking part at the testing event.Humphries could compete for the United

States at the Winter Olympics for the first time, having switched from Canada, for whom she won two-woman

Ethiopia's Seifu Tura won the men's Chicago Marathon today, while Kenya’s world champion Ruth Chepngetich took the women’s event on an unusually hot day in the Windy City.

 Another United States runner, Sara Hall, was third in 2:27:19.This was the first marathon that

The top tier Group A of the 2020 Bandy World Championship has again been postponed, this time until October 2022 after three of the eight countries involved decided against participating in this year's competition.

Bandy Federation is set to be joined by Sweden, Finland and Kazakhstan in Group A, with Norway, the United

States, Germany and Estonia in Group B.The Russian city of Irkutsk will remain the host for the top

Brooklyn Nets star and Rio 2016 men's basketball gold medallist Kyrie Irving is able to resume training with his team following a change in New York City's interpretation of its vaccine mandate.

welcomed the opportunity to have the 29-year-old, who was named the Most Valuable Player during the United

States' International Basketball Federation (FIBA) World Cup win in 2014, back training with the rest

The 53-year-old Para climbing legend Kobayashi Koichiro of Japan was among those to progress through lead qualifying at the final International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC) Paraclimbing World Cup event of the year at the Sender One Climbing Gym in Los Angeles.

will go up against Manikandan Kumar of India and Brian Zarzuela and Benjamin Mayforth, both of the United

States, for medals in the men's RP2 tomorrow.The women's RP2 final promises to be a close contest tomorrow

India earned a tournamnet-best haul of 40 medals, including 16 golds, at the rifle, pistol and shotgun International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) Junior World Championships in Lima, adding a further four successes on the final day of competition.

triumphed 31-17 against Ayushi Podder and Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar.Second on the medals table were the United

States, whose seventh and final gold came on Thursday (October 7) as Molly McGhin, Katie Zaun and Mary

Prasiddhi Mahant and Ayushi Podder 47-43 in the final of the women's team 50m rifle three positions.The United

States finished second on the medals table Mary Tucker contributed to one of seven golds in the women's

consecutive Rugby World Cup after staging a second-leg turnaround in Montevideo in the playoff against the United

States, earning the first Americas qualification spot.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board (EB) gathers in Greece this week to begin the second century of its existence.

As the 1936 Olympics in Berlin approached, there was growing opposition in the United States because

racial discrimination.Brundage branded it "a disgrace to sport, to the Olympic Movement and to the United

States".The pair were "to be eliminated from taking part in any future Olympic competitions".Later in

Games, the EB formulated a plan which enabled athletes from Yugoslavia to participate even though the United

No-one thought they would see a woman sitting there," Isava Fonseca later told a United Nations project

The United States' Tom Shields broke Caeleb Dressel's national record in the 50 metres butterfly in a

Mexico's 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifier against Canada at the Azteca Stadium was paused after 59 minutes amid reports of homophobic chanting.

homophobic chants at Olympic qualification matches in March against the Dominican Republic and the United

States, but this was reduced to one game, which was served in September's win against Jamaica.Play was

paused because of homophobic chants when Mexico played Canada at the CONCACAF Gold Cup in Houston in the United

States in July.

The Russian Olympic Committee, United States and Finland are among 11 teams to submit National Hockey

Back-to-back champions Russia are looking to equal the United States' record of four International Swimming

producing an upset.Group C is the most well-rounded of the four as Serbia join all three newcomers.The United

States misses out to due to COVID-19 issues and collegiate commitments ©Getty ImagesRussia headline

American Olympic pairs figure skating coach Dalilah Sappenfield has been temporarily prohibited by the US Center for SafeSport from contacting numerous athletes and from coaching others without the presence of an adult, as an investigation into alleged misconduct continues.

United States pairs champion from 2016, Tarah Kayne, is one of the skaters to who Sappenfield is banned

A revamped format for the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) Under-18 Softball World Cup in Peru has been announced, following the withdrawal of seven teams.

has been raised to allow those who were eligible to compete in 2020 to play this year.Hosts Peru, the United

States - second in the WBSC rankings and the top-ranked team at the event - Mexico, Puerto Rico, The