During her visit to inspect the progress on renovations at the Alexander Stadium, Olympic women's 1500 metres silver medallist Laura Muir confirmed that next year's Commonwealth Games in Birmingham will rank highly in her priorities during a congested summer schedule.

Next summer sees the World Athletics Championships scheduled to take place in Oregon in the United States

Olympic medallists Nico Porteous and Zoi Sadowski-Synnott are among the first five athletes to be named in the New Zealand team for Beijing 2022.

women's snowboard big air.Both are now reigning world champions after striking gold in Aspen in the United

States this year.Porteous won halfpipe gold while Sadowski-Synnot defended her title in snowboard slopestyle.Sadowski-Synnot

Czech Republic clinched their seventh men's Inline Hockey World Championship title with a comfortable victory over Canada in the final in Roccaraso.

have some way to go if they are to become the most decorated team in the history of the event as the United

States hold the record with 16 gold medals.The Czech team went unbeaten throughout the competition in

The United States Association of Blind Athletes (USABA) and the Turnstone Center for Children and Adults

Plassman's role in creating the Goalball Center of Excellence in Fort Wayne in Indiana, home of the United

States men's and women's goalball resident training programme.Plassman is a well-known philanthropist

values that have been lived out by the actions and support of Ron Plassman", the USABA explained.The United

States women's team won a Paralympic Games silver medal at Tokyo 2020 ©Getty ImagesThese include "demonstrating

public safety incidents during next year's re-arranged World Games in Birmingham in Alabama in the United

States.

Defending champions Argentina are looking convincing following the conclusion of the group stages of the FIFA Futsal World Cup in Lithuania, as Brazil and Portugal have emerged as expected contenders for the title.

In Group F, they started with an 11-0 thrashing of the United States, followed by a 4-2 victory over

Qualification started today at the World Table Tennis (WTT) Contender Doha on the opening day of competition at the Lusail Arena in Qatar.

Layan Neumann of Mexico 11-2, 11-6, 11-7, and France's Bastien Rembert won 11-4, 11-5, 11-5 against the United

States' Mishel Levinski.Singapore's Beh Kun Ting defeated Mustafa Bakhtiyari of Afghanistan 11-5, 11

The penultimate day of the International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC) Climbing World Championship in Moscow saw qualification held in the lead discipline, with Tomoa Narasaki of Japan and Seo Chae-hyun of South Korea on top form.

the reigning champion Seo top score with 1.73.Fresh from securing the bouldering title in Moscow, the United

States' Natalia Grossman safely progressed with 2.45, a score matched by Laura Rogora of Italy.Lučka

The International Hockey Federation (FIH) has released the match schedule for the 2022 Indoor Hockey World Cup in Belgium, which has been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

#IHWC22 pic.twitter.com/qr7HHCVWpx— Hockey Belgium (@hockeybe) September 17, 2021Namibia and the United

States have taken the spots of Australia and New Zealand in the men's competition, while Canada and

Andrew Parsons is set to serve another term as President of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC), as nominees for the upcoming election in December were announced today.

seeking re-election to the IPC Board ©Getty ImagesSouth Africa's Debra Alexander of World Triathlon, the United

Arab Emirates' Mohamed Alhameli, Angola's Leonel da Rocha Pinto, the United States' Muffy Davis, athlete

South Africa triumphed in the first World Rugby Sevens Series event held for 18 months in Vancouver in Canada, while Britain clinched the women's Fast Fours competition.

Britain 26-12 in the semi-finals at BC Place earlier in the day, while Kenya overcame Pool C winners United

States 19-14 and Ireland 38-5.Jasmine Joyce notched a hat-trick of tries to help Britain beat the United

States 34-12 in the final of the women's Fast Four competition ©Getty ImagesThe encounter between the

Next month's International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC) Boulder and Speed World Cup in the South Korean capital Seoul has been cancelled.

total of five lead competitions have taken place.The IFSC Paraclimbing World Cup in Los Angeles in the United

States from October 9 to 10 is still due to take place in what is the final scheduled event of the season.Paraclimbing

International Fistball Association President Jörn Verleger has not ruled out proposing 2x2 fistball as a sport on the programme for the postponed Birmingham 2022 World Games next year.

the opponent's half of the field.The Birmingham 2022 World Games is scheduled to take place in the United

States from July 7 to 17 2022, having been moved back by a year due to a clash with the postponed Tokyo

Considering my dad used to call me "stats" as a child because pages of data fascinated me, it is no surprise that I fawn over medal tables.

gleaming record when it comes to Para sport and the chasm between Olympic medal table rivals China and the United

States is one of the most notable.China could have figuratively put their feet up, poured a glass of

golds for third in the standings behind Great Britain, a gold and three silvers ahead of the RPC.The United

States had their best Paralympics in 13 years ©Getty ImagesIt is not a poor result for the Americans

major disadvantages to their lives on top of the barriers they would face in any other country.The United

The Global Esports Federation (GEF) has announced two development organisations have been established in Africa and the Pan American regions.

currently the chair of the GEF’s International Relations and Development Commission.He will be supported by United

States’ Melita N.