Disgraced athletics coach Alberto Salazar's appeal against a four-year anti-doping ban has been rejected by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).

Salazar was suspended for four years by the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) in 2019 for "orchestrating

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has been castigated by survivors of Larry Nassar's abuse for its handling of the investigation - one FBI director Christopher Wray accepts contained "totally unacceptable" errors - at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the case.

his crimes.Simone Biles, McKayla Maroney, Maggie Nichols and Aly Raisman, who all won medals for the United

States at either the World Championships or the Olympic Games, gave testimony, while Senate Judiciary

case, describing them as "a stain on the bureau" in his opening remarks.USA Gymnastics (USAG) and the United

States Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) also came under fire for their shortcomings.

States Olympic and Paralympic Committee."

A series of FIFA visits to American cities wishing to stage matches during the 2026 World Cup is underway.

The United States, Mexico and Canada are co-hosting the next-but-one men's World Cup, but venues have

Bilello met the FIFA delegation at Gillette Stadium today.Kraft was honorary chairman of the victorious United

She was born in Canada to a Chinese mother and Romanian father, her name ends in a vowel and her Mandarin is as fluent as her forehand. But as far as this nation is concerned she is as British as bacon and eggs.

The adulation accorded the unbelievably talented teenager here - and in the United States - last weekend

More viewers tuned into American cable broadcaster ESPN's coverage of Emma Raducanu’s victory over Leylah Fernandez than Daniil Medvedev ending Novak Djokovic’s hopes of a calendar Grand Slam.

for the men’s singles final.Cable channel ESPN took over exclusive US Open broadcasting rights in the United

States in 2015 ©Getty ImagesRaducanu’s win averaged 2.44 million viewers, compared to 2.05 million for

an increase of around one-third from 2020.ESPN took over exclusive broadcasting rights in the United

States from CBS - who had shown the US Open since 1968 - in 2015, signing an 11-year deal.It also holds

woman to win a Grand Slam since Virginia Wade in 1977, and her final was broadcast free-to-air in the United

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has issued another stern warning to the International Boxing Association (AIBA), claiming its "deepest" concerns with the suspended organisation's governance, refereeing and judging remain "unresolved" and suggesting it has made little progress towards reinstatement.

troubled Federation since replacing Gafur Rakhimov, whose ill-fated tenure was dominated by him being on a United

States Treasury Department sanctions list as "one of Uzbekistan's leading criminals", as President in

Canada, the United States and the Dominican Republic all followed up opening-day victories at the Women's

Identical contract proposals have been offered to the player associations of the men's and women's national football teams by US Soccer.

bargaining agreement (CBA) structure".It has triggered another public dispute between US Soccer and the United

States Women’s National Team Players Association (USWNTPA).The USWNTPA has claimed the move is a "PR

firmly believes that the best path forward for all involved, and for the future of the sport in the United

States, is a single pay structure for both senior national teams," US Soccer said in a statement"."

States women's team won their second straight FIFA World Cup in 2019 ©Getty ImagesUS Soccer also said

Burundi’s Francine Niyonsaba broke the women’s 2,000 metres world record on her way to victory at the World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meeting in Croatian capital Zagreb.

Championships in London in 2017.In last night’s only event, back-to-back Olympic champion Ryan Crouser of the United

States won a star-studded Ivan Ivancevic Memorial men’s shot put event, recording distances of more

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Executive Committee has endorsed a scientific review into cannabis' status as a banned substance and also declared eight organisations - including the national anti-doping bodies of Romania, Thailand and Indonesia - non-compliant.

missed the Olympics due to testing positive for the recreational drug, which is legal in many American states

Olympic trials but returned a positive test for marijuana on the same day, ultimately leading to the United

States Anti-Doping Agency banning her for a month and the 21-year-old's results at the trials being

governance has been a source of debate.Indonesia's NADO has been declared non-compliant ©Getty ImagesThe United

States Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) accepts WADA has "shown a willingness" to reform

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has dismissed Ricardo Teixeira's appeal against a lifetime ban from all football-related activity.

CBF President for 14 years until he stepped down in 2012.He has thus far resisted extradition to the United

States, where the Department of Justice alleges that, among other crimes, Teixeira was one of the FIFA

The dates have been set for the women's softball tournament at next year's World Games in Birmingham in Alabama.

present at the event.This means Olympic champions Japan could lock horns again with World Games hosts the United

States, who they beat in the Tokyo 2020 final.Bronze medallists Canada, Mexico, Australia and Italy

going through to the semi-finals on July 12.The medal matches will take place the following day.Hosts United

States will contest the World Games softball tournament after winning silver at Tokyo 2020 ©Getty ImagesBirmingham

News that next month’s General Assembly of the Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC) is to be held in Crete reminded me that it was there on the Mediterranean holiday island that I had my first taste of live Olympic sports action.

Ottomans for 21 years, for an early match in the women’s soccer competition.This pitted the mighty United

States, Mia Hamm and all, against host nation Greece.Yet even with this evident local interest – not

but the game could almost have been presented as the US first team against a US Greek heritage XI.The United

States Women's Team won Olympic gold at Athens 2004, beating several fellow Americans in their opening

An advocacy group has called for the suspension of United States men's ice hockey team general manager

abuse and neglect in the US, urged USA Hockey to remove Bowman from his position in a letter to the United

States Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC).Bowman, the general manager of National Hockey League

The Professional Squash Association (PSA) has confirmed the postponement of the Everbright Sun Hung Kai Hong Kong Squash Open due to the COVID-19 pandemic, resulting in the third consecutive year the event has not been held.

rankings.Upcoming events include the Oracle Netsuite Open and US Open events for men and women in the United

States, as well as the men’s Qatar Classic, Malaysian Open and Sturbridge Capital Motor City Open in