A mere 121 years after cricket made its one and only Olympic appearance, we have come together as a sport to try and recreate history and rejoin the Olympic family. In the intervening years, since Britain beat France in what would later be ratified as a gold-medal match, the subject of cricket in the Olympics has been raised on numerous occasions.

no doubt the Olympics will help us in that ambition as we target less traditional markets like the United

States – our number one growth market for our next cycle.Already, we have a strong fanbase in the US

The Russian Paralympic Committee (RPC) secured its first archery gold of the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games with a shoot-off victory against Italy in the mixed team recurve open event at the Yumenoshima Final Field, courtesy of Margarita Sidorenko and Kirill Smirnov.

and perfect 10 with their final two arrows.Sidorenko and Smirnov earlier secured 6-2 wins against the United

States’ Emma Rise Ravish and Eric Bennett in the round of 16 and South Korea’s Jo Jang Moon and Kim

Suitably rested, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce will return to action at the World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meeting in Chorzow, Poland tomorrow for the first time since running the third fastest women’s 100 metres time ever.

fellow Olympic finalists Yasmani Copello of Turkey and Rasmus Magi of Estonia.Michael Cherry of the United

States, fourth in the Olympic 400m final, won in Brussels in a meeting record and personal best of 44.03

Russia claimed a further two gold medals at the International Cycling Union (UCI) Junior Track Cycling World Championships in Egyptian capital Cairo, with events also won by riders from Canada and Italy.

in the scratch and tempo races, and had 106 points after the elimination, ranking her second to the United

States' Kaia Schmid on 112 points.In a dramatic sprint race, the front two Abaidullina and Schmid were

Brazil’s Henrique Avancini marked his return to the International Cycling Union (UCI) Mountain Bike World Cup circuit with a victory in the elite men’s cross-country short track event, while Sweden’s Jenny Rissveds won the women’s race in Lenzerheide in Switzerland.

some breathing space on the final position on the podium by moving up to 905 points - 129 clear of the United

States’ Haley Batten in fourth on 776.New short track world champion and cross-country Olympic silver

Christine Mboma of Namibia and Burundi’s Francine Niyonsaba won big over 200 and 5,000 metres respectively at tonight’s Diamond League meeting in Brussels as Olympic pole vault champion Mondo Duplantis set a meeting record of 6.05 metres and got close to the world record.

the men’s pole vault with a first-time clearance of 5.91 metres, a height that proved too much for United

States vaulter Chris Nilsen, the Olympic silver medallist, whose best was a first-time success at 5.85m.Third

The United States made history by becoming the first-ever nation to win Paralympic gold in the 4x100

The proposal to make the FIFA World Cup a biennial event has received its first support from member associations of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) following a joint statement released by four national football governing bodies.

announced a huge change and expansion to the current 32-team competition.From the 2026 World Cup in the United

States, Canada and Mexico, 48 teams will enter the competition, divided into 16 groups of three, with

The men's ice hockey tournament at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics is set to feature the best players in the world after an agreement was reached for National Hockey League (NHL) stars to take part.

the conclusion of the last-chance qualifiers last month.Hosts China will be in Group A alongside the United

States, Canada and Germany.The Czechs, Swiss, Danes and ROC make up Group B, with Finland, Sweden, Latvia

Magnus Cort Nielsen won his and EF Education-Nippo's third stage of the Vuelta a España as the breakaway took advantage of tired legs following yesterday's queen stage.

always looked ripe for a breakaway, and Denmark's Court and his EF team-mate Lawson Craddock of the United

States powered to a brilliant stage victory after holding off the peloton for almost the entire stage.The

metres, led out by Craddock, Cort sprinted clear of Portugal's Rui Oliveira of UAE Team Emirates and the United

States' Quinn Simmons of Trek-Segafredo to take his third stage in a time of 4 hours 24min 54 sec.Oliviera

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ImagesThe final day of Tokyo 2020 swimming competition saw 16 gold medals on offer ©Getty ImagesThe United

States' Kevin Mather earned gold in the men's recurve archery competition ©Getty ImagesChina won three

Kevin Mather of the United States is the Paralympic champion in the men's individual recurve, following

Athletes set to compete at next year’s Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games in Beijing have been put in an unfair position, the head of EU Athletes, the European Federation of player unions and athlete associations, has claimed.

alarm over the crackdown on democracy advocates and political opponents in Hong Kong, from the West.The United

States Government has accused China of committing "genocide" in Xinjiang, a charge strongly denied by

Brazil's men's team won the nation's first gold medal in goalball at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games at the Makuhari Messe Hall C with a victory over China.

London 2012 and a bronze at their home Games at Rio 2016.In the bronze medal match, Lithuania and the United

States met in a rematch of the Rio 2016 gold-medal match.Defending champions Lithuania won again, this

The North Carolina Bid Committee and United States International University Sports Federation (USIUSF

world-class site now, both in terms of look and content - appropriately reflective of the global event the United

States is seeking to attract and host in 2027."