Lithuania and Turkey start among the favourites for the goalball gold medals at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics, as they look to defend their Rio 2016 titles at the Makuhari Messe.

five years ago at the last Games, winning their first gold medal in the event.A 14-8 victory over the United

States sealed the title.However, they are no longer world number ones - now behind Brazil, who won the

There were 44 goals scored today at the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup 2021 as both Group A and Group B were decided.

Stadium while goalkeeper Maksim Chuzhkov also popped up with an unlikely goal.Meanwhile Paraguay beat the United

States in an entertaining game that finished 9-4.The match was ultimately a dead rubber, however, as

dismissal.Spain confirmed its place in the knockout rounds following a closely fought 5-3 battle against the United

Japanese duo Ao Yurikusa and Rei Kawamata both progressed to the Junior men's boulder semi-finals with respective scores of four tops and four zones in the International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC) World Youth Championships in Voronezh in Russia.

semi-finals with three tops and four zones to narrowly beat Latvian Edvards Gruzitis and Isaac Leff of the United

States who also scored three tops and four zones but needed more attempts to do so.America's Anastasia

Former Scottish Curling President Clive Thomson has died after suffering from a short illness.

European Championships in Renfrewshire.He also led a team of 20 curlers on a memorable tour of the United

States as they competed in the Herries Maxwell Trophy.Thomson was born in 1948 and brought up in Glasgow.He

The United States are set to begin the defence of their men’s and women’s International Basketball Federation

Sebastian Coe believes the stars of the future were born at the World Athletics Under-20 Championships in Nairobi after declaring the event in the Kenyan capital a success.

event, hit by a number of high-profile withdrawals due to COVID-19, had been "highly successful".The United

States, Britain, Australia, Japan and Germany - half of the top 10 on the medals table when the event

Puerto Rico stunned the defending champions, Cuba, in the semi-finals of the North, Central America and Caribbean Volleyball Confederation (NORCECA) Men's Continental Championship.

Dominican Republic beat Trinidad and Tobago 25-19, 25-20, 25-22 to set up a fifth-place playoff against the United

States, who came from one set down to beat Guatemala  23-25, 25-22, 25,-19, 33-31.The Championship

Puerto Rico beat the United States after the hosts were cleared to play the opening game of the North

The United States swept aside Finland in a repeat of the 2019 final to continue their ominous start to

Switzerland rose to the top of Group C at the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup with a resounding 7-3 win over Belarus, which included a goal from goalkeeper Eliott Mounoud, while Senegal beat the reigning champions.

group's other match.Group A and Group B will reach their conclusions tomorrow in the Russian capital.The United

States need to beat Paraguay and hope that Japan do them a favour against the Russian Olympic Committee

The International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC) World Youth Championships continued in Voronezh today as qualification for the youth B men's and women's lead, youth A men's boulder and junior men's boulder were all contested.

the water by the youth B men's lead as there was a seven-way draw for pole position.Hugo Hoyer of the United

States, Sorato Anraku of Japan, the Czech Republic's Lukas Mokrolusky, German Finn Altemöller, Raffael

The Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) opened their International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) Women's World Championship campaign with victory as they came from behind to beat Switzerland in Calgary.

the game as Japan edged out Denmark 1-0.Three games, including a repeat of the 2019 final between the United

States and Finland, are scheduled to take place tomorrow.

Canada upset the United States to secure their place in the semi-finals of the North, Central America

Flora Duffy is the first-ever triathlete to win world and Olympic titles in the same year, after a third-place finish in Edmonton was enough to secure the overall World Triathlon Championship Series (WTCS) crown.

3,486 for American Taylor Knibb, who moved up to second place by wining the concluding race.Fellow United

States athlete Taylor Spivey ended up third overall, having beaten Dutch athlete Maya Kingma today in

Anna Nordqvist and Nanna Koerstz Madsen are tied for the lead of the Women's Open after three rounds at Carnoustie, with the Swede carding the lowest round of the British major so far.

year-old won this year's British Women's Amateur Championship, and has the same 54-hole score as the United

States' Lexi Thompson, Swede Madelene Sagström and Finland's Sanna Nuutinen.Yealimi Noh, another American