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Olympic champion Schauffele back in action at WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational

  • Golf

The World Golf Championships (WGC)-FedEx St. Jude Invitational begins tomorrow at TPC Southwind in Memphis, and new Olympic golf champion Xander Schauffele features in a stacked field for the third WGC event of the year.

includes 48 of the top 50 in the men's world ranking, including world number two Dustin Johnson of the United

States, who skipped Tokyo 2020.Fellow American Bryson DeChambeau - who missed the Olympics with coronavirus



Virtual China House, which provides introduction to Beijing 2022, launched by Chinese Olympic Committee

  • Beijing 2022

A virtual China House, designed to promote the spirit of Chinese Olympians, while also providing an introduction to Beijing 2022, has been launched to coincide with the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.

The COC reported the virtual China House had received overseas visitors from countries including the United

States, Britain, Canada, Austria, Japan and South Korea, while it has also been praised by both the


Bach Nielsen announces top five priorities as part of IIHF Presidency bid

  • Ice Hockey

Henrik Bach Nielsen has advanced his election bid for the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) Presidency, releasing his top five priorities for his first year should he be successful.

events, and enable the six leading nations in Canada, Czech Republic, Finland, Russia, Sweden and the United

States to serve as ‘super mentors’, supported by the IIHF, to assist the development of other member


McLaughlin smashes own world record to win epic women’s 400m hurdles final

  • Athletics

America's Sydney McLaughlin took a huge chunk out of her own world record at Tokyo 2020 here as she clocked 51.46sec to win an Olympic women’s 400 metres hurdles final that delivered a competitive spectacle to rival the previous day’s men’s version it so strangely resembled.

silver in a huge personal best of 51.58 - well inside the world record of 51.90 McLaughlin ran at the United

States Olympic trials.Meanwhile Femke Bol, 21, of The Netherlands, never quite in touch with the US


IOC suspends investigation into Saunders podium protest after death of mother

  • Tokyo 2020

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has suspended an investigation into a podium demonstration by American shot putter Raven Saunders at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games following the death of her mother.

1).IOC Presidential spokesperson Mark Adams said the process had been "fully suspended for now".The United

States Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) has already announced it will not sanction Saunders


Parfait Hakizimana: The Taekwondo Humanitarian Foundation coach picked for the Refugee Paralympic Team

  • Para-Taekwondo Athletes

Taekwondo Humanitarian Foundation (THF) coach Parfait Hakizimana has been included as a representative of his sport in the first-ever Refugee Paralympic Team.

Refugees don’t have a lot," he told the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees website, "but sport

, a Syrian refugee living in Greece and club thrower; Abbas Karimi, an Afghan refugee living in the United

States, who is another swimmer; Anas Al Khalifa, a Syrian refugee living in Germany and canoeist; and

Shahrad Nasajpour an Iranian refugee living in the United States who will compete in the discus.The




Duplantis and Mu earn first Olympic titles as Thompson-Herah adds to Tokyo 2020 success

  • Athletics

Armand Duplantis, 21, and 19-year-old Athing Mu became two of the youngest Olympic athletics champions with respective victories in the men’s pole vault and women’s 800 metres here.

global titles as he cleared without blemish up to and including 6.02m.That proved too much for his gutsy United

States challenger Christopher Nilsen, who had previously beaten the US-based Swede in college competition

tantalisingly close first effort, the new mark eluded him - at least for a little bit longer.Athing Mu of the United

States set a national record in winning the 800m ©Getty Images"I felt like it was there when I went


Park eyes defence of Olympic golf crown after "much better" build-up than for Rio 2016

  • Golf

South Korea's Park Inbee is aiming to defend her Olympic crown and will play with the two other Rio 2016 medallists when the women's golf competition gets underway here at the Tokyo 2020.

Shanshan who collected silver and bronze respectively five years ago.World number one Nelly Korda of the United

States is expected to challenge for the title, while world number 11 Nasa Hataoka of Japan will hope



Germany break world record to clinch women's team pursuit glory at Tokyo 2020

  • Cycling

Germany produced a third consecutive world record ride to earn a dominant women’s team pursuit gold here today, ending Britain’s reign as the Olympic champions.

responded in the first round of competition today, clocking a world record 4:06.748 to overcome the United

States and secure a place in the gold medal ride.Their time only lasted a matter of minutes with Germany


Japan's Yamato Fujita named Tokyo 2020 softball MVP as All-Olympic Team revealed

  • Baseball and Softball

Yamato Fujita has been named the softball Most Valuable Player at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics as former United

States star Jessica Mendez described the day of the medal matches as a "fantastic day".

it was pretty magical.On the final itself, Mendoza added: "The host country in Japan outplayed the United

States.


Warholm wins 400m hurdles gold and smashes world record by nearly a second

  • Athletics

400 metres hurdles gold, taking almost a second off his own world record as he finished ahead of his United

States rival Rai Benjamin in 45.94sec.

event into new territory.Norway's Karsten Warholm proved stronger than great rival, Rai Benjamin of the United

States, in the closing stage of an epic 400m hurdles ©Getty Images"I mean, man it’s so crazy," Warholm

Norway's Karsten Warholm comes home ahead of Rai Benjamin of the United States to lower his own world