The largest and most significant athletics meeting of the pandemic-blighted year will take place with Oslo’s Bislett Stadium at its centre tomorrow night – the self-styled Impossible Games – with another similar event, the Inspiration Games, based in Zurich set to take place on July 9.

all time, Sweden’s Mondo Duplantis and his predecessor as world record holder, Renaud Lavillenie of France

The joint bid from Australia and New Zealand for the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup has scored the highest in an evaluation report of the three contenders published by football's governing body.

heat, unless it was moved to another part of the year.Last year's FIFA Women's World Cup was held in France

©Getty Images"One year after the record-breaking eighth edition of the FIFA Women's World Cup in France

in 2002 with South Korea.The United States won their fourth world title and their second in a row in France

The only live sport we in Britain have seen since March is a handful of race meetings and an occasional dose of German football - all crowd-free of course.

matters, we are entitled to a second opinion, some fresh ideas from some fresh faces.In nations such as France

Beijing is set to host the International Skating Union (ISU) Grand Prix of Figure Skating final this December.

Chongqing is scheduled to be held between November 6 and 8, before the circuit heads to Grenoble in France

Cup has been confirmed, with eight teams to join the 12 automatic qualifiers for the tournament in France

already qualified.These are champions South Africa, runners-up England, New Zealand, Wales, Japan, France

United Arab Emirates (UAE) rider Sh Abdul Aziz Bin Faisal Al Qasimi has been handed a record 20-year ban after the International Equestrian Federation (FEI) Tribunal found doping injections led to his horse suffering a fatal injury.

be put to death after suffering an open fracture to its front right cannon bone during an event in France

A request from Papa Massata Diack to postpone the trial where he and his father Lamine stand accused of corruption and money laundering linked to the Russian doping scandal has been rejected as six days of hearings began in Paris today.

the IOC between 1999 and 2013 but stood down as an honorary member in 2015 following his arrest in France

Virtus has opened the bidding process for its 2021 World Basketball Championships.

 France and Australia won the respective men's and women's titles at the 2017 World Championships

François Faivre has joined Swiss-Ski as the second coach of the men's cross-country team.

sprint and the 4x10 kilometre relay quartet also making the podium.François Faivre previously worked in France

Baseball for the blind in France has received a boost after two organisations in the country signed a

participating in international events.Nouvelle étape franchie pour le développement du Blind Baseball en France

d'une convention entre la Fédération Française de Baseball et Softball et l'Association Blind Baseball France

ffbs_baseball) June 5, 2020"This MoU opens the way for a better recognition for baseball for the blind in France

," said FFBS President Didier Seminet.The ABBF will continue to promote the discipline in France, while

The 2020 Giro d'Italia is likely to host its opening stage in Palermo on the island of Sicily after it was forced to change plans following the Grand Tour's postponement due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

following a route that could make that stage unlikely, surpassing north of the area before a stage in France

scheduled to be held from October 3 to 25, starting just two weeks after the conclusion of the Tour de France

Papa Massata Diack has requested the postponement of a trial where he and his father Lamine - the ex-President of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) - are among the defendants, as two of his regular lawyers are unable to travel to Paris for the case.

be on the cards.Two of Papa Diack's preferred lawyers are unable to travel from Dakar in Senegal to France

four other defendants could be delayed further due to lawyers' inability to travel from Senegal to France

Another Concours Complet International (CCI) five-star eventing competition has been cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic, leaving only one left on the 2020 calendar.

inaugural Maryland 5 Star at Fair Hill will now be moved to October 14 to 17 in 2021.It means that Pau in France

ensure it goes ahead, assuming Government restrictions allow.The COVID-19 death rate has plateaued in France

The three top-ranked decathletes of the moment will step up to action on Sunday (June 7) in the third of the Ultimate Garden Clash events staged by World Athletics.

Uibo will take part in a unique virtual triathlon at their respective training bases in Montpellier in France

with the first ending in a tie between world record holders past and present, Renaud Lavillenie of France

Paris 2024 has rejected claims made in a petition from a group opposed to the French capital hosting the Olympic and Paralympic Games, suggesting they were based on "preconceived opinions or false information".

targeted to respond to actual needs in the Seine-Saint-Denis area, one of the poorest communities in France