Egypt's capital Cairo is set to host a Sitting Volleyball World Cup in December to round off the season and a variety of sporting events held in the city in 2021.

welcomed a record 28 teams - 13 in the women's competition and 15 in the men's.Paralympic champions the United

States and Iran claimed the titles five years ago in the women's and men's categories respectively and

Sifan Hassan successfully negotiated the first of the three Olympic challenges she has set for herself here as she won the women's 5,000 metres gold medal.

two finals on the evening session of day four of the athletics programme saw Valarie Allman of the United

States earn the women’s discus title in a final that was temporarily suspended by a downpour - becoming

Bakkali ending the Kenyan monopoly of the men’s 3,000 metres steeplechase final.Valarie Allman of the United

States won a rain-interrupted women's discus final with 68.98 metres ©Getty ImagesAllman won discus

Cuba’s Mijaín López emulated Japanese women’s great Kaori Icho as he earned a stylish victory over Georgian Iakobi Kajaia to become the first male wrestler in history to win four Olympic gold medals.

2012 and 2016.Aline Rotter-Focken of Germany, left, beat five-time world champion Adeline Gray of the United

States to claim women's 76kg freestyle gold ©Getty ImagesThe bronze medals in the division went to four-times

Jade Carey of the United States quickly erased the memory of yesterday's vault mishap by capturing the

After winning five weightlifting gold medals at every Olympic Games this century, China went one better with a sixth at the Tokyo 2020 Games when Wang Zhouyu took the women’s 87 kilograms gold today.

competitive appearance at this weight and made 225kg for 10th place at the age of 36.Mattie Rogers of the United

States, clearly upset when a tight decision went against her with a jury overrule in the snatch, finished

It was, is, will be a classic water cooler discussion point: can you, should you, share sporting success? Can an Olympic title, for instance, properly be shared, as it was, is and will be in the Tokyo 2020 Games men’s high jump?

generous, more important.At the inaugural London Marathon in 1981, famously, Dick Beardsley of the United

States and Denmark’s Inge Simonsen, instinctively joined hands to cross the line together as joint winners

States athletes Alfred Gilbert and Ed Cook, who both achieved 3.71 metres, although Cook did so in the

final match of the very bitterly contested 1969 Ryder Cup golf match at Royal Birkdale between the United

States and what was then just the Great Britain team.Faced with a three-foot putt to draw the match,

Juan Miguel Echevarria, seeking to emulate the Olympic long jump victory earned by Cuban compatriot Ivan Pedrosa at Sydney 2000, had gold snatched from his grasp by the last-round effort of Miltiadis Tentoglou of Greece at Tokyo 2020. 

Monica Puig.After an agonising wait for a photo-finish, second place went to Kendra Harrison of the United

States, who set the world record of 12.20 in 2016, as she was credited with a time of 12.52, with Jamaica's

American shot putter Raven Saunders has become the first athlete to demonstrate on the podium here Tokyo 2020 in a test of the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) Rule 50.

demonstration from Saunders.Adams added the IOC was discussing the protest with World Athletics and the United

States Olympic and Paralympic Committee, which has already confirmed it will not punish athletes for

respective International Federation's rules, as part of a change to its much-maligned Rule 50.Rule 50 states

A free live virtual concert series is being hosted within "The Pegasus Dream Tour" - the first-ever official video game of the Paralympic Games.

badminton players Kohei Kobayashi and Rie Ogura, athletics stars Scout Bassett and Chaiwat Rattana of United

States and Thailand, respectively, also feature in the game.

Hosts United States struck with three minutes left of extra time to beat Mexico 1-0 in the Confederation

Russia won seven under-18 gold medals on the final day of the International Mixed Martial Arts Federation (IMMAF) Youth MMA World Championships, as Ukraine finished top of the medal table with 17 world titles won over three days of action in Bulgarian capital Sofia.

Ivanova claimed the women's under-47.7kg title with a win over Kazakhstan's Gulnaz Abdrakhmanova.The United

States' Alexis Hazelton and Elnara Bissenova of Kazakhstan were the bronze medallists.Elizaveta Chkalova

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gold medal on a day of firsts at the Ariake Gymnastics Centre ©Getty ImagesXander Schauffele of the United

States won the men's golf gold medal - but a seven-way playoff was needed to decide third place ©Getty

Anastasija Zolotic wants to be "an inspiration for young girls" after becoming the first American woman to win a taekwondo gold medal at the Olympics.

Zolotic won the woman's under-52 kilograms gold medal at Tokyo 2020 - the United States' lone taekwondo

ROC) involvement at Tokyo 2020, following critical comments of Travis Tygart, chief executive of the United

States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA).

Annika Belshaw made history by winning all three women's events at the United States Nordic Combined