Funk musician Bootsy Collins has been named the Master of the Ceremonies for the 2022 World Games in Birmingham, Alabama.

athletes competing.The American-hosted event will be the 11th edition of the World Games, returning to the United

States for the first time since the inaugural competition in Santa Clara in 1981.Italy sits atop the

all-time medal table with 153 gold medals, followed by the United States with 145.

Tom Dean and Duncan Scott gave Britain their first one-two finish in an Olympic swimming pool for 113 years after powering onto the men’s 200 metres freestyle podium at Tokyo 2020 here.

earned his first Olympic podium finish by securing silver, with Rio 2016 champion Ryan Murphy of the United

States’ settling for bronze in 52.19.Australian star Kaylee McKeown marked her Olympic debut with gold

scare in the women’s 200m individual medley.Hosszu qualified seventh fastest for tomorrow’s final, with United

States’ Kate Douglass and Britain’s Abbie Wood posting the top two times.

Bermuda’s Flora Duffy won the women’s Olympic triathlon gold medal after a decisive break away from the leading group early in the run at Tokyo 2020 here today.

Britain’s Georgia Taylor-Brown, who took silver in 1:56:50, and bronze medallist Katie Zaferes of the United

States in 1:57:03.It was Bermuda’s first Olympic gold."

American sitting volleyball player Lora Webster has announced that she will compete at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics while pregnant with her fourth child.

The United States team’s middle blocker posted the update on her Instagram account.The baby is expected

South Korea's dominance of the archery events at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games continued as its men's team of three delivered a masterclass with the bow and arrows to overcome Chinese Taipei in today's final.

Japan had beaten the United States in the quarter-finals earlier in the day.Individual events in the

It was the United States' day at the Asaka Shooting Range, with gold in both men and women's skeet events

Stoked. I've missed the word at the Summer Olympics. Heard it many a time at the Winter Games, of course, when that cradle of sports began to take in babes-in-arms, starting with snowboarding last time an Olympic carnival played out in this country, at Nagano 1998.

Jagger Eaton of the United States, bronze medallist in the first-ever Olympic skateboarding competition

School - that is presumably the sports version of School of Rock - and Shelly Schaerer, a member of the United

States national gymnastics team from 1985 to 1989.How much cooler can a family get?

this respect the explanation was the exact reverse of the one employed a year or so earlier by the United

States President Bill Clinton when he was taxed with some ancient doping trespass.In the end Rebagliati

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Titmus, right, came from behind to snatch victory from five-time Olympic champion Katie Ledecky of the United

States in a women’s 400m freestyle final for the ages ©Getty ImagesAlso at Tokyo Aquatics Centre, Tom

synchronised gold ©Getty ImagesAmber English, left, and Vincent Hancock won skeet gold medals for the United

States - each setting an Olympic record in doing so ©Getty ImagesCroatia's Matea Jelić, right, snatched

One current and four former athletes were inducted as Olympians for Life at a virtual ceremony and panel discussion organised by the World Olympians Association (WOA).

people's lives.Ugandan middle-distance runner Julius Achon, two-time swimming gold medallist for the United

States Donna de Varona, Koji Murofushi, the Japanese 2004 Olympic gold medallist in the hammer throw

Birmingham 2022 World Games have signed a major new broadcast agreement with CBS in host country the United

States.

Australia’s Ariarne Titmus came from behind to snatch victory from five-time Olympic champion Katie Ledecky in an epic women’s 400 metres freestyle final, while Britain’s Adam Peaty retained his men’s 100m breaststroke title on a thrilling morning of swimming finals at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics here today.

Gold medals were also won by Canada’s Maggie MacNeil in the women’s 100m butterfly and the United States

the second fastest time in history with 3min 56.69sec to edge out world record holder Ledecky of the United

the wall second in 55.64, with Emma McKeon of Australia bagging bronze in 55.72.Torri Huske of the United

States agonisingly misses out on a medal, finishing in 55.73.Canada's Maggie Manceil shows off her Olympic

United States left it late to beat a brave Jamaica side 1-0 and book a Gold Cup semi-final against guest

Kyrgyzstan won two Greco-Roman gold medals as the World Cadet Wrestling Championships in Budapest came to a close today.

All three countries are first-time winnershttps://t.co/FHQeqdE6vT— United World Wrestling (@wrestling

Georgia claimed the team Greco-Roman title - after India won the boys' freestyle team title and the United

States won the girls' freestyle crown.

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-4 against China’s Zheng Saisai ©Getty ImagesThere was also an upset in the men's basketball as the United

States lost an Olympic match for the first time since 2004, coming up short against France - the same

Street League Skateboarding (SLS) has announced a three-leg 2021 Championship Tour in the United States