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Los Angeles 2028 launches Athletes' Commission including four Olympic champions

  • Los Angeles 2028

An 18-person Athletes' Commission for the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games has been launched.

fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad - who became the first Muslim woman to wear a hijab while competing for the United

States in the Olympics at Rio 2016, where she won a team bronze medal - figure skater Adam Rippon, badminton's


Bromell looking for a Tokyo supercharger as Diamond League returns to Gateshead

  • Athletics

Tomorrow’s British Grand Prix at Gateshead, the last Diamond League meeting before the Olympics open on July 23, will provide some of the world’s leading performers, including this season's fastest 100 metres runner Trayvon Bromell, with a chance to gauge their form.

For Bromell, winner of the United States Olympic trials in Eugene in Oregon last month, the gauge will


IESF partners with NASEF and names Solomon World Esports Education Commission chair

  • Non-Olympic Sports

The International Esports Federation (IESF) and the North America Scholastic Esports Federation (NASEF) have agreed a partnership which will see the organisations share educational resources.

IESF plans to use the NASEF's high school and middle school curriculum - which are approved by the United

States Department of Education - to develop and implement a global esports education system.NASEF resources


First-ever North America and Caribbean Handball Confederation Congress held

  • Handball

The newly-formed North America and Caribbean Handball Confederation (NACHC) has held its first Congress in Acapulco in Mexico in a hybrid format due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

qualification tournament for the IHF Women's World Championship, due to be played in August in Chicago.The United

States is set to be one of four teams competing at the Women's North American and the Caribbean Championship

the World Championship, due to take place in Spain in December.Greenland, Mexico, Puerto Rico and the United

States are set to compete in the Championship in Chicago.IHF President Hassan Moustafa was also part


Mike Rowbottom: Embrace the sport - embrace the disappointment

  • Inside the Blogs

Disappointment. It’s intrinsic to sport. For every winner there has to be a loser. And so for England fans last night’s Euro 2020 final was a beautiful picture that got smudged just before the paint was dry; while for Italian followers the Wembley scene was a work by Michaelangelo.

FA Cup final after his piledriving late effort from 35 yards has bounced off the post and West Ham United

©Getty ImagesUnited States Olympian Lindsey Jacobellis, "having fun" on the run-in to gold in the 2006

in the final seconds of the 2006 FA Cup final smashes against the post, and seconds later West Ham United


Italy top medals table at World Rowing Under-23 Championships

  • Rowing

Italy finished the World Rowing Under-23 Championships in Racice in the Czech Republic top of the medals table, with four gold and 11 overall.

Standing, Holly Dunford, Lettice Cabot and Daisy Bellamy won gold in their final in 6:35.66 ahead of the United

States and Romania.The country's other win came in the men's eight, as the winning boat finished in


Taradin and Moroz win 2021 KiteFoil World Series in Gizzeria

  • Non-Olympic Sports

The Russian Yachting Federation's (RYF) Denis Taradin and the United States' Daniela Moroz claimed the

of France's Theo De Ramecourt on best results as he also finished on 53 points.Daniela Moroz of the United

States won the women's race ©IKAFinishing 31st overall, Moroz was the first woman in the standings with


IFF confirms amended Women’s Under-19 World Floorball Championships to take place

  • Non-Olympic Sports

The International Floorball Federation (IFF) has confirmed the Women’s Under-19 World Floorball Championships will take place in September as scheduled with a modified format amid withdrawals.

compete in the event.Fellow qualifiers Australia, Austria, Canada, China, New Zealand, Norway and the United

States have, however, informed the IFF that they will be unable to participate due to COVID-19 and ongoing


Matsuyama and Watson withdraw from The Open due to COVID-19 issues

  • Golf

Hideki Matsuyama and two-time major winner Bubba Watson have withdrawn from The Open Championship in the United

PGA Tour, as they coincide with 32,000 spectators being allowed to attend each competition day.The United

States' Bubba Watson has also pulled out of the final major of the year after being deemed a close contact




Switzerland claims two extreme slalom golds on final day of Junior and U23 Canoe Slalom World Championships

  • Canoeing

Switzerland won two gold medals in extreme slalom on the final day of the International Canoe Federation (ICF) Junior and Under-23 Canoe Slalom World Championships.

the podium in second and third.Switzerland's Alena Marx was fourth.Finally, Kaelin Friedenson of the United

States won the gold in the men's junior extreme slalom, while Czech Republic's Martin Rudorfer won silver.George


Pool winners confirmed on third day of Women's Volleyball U20 World Championship

  • Volleyball

Winners of the first round of pools were confirmed today on the third day of competition at the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) Women's Volleyball Under 20 World Championship in The Netherlands and Belgium.

25-23, 25-17, 25-21, while Poland beat Egypt 25-11, 25-23, 25-17 in the other match in the pool.The United

States claimed top spot in Pool C with a 25-18, 27-25, 25-22 win over Turkey, while Russia finished



Grossman seeking more IFSC World Cup solace as lead climbing comes to Chamonix

  • Sport Climbing

Natalia Grossman of the United States, who tops the International Federation of Sport Climbing’s world

champion Janja Garnbret.While her surge in success has come too late for her to secure one of the two United

States places in Tokyo, where the sport will make its Olympic debut this summer - those have gone to