Volleyball World has launched the "Equal Jersey" campaign which will see the sport's top players champion gender equality by wearing kit featuring their own name and that of a player of the opposite gender.

of players have been confirmed as the first Equal Jersey ambassadors.They are Lauren Carlini of the United

States and Facundo Conte of Argentina, who will share the number seven jersey, Natalia Goncharova of

US Paralympics Swimming has announced a team of 34 athletes for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics, comprising of 10 men and 24 women.

Among them will be 11 debutants, who will represent the United States at the Games for the first time.Swimmers

The World Taekwondo demonstration team has been fast-tracked to the quarter-finals of America's Got Talent after they were rewarded with the "golden buzzer" for their "extraordinary" performance in the auditions round.

nbsp;The programme, currently in its 16th season, is one of the most popular television shows in the United

States and generates a global following.

Brazil lead the standings as all four semi-final places are still up for grabs with two days of the preliminary round phase of the men’s Volleyball Nations League remaining in Rimini.

move second with 11 wins and 33 points.In third place in the standings are Slovenia who defeated the United

States in a five-setter 28-30, 25-19, 21-25, 28-26, 15-13 to move to 10 wins and 28 points.The top four

The Dominican Republic, Venezuela and The Netherlands will contest the last of six places in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics baseball competition when they compete in the Final Qualifying Tournament that starts in the stand-in hosting venue of Mexico today.

tournament - Mexico, the Americas winners, and South Korea, who won in the Asia/Oceania category,The United

States took the fifth place earlier this month through the Americas qualifying event.

Australia’s 32-strong team of Para-swimmers to compete at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics contains 15 debutants and some of the finest Paralympic swimmers in history.

gold medal tally in Para-swimming and third in total medals won, behind only Great Britain and the United

States."

The International Basketball Federation (FIBA) has confirmed all delegations were offered a COVID-19 vaccine at the Women’s AmeriCup in Puerto Rico.

its members during the pandemic.Delegations from Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, El Salvador, United

States, Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic and Venezuela were offered the Janssen vaccine.FIBA

said it will continue to implement new ways to provide a safe return to normalcy and basketball.The United

States won the tournament, which concluded on Saturday (June 19).The US team overcame hosts Puerto Rico

Simone Manuel won the women’s 50 metres freestyle at the US Olympic swimming trials in Omaha three days after failing to earn the right to defend her 100m freestyle title at the delayed Tokyo 2020 Games.

@teamusa | #TokyoOlympics— USA Swimming (@USASwimming) June 21, 2021Caeleb Dressel matched his United

States record of 21.04 with victory in the men’s 50m freestyle.It was Dressel’s third victory at the

Laurel Hubbard says she will wear New Zealand’s silver fern with pride after being named in its weightlifting team for the delayed Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

Wenwen is way ahead of her rivals but the battle for minor medals will be close.Sarah Robles of the United

States, a bronze medallist at Rio 2016, made a 290kg total in her first qualifying event, the 2018 IWF

up to his position as the fastest men’s 100 metres runner of the season as he claimed victory at the United

States Track and Field Olympic trials in Eugene, Oregon in 9.80sec.

The semi-finalists at the women’s Volleyball Nations League at Rimini in Italy endured mixed fortunes on the final day of round-robin play.

The United States, Brazil, Japan and Turkey were all guaranteed last four places heading into the final

Mexico, the United States and Italy secured the final women’s team quota places at the last qualification

shoot-off.This set up a semi-final with Italy, which Mexico took 5-1 to seal their Tokyo 2020 place.The United

States, whose team featured Casey Kaufhold, Mackenzie Brown and Jennifer Mucino-Fernandez, sealed their

Canada built strongly upon their opening day defeat of Paralympic and defending champions United States

consolidated their position at the top of Group A, which contains the four top-seeded teams.Meanwhile the United

States recovered their equilibrium after their jolting 2-1 defeat by their keenest rivals to earn a

last held in 2019, held the defending champions to a goalless scoreline after the first period.But the United

States took control with two goals in each of the following periods, with Jack Wallace finishing with

France and Russia's women, and Ireland's men, claimed the three available places in the rugby sevens tournaments at Tokyo 2020 at the Olympic repechage tournament in Monaco.

Olympic champions Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Fiji, Britain, Japan, Kenya, New Zealand and the United

States at Tokyo 2020.Ireland denied France further success at Stade Louis II as they won the men's qualifier

Germany won the third leg of the Longines International Equestrian Federation (FEI) Jumping Nations Cup 2021 series at Sopot in Poland today.

Ireland, Norway and Britain all collected 16 faults to fill the next three places ahead of France, the United

States, Morocco, Poland and Italy.Germany finished second behind Sweden after a jump-off in the opening