Italy’s Sonny Colbrelli earned a Critérium du Dauphiné stage victory at the third time of asking after sprinting to success in Saint-Haon-Le-Vieux.

runner-up on the same time as the winner.Lukas Pöstlberger retained the overall race lead ©Getty ImagesThe United

States’ Brandon McNulty completed the top three on the stage.Lukas Pöstlberger finished safely in the

Hosts Germany made a winning start to the final men’s sitting volleyball qualifier for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games in Duisburg.

match of the tournament, as they overcame Croatia 25-22, 25-16, 25-15.Ukraine and Croatia will play the United

States in tomorrow’s two Group B ties.All six teams will feature in the next stage of the competition

associated risks.World ParaVolley had originally planned to hold the qualifying event in Oklahoma in the United

States in March 2020.The tournament was then moved to Duisburg and was rescheduled to February 15 to

Yesterday was a public holiday in the United Kingdom; I doubt though that it will have worked out that

longer be justified.However, the Our World in Data website still seems to rank Brazil above the UK, the United

States, France, Germany, Peru, even Argentina, which was supposed to host the tournament, by the macabre

Königssee in Germany has been announced as the venue for the 2022 International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (IBSF) Junior World Championships.

will not host any World Cup legs for the second successive campaign, but the IBSF said tracks in the United

States and Canada will be back on the agenda in seasons after the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games.

The United States began their campaign to secure a spot in the men's baseball tournament at the delayed

Turkey produced a stirring comeback against Canada to remain unbeaten at the women's Volleyball Nations League (VNL) in Rimini in Italy - and are now one of only two sides that can say that.

winless.Japan lost their unbeaten record, downed 25-15, 25-19, 25-21 by Brazil.Reigning VNL champions the United

States beat Serbia - the world champions, who sent a young squad to the Rimini bubble - 25-20, 25-16

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, who turned 20 today, was given a bouquet of flowers after the win ©Getty ImagesSofia Kenin of the United

States, last year's runner-up, beat Jelena Ostapenko in three sets ©Getty ImagesLatvia's Ostapenko won

Sweden have been knocked out of the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) World Championship in the group stage following a shoot-out defeat to the ROC team in Riga.

Kazakhstan - third on 10 points, but now out of games - must hope results go their way tomorrow.The United

States beat Germany 2-0 in the group's other game.Germany, Canada and hosts Latvia all have nine points

Defending champion Iga Świątek celebrated her 20th birthday by earning a straight-sets victory to advance to the second round of the French Open.

flowers after the match, with the reduced crowd - under COVID-19 protocol - singing happy birthday.The United

States’ Sofia Kenin, who lost to Świątek in last year’s final, triumphed in a first-round meeting between

Six teams are set to battle it out for the final place in the men's sitting volleyball tournament at the delayed Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games in Germany this week.

competition.World ParaVolley had originally planned to hold the qualifying event in Oklahoma in the United

States in March 2020.The tournament was then moved to Duisburg and was rescheduled to February 15 to

delayed to June following a spike in the number of coronavirus cases in several countries.Germany and the United

States are among the teams set to be in action in Duisburg ©Getty ImagesLatvia had been due to compete

Germany will contest Group A alongside Kazakhstan and Canada.Group B comprises Croatia, Ukraine and the United

Getty ImagesOn paper the events he entered were his to win - with his nemesis Michael Phelps of the United

States, who had won every Olympic race in which he had earned a medal, absent.But making it happen in

The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) is expected to decide plans for the 2022 Commonwealth Archery and Shooting Championships at a meeting next month, amid uncertainty caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

28 million cases is the second-highest figure in the world since the pandemic began, with only the United

States reporting more on 34 million.In excess of 329,000 deaths have been recorded in India, with the

week for the Indian Premier League (IPL), cricket’s most lucrative competition, to be moved to the United

The knee-jerk reaction, as media, to Naomi Osaka’s current unwillingness to commune with the press at the French Open tennis tournament is to say: "Typical diva."

Tianna Bartoletta, the Rio 2016 long jump champion from the United States, is another notably independent

Indian rowers Arjun Lal Jat and Arvind Singh have called off a pre-Tokyo 2020 training camp in Portugal due to the requirement of a two-week hard quarantine amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

total of 28 million cases is the second highest in the world since the pandemic began, with only the United

States reporting more on 34 million.Over 329,000 deaths have been recorded in India, with the US and

The Copa América has been moved to Brazil - the country with the most coronavirus deaths in the South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL) region and one still plagued by high infection rates - after Argentina’s hosting of the was suspended with less than two weeks to go.

COMNEBOL rejected the request.Brazil, which has recorded more COVID-19 than any other country bar the United

States, is the new Copa América host ©Getty ImagesNow Brazil, which has recorded more than 460,000 COVID

deaths and has a seven-day daily average of above 1,800 deaths from the virus, is set to host.Only the United

States has reported more deaths.Thousands took to the streets in Brazil this weekend to protest against