In a rare instance of a Chinese national team traveling outside the country during the coronavirus pandemic, China's women's volleyball side - the reigning Olympic champions - will compete in the Volleyball Nations League (VNL), starting tomorrow.

Zhang Changning, Liu Xiaotong and Lin Li - were members of the gold medal-winning side at Rio 2016.The United

States are the reigning VNL champions, having won both the 2018 and 2019 editions of the tournament.China

The United States' inaugural Major League Cricket (MLC) T20 tournament, which was supposed to take place

On May 11 this year - incidentally the day after he received his first COVID-19 vaccine immunisation - Phil Mickelson tweeted the following;

Australian Open title at Melbourne in 1972, aged 37 years, 62 days.Multiple major champion Tom Watson of the United

States said his last-hole failure to become British Open champion again in 2009 aged 59 "tore my guts

last Grand Slam in taking the 2018 Australian Open titleIn the women’s game, Serena Williams of the United

States became the oldest female winner of a Grand Slam event as she secured her seventh Australian Open

footballers of note are England’s Teddy Sheringham, who played his last top-class match for Colchester United

Olympic short track speed skating medallist Eddy Alvarez has been named in the United States' 28-man

El Salvador beat the United States 6-4 to win the Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean

Seventh seed Joelle King of New Zealand was surprisingly beaten as the third round of the El Gouna Squash Open got underway.

Subramaniam.All of today’s women’s matches were completed in straight games with fourth seed Amanda Sobhy of the United

States triumphing 11-6, 11-7, 11-7 against England’s Lucy Turmel, while eighth seed Salma Hany of Egypt

s Dina Asher-Smith coped best in driving wind and rain to beat a stellar 100 metres field including United

States rival Sha’Carri Richardson as England’s north-east town of Gateshead hosted the opening Wanda

her on countback in the 2019 world final, did not start.Double world champion Sam Kendricks of the United

States managed best in conditions inimical to pole vaulting to end Duplantis’ 23-meeting winning run.Kendricks

had earned his place in the jump off with 8.00m, managing 7.91m for third place.Kenny Bednarek of the United

States added his name to the list of debutant Diamond League winners as he clocked 20.33 in the 200m.Mohamed

Kazakhstan stunned defending champions Finland with a shootout success at the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) Men’s World Championship in Latvian capital Riga.

day's late games, Switzerland beat Germany 1-0 courtesy of a first period goal from Timo Meier.The United

States ran out convincing 5-1 winners against rivals Canada with Jason Robertson giving them the lead

China and Britain topped the medal table at the second regatta of the Rowing World Cup series after notching three titles each in Swiss city Lucerne.

got out to a commanding lead only to have the gap reduced with strong sprints by Kara Kohler of the United

States in second and Ireland’s world champion Sanita Puspure in third.Prakhatsen held on to win gold

in men's and women's International Hockey Federation (FIH) Pro League matches against Spain and the United

States.

The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has launched an online sticker album in a bid to engage its social-media audience with the top athletes going for gold at this year’s Tokyo 2020 Paralympics.

running with videos, facts and athlete features published on the IPC’s platforms.Matt Stutzman of the United

States and China’s Zhou Jiamin became the first entries into the #ParalympicAlbum following the Para

El Salvador and the United States have qualified for the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup, following semi-final

International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) Men's World Championship to a winning start as they beat the United

States 2-1.

Sprint rivals Dina Asher-Smith and Sha'Carri Richardson have become the latest high-profile athletes to reject the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) stance against podium protests at Tokyo 2020 and other Games.

#GatesheadDL #DiamondLeague— Wanda Diamond League (@Diamond_League) May 22, 2021The United States' Richardson

Olympic 400 metres gold medallist, re-focused attention on the athlete protests - by him and several United

States team mates - that marked those Games in Mexico.

long the OHPR became a vehicle for expressing wider dissatisfaction with civic inequalities in the United

States and espoused a boycott of the impending Mexico Olympics by black athletes - even though Evans