Östersund in Sweden has been awarded next year's World Mixed Doubles and World Senior Curling Championships.

Doubles Championship has been held annually since 2008, except in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.The United

States beat Japan to win the title for the first time in the South Korean city of Gangneung this year.Mixed

The Oceania Boxing Confederation (OCBC) affiliated to the International Boxing Association (IBA) has claimed the National Federation from French Polynesia which has joined World Boxing is a "sleeping organisation" with no ties to its own "authentic boxing federation".

membership announcement to take its number up to 16 following a "rigorous application process".They join United

States, New Zealand, Australia, GB Boxing, England Boxing, The Netherlands, Canada, Brazil, Argentina

Nahim the whale and Mayfara the coral have been named the mascots of the Doha 2024 World Aquatics Championships.

medals table with 40 medals, including 20 gold, eight silver and 12 bronze medals.Australia and the United

States finished second and third with 30 and 44 overall medals respectively.

A place in the top five on the medals table at the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles remains the target set by the German Athletics Association (DLV) despite its worst performance at the World Athletics Championships last month.

when their single medal was a silver in the women’s javelin for Christina Obergföll.The last time the United

States held the Summer Olympics at Atlanta in 1996, Germany finished third in the final table behind

Former junior world champions Mona Mitterwallner of Austria and Frenchman Victor Koretzky took golds following a pair of thrilling races at the Mountain Bike World Cup in Haute-Savoie.

The Mountain Bike World Cup is set to return from September 27 to October 1 at Snowshoe in the United

States.

A weightlifter who won eight international gold medals before taking a senior role in Iran’s National Olympic Committee has died aged 96.

property confiscated by Iran’s new rulers, after which he left to live first in Europe and then the United

States, where he stayed until his death.There, he worked as a doctor and author and would make regular

Finland shocked United States while Britain pipped France to reach the quarter-finals of the 2023 Davis

The biggest upset of the group stages saw debutants Finland shock 32-time champions United States yesterday

Manchester.Earlier, Evans got the better of French teenager Arthur Fils 3-6, 6-3, 6-4.Debutants Finland shocked United

States to reach the last eight ©Getty ImagesHowever, British number one Cameron Norrie was not up to

Vito Arujau, Zain Retherford, and David Taylor of the United States all continued their blistering form

DyIQNCXx22 / UWW+📱: UWW+#uww | #unitedworldwrestling | #TheHomeOfWrestling pic.twitter.com/c57HtLHZoI— United

Venezuela and Chinese Taipei booked their tickets to the Women's Baseball World Cup Final after securing victories on the last day of Group B competition in Japan.

bats.Now the group stages are complete, the line-up is confirmed with hosts Canada, Mexico, and the United

States joining Japan, Venezuela and Chinese Taipei in Thunder Bay.Dates are yet to be decided but Port

Kenya earned their place at the Paris 2024 Olympics by winning the Rugby Africa Men's Sevens 2023 at the Zimbabwean capital of Harare.

Games.They will now join France, New Zealand, Argentina, Fiji, Australia, Uruguay, Ireland and the United

States as confirmed Olympic attendees.The final three places will be decided via the Oceania and Asia

Canada retained the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) Women's Series title as they edged to a 16-15 win in the final over France in Ulaanbaatar in Mongolia.

winning five stops in the regular season, and they were unbeaten on their way to the final, defeating the United

States in the semi-final.The final of the fourth edition of this competition pitted them, as last year

over $1 million (£807,000/€938,000).China finished third in the overall standings, followed by the United

States and Germany, with Neftchi sixth, Sc Yuanda seventh and Mongolia eighth.Created in 2019, the FIBA

Thirty-five years after the Olympic Games in Seoul, famed United States diver Greg Louganis has put the

coached in the sport since retiring, was prevented from adding to his Olympic medal collection by the United

States boycott of the Moscow 1980 Games.In the lead-up to the final auction the bid on his silver medal

Nyjah Huston of the United States and Nishiya Momiji of Japan earned maximum ranking points on their

Japanese in Oda Yumeka took silver with a best run score of 66.41 and 249.77 overall.Paige Heyn of the United

States won the last podium spot, scoring 243.93.

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second on total on 180-227-407 behind 23-year-old Akbar Djuraev on 189-226-415 ©IWFSarah Robles of the United

States is leading compatriot  Mary Theisen Lappen in Olympic ranking points despite finishing fifth

The United States got off to a flying start at the World Wrestling Championships in Belgrade as the country

in their careers.Fans can watch the finals on Sunday night live on UWW+ pic.twitter.com/plQoOfPrrv— United