Rio 2016 Olympic champion Alison Cerutti and team mate Álvaro Filho of Brazil progressed to the quarter-finals of the men's competition at the third and final International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) Beach Volleyball World Tour event in Cancún.

(@OlympicEsporte) May 1, 2021Phil Dalhausser and Nick Lucena of the United States took down Brazilians

Pan American Games gold medallist Ygor Coelho of Brazil is out of the Pan American Individual Badminton Championships after he suffered a shock quarter-final defeat to Canada's BR Sankeerth in Guatemala City.

quarter-final contest.Ho-Shue will take on fourth seed and home hope Kevin Cordon, who beat Timothy Lam of the United

States 21-15, 21-8.Beiwen Zhang of the United States is on course to reach the women's singles final

Japan’s Naomi Osaka and Karolina Pliskova of the Czech Republic were among the first round winners as action continued at the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) Madrid Open.

coming back from being bageled in the first set to win 0-6 6-1 6-4 against Amanda Anisimova of the United

Karolina Pliskova of the Czech Republic recovered from losing the opening set to beat Cori Gauff of the United

States ©Getty ImagesThe remaining two seeds in action today both recorded straight sets victories with

Six countries claimed gold medals as the inaugural Online World Taekwondo Poomsae Open Challenge reached its conclusion.

©World TaekwondoBoth South Korea and Iran also won golds in open competitions, along with Thailand, United

States, Spain and Italy.The finals were shown on YouTube with those who progressed from the semi-finals

The draw for the wheelchair basketball tournament at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games on May 12 has been moved from the Japanese capital to Stoke Mandeville in England due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Paralympic Committee (IPC) President Sir Philip Craven and Hajime Hayashi, the Japanese Ambassador to the United

Kingdom, will be the guests for the draw.Defending champions the United States, Algeria, Canada, Colombia

Tokyo 2020 places are the target at the World Athletics Relays which starts tomorrow in Chorzow, Poland - while for the organisers the aspiration will be the staging of the sport’s World Championships.

The United States and Jamaica - top two at the last edition of this event at Yokohama in 2019 - have

including 21-year-old individual European indoor champion Femke Bol.Trinidad and Tobago, who ended the United

States’ winning run in the men’s 4x400m in Yokohama, will not be present in Poland, and Belgium - with

Germany have been cleared to compete at the World Women’s Curling Championships after further investigation and COVID-19 testing, but will play with three players due to the "extenuating circumstances".

team must start a competition with four players (two for mixed doubles) delivering stones," the rule states

Markin MacPhail Centre.The three-member team are scheduled to play the Russian Curling Federation and United

States later today.The World Women’s Curling Championship is set to feature 14 teams.Hosts Canada are

Korea, the Russian Curling Federation team, Scotland, Sweden, defending champions Switzerland and the United

The Netherlands’ men’s volleyball team have stepped in to replace China following their withdrawal from the Volleyball Nations League (VNL) in Italian city Rimini.

VNL was cancelled due to the pandemic.Russia are the reigning men's champions from 2019, while the United

States won the women's crown.

The contest for the second United States spot in women's beach volleyball for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic

Robert Meeuwsen 21-15, 21-16.The other pool winners were Brazil's Alison Cerutti and Alvaro Filho, the United

States' Jake Gibb and Taylor Crabb and Phil Dalhausser and Nick Lucena, Poland's Piotr Kantor and Bartosz

The eight teams who will contest the quarter-finals at the International Ice Hockey Federation Under-18 World Championship have been confirmed after the fourth day of group stage action in Texas.

Belarus, Canada, Sweden and Switzerland have qualified from Group A, with Russia, the United States,

after this can be tougher, so we have to be ready," said Michkov.Russia are level on points with the United

States, who needed a shootout to get past the Czech Republic 2-1 in their latest group match.In Group

Top seed Jason Anthony Ho-Shue of Canada fought back from a game down to beat El Salvador's Uriel Francisco Canjura Artiga and reach the third round of the Pan American Individual Badminton Championships in Guatemala City.

swept aside Guatemala's Ruben Castellanos 21-13, 21-10 to progress to the third round.Iris Wang of the United

States was among the winners on the first day of the women's main draw ©Getty ImagesYang's opponent

of Brazil, the Pan American Games champion, is also through after he overcame Erwin Sarmiento of the United

States 21-17, 21-9.In the women's singles event, second seed Iris Wang recorded a comfortable 21-9,

New Zealand Rugby (NZR) has announced a total loss of NZ$34.6 million (£18 million/$25 million/€20 million) at the organisation’s annual general meeting in Wellington, as private equity investment in the provincial unions was approved.

given the green light by its Provincial Unions to finalise a private equity deal.The deal will see United

States investment firm Silver Lake take a 12.5 per cent stake in the game, which will see the private

India is set to miss the World Athletics Relays in Poland after travel restrictions were enforced due to the country’s growing number of new COVID-19 cases.

situation.Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica and Australia had already announced they would miss the event, while the United

States has reportedly also withdrawn.

Defending champions Australia have been drawn with hosts and Rio 2016 bronze medallists Japan in the group stage of the wheelchair rugby tournament at the postponed Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games.

Games in the Japanese capital, will take on Japan, France and Denmark in Pool A.Pool B features the United

States, runners-up at the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro, Britain, Canada and New Zealand.The top two

Jamaican Olympian Dennis Johnson, who equalled the 100 yards world record of 9.3sec four times in 1961, has died aged 81 after being admitted to hospital with COVID-19.

Jamaica (UTech),  was born in 1939 and gained his college education at San Jose State College in the United

States, where he was coached by the legendary sprint coach Bud Winter and was a member of the San Jose