Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) President John Coates has paid tribute to Rome 1960 Olympic gold medallist John Konrads, who has died at the age of 78.

family initially moved to Germany where they lived until 1949, before being denied immigration to the United

States due to the size of the family.The family ultimately moved to Australia.Konrads suffered polio

Russian Ian Nepomniachtchi secured the International Chess Federation (FIDE) Candidates Tournament title after his closest challenger Anish Giri suffered defeat on round 13 of 14 in Yekaterinburg.

#FIDECandidates— International Chess Federation (@FIDE_chess) April 26, 2021The United States' Fabiano

Athletics Canada has confirmed its withdrawal from the 2021 World Athletics Relays, with it being the latest nation to pull out of the event in Chorzów in Poland.

May 1 and 2, Canada joins Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica and Australia in missing the event, while the United

States reportedly has also withdrawn, but USA Track and Field has not confirmed this.Athletics Canada

The biggest hero for the Scottish crowds at the Edinburgh 1986 Commonwealth Games was, by some distance, Liz Lynch, who was unemployed and on the dole when she won the 10,000 metres by a wide margin.

support from the public but not, she felt, from Scotland's sports authorities, as she had been to the United

States on a scholarship and had no financial help from her own country.Life had been hard for McColgan

Hector Borg has replaced Fernando Tatis Sr as manager of the Dominican Republic baseball team for the upcoming Americas qualifier in Florida.

manage the side for personal reasons.Thirty-five-year-old Borg was a manager in the minor leagues in the United

States as recently as 2019 and has varied coaching experience.The Americas baseball qualifier for the

Ballpark of the Palm Beaches in West Palm Beach.The Dominican Republic are in Group A along with hosts the United

States, Puerto Rico and Nicaragua.Group B contains Cuba, Venezuela, Canada and Colombia.Posted by Federación

Oliver Townend secured a third consecutive title at the Kentucky Three-Day Event at Lexington in the United

States.

So John Carlos says to Tommie Smith - "Hey Tommie, I left my gloves in the Village. Sorry, man. But listen - Pete Norman’s just said let's wear one each. Why not? Get him one of our badges and let’s go!"

heard," said Ireland’s Caradh O’Donovan, a karate athlete who helped start Global Athlete.In 2019, the United

States Olympic and Paralympic Committee inducted Smith and Carlos into its Hall of Fame.In December

Married couple Deepika Kumari and Atanu Das won individual recurve gold medals at the Archery World Cup in Guatemala City as India finished the event in style.

Kumari claimed women's gold with a 6-5 victory over the United States' Mackenzie Brown.The world number

Li Wenwen, the Chinese women’s super-heavyweight, had a sweep of world records on her way to victory at the Asian Weightlifting Championships in Tashkent.

super-heavyweight has lifted more than 300kg.The nearest in qualifying was 290kg by Sarah Robles of the United

states, who made 280kg in Dominican Republic on Saturday when she won the Pan American title.Iran took

Marco Scolaris has been re-elected unopposed as President of the International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC).

Debbie Gawrych of the United States is set to support Scolaris over the next four years after being confirmed

The International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) Under-18 World Championship is set to begin in Texas tomorrow, having been moved to the Lone Star State in response to the coronavirus crisis.

Latvia are also in the group.Sweden won the last edition of the event in 2019 ©Getty ImagesHosts the United

States, 2019 runners-up Russia, Finland, Germany and the Czech Republic are in Group B.Four of five

Rachael Blackmore’s achievement this month in becoming the first female jockey to win the Grand National, in company with Minella Times, marked a heady high point for women in sport - that is, the wider world of men's and women's sport.

between Juventus and Dynamo Kyiv.She also refereed the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup final in which the United

States beat The Netherlands 2-0 at Lyon's Groupama Stadium in France.Shortly after Frappart's World

London 2012 long jump champion Greg Rutherford has revealed he has been training with the national bobsleigh team and is eyeing medal success at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games.

seconds.Two-time world indoor hurdles champion Lolo Jones claimed world two-woman gold earlier this year for the United

States, following in the footsteps of former world champion sprinter and compatriot Lauryn Williams,

The International Biathlon Union (IBU) has launched the Biathlon Climate Challenge, which aims to connect an active lifestyle with climate action.

Émilien Jacquelin of France, Norway’s Johannes Dale, Jules Burnotte of Canada, Susan Dunklee of the United

States and Croatia’s Jakov Fak have also agreed to become team leaders."

Austrians Lena Plesiutschnig and Katharina Schützenhöfer have kept their Tokyo 2020 hopes alive after a strong start to the second of three International Volleyball Federation Beach World Tour four-star tournaments in Cancun in Mexico.

defeating the Czech Republic's Marketa Slukova and Barbora Hermmanova 21-16, 21-18 and will now play the United

States' Kelly Claes and Sarah Sponcil, who defeated Switzerland's Nina Betschart and Tanja Huberli 2