ago at The Oval in London, cricketer Basil D'Oliveira struck 158 in a Test match for England against Australia

Hosts United States thrashed The Netherlands as Canada and Japan maintained their unbeaten records at the Women's Baseball World Cup in Florida.

Angela Burgos, they sent reverberations through the baseball community by coming from behind to beat Australia

and help advance" the future of her sport as she confirmed she will join the board of Athletics Australia

of one day being in a position where I could influence and help advance the future of athletics in Australia

I’m proud to announce to you all that I have accepted an opportunity to join the board of Athletics Australia

of one day being in a position where I could influence and help advance the future of athletics in Australia

I’m proud to announce to you all that I have accepted an opportunity to join the board of Athletics Australia

sallypearson) August 24, 2018Pearson, the current chairperson of the Athletes' Advisory Committee at Athletics Australia

The freeze on footballer Paolo Guerrero's doping ban has been reversed by the Swiss Federal Tribunal, meaning the Peruvian is again barred from playing.

longer play for Peru or his Brazilian club side Internacional.Paolo Guerrero scored for Peru against Australia

Charlotte Henshaw overcame team-mate Emma Wiggs to win the women’s KL2 200 metres gold at the International Canoe Federation (ICF) Canoe Sprint and Paracanoe World Championships in Montemor.

the Swedish paddler achieved a time of 53.671.She edged reigning world champion Amanda Reynolds of Australia

The Russian Weightlifting Federation (RWF) has written to the sport's governing body, and the Independent Monitoring Group (IMG) it created, in a final attempt to clear its best young athletes to compete in the Youth Olympic Games in October.

outside weightlifting and who work in senior anti-doping roles in Germany, the United States, Denmark and Australia

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) Ad-Hoc Division here at the 2018 Asian Games has rejected the applications of six national golf associations challenging the decision taken by the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) not to enforce the technical guidelines for golf preventing the participation of professional players in the event. 

Division has registered.The case was submitted to a panel composed of President Anthony Lo Surdo of Australia

Paralympic champions United States and Iran maintained their unbeaten status at the men's Wheelchair Basketball World Championships in Hamburg as both won their first knockout matches having won their respective qualifying groups.

, who narrowly beat Japan 52-50.Poland beat Canada 79-68 and re now set to meet defending champions Australia

Japan, winners of the last five editions of the Women's Baseball World Cup, will attempt to extend their awesome record when the 2018 edition gets underway in Florida tomorrow and runs to the end of the month.

South Korea, Puerto Rico, The Netherlands and Chinese Taipei.Japan are in Group B with Canada, Cuba, Australia

Australian Taekwondo is to work with Autism Victoria (AMAZE) to help provide awareness training for instructors and members.

 "In the next few months Australia Taekwondo will be partnering with AMAZE to provide autism awareness

Paralympic champions United States and Iran remain the only unbeaten teams in the men’s Wheelchair Basketball World Championships in Hamburg.

Brazil still finished bottom behind Turkey, despite ending the group stage on a high.Defending champions Australia

will begin as favourites when they are due to play Morocco tomorrow, while Iran meet South Korea and Australia

Brazil.They now have three wins in the group stage, with Britain also boasting the same record after beating Australia

Wildfires which affected much of British Columbia in Canada over the previous six days forced organisers of the weekend’s Super League Triathlon (SLT) event at Penticton to cancel all racing on the final day because of the worsening air quality.

America and was the final qualifer for the lucrative Championship Series races due to culminate in Australia

Australian Olympic Committee President John Coates has helped launch a new book on Cecil Healy, one of Australia's earliest gold medallists. 

took the gold medal in the 4x200 metres freestyle relay, but it was his individual event where Australia

 "In Australia, that’s acknowledged as great sportsmanship, but in terms of great sportsmanship

Canada maintained their winning start to the men’s Wheelchair Basketball World Championships in Hamburg by beating hosts Germany.

saw The Netherlands beat Spain 74-60 to move them up to second in the standings.Defending champions Australia

Spain 47-38.Their three wins keeps them above second place Canada, with the defending champions beating Australia

China’s Xu Xin and Ding Ning won the respective men’s and women’s singles titles today at the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) Bulgaria Open event in Panagyurishte.

champion Dmitrij Ovtcharov, this was the second successive ITTF World Tour win following his success in Australia