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Belize

  • Countries and Territories

Belize - March 2022The Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games may be scheduled for the English summer, but that doesn't mean the athletes will be competing in hot weather.

steroid use, is a citizen of Belize and her mother was from the country.She celebrated with both the United

States and Belize flags in Sydney, but has lost every major honour she won apart from three World Championship


Antigua and Barbuda

  • Countries and Territories

Antigua and Barbuda - May 2022Antigua and Barbuda has never won a medal at the Commonwealth Games, so if they were to break their duck at Birmingham 2022 it would be a momentous occasion.

businessman Allen Stanford who pumped millions into the sport before being convicted of massive fraud in the United

States and sentenced to 110 years in jail.A much happier memory in Antiguan sport is the gold medal


Canada steps up IIHF Women's World Championship preparations with selection camp

  • Ice Hockey

Canada's latest selection camp for their home International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) Women's World Championship is underway in Halifax, one of two host cities for the event.

gold medals at the Women's World Championship, the last of which came in 2012.Defending champions the United

States, Canada, Finland, Russia and Switzerland are set to contest Group A at the event, with Group


Philip Barker: North Korea skipped the Tokyo Olympics before but under very different circumstances

  • Inside the Blogs

North Korea’s withdrawal from the upcoming Olympics has echoes of the 1964 Games in Tokyo although the reasons behind it are very different.

plunged into another war.The North was backed by Communist nations and the South drew support from the United

The United States and other Western nations sent forces to to what proved to be a bitter struggle.In

When the IOC met in October 1963, Brundage had reluctantly concluded: "A United team would encounter

athletics official Leonid Khomenkov called for the lifting of the ban and was supported by Tunisia, the United


CoSport customers given "ridiculous" refund request deadline on Tokyo 2020 tickets

  • Tokyo 2020

Customers who bought individual tickets for the postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games from authorised reseller CoSport risk not receiving their money back if they fail to return their refund request form by the end of this week.

deadline was contained in correspondence sent by CoSport, the authorised ticket reseller (ATR) for the United

States and several other countries, to its customers yesterday.The email also confirmed only the face


Chile beat Cameroon to earn last women's football berth at Tokyo 2020

  • Football

Chile have secured the last place in the women's Olympic football tournament at Tokyo 2020 by defeating Cameroon over a two-legged playoff.

the Olympics".Hosts Japan, Brazil, Zambia, Australia, China, New Zealand, Canada, world champions the United

States, Sweden, Britain and The Netherlands are the other 11 teams set to contest the women's football


Lewisville in Texas to make debut as World Para Swimming World Series venue

  • Swimming News

are set to take part in the latest leg of the World Para Swimming World Series in Lewisville in the United

States at an event scheduled to start tomorrow.

meet last February [2020] in Melbourne, and I feel a little naïve when I look back at that time,” the United

States Paralympic silver medallist Lizzie Smith said.

at the in the second event in this series following last weekend’s competition in Sheffield in the United

in the sport on the world’s stage.The 13-time Paralympic gold medallist Jessica Long will lead the United

States team at the World Para Swimming World Series event in Lewisville ©Getty ImagesThe S10 swimmer



Olympic-bound Goswami among five Indian athletes to test positive for COVID-19

  • Tokyo 2020

Racewalker Priyanka Goswami, who is set to compete at Tokyo 2020, is reportedly among five Indian track and field athletes that have tested positive for coronavirus.

previous record held by Bhawana Jat, who is also set to be part of the Indian Olympic team.Only the United

States has recorded more coronavirus cases than India, which has registered 13.9 million since the start


Europe set to host entire IBSF Bobsleigh and Skeleton World Cup season

  • Bobsleigh and Skeleton

The entire 2021-2022 Bobsleigh and Skeleton World Cup season is set to be staged in Europe after the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (IBSF) revealed its provisional calendar.

will not host any World Cup legs for the second successive campaign, but the IBSF says tracks in the United

States and Canada will be back on the agenda in seasons after the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games.The

with Winterberg set to play host again from January 3 to 9.No World Cup stages will be held in the United

States and Canada for the second straight season, according to the IBSF's provisional calendar ©Getty


ISU World Team Trophy to take place in front of fans in Osaka

  • Figure Skating

Fans are set to attend the International Skating Union (ISU) World Team Trophy in Osaka, despite concerns over a rise of COVID-19 cases in the prefecture.

The event, featuring teams from Japan, the United States, Canada, France, Italy and Russia, is scheduled

Russia team at the event ©Getty ImagesJapanese star Yuzuru Hanyu and world champion Nathan Chen of the United

States, who claimed his third consecutive World Championships gold medal in Stockholm last month, are


David Owen: Hello China! Ping-pong diplomacy and the value of spontaneity when building bridges through sport

  • Inside the Blogs

I often feel queasy when sports leaders claim some higher purpose for the activities over which they preside.

occurred in Nagoya, Japan exactly half a century ago.On 4 April 1971, Glenn Cowan, a teenage member of the United

States table tennis team competing at that year’s World Championships, managed to find his way onto

didn’t understand how important it was…"It really did help improve relations between China and the United

States."



Japan on course for strongest medal showing at a Summer Olympics

  • Tokyo 2020

Host-nation Japan looks set for by far its strongest-ever showing at a Summer Olympics if Tokyo 2020 is able to proceed as rescheduled in July and August.

Otherwise, Gracenote’s new virtual table is much as one might expect, with the United States and China

expected to fill the first two places.Gracenote has projected the United States to finish top of the


AIBA Youth World Boxing Championships opened in Kielce with new scoring method launched

  • Boxing

Action started today at the International Boxing Association (AIBA) Youth World Boxing Championships in the Polish city of Kielce after an Opening Ceremony at which a new “live-scoring” method was launched for the first time. 

Legionow Sports Complex.That figure was lessened by the late withdrawal of teams from Argentina and the United

States as a coronavirus precaution.The Championships were initially set to be held in November 2020