By Jo HalpinSeptember 11 - The ninth FINA World Junior Women's Water Polo Championships begin in Trieste today.

Mexico.In the final group, D, Canada - winners in 2003 - will battle it out with Germany, Brazil and Spain

By David GoldSeptember 2 - Great Britain face an uphill struggle to qualify for the second phase of the EuroBasket in Lithuania after falling to an opening game defeat against the hosts and then following it up with a loss to Turkey.

progress to the next round.With three teams left to play in the group, starting with defending champions Spain

By Duncan MackaySeptember 2 - London and Doha will go head-to-head to host the 2017 World Athletics Championships after Barcelona withdrew its bid.

is understood that Real Federación Española de Atletismo (RFEA), athletics' governing body in Spain

By Tom DegunAugust 31 - The world's best young players are heading out to Rimini in Italy for the start of the inaugural International Basketball Federation (FIBA) Invitational 3x3 Youth World Championships in the city from September 9-11. 

Nepal, New Zealand, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Romania, South Africa, Russia, Singapore, Slovenia, Serbia, Spain

China, Czech Republic, Egypt, England, Germany, Greece, Guam, India, Italy, Japan, Netherland, Russia, Spain

By Emily GoddardAugust 29 - Sweden, Spain and Denmark are the latest teams to qualify for the London

Sweden finished fourth on a score of 214.437 per cent, Spain was fifth with 211.580 per cent, and Denmark

(The Winter Games were in Italy as recently as 2006, remember, while Spain hosted a Summer Olympics in

I write this, concerns about public-sector debt-levels in a number of European countries, including Spain

By Tom DegunAugust 28 - England's two teams will leave the EuroHockey Nations Championships in Monchengladbach in Germany with bronze medals after they each claimed victory in their respective matches for a place on the podium.

The women's team were the first to achieve the feat as they beat Spain 2 -1 which means that they have

picked up their fourth consecutive European hockey bronze medal.Silvia Munoz gave Spain the lead but

By Tom DegunAugust 25 - Beijing 2008 double Paralympic champion found out today that she has passed nine GCSEs which will allow her to go on to further education.

The 16-year-old from Walsall took four of her GCSE's while on a training camp in Spain and said that

By Duncan Mackay in DaeguAugust 21 - London's bid to host the 2017 World Athletics Championships will face strong opposition from Barcelona after the Real Federación Española de Atletismo (RFEA) revealed here today that they were putting forward the host city of the 1992 Olympics and Paralympics as its candidate.

, including completing the 100m and 200m double, on the distnictive blue track.But counting against Spain

By Marcus CrawleyAugust 21 - The International Rugby Board (IRB) has announced figures showing that sevens has gained yet more ground in the eyes of broadcasters worldwide.

States, where coverage was aired for the first time on NBC and NBC Universal, while broadcasters in Spain

By David GoldAugust 19 - Britain's Paralympic gold medallist Dan Bentley (pictured, left) is looking forward to the Boccia World Cup which is due to get underway underway, and is confident that he can add to his medal haul.

Spain and Portugal are our main rivals."

By Duncan MackayAugust 16 - Adam Paker, a former senior executive with FIFA, has been appointed as the new chief executive of Commonwealth Games England as part of its new strategy plan to maxmise the opportunity of Glasgow 2014, it was announced today.

sports.There his activities included negotiating main sponsorship of Sevilla Football Club in Spain

By David GoldAugust 15 - World number one Nigel Murray is taking nothing for granted ahead of this week's Boccia World Cup in Belfast.

At one time, it was always Portugal and Spain that were always going to win the medals."

Thursday, August 18 to Saturday, August 27.He believes that Britain's biggest challenge will come from Spain

form of two pretty fearsome looking cannons parked on the square's east side.One of them, presented by Spain

By Tom Degun in LondonAugust 8 - Britain's Alistair Brownlee is confident that his emphatic victory at the Dextro Energy Triathlon ITU World Championship Series in Hyde Park yesterday will not give away the secret of how to beat him next year when the London 2012 Olympic triathlon takes place on the same course.

third place as he finished 30 seconds behind the Russian while current world champion Javier Gomez of Spain