This year's 24 Hours of Le Mans endurance race has been pushed back until August as organisers hope to be able to welcome spectators under COVID-19 safety measures.

champions to win the race include Britain's Mike Hawthorn and Graham Hill, Austria's Jochen Rindt and the United

States' Phil Hill.

Support from the El Salvador Olympic Committee (ESAOC) will allow the under-23 football team to travel to Mexico for a training camp ahead of the Olympic qualification tournament.

with Canada, Honduras and Haiti, and face Canada in their opening game on March 19.Hosts Mexico, the United

States, Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic are in the other group.Mexico and the US will be the favourites

On Wednesday afternoon (March 10), a freshly-barbered Thomas Bach will be reinstalled as President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for four more years.

himself cast very much in the role of executive chairman.If securing the future was the aim of that giant United

States broadcasting rights deal, it was also the reflex behind the momentous decision to rip up the

More than 400 weightlifters have returned to the platform to compete live in Spain and the United States

competition in any sport.The four-day North American Open Series 1, now featuring Canadian as well as United

States lifters, got the show back on the road after a run of cancellations and postponements.Neither

Erickson, 26, is a data analyst for United Healthcare in Philadelphia who was swamped with work once

United States’ Mikaela Shiffrin triumphed in the women’s International Ski Federation (FIS) Alpine Skiing

International Olympic Committee (IOC) Ethics Commission chair Ban Ki-moon has been urged to respond to a complaint against the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games by the World Uyghur Congress.

Polak has now written directly to Ban, a former United Nations secretary general who became IOC Ethics

 Calls to boycott the Games have come from politicians in the United States, Canada and Britain,

Russia had another strong day at the World Para Nordic Skiing World Cup in Planica after winning four gold medals in biathlon at the Slovenian venue.

was her compatriot Iuliia Smirnova, while Ukraine's Oksana Shyshkova took bronze.Oksana Masters led a United

States one-two in the women's middle distance sitting race in a time of 30:39.4 ahead of Kendall Gretsch

The Japan Softball Association (JSA) is set to announce its final Olympic roster on March 23, following the completion of a training camp in Okinawa.

softball at Beijing 2008, the last Olympics to feature the sport.Before Japan's win 13 years ago, the United

States had won all three softball gold medals since the sport made its debut at the Atlanta 1996 Games

Yukiko Ueno, who was part of the Beijing 2008 Olympics team.Japan had aimed to play competitions in the United

States and Australia, but ongoing travel restrictions meant these trips could not go ahead as planned

The International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) has released updated versions of its qualification system for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

the 2019 World Championships to determine extra entries to the individual all-around competitions.The United

States, Russia and China were given an extra entry to the women’s event, while Russia, China and hosts

A similar process will be in place for rhythmic gymnastics, where the FIG system states that the quota

The top seeds in the men’s and women’s singles, Viktor Axelsen of Denmark and Carolina Marin of Spain, were among the winners as the line-ups for the last four were decided at the Badminton World Federation (BWF) Yonex Swiss Open in Basel.

21-9, 21-6.In the women’s singles top seed Marin won in straight games beating Beiwen Zhang of the United

States 21-13, 21-13.The top four seeds are the four remaining players in the women’s singles with second

France and Poland have won the youth biathlon relays on the penultimate day of competition in Obertilliach in Austria as part of the International Biathlon Union (IBU) Youth World Championships.

to stay ahead of France.France won silver, more than 15 seconds ahead of Italy, while Russia and the United

States were fourth and fifth.

Adverse weather conditions have forced organisers to cancel the first of two International Ski Federation (FIS) Alpine Skiing World Cup downhill races in Saalbach.

crowned world champion after she earned the title by beating Vlhová and the Mikaela Shiffrin of the United

States in Cortina d'Ampezzo last month.A giant slalom competition is scheduled for Sunday.

American Benjamin Ritchie clinched the slalom gold medal as men's events at the Alpine Junior World Ski Championships drew to a close in Bansko.

secured the junior world title after clocking a combined time of 1min 40.36sec at the Bulgarian venue.The United

States skier, 13th in the slalom at last month's senior World Championships in Cortina d'Ampezzo, finished

The International Sport Climbing Federation (IFSC) has postponed two of its Boulder and Speed World Cups to October due to ongoing COVID-19 restrictions in host countries China and South Korea.

still scheduled for October are the IFSC Paraclimbing World Cup event in an unnamed location in the United

States on October 9 and 10, and the IFSC World Cup in Xiamen in China from October 15 to 17.

Britain's Charlotte Bankes and Italy's Omar Visintin claimed their first International Ski Federation (FIS) Snowboard Cross World Cup victories of the 2020-2021 season on the second day of competition in Bakuriani in Georgia.

bronze medallist Chloé Trespeuch.The Frenchwoman took the silver medal ahead of Faye Gulini of the United

States, who returned to the podium after being absent from the last three races.Bankes started out at