Picture Gallery

Kvitova ©Getty ImagesMen's top seed Novak Djokovic battled to a four set win over Frances Tiafoe of the United

States ©Getty ImagesSpectators wander around the Melbourne Park grounds on another hot day at the Australian

Simona Halep won five straight games in the deciding set to recover from the brink of defeat and overcome Australian Alja Tomljanovic as the second round of the Australian Open got underway at Melbourne Park.

seed Novak Djokovic was tested on Rod Laver Arena needing four sets to overcome Frances Tiafoe of the United

States 6-3 6-7 7-6 6-3.All the top ten players in action enjoyed victory with Austrian Dominic Thiem

Skeleton events will provide the focus as the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (IBSF) World Championships resumes in Altenberg tomorrow.

The World Championships opened last week with United States’ Kaillie Humphries and Lolo Jones winning

States)Women’s Flyweight 56.7 kgGold: Micol Disegni (Italy)Silver: Anja Saxmark (Sweden)Bronze: Natalie

Kavanagh (Ireland)Bronze: Julia Dorny (Germany), Lindsay Lawrence (United States)Men’s Flyweight 56.7

States)Silver: Nurtilek Konashov (Kazakhstan)Bronze: Carl McNally (Northern Ireland), Marco Zannetti

States)Silver: Alexander Martinez (Canada)Bronze: Patryk Ruta (Poland), Jake Constantinou (UK)Men’s

Middleweight 83.9 kg Gold: Brendan Allen (United States)Silver: James Duckett (UK)Bronze: Imad Alhowayeck

Norcia (Italy), Cassandra Le Roux (South Africa)Female Bantamweight 61.2 kg Gold: LaNeisha Vinson (United

States) Silver: Bulgaru Daniela Mihaela (Romania) Bronze: Lucie Vacova (Czech Republic), Dee

The World Para Ice Hockey A-Pool Championships has been rescheduled to June to allow organisers to prepare extra safety protocols for the event.

having unprecedented media and broadcast coverage.Ostrava also hosted the World Championships in 2009.United

States are the reigning world and Paralympic champions ©Getty ImagesOrganisers claim there has been

a qualification tournament to be held at a later date to try to earn their spots in Beijing.United States

Fourteen titles will be up for grabs at the International Skating Union (ISU) World Speed Skating Championships starting tomorrow in Heerenveen.

 Both Dutch skater Patrick Roest and Brittany Bowe of the United States will be looking to making

Farkhod Rakhmonaliev (Russia)Male Flyweight 56.7 kgGold: Ata Atdayev (Ukraine)Silver: Israel Galvan (United

States)Bronze: Yernaz Mussabek (Kazakhstan), Ruslan Satiev (Russia)Male Bantamweight 61.2 kgGold: Gadzhimurad

USA Volleyball has confirmed that two Paralympians have joined its governing body in leadership roles to represent their fellow athletes.

Council.Nieves joined the women's sitting volleyball national team in 2011 and won the gold medal with the United

States at the Rio 2016 Paralympics.She also serves as an athlete representative for World ParaVolley

The 2021 International Basketball Federation (FIBA) 3x3 World Tour is scheduled to start in Doha in Qatar in March, just three months after Latvian team Riga won their first title.

hosts.Currently, the top eight are: Liman and Novi Sad of Serbia, Riga of Latvia, NY Harlem and Princeton of the United

States, Sakiai of Lithuania, Piran of Slovenia and Edmonton of Canada.More Masters events are set to

Russian wrestler Gennady Strakhov, winner of an Olympic silver medal at Munich 1972 when he represented the Soviet Union, has died following complications caused by a COVID-19 infection.

the Olympic tournament at the Fairgrounds, Judo and Wrestling Hall in Munich.In the final he met the United

States' Ben Peterson.Soviet Union wrestler Gennady Strakhov, left, won an Olympic silver medal in the

Chinese state-run newspaper Global Times has warned a boycott of next year's Winter Olympic Games in Beijing would result in trade sanctions.

An Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China, which includes politicians from the United States, Britain,

levels of traffic in Los Angeles during the build-up to the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games in the United

States city.

Japan's female politicians wore white to a House of Representatives session to protest the sexist remarks made by Tokyo 2020 President Yoshirō Mori.

jackets with white roses on their lapels, an homage to the 20th century suffragette movement in the United

States.

Ethiopia’s Gudaf Tsegay smashed the women’s world indoor 1500 metres record of 3min 55.17sec set by her compatriot Genzebe Dibaba when she clocked an extraordinary 3:53.09 tonight in the French city of Liévin.

7.32sec, just 0.02sec off the world indoor record set by Britain’s Colin Jackson in 1994.The 23-year-old United

States athlete, who equalled his 60m hurdles US record of 7.35 earlier this season, had warmed up with

extraordinarily tight, with only thousands between Nadine Visser of The Netherlands, Christina Clemons of the United

States and Finland’s Nooralotta Neziri, who finished in that order in 7.91 - a time that allowed Neziri