A limited number of fans will be allowed into the Augusta National Golf Club to watch The Masters this year, it has been announced.

hoped to be back to full capacity for this year’s event but with coronavirus cases still rising in the United

States, they are now planning on inviting a smaller number of spectators - "provided it can be done

planned in April.Both competitions are set to be held in front of a small number of spectators.The United

States has been severely hit by the pandemic, recording more deaths from coronavirus than any other

The United States have withdrawn from the International Handball Federation (IHF) Men's Handball World

Klete Keller has been charged with three federal offences after footage showed the Olympic swimming gold medallist among a crowd that stormed the Capitol Building in Washington D.C. last week.

building and disorderly or disruptive conduct in the Capitol Building.The fact Keller was wearing a United

States Olympic Team jacket was one of the factors that enabled the Federal Bureau of Investigation (

, in which five people lost their lives and more than 50 are reported to have been injured.Both the United

States Olympic and Paralympic Committee and USA Swimming have condemned the riot, but did not comment

States ©Getty ImagesOutgoing US President Donald Trump has been widely accused of inciting the riot

The United States' Vincent Zhou is now targeting a medal at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics in figure

Two-sport Paralympic athlete Liam Hickey is set to focus on preparations for Beijing 2022 rather than Tokyo 2020 in a bid to avoid burnout.

Hickey was part of the Canadian team that suffered a heart-breaking 2-1 overtime defeat to the United

States in the ice hockey final at Pyeongchang 2018."

A year ago, almost to the day, I was sitting in my Lausanne hotel-room writing up an interview I had just done with an Alibaba executive called Chris Tung.

initially considered as a win-win ©Getty ImagesAnd then there is the uncertain trajectory, under a new United

States President of the mounting trade tensions between the world’s main economic superpower and the

set to prepare for this year's Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games with training camps and practice games in the United

States.

against teams such as Japan, Mexico are scheduled to play professional teams and university teams in the United

States."

Los Angeles 2028 chairperson Casey Wasserman has spoken of his desire to launch a bid to become Governor of California following the conclusion of the Olympic and Paralympics Games in 2028.

Los Angeles 2028 chairperson Casey Wasserman, right, with American President Donald Trump, left, and United

States Olympic and Paralympic Committee chief executive chief executive Sarah Hirshland ©Getty ImagesWasserman

North Macedonia has been drafted in as a late replacement for the Czech Republic on the eve of the International Handball Federation (IHF) Men’s World Championship in Egypt.

Democratic Republic of Congo in Group D, while six-time winners France will face Norway, Austria and the United

States in Group E.The 24 main-round teams will then be divided into four groups of six, with the top

identified as part of the group which stormed the Capitol Building in Washington D.C. last week - wearing United

States Olympic apparel.

 Screenshots show a tall man in a United States Olympic team jacket standing in the rotunda in the

swim jacket and fighting police pic.twitter.com/cccKFnJOff— Cgsg52008 (@cgsg52008) January 12, 2021The United

States Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) has also condemned the participants of the riot."

By the stretch of anyone’s imagination, Donald Trump, soon to be the ex-President of the United States

Association (NCAA) is expected to delay a vote on legislation that would allow university athletes in the United

States to be compensated for their fame.

California is among the states to have passed legislation allowing student-athletes to benefit from their

the NCAA to allow student-athletes to benefit from use of their likeness have increased after several states

passed bills which will override the NCAA's current rules.Six states have passed such bills, with Florida's

The Russian region of Bashkortostan is considering a bid for the 2030 Winter Olympic Games.

state-sponsored doping scandal.Pyrenees-Barcelona in Spain, Japanese city Sapporo and Salt Lake City in the United

States have discussed potential bids for the 2030 Winter Olympics with the IOC.The parties have held

Newly-crowned European skeleton champions Elena Nikitina and Alexander Tretyakov are set to miss the St Moritz leg of the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (IBSF) World Cup to prepare for the upcoming World Championships.

are set to compete in St Moritz.The World Championships were planned to be held in Lake Placid in the United

States, before being moved to Germany for coronavirus reasons.

Petra Vlhová, who leads the overall International Ski Federation (FIS) Alpine Ski World Cup standings this season, could further extend her lead in her favoured slalom event tomorrow (January 12) in Flachau in Austria.

beatable.That day, Gisin and Austria's Katharina Liensberger were separated by just 0.11 seconds and the United

States' Mikaela Shiffrin finished with a bronze medal.Katharina Liensberger is still searching for her