Kim Sei-young and Ko Jin-young swapped positions on the leaderboard in round three of the CME Group Tour Championship, with the former now holding a one-shot lead after shooting a five-under-par 67.

Hull, last year's runner-up, Australian Minjee Lee, Canada's Brooke Henderson, Lexi Thompson of the United

States - the Tour Championship winner in 2018 - and fellow American Austin Ernst are in a group of players

Three-time PDC Darts world champion and current world number one Michael Van Gerwen reached the third round of this year's tournament after a comfortable four-set win on day five at Alexandra Palace in London.

first round action Nico Kurz of Germany beat England's Andy Hamilton 3-1 while Danny Baggish of the United

States triumphed over Australia's Damon Heta 3-2 in another contest that went the distance.The other

Federico Pellegrino of Italy and Nadine Fähndrich of Switzerland won the sprint free titles at the FIS Cross-Country World Cup in Dresden.

but paced this effort well and finished top of the pile in 2:38.52.Sophie Caldwell Hamilton of the United

States claimed silver 0.32sec behind the winner as she celebrated her tenth World Cup podium.Third place

Latvian side Riga have won the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) 3x3 World Tour Finals 2020 in Jeddah in Saudi Arabia after a dramatic last shot against Serbia's Liman.

side of the draw, reigning champions Novi Sad, also of Serbia, were comfortable 21-16 winners over the United

States' NY Harlem to progress too.However, the most convincing victory of the round went the way of

World Para Swimming has published a five-event calendar for the 2021 World Series. 

Sheffield in Britain is due to open the tour from April 8 to 11, before an event in Indianapolis in the United

States follows from April 15 to 17.Lignano Sabbiadoro in Italy and an undetermined Australian venue

Association (WTA) has announced qualifying for the delayed Australian Open will take place in Dubai in the United

7.The 2021 Australian Open is then set to take place from February 8 to 21, with Sofia Kenin of the United

States aiming to defend her women's singles title.A WTA 250 tournament is also scheduled to be held

Norway's Aleksander Aamodt Kilde completed a perfect weekend in Val Gardena by winning a second International Ski Federation (FIS) Alpine Ski World Cup race in two days.

Kilde triumphed in the downhill contest to win the sixth World Cup race of his career, holding off the United

States' Ryan Cochran-Siegle by 0.22sec.The Norwegian's winning time was 2min 01.45sec.For Cochran-Siegle

reportedly among the appointments to a Congressional committee tasked with overseeing reforms to the United

States Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) and the state of the organisation.

According to documents cited by Associated Press, Bellingham, a former chief executive of the United

States Olympic Committee who won the gold medal in canoe sprint at Seoul 1988, was chosen for a position

United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) chief executive Travis Tygart has described the Court of Arbitration

The Canadian Olympic Committee, New Zealand Olympic Committee, United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee

Russia has been formally barred from bidding for the 2025 Snowboard, Freestyle and Freeski World Championships following the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) verdict in the country's case against the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).

to strip World Championships from the country, but have been offered some leeway as the CAS decision states

on our competitions and we will not comment further until after such time," the spokesperson added.A United

Tara Geraghty-Moats of the United States was the winner of the inaugural International Ski Federation

Favourites for the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) 3x3 World Tour Final 2020, Liman and Riga; are through to the knockout stages after winning their respective games on day one in Jeddah in Saudi Arabia.

night.Pool D started off with a win for Lithuania's Utena, as they defeated third seeds NY Harlem of the United

States 21-16.The Lithuanians were always set to be a difficult second seed, having only competed in

Corinne Suter won the first downhill race of the women's International Ski Federation (FIS) Alpine Ski World Cup season, continuing where she left off last campaign.

was also a first podium of the season for Italy's Goggia, while third-placed Breezy Johnson of the United

States had never achieved a top-three finish at an FIS Alpine Ski World Cup race before.Petra Vlhová

COVID-19 vaccinations could be rolled out in Japan as early as four months before the postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games, according to Japanese Government officials.

has said the first Japanese people could be vaccinated in March, if the request is approved.United-States

the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, which would be enough for roughly half of the country's population.The United

Kingdom and the United States have already started rolling out the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.The development

Weightlifting has lost one of its most important Olympic qualifying events because of yet another coronavirus-related postponement.

among the medal contenders in Tokyo - Akbar Djuraev at 109 kilograms and Adkhamjon Ergashev at 67kg.The United

States won two golds through CJ Cummings and Kate Nye, the IWF female weightlifter of the year.Cummings

That statement is: "The mission of USA Weightlifting shall be to support United States athletes in achieving

promote, and educate a diverse and inclusive community of weightlifting and the use of the barbell in the United

States."