A truncated and coronavirus-affected competitive golf season is set to conclude this weekend with the Women's US Open in Houston.

Stanford will be out to prove to their younger opposition that age is just a number.Andrea Lee of the United

States, an LPGA rookie, has been forced to withdraw from the tournament after she tested positive for

several team competitions, and we are disappointed to lose a player of her calibre from the field," said United

States Golf Association senior managing director of Championships John Bodenhamer.Lee has been replaced

Four major championship trophies won by golf legend Gary Player have been sold at auction for nearly $600,000 (£450,000/€500,000), despite his opposition to the sale.

64 in the final round to win by one stroke from three players tied for second place, including the United

States’ defending champion Tom Watson.The next most expensive trophy to be auctioned was a scale model

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has provided funding to USA Luge as part of a project to improve its sled technology.

aeronautical engineering department will work in partnership with AeroWorks with the goal of bringing United

States athletes to the podium in national and international events.

A training camp has been organised for the Australian women's basketball team in January to aid preparations for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

basketball team.They finished with silver at Sydney 2000, Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008, losing to the United

States each time.

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has confirmed it will join Sport Integrity Australia (SIA) in appealing the decision to reduce swimmer Shayna Jack's doping ban to two years.

November ©Getty ImagesThis was after the anti-doping system received criticism from figures such as United

States Anti-Doping Agency chief executive Travis Tygart and Australian swimmer Cate Campbell.

Turin and Piedmont in Italy are poised to throw their hat into the ring to host the 2025 Winter World University Games.

to 21 next year in Swiss city Lucerne, where athletes will compete in 10 sports.Lake Placid in the United

States is due to host the Winter World University Games in 2023.

America's Sabrina Sobhy achieved a shock defeat against Egyptian ninth seed Salma Hany at the Professional Squash Association (PSA) Black Ball Squash Open in Cairo.

sixth seed dispatching compatriot Olivia Fiechter 11-8, 11-7, 11-5.There was even more success for the United

States when Olivia Clyne recorded an 8-11, 11-5, 11-8, 11-8 result against Mariam Metwally of Egypt.

The UEFA qualification groups for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar have been drawn in Zurich today, with 55 countries set to participate with 13 spots on offer.

the last under this format before the tournament moves up to 48 teams for the 2026 World Cup in the United

States, Canada and Mexico.

Wrestling legend Dan Gable is set to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom from United States President

individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United

States, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavours.Gable will

World Wrestling Hall of Fame in the legend category.He is also in the United States of America Wrestling

Hall of Fame, the United States Olympic Hall of Fame, and the National Wrestling Hall of Fame.Gable

was named the ‘Nation’s Outstanding Wrestler’ by the Amateur Athletic Union and the United States Wrestling

Belgian Paralympic Committee (BPC) President Anne d'Ieteren was awarded an Order of Merit by the Belgian Olympic and Interfederal Committee (BOIC).

to compete after the Belgian Equestrian Federation joined the boycott of the Games initiated by the United

States.

Switzerland's Marco Odermatt was a clear winner in the men's giant slalom in the second International Ski Federation (FIS) Alpine Ski World Cup race in Santa Caterina in Italy.

giant slalom World Cup race, the 23-year-old posted the best time on run one to finish ahead of the United

States' Tommy Ford and Croatia's Filip Zubčić.This race took place today after the second race on Sunday

The winner of the United States Olympic Marathon Trials women's race, Aliphine Tuliamuk, looks set to

Billy Evans, a member of the United States basketball team which won the gold medal at the 1956 Olympic

Russian Sports Minister Oleg Matytsin has claimed it will be necessary to take steps to minimise the risks posed to his country's athletes by the Rodchenkov Act.

The Rodchenkov Anti-Doping Act, which gives United States officials the power to prosecute individuals

professional athletes in American sports, such as baseball, basketball and ice hockey, as a concern.United States

Sport Integrity Australia (SIA) has appealed the decision to reduce swimmer Shayna Jack's doping ban to two years.

still a "doped athlete".This was after the anti-doping system received criticism from figures such as United

States Anti-Doping Agency chief executive Travis Tygart and Australian swimmer Cate Campbell.