The Canadian Paralympic Committee (CPC) has granted 18 sporting organisations funding totalling CAD200,000 (£118,000/$151,000/€138,000).

sports including boccia, Alpine skiing, athletics, badminton, equestrian, ice hockey, Nordic skiing, swimming

Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC) secretary general Gunilla Lindberg hopes a commitment can be secured for more sports to hold direct qualifiers at continental Games, claiming it would "raise the interest".

year.Kraków-Małopolska 2023 is due to run until Sunday (July 2).There were 21 Olympic sports on the programme, but swimming

An "historic milestone, a celebration of the best of virtual sport and esports" was how Olympic Esports Week, which concluded in Singapore earlier this week, was described by International Olympic Committee (IOC) vice-president Ng Ser Miang.

Crothers, an Australian who was an professional esport player in Valorant before concentrating on swimming

Mexico’s Miguel de Lara and Mikel Schreuders of Aruba produced a dead heat for gold in one of the swimming

Iga, Athena Meneses y Tayde Revilak also set a new Games record as they won gold in 3:31.1In artistic swimming

Ruisanchez Torres of Puerto Rico claimed bronze.It is the first time that mixed events in artistic swimming

European Olympic Committees President Spyros Capralos has admitted it is "positively surprised" by the regional model deployed for the European Games here, but has admitted low crowds at some events is "something a little bit negative".

opportunities in 10 sports add to its appeal.He hopes this can bring other sports to the programme, with swimming

There were few bigger names on the Central American and Caribbean Games podium in San Salvador than Cuba’s Olympic and double world champion judoka Idalys Ortiz.

of Mexico’s Athena Meneses 56.39.Bronze went to another Cuban Andrea Becali in 56.51.Erik Gordillo, swimming

EsMomentoDeTrascender 🇸🇻 pic.twitter.com/wKLD6UVFHZ— Christian Guevara 🇸🇻 (@ChrisGuevaraG) June 27, 2023In artistic swimming

Two years after the original scheduled, the International Island Games (IIG) are returning to Guernsey for the third time next weekend, 20 years after they were last held there.

The original programme included athletics, badminton, five-a-side football, shooting, swimming and volleyball

Mayan Oliver led a Mexican podium sweep in the women's individual modern pentathlon final at the Central American and Caribbean Games in San Salvador.

six defeats put her second in the fencing discipline with 266 points.She then produced a lacklustre swimming

that translated to eighth place.It set up a laser run where it was all to play for following Arceo's swimming

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country finish with four of the six sport climbing golds ©Kraków-Małopolska 2023Spain finished artistic swimming

Top seeds Daniel Santigosa and Noa Canovas of Spain won the first European Games padel final here, where play did not finish until 1.37am local time.

medals table after day four of competition, having also won the first gold of the day in the artistic swimming

The television screen in the restaurant of our hotel - which is a 10-minute walk from the Silesian Stadium where the European Athletics Team Championships are taking place as part of the third European Games - is smartly placed above the coffee machines.

pic.twitter.com/WIRY7MGVo0— The EOC: home of the European Games & EYOF (@The_EOC) June 25, 2023Gymnastics and swimming

Colombia and Mexico grabbed top honours in swimming events on day four of competition at the Central

Tokyo 2020 Olympian Mónica Arango of Colombia won gold in the solo technical artistic swimming with a

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success yesterday ©Kraków-Małopolska 2023The first gold medal of the day went to France in the artistic swimming

Lithuania and Latvia won the women's and men's 3x3 basketball titles respectively on the third day of the Kraków-Małopolska 2023 European Games here.

Kraków-Małopolska 2023It ensured the day started as it began for France, who won the first gold in artistic swimming

Aquatics Centre.Anna-Maria Alexandri and Eirini-Marina Alexandri of Austria claimed their second artistic swimming

A treble success on the first day of taekwondo competition helped Spain propel themselves to the top of the medal standings at the Kraków-Małopolska 2023 European Games here.

provided Spain's first gold medal of the day ©Kraków-Małopolska 2023A Spanish team technical artistic swimming

Aquatics Centre, with Italy their closest challengers notching 249.1145 and France 242.6716.Artistic swimming