Anna van der Breggen of the Netherlands won her first women's time trial world title after reigning champion Chloé Dygert crashed during a dramatic opening day of the International Cycling Union Road World Championships.

corner, taking her into a barrier and falling down a hill.Reports since the crash have confirmed the United

States rider is conscious and talking, but no further information has been revealed.Van der Breggen

Hellen Obiri, Beatrice Chepkoech, Conseslus Kipruto and Timothy Cheruiyot will return to action tomorrow in the city where they won world titles last year - Doha - for the last meeting in this season’s Wanda Diamond League (WDL).

Ferguson Cheruiyot Rotich and the man who finished one place behind him in Doha, Bryce Hoppel of the United

States, who has the second fastest 2020 time of 1minute 43.23sec to his credit.Also in the mix will

France’s 33-year-old former world record holder Renaud Lavillenie and the double world champion from the United

States, Sam Kendricks.And the latter is well aware of the magnitude of the task facing himself."

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach is set to receive the Seoul Peace Prize, which has recognised his efforts to promote peace and contribute to the nation's Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics.

Pyeongchang 2018 Games, taking place in neighbouring South Korea.Bach also played a key role in the United

there was one South and one North Korean assistant coach assisting Canadian head coach Sarah Murray and United

States' assistant coach Rebecca Baker.There were 35 players in the unified Korean team, of which 12

The United States surfing team have taken to Waco in Texas to practise for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, using

I have been doing my bit for the rebirth of international sport these past few days.

Corfu.It was first played there in 1823, while it was part of a British-ruled protectorate labelled the United

States of the Ionian Islands.The British finally left in 1864, but matches continued between local clubs

New Zealand scooped the men's and women's prizes during this year's World Rugby Sevens Series Awards.

Brittany Benn and Ghislaine Landry of Canada, Sharni Williams of Australia and Kristi Kirshe of the United

States.

The 2023 FISU World University Games in Lake Placid is capturing the imagination of the area's residents, according to Eric Randall, the Mayor of Lake Placid.

of Ice, a memorable ice hockey match at the 1980 Winter Olympic Games in Lake Placid, which saw the United

States spring a surprise and defeat the Soviet Union."

Lake Placid is the winter sports capital of the United States and one of the winter sports capitals of

International Olympic Committee (IOC) Coordination Commission chair John Coates is expected to announce the framework for next year's Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo following virtual meetings tomorrow and Friday (September 25).

countries in Europe are experiencing second waves of the virus, however, and case and death numbers in the United

States, Brazil and India remain high.

Nike’s senior executive in charge of their track and field programme John Capriotti has stepped down after 28 years, it has been announced, leaving a question mark over the company’s future commitment to the sport it was founded on.

sponsored and was responsible for signing a mega $400 million (£315 million/€342 million) 23-year deal with United

States Track and Field in 2014.But Nike has been involved in controversy recently when they were forced

Construction has been completed on China's National Biathlon Centre and National Cross-Country Centre, which will feature prominently during the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympics.

security law in Hong Kong and worsening relations between China and other powers - chief among them the United

States - has led to some calls for China to be stripped of hosting rights or nations to boycott the

A sportscar manufactured by Honda to commemorate Italy’s Alex Zanardi winning the Championship Auto Racing Teams (CART) in 1997 and 1998 has been sold for a record $277,017 (£217,752/€236,623) on the internet.

back-to-back CART titles.To mark those victories, Honda released a special version of the Acura NSX in the United

States called the Zanardi Edition.Sold only for the 1999 model year, just 51 examples were made and

Clarity on what the International Olympic Committee (IOC) deems a "demonstration" and the establishment of an area where athletes can protest are among seven recommendations the Canadian Olympic Committee Athletes’ Commission (COC AC) has published in relation to the controversial Rule 50.

The second clause of Rule 50 of the Olympic Charter states: "No kind of demonstration or political, religious

this year amid a wave of athlete activism in response to the police killing of George Floyd in the United

States and the increased prominence of the Black Lives Matter movement.The IOC Athletes’ Commission

can find middle ground. https://t.co/56tYJozMUe— Jasmine Mian (@jasmine_mian) September 21, 2020The United

Tommie Smith was expelled from the US team at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico by the USOPC - then called the United

The 2020 USA Boxing National Championships has changed venue after Hurricane Laura caused severe damage to Lake Charles Civic Center.

The category-four storm - considered one of the strongest to hit the United States in recent times -

Lake Charles Civic Center hosted the United States Olympic boxing trials in December ©Getty ImagesKelly

delighted to see the competition stay in Louisiana after Lake Charles Civic Center held last year’s United

States Olympic boxing trials for Tokyo 2020."

Re-reading F. Scott Fitzgerald's Gretchen’s Forty Winks this week, I was reminded of how he would write short stories in an "authentic" manner before adding the "twists that made them into saleable magazine stories".

figure in the aftermath.Seasoned observers of the Tour harked back to 1989, when Greg LeMond of the United

States had earned his second title through his performance in the final stage time trial into Paris,

Gunnar Solskjaer.Ole Gunnar Solskjaer celebrates scoring the goal in injury time that earned Manchester United

1999 final on the car radio before going for a family ramble on Land's End, pretty much convinced that United

American weightlifter Matthew McCullough has been given a 20-month ban by the United States Anti-Doping

substance is banned under the USADA Protocol for Olympic and Paralympic Movement Testing, as well as the United

States Olympic and Paralympic Committee's National Anti-Doping Policy and the International Weightlifting