Naomi Osaka remains on course for a second US Open title in three years after she beat American Shelby Rogers to reach the semi-finals at Flushing Meadows in New York City.

a dominant 6-3, 6-4 victory on Arthur Ashe Stadium.Osaka will play 28th seed Jennifer Brady of the United

States for a place in the final.The 2018 US Open winner took control of her quarter-final with Rogers

The World Para Ice Hockey Championships A-Pool will return to Ostrava, Czech Republic next year with eight teams battling it out to qualify for the 2022 Winter Paralympic Games.

The United States will enter the tournament as the defending Paralympic and world champions having won

While Karsten Warholm and Ryan Crouser fell a little short of the world records they had been targeting at the Golden Spike meeting in Ostrava, an evening of compelling competition was highlighted by momentous struggles in the men’s triple jump and 5000 metres events.

46.87, the second-fastest time ever run, despite hitting the last hurdle - just as Kevin Young of the United

States did in setting the record while winning Olympic gold at the Barcelona 1992 Games."

Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF) qualifiers for the 2022 FIFA World Cup will not be held in October and November as had been planned because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Getty ImagesThe three remaining teams will enter round three, where Mexico, Honduras, Costa Rica, the United

States and Jamaica await in an eight-team group.Three teams will progress from that group to the World

Safe sport will be among the key topics discussed by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board at their latest virtual meeting tomorrow.

the Athlete A documentary on Netflix, which centres on the Larry Nasser scandal in gymnastics in the United

The build-up to Beijing 2022 could also be impacted by the ongoing pandemic, while politicians in the United

States and the United Kingdom have called for the IOC to address China's human rights record amid alleged

Latin America and the Caribbean has squandered a "rare opportunity" to make the 2010s its decade, according to Luís Alberto Moreno, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) member from Colombia.

a further three years until reaching the age-limit of 70.He is a former Colombian ambassador to the United

States and served as Minister of Economic Development in the early 1990s.Parts of Latin America, including

Caribbean Association of National Olympic Committees President Brian Lewis has questioned whether sport leaders can be trusted to act on issues such as racism and sexism.

change to Rule 50 of the Olympic Charter with some calling for it to be scrapped altogether.Rule 50 states

protests at last year's Pan American Games in Lima.The Americans were placed on a year's probation by the United

States Olympic and Paralympic Committee after breaching Games rules with their protests on the podium.Berry

Victoria Azarenka of Belarus continued her strong form to reach her fifth US Open women's singles quarter-final, after coming from a set down to defeat Czech 20th seed Karolina Muchova.

16th seed Elise Mertens, who defeated the top women's singles seed still left in the competition, the United

States' second seed Sofia Kenin.Mertens has yet to drop a set in this year's tournament and continued

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach has said the organisation "continues to be impressed" by preparations for Beijing 2022.

humanity taking place", while a controversial new security law in Hong Kong has been condemned by the United

States, United Kingdom, Canada and Australia.China-US relations have also deteriorated over the coronavirus

Novak Djokovic, disqualified from the US Open for inadvertently hitting a female line judge in the neck with a ball slammed in frustration, is not the first and will not be the last sporting champion to lose his temper and do something stupid.

neck pic.twitter.com/dvJQgLPFfA— Barstool Bets (@barstoolbets) September 6, 2020In a statement, the United

States Tennis Association said: "In accordance with the Grand Slam rulebook, following his actions of

Japan's Naomi Osaka enjoyed a straight sets victory over Estonia's 14th seed Anett Kontaveit in the evening session at the US Open today.

the sixth seed, Czech Republic's Petra Kvitová, in three sets.If she betters the American, either the United

States' 28th seed Jennifer Brady or Kazakhstan's 23rd seed Yulia Putintseva await her in the semi-finals.Brady

World number one Novak Djokovic was disqualified from the US Open after hitting a line judge with a ball during his round of 16 match against Pablo Carreno-Busta.

So… https://t.co/UL4hWEirWL— Novak Djokovic (@DjokerNole) September 6, 2020In a statement the United

States Tennis Association said: "In accordance with the Grand Slam rulebook, following his actions of

Johannes Vetter produced a stunning effort at World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meeting in Chorzow tonight as he threw the javelin out to 97.76 metres, the second farthest mark ever behind the 1996 world record of 98.48m by the Czech Republic’s Jan Zelezny.

his return by winning with a first time clearance at 5.82m.Double world champion Sam Kendricks of the United

States, who had pushed himself to a 6.02m clearance last Wednesday in Lausanne, where Sweden’s world

Banking company BBVA USA has been announced as the main sponsor of the World Games 2022 volunteering programme.

The World Games 2022 will be the largest international sporting event in the southeast (of the United

States) since the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta," said Nick Sellers, chief executive of the World

Triathlon Union (ITU) 2020 Triathlon Mixed Relay Championships after a neck-and-neck final leg with the United

States and Britain.