Draws have been made for the women’s and men’s football and water polo tournaments at this year’s Pan American Games in Santiago.

The United States will be aiming to continue their water polo dominance having been crowned champions

The SportAccord World Sport & Business Summit is to return after a five-year absence in Birmingham next April, it has been announced.

will be only the second time the SportAccord World Sport & Business Summit has been held in the United

Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation President revealed he had "a vision" for SportAccord of the Russian, United

States and Chinese heads of state attending to share their thoughts on sport.Birmingham hosted the 97th

Poland's world number one Iga Świątek and Serbia's 23-time Grand Slam winner Novak Djokovic were among the winners on Arthur Ashe Stadium at the opening day of the US Open, tennis' final major of the year.

Defending women's singles champion Świątek played the first match on the main court at the United States

The Museum of World Athletics (MOWA) produced 50 collectors' cards available at its Heritage Exhibition during the World Championships in Budapest, which was attended by around 40,000 visitors during its four-month opening.

Championships included gold medallists from the first edition in Helsinki 40 years ago Carl Lewis of the United

States and Willi Wülbeck of Germany.Lewis won the men's 100 metres, 4x100m relay and long jump in the

The United States dominated Greece in the International Basketball Federation World Cup to advance to

Weightlifters, coaches, National Federations and, most significantly, competition organisers can take advantage of a new all-weights scoring method that has been devised by scientists and statisticians.

statistics Marianne Huebner - a double world champion in Masters weightlifting who was coached by the United

States Olympian Fred Lowe - they analysed more than 3,500 results in that four-year period, 1,973 from

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Getty ImagesKenya's Mary Moraa, centre, held off Britain's Keely Hodgkinson, left, and Athing Mu of the United

States, right, to win women's 800m gold ©Getty ImagesYaroslava Mahuchikh won Ukraine's first gold medal

of the World Athletics Championships with victory in the women's high jump ©Getty ImagesThe United States

There was a risk sitting down to pen my post-World Athletics Championships reflections it would turn into a long list of incredible sporting moments it had been a privilege to have been here to witness.

The fare on offer had already been entertaining enough with a Championships record from the United States

Femke Bol concluded the World Athletics Championships here with a stunning anchor leg to carry The Netherlands to women's 4x400 metres relay victory, and Ukraine won their first gold through Yaroslava Mahuchikh in the women's high jump.

of Britain who finished second in 1:56.34 and defending world and Olympic champion Athing Mu of the United

States who was third in 1:56.61.Norway's Jakob Ingebrigtsen put his shock men's 1500m defeat to Britain's

Major League Baseball (MLB) has launched its Commissioner's Ambassador Program in an attempt to promote and support the organisation's international growth.

programme will be former Philadelphia Phillies team-mates Ryan Howard and Jimmy Rollins, both of the United

States, who helped their team win the 2008 World Series.They will be joined by compatriots Dylan Betances

Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz and Serbia's Novak Djokovic are set to continue their remarkable back-and-forth rivalry at the US Open, which runs from tomorrow until September 10, while Iga Świątek will be seeking to defend her women's singles title in New York.

the host country changed its COVID-19 rules ©Getty ImagesHe is permitted to play this year after the United

States confirmed that international travellers will no longer need to be vaccinated.While few are looking

The International Modern Pentathlon Union (UIPM) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with World Obstacle, a move that enables it to oversee the wider movement of obstacle sport.

World Obstacle and the UIPM jointly organised a Ninja World Cup event in the United States last month

controversial one, with athlete groups claiming there had been a lack of consultation over the move.Pentathlon United

and that they received positive feedback from athletes, although athlete pressure group Pentathlon United

injuries to athletes.Last month the UIPM and World Obstacle jointly organised a Ninja World Cup in the United

States.

Hungarian men's 4x100 metres relay Olympic bronze medallist László Zarándi has died at the age of 94.

and Béla Goldoványi who were affectionately known as the "lightning four".They won bronze behind the United

States and Soviet Union with a time of 40.5sec at the Helsinki 1952 Olympics, and two years later beat

World Athletics President Sebastian Coe has joined celebrations from Britain's Loughborough University of its long-term success in the sport at the World Championships here.

athletes with Loughborough connections competing in Budapest.Loughborough-based athlete Chase Ealey of the United

States also defended her women's shot put title.Alumni from the University, coaches and current and

Slovenia’s legendary rifle shooter Rajmond Debevic showed that age is no barrier to success when he won gold in the men’s 300 metre prone rifle at the International Shooting Sport Federation World Championships here in Baku.

record equalling score of 600 to win by one shot from Aleksi Leppa of Finland.Timothy Sherry of the United

States took bronze.Debevic, considered possibly the finest rifle shot of the modern era, first competed