The Russian Athletics Federation (RusAF) has avoided expulsion from World Athletics after Russian Sports Minister Oleg Matytsin made a last-minute "unconditional" guarantee to pay an outstanding fine of $6.31 million (£4.8 million/€5.32 million) by August 15.

Athletes.That system allowed one Russian athlete to compete at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro - United

States-based long jumper Darya Klishina - and has since enabled international appearances from the likes

Australia's world number one Ashleigh Barty has decided to miss next month’s US Open because of fears over the risk of contracting COVD-19 if she travels to the event in New York City.

I wish the United States Tennis Association (USTA) all the best for the tournaments and look forward

Barty is expected to be the first of several leading players to decide not to risk travelling to the United

States to take part in the hard court season.

The International Federation of Teqball (FITEQ) has signed up as a gold partner of the 2021 SportAccord World Sport and Business Summit in Yekaterinburg. 

bronze partner at the inaugural Regional SportAccord Pan America 2019 held in Fort Lauderdale in the United

States in December 2019."

The boom in Michael Jordan memorabilia is set to continue following the success of “The Last Dance” documentary broadcast on Netflix earlier this year.

size 13.5 and the right a US size 13.The trainers worn by Michael Jordan when he was a member of the United

States "Dream Team" that won the Olympic gold medal at Barcelona 1992 are also part of the auction organised

The United States Association of Blind Athletes (USABA) has announced the appointment of Molly Quinn

 Molly Quinn will oversee blind sports in the United States with USABA ©Getty Images"I look forward

Award-winning broadcaster Benny Bonsu has joined the Olympic Channel as the new director of daily content.

the sports digital platform GiveMeSport, where she became the first female sports editor in the United

served as sports operations and policies manager for the London 2012 Organising Committee.She is a United

against women, and also serves on the Board at Basketball England.During the recent race protests in the United

States and across the world, Bonsu has used her platform to speak about racism in sport.

Is it just me who finds it absurd that Qatar, or anyone else, should be expressing interest in hosting the 2032 Olympics and Paralympics at the moment?

Salt Lake City 2002, the last editions of respectively the Summer and Winter Games to be staged in the United

States, it seemed a natural decision.What has happened since then?

USA Diving has set itself the target of raising $5 million (£6.4 million/€5.5 million) in time for the Opening Ceremony of the Los Angeles 2028 Summer Olympics.

is that most competitive nations receive Government funding for Olympic sport development, yet the United

States is the only major industrialised nation without this benefit.

Former Moscow Laboratory head Grigory Rodchenkov has said Russia should be handed a blanket ban from the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, after claiming the country has learned "absolutely nothing" from its long-running doping scandal.

Affair – How I Brought Down Putin's Secret Doping Empire, on Thursday (July 30).Rodchenkov fled to the United

States in 2015 and turned whistleblower.He provided much of the evidence against Russian athletes who

RUSADA's four-year sanction ©Getty ImagesRodchenkov spoke to the BBC from an undisclosed location in the United

States, with the whistleblower living in hiding for the past five years.He wore a scarf, sunglasses

evidence.The book is being released as the controversial Rodchenkov Act is being considered in the United

Two Major League Baseball (MLB) games have been postponed following a cluster of COVID-19 cases among Miami Marlins players, placing a season that started less than a week ago in jeopardy. 

shortened 60-game MLB season began last week behind closed doors but with teams travelling across the United

States and playing in their usual stadiums.The exception are the Toronto Blue Jays - MLB's lone Canadian

Netflix is to release a documentary about the Paralympic Movement, entitled Rising Phoenix, in more than 190 countries. 

 Featured athletes include the United States' seven-time Paralympic wheelchair racing champion Tatyana

The Japan Softball Association has revealed that the women's national team will revert to wearing traditional red and white colours at the postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

winning Japanese team at the Games, where they secured a maiden Olympic softball title by stunning the United

States in the final.The new team kit will be placed on sale in Japan on August 1.View this post on Instagram

the gold medal match, with the third and fourth-place finishers contesting the bronze medal.Japan, United

States, Italy, Mexico, Canada and Australia will compete in the tournament.

Swiss Olympic extended their partnership with Swiss sporting goods company Ochsner Sport until 2028.

Based in Zurich, On was established in 2010 and now has branches in the United States, Japan, China,

The author of a major novel featuring Jim Thorpe has told insidethegames of his support for the campaign to recognise the athlete as the sole gold medallist in pentathlon and decathlon at the 1912 Olympics.

Thorpe, a Native American, was stripped of his "amateur" status by United States official James Sullivan

It is sad that I am no longer surprised when the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) announces that several Kenyan runners have fallen foul of anti-doping rules.

autobiography of former Moscow Anti-Doping Laboratory head Grigory Rodchenkov, who ultimately fled to the United

States in 2015 and provided much of the evidence against Russian athletes accused of engaging in doping