American tennis icon Serena Williams is set to headline the inaugural edition of the Top Seed Open, a new Women's Tennis Association (WTA) event in Lexington in Kentucky which is scheduled to be held next month.

after WTA chief executive Steve Simon confirmed last week the addition of the Lexington event in the United

States, as well as the Prague Open in the Czech Republic to the calendar.It is expected the provisional

National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) President Mark Emmert claimed a "much better handle on the pandemic" is needed if college sport is set to resume later this year.

guidelines, Emmert suggested that college sport would still not be able to resume in the autumn.The United

States is the country worst affected by the coronavirus pandemic, reporting more than 3.7 million cases

 The United States is the worst hit country by the coronavirus pandemic ©Getty Images"When we made

Head coach Wolfgang Staudinger believes the Canadian luge team is "lagging behind" due to the coronavirus pandemic.

 "Our coach Duncan Kennedy is unable to travel from the United States to Canada," he said."

 "On the other hand, even the head coach of the United States, Robert Fegg, who lives in Calgary

World Athletics President Sebastian Coe is one of five new International Olympic Committee (IOC) members whose membership was approved at the 136th IOC Session today.

President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović, Princess Reema Bandar Al-Saud - Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the United

States - Cuban Olympic Committee (COC) Board member Maria de la Caridad Colón Ruenes and Battushig Batbold

operations and intelligence Elizabeth Ramsey has been appointed as the first executive director of the United

States Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) Athletes’ Advisory Council (AAC).

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) will hold its first virtual Session tomorrow, with elections of new members and vice-presidents among the agenda items.

passive position" with the global agency.Princess Reema Bandar Al-Saud, Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the United

States, former Croatian President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović, Cuban Olympic Committee (COC) Board member

This week the five Olympic rings assumed virtual form at the first International Olympic Committee (IOC) Session to be held online, but 100 years ago they were raised for real for the first time above an Olympic stadium.

its five entwined circles, multi colours on a white background, evoking the five parts of the world united

The chief culprit was bronze medal-winning diver Hal Prieste from the United States.

The International Testing Agency (ITA) has entered into new cooperation agreements with eight National Anti-Doping Organisations (NADOs), a move it says will increase efficiency in the global quest for clean sport.

The ITA had already entered into collaboration agreements with several other NADOs, including the United

States Anti-Doping Agency, Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport and Azerbaijan National Anti-Doping Agency.The

Mark England, the Tokyo 2020 Chef de Mission for the British Olympic Association (BOA), has said he expects a reduction in the number of staff travelling to the Games next year in response to financial constraints caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

performance "bloody tough" to try and replicate.Britain won 27 gold medals in Brazil - fewer only than the United

States - and 67 medals in total, when England again acted as Chef de Mission.Beyond postponement, athletes

unarmed black man George Floyd in the US, which sparked global protests.Rule 50 of the Olympic Charter states

International Olympic Committee (IOC) doyen Richard Pound has suggested the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics would likely suffer the same fate if Tokyo 2020 does not take place next year.

Getty ImagesAnother concern for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics is the increasing tension between the United

States and the host country China.The US sanctioned a number of Chinese officials under the Global Magnitsky

Flag football has been added to the programme for the 2022 World Games in American city Birmingham.

Legion Field and will be presented by the NFL, with eight men's and eight women's sides involved.Hosts United

States have automatically qualified for both events as the reigning men's and women's world champions

significance that The World Games 2022 will have as the firstmajor international sporting event in the United

States coming out of this global pandemic," said NickSellers, the event's chief executive."

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has provided International Federations (IFs) and National Olympic Committees (NOCs) with $100 million (£78 million/€86 million) of financial support since the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis, IOC President Thomas Bach revealed today.

however, is not cash, but rather value-in-kind and, a relatively new concept, marketing-in-kind.The United

States Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) is likely to be especially relieved by today’s announcement

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach sees "no reason to rewrite history" amid a renewed focus on the legacy of the organisation’s former leader Avery Brundage.

organisation saw "no reason to rewrite history in this moment" ©Getty ImagesBrundage, who had represented the United

States at the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm in the pentathlon, served as President of the IOC from

In December 1935, the Amateur Athletic Union of the United States voted to send a team to Berlin 1936

of the Olympic Charter is designed to protect the neutrality of sport and the Olympic Movement and states

Iran’s Komeil Ghasemi and Russia’s Bilyal Makhov have been upgraded to gold medals in the men’s 120-kilogram freestyle wrestling event at the London 2012 Olympic Games.

listed as the gold medallists from the event.Daulet Shabanay of Kazakhstan and Tervel Dlagnev of the United

States are shown to be the bronze medallists.The Russian Wrestling Federation has welcomed the decision.The

Names – and, by extension, traditions – are a very big deal for many sports fans.

, few are genuinely carved in stone tablets.It might seem unthinkable, for example, that Manchester United

Boston Redskins the following year, and then to the Washington Redskins when the team moved to the United

States capital in 1937.However painful for some, then, I have no doubt that changing the team's name