The Asian Art Museum in San Francisco has removed a bust of former International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Avery Brundage from its foyer because of concerns over his "racist legacy".

 Brundage, who had represented the United States at the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm in the pentathlon

around the morality of supporting an Olympics in a country led by a Nazi regime.There was concern in the United

States about Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler's treatment of Jewish people, his belief in the superior

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

States' Avery Brundage, who served as IOC President for 20 years between 1952 and 1972, was a controversial

The United States is celebrating its first ever joint Olympic and Paralympic Day tomorrow, with the occasion

The United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) announced the change of name in the country

and International Paralympic Committee to get the day recognised as Olympic and Paralympic Day in the United

Long and middle distance runner Colleen Quigley.To further recognise Olympic and Paralympic Day, the United

States Paralympic social media account will be merged into the main Team USA account."

The International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) President Rene Fasel's term is to be extended by at least a year after the organisation's Semi-Annual Congress was postponed.

U18 World Championships are now scheduled to take place in Plymouth and Ann Arbor in Michigan in the United

States from April 15 to 25.The 2021 IIHF Ice Hockey U18 Women’s World Championship is now due to take

A signed high school all-star game undershirt of the late basketball legend Kobe Bryant, has sold for $6,000 (£4,800/€5,300) with a percentage of the proceeds going to charity.

year between 1998 and 2016 with the exception of 1999.He also holds two Olympic gold medals with the United

States team from the Beijing 2008 and London 2012 Games.

Three Paralympic medallists were in a team of triathletes which completed a 483-mile relay ride across Colorado to raise funds for people negatively impacted by the coronavirus pandemic.

support of the Black Lives Matter movement and anti-racism demonstrations which have spread across the United

States in recent times following the police killing of George Floyd.Shift 1 is about to start!

A noose was left in the garage of black National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) driver Bubba Wallace, less than two weeks after he successfully pushed for the series to ban Confederate flags from its racetracks.

the only black driver in NASCAR's top series, had forced the move in the wake of protests across the United

States and beyond following the police killing of unarmed black man George Floyd.Five years ago, former

noose symbolises the lynching of African-Americans, a weapon of racial terrorism infamously used in the United

States - particularly the south - in the 1800s and 1900s.Some lynchings still occurred even during the

to be a part of southern identity in many states such as Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia.There have

Japan has dropped out of the race to host the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup, leaving the joint bid from Australia and New Zealand poised to be successful.

 France staged the last edition in 2019, when the United States lifted the trophy for the fourth

Athletes Germany, a group founded in 2017 to represent the country's athletes, has welcomed the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) plans to review Rule 50 of the Olympic Charter.

Rule 50 of the Charter is designed to protect the neutrality of sport and the Olympic Movement and it states

The rule has come into focus in recent weeks following the death of George Floyd in the United States

Double Olympic champion Mikaela Shiffrin has returned to the snow as she took part in her first training camp of the 2020-21 season at Copper Mountain.

various other projects, while maintaining fitness in her home gym.The 25-year-old was one of a group of United

States Ski and Snowboard athletes able to return to training last week at Copper Mountain in Colo, following

The United States Ski Team traditionally holds training camps at Copper Mountain in October and November

A new law has passed in Florida which will allow college athletes to make money from endorsements for the first time.

following the landmark legislation.College athletes are currently not allowed to make money in the United

States despite sports such as basketball and American football bringing in hundreds of millions of dollars.It

the US is avoided, according to ESPN.There are fears that a system of different rules in different states

Olympic ice hockey silver medallist Cliff Pennington has died at the age of 80.

stage with a 100 per cent record.Canada's only loss in the final round was a narrow 2-1 defeat to hosts United

States, who did not lose a match en route to gold.Cliff Pennington won silver at the 1960 Winter Olympics

If you stood one weightlifting Coffa brother on top of the other they might just about stretch beyond three metres, edging marginally higher than the top of the discs when the giant Georgian Lasha Talakhadze makes one of his world record lifts.

Commonwealth Games Association.Whatever happened in the 1980s, when the Soviet Bloc countries, the United

States and just about every other successful weightlifting nation was on drugs, there are now clearly

United States swimmer Katie Ledecky, already the holder of five Olympic golds, is targeting five more

It’s just one of two options - accept or not accept.Katie Ledecky of the United States is hoping to earn

Professional Golfers' Association (PGA) Tour player Nick Watney has withdrawn from the RBC Heritage after testing positive of COVID-19.

the field on three over par.There have been more than 2.29 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the United

States, resulting in the deaths of over 121,000 people.Watney's fellow American Webb Simpson leads the

Russian ice hockey legend Viacheslav Fetisov has been named his country's United Nations Environment

ImagesFetisov, who was one of the first Soviet players to make the move to the National Hockey League in the United

States, will continue to support UNEP's work in Russia as part of his role.He will also look to build