The United States have ended the year as the top-ranked women’s football team after FIFA published the last updated list of 2016.

charge of the American side, declaring in the aftermath that it was “okay to be a coward if you win”.Germany

dispute.The US sit at the summit of the FIFA women’s rankings on 2,140 points, with Olympic gold medallists Germany

Former Winter Olympic speed skating champion Svetlana Zhurova has said she was “surprised” by the International Skating Union’s (ISU) decision to take a World Cup event away from Russia.

Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (IBSF) World Championships due to take place in February.Konigssee in Germany

Vladimir Putin has said state-sponsored doping never happened in Russia on the same day the International Olympic Committee (IOC) opened disciplinary proceedings against 28 athletes from the country whose urine samples at Sochi 2014 contained evidence of being tampered with.

applauded by IOC Athletes' Commission chair Angela Ruggiero and was supported by the IOC.Königssee in Germany

The International Blind Sports Federation (IBSA) has announced the hosts of two major regional football tournaments to be held in 2017.

Berlin.All IBSA member countries in Europe are able to participate, with the exception of Belgium, France, Germany

Jeroen Kampschreur of The Netherlands secured his maiden International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Alpine Skiing World Cup victory as he won the men’s slalom sitting event on the final day of action in St Moritz.

Taiki Morii of Japan, who was over two seconds adrift in silver medal position, while Georg Kreiter of Germany

A footballer in Germany has been seriously injured after being shot in the street during an attack which

Bidding for the 2026 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games is set to not be officially opened until after Pyeongchang 2018, it has been revealed.

2026 Games, with two projects still in the running to be their candidate.Trento in Italy, Dresden in Germany

Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister Vitaly Mutko is among five confirmed candidates for the vacant European member seats on the FIFA Council. 

all footballing activity.The German, vice-president of the Organising Committee for 2006 World Cup in Germany

What is it with those dopey Russians? Vilified for an alleged cynical and systematic programme of mass cheating by drug use on an unprecedented scale, you would think they might have got the message that they have become the pariahs in a world of sport which they may have tainted forever.

that Putin should be told very firmly that the 2018 World Cup will be moved elsewhere - perhaps to Germany

Wolfgang Niersbach has relinquished his membership of both the FIFA Council and UEFA Executive Committee less than a week after losing his appeal against a one-year suspension from all footballing activity.

The German, vice-president of the Organising Committee for 2006 World Cup in Germany, had contested his

World Cup as a player in 1974 and then as a manager in 1990, as part of a wider probe by FIFA into how Germany

Human rights groups have called on the European Olympic Committees (EOCs) to use their leverage to press the Belorussian Government to improve standards in the country in the build-up to the 2019 European Games in Minsk.

standards, children’s rights, and anti-corruption," said Sylvia Schenk of Transparency International Germany

Russia will not be stripped of the hosting rights for the 2018 World Cup in the wake of the findings in the second part of the McLaren report, FIFA President Gianni Infantino has stated while claiming the governing body is not the "world doping police".

move their 2017 World Championships from Sochi in response to the McLaren report, and Königssee in Germany

Tickets are now on sale for the International Blind Sports Federation (IBSA) Football European Championships which will be held in German capital Berlin next year.

teams will play in the tournament in Berlin, with eight already confirmed.These are Belgium, France, Germany

Host nations Norway and France both reached the last stage of qualifying for the women's ice hockey tournament at the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics.

which will be played at the Hakucho Oji Ice Arena in Tomakomai in Japan.The hosts will also welcome Germany

Königssee in Germany has replaced Sochi as host of the 2017 International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation

within the country.Zubkov, however, has promised that they will not consider boycotting the event in Germany