Rio 2016 Olympians have been named among the home Australian team for the inaugural Nitro Athletics event in Melbourne next month.

As well as Bolt's All-Stars, Australia will be joined by China, England, Japan and New Zealand at Melbourne

Johanna Konta is the highest ranked player who has been included in the Fed Cup Zone Group I matches due to take place next month.

Tennis Centre in Astana, Kazakhstan, between February 8 and 11.The hosts will be joined in the draw by China

Zhang Yimou, the director of the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, has confirmed he will be overseeing the Pyeongchang 2018 Handover Ceremony.

The Ceremony will see China receive the Olympic flag at the handover performance of a Winter Games for

Scotland's women and China's men claimed gold medals today at the World Junior-B Curling Championships in Östersund.

Scotland won 7-4 over Turkey in the women's final after earlier ousting China 6-2 at the semi-final stage.Turkey

overcame Japan 6-4 in their semi-final at the Östersund Arena.But the Japanese recovered to beat China

the men's final in a 5-2 defeat to China.Germany had lost 7-3 to the Turks in the semi-final while China

had romped past Italy 7-1.Italy beat Germany 5-2 in the bronze medal match.They will join China and

Olympic 400 metres hurdles gold medallist Kerron Clement has become the latest high-profile athlete to be confirmed as competing in the new Nitro Athletics series in Melbourne.

The American will join Usain Bolt’s All-Stars who along with China, England, Japan and New Zealand will

China crushed Latvia today to join Turkey, Italy and Germany in the men's semi-finals at the World Junior-B

Italy defeated Slovenia, 6-3.Germany will now face Turkey in the first of tomorrow's semi-finals, while China

 China beat Germany 5-3 and Japan prospered over Czech Republic 9-4 in the other two.Japan will

Italy, Latvia and Turkey are among the men's teams to have qualified for the quarter-finals today at the World Junior-B Curling Championships in Östersund in Sweden.

Poland will now lock horns in tie breakers for the remaining quarter-final spots.In the women's event, China

Gong Luming has stepped down as the coach of the Chinese men's national basketball team, it has been confirmed.

s side at Athens 2004.Gong returned to lead the men’s team in 2014, with his two-year tenure seeing China

later.He was also in charge of their Rio 2016 Olympic campaign, which would ultimately prove fruitless as China

which is set to take place in August.Attention will also soon turn to the 2019 FIBA World Cup, where China

Brazil remain top of the men's and women's goalball rankings after the International Blind Sports Federation (IBSA) published the final standings for 2016.

Brazilian women's team finished the year on top after seeing off the challenge of Paralympic finalists China

dropped considerably as they now lie in 21st position in the standings.Paralympic silver medallists China

Brazil ended 2016 as the world number one ranked nation, in front of Paralympic champions Lithuania, China

Germany's male and female teams each guaranteed themselves spots in the quarter-finals of the World Junior-B Curling Championships in Östersund in Sweden with one day of round-robin action to spare.

women's event but are also guaranteed to progress after winning 6-2 over England today.Group leaders China

Muktar Edris out-sprinted Ethiopian team-mate Imane Merga to claim a thrilling men's victory as Hellen Obiri led a Kenyan women's clean sweep at the 60th edition of the Campaccio Cross Country race in San Giorgio su Legnano today.

women’s winner at the World Cross Country Championships in 30 years when she won aged 19 at Guiyang in China

Olympic champion Jack Laugher has criticised British Diving after his coach Adrian Hinchcliffe left to join the Australian team because he was not offered a full-time contract.

the sport in the 3 metres synchronised event at Rio 2016.Laugher also took silver behind Cao Yuan of China

Britain were the only nation other than China to win a gold medal at Rio 2016.

Beijing is set to stage the second International Climbing and Mountaineering Federation (UIAA) Ice Climbing World Cup event of the season this weekend, with athletes from over 20 countries expected to participate.

“We are delighted that the UIAA Ice Climbing World Tour is making a stop in China,” said Frits Vrijlandt

Wrestlers Logan Stieber and Allison Ragan have been awarded bonuses by the Stewards of the Living the Dream Medal Fund for their medal success at last month’s Senior World Championships in Budapest.

senior medal at the event.She was beaten in the women’s 60kg freestyle gold medal bout by Pei Xingru of China

Latvia earned a thrilling 6-5 win over Russia to maintain their unbeaten run at the World Junior-B Curling Championships in Östersund in Sweden today.

Slovakia edged Hungary 6-5 while Spain defeated England 8-6 elsewhere in the group.Czech Republic, Latvia, China