USA Weightlifting (USAW) has voted in favour of giving athletes a greater voice within the governing body, doubling their representation on the Board from two to four seats.

The representatives will come from the national team pool, allowing athletes who have represented the United

States in major international events other than the International Weightlifting Federation World Championships

The Diamond League has announced a new provisional calendar for 2020 because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

Stadium, UK Athletics' premier annual event will not go ahead as the spread of COVID-19 continues in the United

before Shanghai on September 19.The final proposed meetings are planning to take place in Eugene in the United

States on October 4, Doha on October 9 and a second meeting in China, with a venue to be confirmed on

World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) President Riccardo Fraccari is expecting "an explosion of interest in baseball and softball" when restrictions on movement are lifted and recreational sport can resume.

benefit from being far more in control of the spread of coronavirus than nations such as Japan, the United

States and Italy were leagues have stated their intention to return.Fraccari believes the evidence is

Olympic beach volleyball silver medallist Marcio Araujo is recovering from COVID-19 after admitting he had "almost died" from the virus.

Brazil, the worst affected country by the virus outside of Europe and the United States, has reported

Double Olympic shot put champion Valerie Adams will have a better chance of winning a third gold and a fourth Olympic medal now that Tokyo 2020 has been postponed, according to her coach Scott Goodman.

London 2012 Olympics.At Rio 2016, the four-time world champion missed out by 21 centimetres when the United

States' Michelle Carter threw a national record.

Online Nations Cup thanks to a superior round-robin performance, after their superfinal against the United

States ended in a 2-2 draw.

In recent years, an increasing number of sportspeople have spoken out about their struggles, contributing to a worldwide trend of ending the stigma surrounding mental health.

 Some organisations such as the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) have had

to let staff go, while others such as World Archery and United World Wrestling have furloughed staff

In the United Kingdom, their funding was set with that Olympic date in mind, and it is not yet completely

The United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee have formed a mental health task force to try to help

 "The death toll in the United Kingdom is huge, and I think that sometimes to raise your voice and

Erich Schriever, part of the Swiss Olympic silver medal winning rowing team from London 1948, has died at the age of 95.

cyclist.They won all their heats and the semi-final in London before coming short by three seconds to the United

States in the final.Oldest Olympians is saddened to learn that Erich Schriever, born August 6, 1924,

Reichling and Schriever met again at the London 2012 Olympics when it returned to the capital of the United

Italian women's volleyball star Myriam Sylla has said she hopes the postponement of the Olympics can bring stability to teams currently weakened by injury.

Italy find themselves in a Tokyo 2020 group with world number one China and the United States - world

Vlad Marinescu has been named the new President of the International Esports Federation (IESF) after Colin Webster stepped down.

better suited to lead IESF in these troubled times".The American Marinescu is also President of the United

States eSports Federation and works as the chief media and marketing officer for the International Judo

The United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) is being sued by the Foundation for Global

2024 bid committee.The foundation reportedly began expanding its support of the USOPC - formerly the United

States Olympic Committee (USOC) - back in 2013.It is claimed the organisation was approached by former

USOPC chief executive Scott Blackmun in late 2015 or early 2016 over potentially contributing to the United

States Center for SafeSport.The US Center for SafeSport was formed in 2017, with the responsibility

Wheelchair athlete Tatyana McFadden is using the current circumstances to motivate and inspire the next generation of athletes through virtual training sessions.

stay at home during the COVID-19 pandemic, which has in hit New York City especially hard.One of the United

States' greatest Para athletes, McFadden has won the New York Marathon five times and still holds the

Olympic bobsleigh athlete Pavle Jovanovic has died at the age of 43, the USA Bobsled and Skeleton has confirmed.

Jovanovic started competing in bobsleigh in 1997 and had been due to compete for the United States at

following a two-year ban.Jovanovic secured a bronze medal at the 2004 World Championships as part of the United

States four-man bobsleigh team, alongside Todd Hays, Bill Schuffenhauer and Steve Mesler.View this post

Winter Olympics as a brakeman for Hays, placing seventh on both occasions.Jovanovic represented the United

States until 2008, before later racing for Serbia in 2011.Mesler described Jovanovic as his "personal

United States Military Endurance Sports (USMES) and the Invictus Games Foundation have come together

Japan appears set to approve the use of testing kits which claim to be able to detect COVID-19 antigens within 30 minutes as the host nation for the next Olympic and Paralympic Games seeks to improve a testing regime it has been criticised over.

the Olympic and Paralympic Games were postponed in March because of the pandemic, which has hit the United

States and parts of Europe even harder.The virus will need to be contained in Japan if Tokyo 2020 is