Pyeongchang 2018 President Lee Hee-beom has claimed there have been no external influences on Olympic and Paralympic contract negotiations as a result of South Korea's political crisis but sport continues to be implicated in the scandal. 

that they sent €2.8 million ($3.1 million/£2.5 million) to a company owned by Choi and her daughter in Germany

Rowing Australia has announced that Hannah Every-Hall has been elected the new chair of its Athletes’ Commission and as a director of the governing body's Board.

this weekend in Melbourne.She first competed for Australia at the Nations Cup in 1999 in Hamburg in Germany

China celebrated double gold in singles competitions at the Bitburger Open in the German city of Saarbrücken.

Chen Qingchen by a 21-16, 23-21 score, which saw China earn their fourth win in the five events in Germany

Chile have staged the first edition of the South American Orienteering Championships with more than 475 athletes taking part in the competition.

Ecuador and Venezuela were the South American nations to compete in the Championships.Guatemala, Spain, Germany

China remain on course for the successful defence of their Badminton World Federation (BWF) World Junior Mixed Team Championships title after the top seeds overcame Chinese Taipei to reach the semi-finals at the Bilbao Arena in Spain.

pits Thailand against Malaysia after both nations came through their quarter-final ties.Having beaten Germany

American ice dancers Madison Chock and Evan Bates hold a slender advantage after the short dance segment at the third leg of the 2016-17 International Skating Union (ISU) Grand Prix of Figure Skating series in Moscow.

69.76 points.Just 0.25 points behind were closest challengers Aliona Savchenko and Bruno Massot of Germany

The disciplines for the 2017 International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Indoor Tour, the second staging of the event, have been confirmed.

four established IAAF Indoor Permit meetings, and ran from February 6 to 20.It opened in Karlsruhe in Germany

 This year it has been decided to include meetings in Düsseldorf in Germany and the Polish city

Great Britain will be hoping to find good form on the track to detract from problems off it at the International Cycling Union (UCI) World Cup leg in Glasgow.

domestic and other international trade teams.Many of the other countries, including Australia, Canada and Germany

The competition schedule for the 2017 World Para-Nordic Skiing Championships in German resort Finsterau has been released.

medal hope in the men's sitting at the 2017 World Para-Nordic Skiing Championships in Finsterau in Germany

The 2016-17 International Skating Union (ISU) Grand Prix of Figure Skating season is set to continue tomorrow with the Rostelecom Cup in Moscow, where skaters will be competing for points to qualify for next month’s final.

the men’s event ©ISUIn the pairs event, world bronze medallists Aliona Savchenko and Bruno Massot of Germany

To judge by the swiftly growing number of outraged comments already assembled on Dawn.com, the website of Pakistan's oldest and most widely read English-language newspaper, the book published this week about the nation's squash legend Jahangir Khan is a particularly disrespectful and damaging hatchet job.

In one month, I played 29 exhibition matches in Germany. I was travelling by night train.

A special online presence launched by long-term International Ski Federation (FIS) partner Viessmann generated more than 16 million impressions across social media channels in the 2015-2016 season, it has been announced.

ambassadors, including Nordic combined superstars Eric Frenzel and Johannes Rydzek - both of whom are from Germany

FIFA’s Investigatory Chamber of the Ethics Committee has recommended imposing a lifelong ban from all football-related activities on an aide to disgraced former Presidential candidate Mohamed bin Hammam.

made by World Cup winner Franz Beckenbauer, the head of the Organising Committee for the tournament in Germany

Brazil’s Maria Suelen Altheman bounced back from her disappointment on home soil at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro by clinching the gold medal in the women’s over 78 kilograms category on the final day of the International Judo Federation (IJF) Abu Dhabi Grand Slam at the IPIC Arena.

Altheman, beaten in her opening bout at Rio 2016, overcame Budapest Grand Prix winner Carolin Weiss of Germany

Clerget.Azerbaijan earned another medal thanks to Tural Safguliyev of Azerbaijan, who beat Hannes Conrad of Germany

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Japanese supporters ©WKFFrance were one of the two bronze medallists in the men's team kumite, along with Germany