The International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC) Paraclimbing Committee held a teleconference meeting during the coronavirus pandemic.

France, athlete representative Sebastian Depke of Germany, Para-climbing experts Wayne Geary of the United

States and Sian Spencer of Australia, and coaches Rotem Jacobs of Israel and Naoya Suzuki of Japan.IFSC

The Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) plans to resume testing in certain regions of the county from May 11, amid the coronavirus pandemic.

exploit the lack of testing being conducted across the world.National Anti-Doping Organisations in the United

States and Norway are among those to have devised ways to test athletes during the pandemic, in an attempt

to plug the gaps caused by the outbreak of the virus.The United States Anti-Doping Agency has begun

International World Games Association (IWGA) President José Perurena has praised the "quick and efficient" decision-making that led to the postponement of the now 2022 Birmingham World Games.

Originally scheduled for July 15 to 25, 2021 in Birmingham in the United States, the Games were moved

Thankfully the days are long gone when old boxers retired to Palookaville along with their slurred speech, twisted noses and fading memories. Advances in safety measures and medical science mean that the fight game is no longer a repository for washed-up pugs. Indeed, as I have mentioned before, these days you will see more rugby players with cauliflower ears than boxers.

The United Kingdom and USA too."The responsibility is enormous.

Even the most well-developed public health systems such as the one in the United States is unable to

Like Vitali he is an ambassador of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

Ursula Papandrea, who has just been appointed the long-term Acting President of the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF), has been warned by USA Weightlifting (USAW) about "inappropriate professional behaviour" on social media.

member who had been coached by Papandrea during his lifting career.Burns was banned for 12 years by the United

States Center for SafeSport (SafeSport) in February 2018 after it investigated an allegation of rape

French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe has said that no sporting events will be staged in the country before September - even those without any spectators present. 

allowed.France has reported more than 23,000 COVID-19 deaths, the fourth-highest total in the world.Only the United

States, Italy and Spain have suffered more fatalities during the coronavirus pandemic.Some of the country's

USA Taekwondo has recognised and congratulated the athletes selected for its youth, tiger and ultra teams.

Washington from May 21 to 24, the Championships were all cancelled due to the COVID-19 crisis.In the United

States there has been more than a million confirmed coronavirus cases, nearly a third of the worldwide

The Anti-Doping Agency of Kenya (ADAK) has warned athletes that its testing programme has not been "scaled down" as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.

orders encouraging social distancing have made anti-doping operations harder, with UK Anti-Doping, the United

States Anti-Doping Agency and the Spanish Agency for Health Protection in Sport among the national anti-doping

The 2020 edition of the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) Masters World Championships in Orlando has been cancelled, the governing body has confirmed.

@CTVMontreal. pic.twitter.com/1wqMy3e4V2— Julian McKenzie (@jkamckenzie) August 16, 2019The United States

Paralympic star Oksana Masters is among three new additions to the Athlete Advisory Panel of the Women's Sports Foundation.

Aja Evans and softball player Rachel Garcia.The trio will serve on the athlete advisory panel of the United

States-based nonprofit charity, founded by American tennis legend Billie Jean King and which focuses

Olympic 110 metres hurdles champion Aries Merritt has said that if he qualifies for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, it will be his last in the sport.

September 4, 2015Due to his recovery from his transplant, he also missed the Rio 2016 Olympics, missing the United

States team by 0.01 seconds.Merritt's aim is to continue to compete past Tokyo and into 2022 in a bid

Russia boast five qualifiers for the rescheduled Tokyo 2020 Olympics in freestyle competitions, after United

event, leaving the 125kg division as the only weight division without a qualified Russian to date.The United

States also boast five wrestlers in freestyle categories, with Jordan Burroughs and reigning Olympic

Olympic and world champion Hassan Yazdani heads the men's 86kg field ©Getty ImagesDavid Taylor of the United

States and Peru’s Pool Ambrocio secured the Americas qualifying berths.Sadulaev and Olympic champion

Association (NBA) is set to open team facilities for players to train individually as some American states

prohibited.Beginning on May 1, the NBA is allowing teams to open their practice facilities to players in cities and states

after complications from COVID-19.There have been more than 960,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the United

States alone, resulting in the deaths of at least 54,200 people.In Canada, where the Toronto Raptors

The French Cycling Federation (FFC) has said the organisation of sporting events would represent an "immediate and powerful tool" to support the recovery of the country, as the organisation called for the Government to consider the sport as it plans how to emerge from the lockdown period.

hardest during the pandemic, with 161,000 cases and more than 22,000 deaths recorded to date.Only the United

States, Spain and Italy have had a higher number of cases and deaths.More than 2.9 million coronavirus

Argentina’s former scrumhalf and captain Agustín Pichot, who is running to be World Rugby chairman against the incumbent Sir Bill Beaumont in a vote that starts tomorrow, has acknowledged a late report of a possible split in the expected Six Nations bloc vote for his English rival.

Central America and South America - plus two for Japan and one each for seven unions - Canada, the United

States, Uruguay, Georgia, Romania, Samoa and Fiji.On Wednesday, Pichot told the BBC’s Rugby Union Weekly