Japanese teenage sensation Taisei Yamamoto posted the highest qualifying score at today's International Ski Federation (FIS) Freestyle Skiing Slopestyle World Cup in Seiser Am.

Canadian in Noah Morrison was awarded 90.33 for the third best score of the day.Russell Henshaw of Australia

The Netherlands' Jiske Griffioen is a step closer to a third straight Australian Open wheelchair women’s singles title as she made the final.

beating Britain’s Andrew Lapthorne 6-4, 6-1, giving the crowd something extra to celebrate alongside Australia

Is athletics about to experience its Twenty20 moment this week? Or will the new-look Nitro Athletics event that will run for three evenings in Melbourne, starting next Saturday and witnessed by interested parties including the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) President Sebastian Coe prove to be no more than a brief starburst of colourful enterprise?

Teams of 12 men and 12 women from Australia, China, Japan, England, New Zealand and an international

Australia is a very competitive market when it comes to sports coverage.

To get this off the ground, we really needed the hook of Usain running in Australia.

his friend John Steffensen, Australia's 2006 Commonwealth 400m champion who is now on the Athletics Australia

 "The staging of the Commonwealth Games in 2018, when many leading athletes with be in Australia

Roger Federer won a five-set thriller against fellow Swiss Stan Wawrinka in the semi-finals of the Australian Open at the Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne to roll back the years and stay on course for an 18th Grand Slam title.

I never ever in my wildest dreams thought I'd come this far in Australia.

Brennan and the Australian women’s rugby sevens team are among 22 Olympic athletes included on the Australia

Brennan, winner of the the women’s single sculls in Rio de Janeiro, has been awarded the Order of Australia

Australia’s first ever gold medal in modern pentathlon, has been awarded the medal of the Order of Australia

OAM.Olympic modern pentathlon gold medallist Chloe Esposito has been awarded the medal of the Order of Australia

©Getty ImagesThe Australia Day Honours List also included freestyle skier Dale Begg-Smith, the Olympic

I had excellent support from Australia, my organisations and team mates and I’m proud to remember what

East Timor has been banned from the 2023 Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Asian Cup after the country's Federation was found guilty of forging birth and baptism certificates to allow a number of Brazilians to play for them.

played for Brazilian teams Vasco da Gama and Palmeiras was also in the report.East Timor sits north of Australia

A total of 18 countries have progressed to the candidate stage of the selection process for the International Hockey Federation’s (FIH) new global home and away league.

commitment to ensure their leading players take part in the tournament, due to launch in 2019.Argentina, Australia

Nicole Cooke claimed that British Cycling has "got used to not being accountable to anyone" as the Olympic gold medallist presented damning evidence to a British Parliament Culture, Media and Sport Committee here today.

Sutton is currently waiting to hear if he will be offered the high performance director role at Cycling Australia

Olympic laser and star medallist Robert Scheidt will turn his attention to mastering the 49er at the season-opening Sailing World Cup in Miami, where action is due to begin tomorrow.

last year's World Cup Miami winner Jorge Zarif of Brazil, 2016 World Cup Final winner Jake Lilley of Australia

Sutton as the coach waits to hear if he will be offered the high performance director role at Cycling Australia

team.Shane Sutton is believed to be in contention for the high performance director role at Cycling Australia

It [the Cycling Australia role] is not a matter for me, but Shane is a man whom I have a great amount

Mikaël Kingsbury claimed victory as Canada dominated their home International Ski Federation (FIS) Moguls World Cup leg in Val St Come.

Placid winner Dmitriy Reiherd, with the pair boasting 240 and 182 points respectively.Matt Graham of Australia

The Barbados Olympic Association (BOA) welcomed Japanese ambassador Teruhiko Shinada to its headquarters in Wildey as it bids to strengthen relations with the Japanese Olympic Committee (JOC) before Tokyo 2020.

and in recent times has hosted the Brazilian and Chinese ambassadors, and the High Commissioners of Australia

Juan Antonio Samaranch Jr has been elected first vice-president of the International Modern Pentathlon Union (UIPM) at the first full meeting of the world governing body’s new Executive Board.

joins UIPM secretary general Shiny Fang of China, Oceania Confederation President Kitty Chiller of Australia

This year's Karate1 Premier League series, which starts in Paris on Friday (January 27), is "crucial" to the sport’s plans to develop itself before its Olympic debut at the Tokyo 2020 Games, according to the World Karate Federation's (WKF) President Antonio Espinós.

holding a meeting with his IOC counterpart John Coates to discuss the growing impact of the sport in Australia

Hosts Australia enjoyed a 100 per cent record against Guam and New Zealand to capture the Under-18 Oceania

As the Oceania champion, Australia will now go on to represent the continent and compete at the 2017

Chinese Taipei, Japan and South Korea.Italy and The Netherlands will fly the flag for Europe while Australia

already qualified teams for Oceania.When the next WBSC World Rankings are released, current number 11 Australia