Brazil have named their 10-man squad for next month's International Blind Sport Federation (IBSA) Football World Championships in Madrid.

champions Morocco will take on Spain, Turkey and Thailand in Group A, while Copa America winners Argentina, France

Host nation Thailand built on yesterday's 5-0 victory against Germany by recording a convincing win by the same scoreline over Hong Kong on the second day of action at the Badminton World Federation (BWF) Uber Cup.

now bottom of the group on zero points.In Group C, favourites China opened their campaign by beating France

in two days.They followed up yesterday's win against Australia by matching their women and beating France

Paris 2024 are set to sign an agreement committing the Organising Committee to bringing poverty, unemployment and net carbon emissions to "zero".

the agreement.SAMU Social de Paris are a humanitarian emergency service located in several cities in France

France claimed two gold medals at the International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC) World Cup in

.Agustina's compatriot Aries Susanti Rahayu claimed bronze.Bassa Mawem claimed one of two golds for France

European Sambo Federation (ESF) President Sergey Eliseev has said he is encouraged by the large spread of medal-winning nations at the 2018 European Sambo Championships, which were held in Athens this weekend.

competition.Also winning gold medals were Belarus and Georgia, with two each, as well as Armenia, Bulgaria, France

The European Tour have announced that IMG senior vice-president and chairman of golf Guy Kinnings will join the organisation as deputy chief executive and Ryder Cup director.

of future growth.The next edition of the biennial Ryder Cup will take place at Le Golf National in France

Artem Osipenko capped off a memorable final day for Russia here at the 2018 European Sambo Championships as he beat defending champion Yury Rybak of Belarus to the men’s over-100 kilograms title.

athlete was that in the combat men’s 90kg category and saw 2017 world silver medallist Louis Laurent of France

The Spanish Olympic Committee (COE) has elected retired Alpine skier Carolina Ruiz Castillo to its Board as a representative of winter sports.

Verbier in Switzerland.Ruiz Castillo won one World Cup race in her career, a downhill in Méribel in France

Top seeds Japan eased to a 5-0 victory over Australia on the opening day of the Badminton World Federation (BWF) Uber Cup in Bangkok.

rout was complete after Qiao Bin overcame Peter Yan 21-13, 21-12.Also tasting victory in Group A were France

A 2009 survey found that there were 11.8 million active skateboarders in the world. It also estimated that skateboarding was worth an estimated $4.8 billion (£3.5 billion/€4 billion) in annual revenue. Neither figure is likely to have diminished in the meantime.

Of the invited skaters only Belgium, France, Portugal and the UK are invited from Europe," he said.

The French seaside resort of La Baule will host the second-leg of the International Equestrian Federation's Europe Division 1 Nations Cup series tomorrow.

leg, and third placed Belgium.Italy, Sweden, Germany, Spain, Great Britain, The Netherlands and hosts France

2018Action will take place at the François André de La Baule-Escoublac stadium on the west coast of France

Defending champions Denmark have been backed by head coach Kenneth Jonassen to go all the way in this year’s Badminton World Federation (BWF) Thomas Cup, which is set to begin tomorrow in Bangkok alongside the Uber Cup.

seeds China, the winners of five consecutive titles from 2004 to 2012, have been drawn against India, France

winners of the three most-recent editions of the competition and nine of the last 10, meet Indonesia, France

World Rugby have stated 1.5 million applications have been made for tickets to the Japan 2019 Rugby World Cup.

chance to secure tickets.The most popular matches include those involving Japan, New Zealand, England, France

Britain's Sports Minister Tracey Crouch has claimed the UK Government will look to push the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) to make the Therapeutic Use Exemptions (TUE) process more transparent.

Team Sky to take the corticosteroid triamcinolone, in an effort to prepare them for the 2012 Tour de France

Meribel-Courchevel in France and Planica in Slovenia have been awarded the respective Alpine and Nordic

Austria by nine votes to six to host the Alpine event.It will be the first FIS World Championships in France