FIFA President Gianni Infantino visited the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to meet the current American collegiate women's football champions.

of the FIFA Women's World Cup, preparing to try and win a fifth crown at this year's tournament in Australia

India were the highest-profile casualty from the group stage of badminton's Sudirman Cup in Suzhou, falling to Malaysia and Chinese Taipei.

Australia completed the Group C line-up which looked the toughest of the four at the mixed team tournament

Malaysia who won the group decider 4-1 against Chinese Taipei to finish top, after both teams had beaten Australia

5-0.A 4-1 victory against Australia provided some consolation for India.Malaysia are set to face Group

Record 14-time winner Rafael Nadal has pulled out of this month's French Open because of a hip injury, and suggested next year would be his last on the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) Tour.

The evolution of the injury I sustained in Australia has not gone as I would have liked," Nadal said.

The International School Sport Federation (ISF) President Laurent Petrynka has spoken of his pride in the continuing tradition of the organisation’s beach volleyball events.

May 23 ©ISFAmong the school teams present are representatives from the United States, New Zealand, Australia

New Zealand has announced a team of 12 swimmers to compete at the 2023 Commonwealth Youth Games in Trinidad and Tobago.

freestyle.Amelia Bray, who swims in the 100m butterfly, has also been chosen for the Tri Series against Australia

A protest is planned at Brisbane Airport next month after warnings of a dramatic increase in the number of flights to the site between now and the Brisbane 2032 Olympics.

Gold Runway, a vehicle for Australian sport and business to determine "how Brisbane, Queensland and Australia

Qatar has emerged as a shock contender to replace France as host of the 2025 Rugby League World Cup.

history or pedigree.However, Grant said Qatar's location between the rugby league hotspots of England and Australia

said holding the event in a small country would be like the Magic Weekend concepts held in England and Australia

) has announced that it wants to be the replacement host for the 2025 World Cup in a joint bid with Australia

We're keen to work with the Australian Rugby League Commission to host the tournament in NZ and Australia

about what that might look like at a high level, and we have some recent experience from 2017, when Australia

and New Zealand hosted it.New Zealand and Australia co-hosted the Rugby League World Cup in 2017 ©Getty

Tokyo 2020 bronze medallist Katie Vincent of Canada stood out on the final day of the International Canoe Federation (ICF) Canoe Sprint World Cup in Szeged by winning two gold medals.

and Bence Nadas pipped reigning Olympic K2 1000 champions Jean Van Der Westhuyzen and Thomas Green of Australia

to win the men's K2 500 event.Meanwhile, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Australia, Spain and Denmark won gold

for Kazakhstan in the mixed C2 500.Alyssa Bull and Jackson Collins, the reigning world champions from Australia

Britain's Sophie Coldwell claimed her maiden win on the World Triathlon Championship Series circuit in the pouring rain in Yokohama.

 "We had a really good block of training in Australia before Abu Dhabi and raced Abu Dhabi off the

behind on the run as he triumphed in 1:42:13.A tight sprint finish behind him saw Matthew Hauser of Australia

New Zealand claimed the men's and women's World Rugby Sevens Series titles in Toulouse, as more nations confirmed their places at the Paris 2024 Olympics in the latest round.

their place with a 26-15 victory over Spain in the ninth-place playoff.In the race for the final spot, Australia

plus a score from Jazmin Felix-Hotham helped New Zealand complete the turnaround.In the bronze final, Australia

hat-trick of tries from Maddison Levi.Earlier at the semi-final stage the United States edged past Australia

World Rugby Sevens Series after winning their fifth-place semi-final against Fiji, joining New Zealand, Australia

On the second day of the International Boxing Association (IBA) Men's World Boxing Championships here, insidethegames revealed that Boris van der Vorst is set to resign as President of the Dutch Boxing Association to devote more time to World Boxing.

Paris 2024 due to a row over technical officials.But during the launch of World Boxing, CCA members Australia

 Australia and France sent a team to the Women's World Boxing Championships in New Delhi in March

International taekwondo is set to return to Australia in July for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic

We are pleased to see Australia host these events in 2023 and look forward to having these events conducted

annually in Australia and seeing them become popular on the international calendar," Kotsifas said."

These events will bring some of the world's best taekwondo athletes, including Para athletes, to Australia

the support of World Taekwondo and the Oceania Taekwondo Union in delivering world-ranked events in Australia

World-class taekwondo will be staged in Australia for the first time since the end of the coronavirus

Holders China are set to be the team to beat when the nation hosts the 2023 Badminton World Federation Sudirman Cup, scheduled to begin in Suzhou tomorrow.

Malaysia, Chinese Taipei and India expected to battle for qualification spots.The group is completed by Australia

Reigning Olympic super-heavyweight champion Bakhodir Jalolov of Uzbekistan has hinted that Paris 2024 could be his last Games.

Ayoub Ghadfa of Spain in the semi-finals.He defeated Danis Latypov of Bahrain, Teremoana Junior of Australia