We might just have a competitive battle to host the men's 2030 FIFA World Cup. Perhaps for the wrong reasons, it is difficult not to get excited about what could follow in the 12 months after the 211 Member Associations gather in Rwanda for the FIFA Congress this week. It is likely to provide an increasingly rare and fascinating window into the world of sports politics on a grandiose scale.

faced over reported plans for tourism board Visit Saudi to sponsor to this year's Women's World Cup in Australia

An appeal has been launched to find rugby league players with Ukrainian heritage to represent the country in this year’s European Championships and 2025 World Cup qualifying tournament.

To continue our growth, the only option we have is this invitation to heritage players in Australia and

We have at least seven players in Australia, but I think in the next few months the list will get bigger

Our main priority is to find funds for trips for these players, especially those in Australia because

Quadruple Olympic champion Pat McCormick has died of natural causes at the age of 92 in Santa Ana in the United States.

consecutive Olympic Games as she dominated at Helsinki 1952 and Melbourne 1956.She achieved the feat in Australia

Japan advanced to the quarter-finals of the World Baseball Classic (WBC) after their 10-2 victory over Czech Republic, while Chinese Taipei propelled to first place in pool A after their 9-5 win over The Netherlands.

, while Los Angeles Angels star Shohei Ohtani doubled and stole third base.Japan still have to face Australia

Deanna Kyriazopoulos and Marwan Hussein are the latest members to have joined the Australian Taekwondo Board following an Annual General Meeting (AGM) in December.

with the Australian Sports Commission, the Australian Institute of Sport and the Combat Institute of Australia

to see Simon remain in Combat sports after recently being appointed as co-opted director for Boxing Australia

Prince Edward, Vice-Patron of the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF), has been granted the title of Duke of Edinburgh by King Charles III.

Mexican wave at Meadowbank during the athletics.Prince Edward presented gold medals for men's hockey to Australia

The France Football Federation (FFF) have decided to dismiss women's head coach Corinne Deacon after players from the national team protested against her management style.

unwilling to continue with her at the helm during the FIFA Women's World Cup that is set to occur in Australia

Chinese women's basketball coach Zheng Wei is aiming high for next year's Olympic Games in Paris 2024 after their painful loss to the United States at the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) Women's World Cup final last year.

Chinese team that lost to Brazil at the 1994 FIBA World Championships in Australia.Zheng's return to Australia

But if we are a genuinely top team like the USA, Australia, France and Spain, we need to prove ourselves

the United States in the final ©Getty ImagesChina edged past France in the quarter-finals and then Australia

in the semi-final during last year's World Cup.The team are set to return to Australia this year to

The Latvian Olympic Committee (LOK) has stopped state funding for five athletes, including tennis player Jeļena Ostapenko and cyclists Tom Skujiņš and Kristas Neiland, as a punishment for their participation in competitions which included competitors from Russia and Belarus.

country.Ostapenko was the 2017 French Open champion, a semi-finalist at Wimbledon in 2018 and 2022 and the Australia

The line-up for the team sports events have been unveiled for this year’s Commonwealth Youth Games in Trinidad and Tobago.

takes place in Tobago.The 12-strong field also features Gambia, Canada, Sri Lanka, St Kitts and Nevis, Australia

Cyprus, New Zealand, Rwanda, St Lucia and South Africa.The women’s beach volleyball competition will see Australia

This week, 25 years ago on a sunny spring morning in London, an ensemble of 10 Bunga Manggar bearers carrying floral decorations and 20 drummers beating Kompang drums made their way onto the courtyard at Buckingham Palace. 

Malaysia 4-0 in the final to begin a gold medal sequence that has yet to be broken.in the women's final, Australia

almost as dominant since,winning all but two finals, the most recent defeat came at Birmingham 2022.Australia

respected Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack.England, the birthplace of the game, declined to send a team, but Australia

Andrew Hudson, Herschelle Gibbs and Jacques Kallis.In the final, superb bowling by Pollock restricted Australia

ImagesTen pin bowling's appearance was a one-off.The spoils in the five events were shared between Australia

Brazil's Sports Ministry confirmed the nation will bid to host the 2027 FIFA Women's World Cup, with the winner set to be decided next year.

and 2014 men's editions.The 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup is scheduled to be hosted in New Zealand and Australia

The official poster for the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023 has been unveiled in outdoor galleries in Australia

Adelaide ©FIFA"These posters not only showcase the distinctive identities of our nine Host Cities across Australia

Wellington until March 21.The tournament is scheduled to take place from July 20 to August 20 across Australia

As the increasingly bitter dispute between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf continues to provide plenty of work for the world's lawyers, there was an unexpected admission from one of its biggest critics this week that perhaps not everything about the controversial Saudi Arabia-backed series is bad.

public broadcaster.Packer later admitted that had Channel Nine been awarded the rights to cricket in Australia

not even given the opportunity to negotiate and left fuming, he instead launched a revolution.Former Australia

clothing, that we now take for granted ©Getty ImagesBy 1977, 35 of the world’s best cricket players from Australia

and considered the guardian of the sport in Australia.Former Bob Merriman, the chairman of Cricket Australia

The International Canoe Federation (ICF) have insisted that a two-day Symposium will help remove "hurdles" to the involvement of women at every level of the sport.

said.The seminar will be open to women at every level of paddle sports.Olympic gold medallist Jess Fox of Australia