The International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) is set to implement a new calendar that change the qualification process for the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles.

teams prior to a knockout stage beginning with the round of 16.For Los Angeles 2028, host nation the United

States make up one of 12 teams in each of the men's and women's tournaments.

Officials at the Japanese Cricket Association (JCA) are to press for the sport's inclusion at the 2026 Asian Games in Aichi-Nagoya when the sports programme for the Games is finalised.

the plan was to set up an entry level programme for under 12s, the ICC had similar programmes in the United

States and Canada," Curr explained."

Guinea, with one nation to qualify for the finals which are set to be hosted by the West Indies and the United

States in June 2024."

Novak Djokovic and Iga Świątek started the action on day one at tennis's Wimbledon Championships with victories, although Venus Williams was beaten in a battle of the wildcards in London by Elina Svitolina.

Zhu.In an eagerly-anticipated battle of the wildcards five-time Wimbledon champion Venus Williams of the United

States took on former Wimbledon semi-finalist Svitolina of Ukraine.Venus Williams is comforted by the

Water Polo World Cup title after comfortably beating Italy 10-4 to take gold in Los Angeles in the United

States.

have now lost four out of five World Cup finals contested.A dramatic bronze-medal match was won by the United

States 14-13 against Hungary, with the teams returning to the pool after the gold-medal contest following

on for victory.In the previous day's semi-finals, Spain beat Hungary 10-8, while Italy defeated the United

States 15-12.In the classification matches, Greece won the fifth-place contest, beating Romania 11-8

Israel are set to compete at the Olympic football tournament for the first time in nearly half a century at Paris 2024 after achieving qualification from the UEFA European Under-21 Championship.

win.The Paris 2024 men's tournament is due to feature 16 teams.In addition to the hosts, squads from the United

States and Dominican Republic have already secured their places in the competition after reaching the

Defending champions the United States were made to work hard to win their second game at the International

29-19 to seal a comfortable win.On the first day of the tournament, Brazil beat Cuba 92-53 while the United

States came out on top against Venezuela 80-54.

Olympic champion Zhu Xueying returned to the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) Trampoline World Cup circuit in the Portuguese city of Santarém, winning two gold medals for China.

synchronised trampoline gold with a dominant score of 48.630.Nicole Ahsinger and Sarah Webster of the United

States grabbed silver with 47.690 and Georgia's Anano Apakidze and Mariam Ragimovi took bronze with

triumphed with 51.510 to the 51.100 of Ukraine's Anton Davydenko and Mykola Prostorov and 51.030 of the United

States' Cody Gesuelli and Isaac Rowley.The other four winners came from four different nations.In the

If anyone was still in doubt about the fact that politics and sport do mix - however much International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach might like to think otherwise - the actuality was laid out in steadfast fashion in Kraków yesterday.

number of others in protest at Russia’s invasion of Afghanistan in 1979.More than 40 years on - in the United

States, in Canada, in Germany, and, as far as those in equestrian events, hockey, shooting and yachting

Japan sealed a place at the Paris 2024 Paralympics with an 11-point victory against world champions Australia in the final of the World Wheelchair Rugby (WWR) Asia-Oceania Championship in Tokyo.

edition.It marked the final match for Japan's head coach Kevin Orr, who had been commuting from the United

States to perform his role and announced prior to the tournament he would step down.New Zealand won

Spain have won the men's International Basketball Federation Under-19 Basketball World Cup for the first time since 1999, recording an overtime victory against France in Debrecen.

83-51 against Turkey to reach the final.France had beaten the back-to-back defending champions the United

States 89-86 in the semi-finals, but lost their second consecutive final at the Under-19 World Cup.The

Qatar reached the quarter-finals of the 2023 Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF) Gold Cup after a 1-0 win over Mexico.

Honduras bowed out with a 2-1 victory over Haiti in the other Group B game while Group A action saw the United

States and Jamaica register thumping wins against Trinidad and Tobago and Saint Kitts and Nevis, respectively.A

before slotting it past the keeper Alexandre Pierre.Jesus Ferreira stared with another hat-trick as United

States crushed Trinidad and Tobago 6-0.🎙️ "We are in the knockout stage and we have to be better."

Poland's Natalia Kałucka captured her first-ever International Federation of Sport Climbing World Cup title after winning the European Games crown in her home country.

the World Cup in Swiss town Villars.The Pole sealed victory in 6.55sec after beating Emma Hunt of the United

States in the final race."

medal in Innsbruck with a silver medal in Villars after reaching the 43rd hold.Brooke Raboutou of the United

States reached 43 and timed out as she claimed bronze.Austria’s Jakob Schubert won his 20th lead World

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Australian player does brilliantly to catch the disc before it hits the ground in their tussle with the United

States ©WFDF

With 20 minutes gone and Japan leading 3-1, Britain's Katie Melville delivered a long pass that saw the disc hanging in the air.

feels underlines the good nature of the sport.It came in the gold-medal match between Australia and the United

States at the Birmingham 2022 World Games.After a long pass from Australia’s Cat Phillips into the end

toe in touch.Goff’s call had given Australia a lifeline as they closed the gap 12-11.In the end, the United

States did get the score required to complete a 13-11 victory, but Goff’s act of sportsmanship was one

Serbia’s Novak Djokovic and Kazakhstan’s Elena Rybakina are set to defend the men’s and women’s singles titles at the year’s third Grand Slam tennis tournament, the Wimbledon Championships, which begins in London tomorrow.

in Russia, before switching to Kazakhstan in 2018, starts her campaign against Shelby Rogers of the United

the women’s draw is a meeting of two wildcards, as five-time Wimbledon champion Venus Williams of the United

States meets Ukraine’s Elina Svitolina, a semi-finalist at SW19 in 2019.Their match is scheduled second