Former Olympic champion Cheick Cissé, two-time Olympic medallist Lee Dae-hoon and Katherine Alvarado have all been elected to the World Taekwondo Athletes' Committee here, while Wu Jingyu has been re-elected for a fresh four-year term.

election.Britain's Benjamin Haines and chairs Nikita Glasnović of Croatia and Stephen Lambdin of the United

States stepped down from the Committee after the end of their terms.Cissé of Ivory Coast won men's under

American star Caroline Marks and Dutch teenager Tiara van der Huls impressed as they booked their place in the women’s main round three at the World Surfing Games in El Salvador.

Alex Saurez of Ecuador also starred, notching 11.97 to send world number one Griffin Colapinto of the United

States into the repechage."

Spain's Carlos Alcaraz and Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka, competing as a neutral, surged into the French Open round of 16 with dominant displays in Paris.

aces.It was her 32nd win of the year which leads all players on the women's tour.Sabalenka will meet the United

States' Sloane Stephens in the next round.The 2017 US Open champion got the better of Kazakhstan's Yulia

Faith Kipyegon, twice Olympic and twice world 1500 metres champion, became world record holder also in Florence tonight as she clocked 3min 49.11sec in the third Diamond League meeting of the season.

despite a last-round flourish of 17.68m from Hugues Fabrice Zango of Burkina Faso.Erriyon Knighton of the United

States, the 19-year-old world 200m bronze medallist, won in the ominously good time of 19.89sec.Double

world champion Grant Holloway of the United States won the men’s 110m hurdles in 13.04sec.Another 2023

Both the United States' men's and women's teams have progressed to the International Basketball Federation

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included a 14-3 and 13-5 semi-final victory against China's Wang Xiaolu, right ©World TaekwondoThe United

States' Melvy Alvarez, right, was among the athletes in action in a busy morning session against Haiti's

World Karate Federation President Antonio Espinós has urged for the Pan American Karate Federation (PKF) not to get complacent, despite increased growth in the continent prior to Santiago 2023.

WKFKarate first featured at the 1995 Pan American Games at Mar del Plata in Argentina and since then the United

States has been the most successful nation with 14 gold medals.In Santiago, karate is due to take place

A new identity for Team GB centred around a brand idea that "goes beyond sport" has been unveiled for use at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.

The strategy has been devised by British company Thisaway which has also worked with the United Rugby

designed by typographer Lewis McGuffie and is made to reflect movement, energy and diversity.Thisaway states

Brazil's Gabriel Medina recorded the highest heat total for the second day in a row as the men's main round two began at the World Surfing Games in El Salvador.

three.With the top two in each four-man heat progressing, two-time WSL champion John John Florence of the United

States was not so lucky as he finished third, meaning he will now have to enter the repechage round

Welsh Boxing has said it will be taking a "watching brief" amid the split in the sport and the threat to its Olympic place.

Executive Board.He will be joined by representatives from Germany, Britain, the Philippines, Sweden and the United

States.

Italy's Jannik Sinner was on the losing end of a dramatic upset at the French Open as he lost a five-set thriller to Daniel Altmaier in Paris.

Świątek cruised into the third round of Roland Garros.The Pole defeated 102nd-ranked Claire Liu of the United

States 6-4, 6-0."

Yeah Baby! "A weekend unlike any other!" Hype for the first Los Angeles Grand Prix at the University of California's Drake Stadium last Saturday (May 27) was predictably Hollywood.

field", was marketed as the relaunch of top-class athletics - or track and field as it is known in the United

States - in the Californian city as it prepares to host the Olympic Games for a third time in 2028."

Florence Griffith Joyner, Gail Devers and his own wife, legendary heptathlete Jackie Joyner Kersee.United States

Galaxy's match against Charlotte FC.Most of the crowd at the athletics went home happy after seeing the United

States' Ryan Crouser break his own world record in the shot put.But the main storyline for many was

The United States started their quest to reclaim the men’s crown by winning their opening two matches

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winning six points across his semi-final and final ©World TaekwondoAlessio's, left, final against the United

States' Carl Nickolas, right, was a low-scoring affair ©World TaekwondoGold medallist Alessio, right

Turkey's Merve Dinçel won a dramatic women's under-49 kilograms final to deny Olympic champion Panipak Wongpattanakit of Thailand a third gold at the World Taekwondo Championships here, and there were victories in the men's events for South Korea's Kang Sang-hyun and Italy's Simone Alessio.

stage.World number one Simone Alessio of Italy, left, won a low-scoring men's under-80kg final against the United

States' Carl Nickolas, right ©World TaekwondoMen's under-80kg world number one Alessio won all of his

just six points across his semi-final against Colombia's Miguel Trejos Salas and final against the United

States' Carl Nickolas.As he did in his semi-final, Alessio won a scoreless first round on hits against