American duo Jordan Spieth and Patrick Reed are the new leaders of the US Open after both produced excellent displays on day two, while 14-time major winner Tiger Woods missed the cut on 16-over-par at Chambers Bay.

Mo Farah, whose coach Alberto Salazar was alleged to have engaged in past doping violations involving other athletes in his group by a BBC Panorama programme aired earlier this month, has posted a statement on Facebook insisting he has never taken performance-enhancing drugs, and adding that the last weeks have been “the toughest of my life".

Croatian brothers Valent and Martin Sinkovic, world champions in the men’s double sculls, announced their readiness to defend that title as they won their first race of the season at the second Rowing World Cup in Varese having missed the opening World Cup and subsequent European Championships because of Valent’s back problem.

Cuba Domadores will be aiming to seal the defence of their World Series of Boxing (WSB) title this weekend as they go head-to-head with Astana Arlans Kazakhstan in the Season V Finals. 

Svein Arne Hansen, the new European Athletics President, has today made good on his intention to include more women in the organisation in announcing the names of the 14 females appointed to Commissions following last weekend’s Council meeting in Oslo.

The Japanese Basketball Association (JBA) have been rewarded by the International Basketball Association’s (FIBA) for making progress in restricting the organisation by allowing their national teams to resume preparations for all competitions.

The group stages of this year’s FIFA Women’s World Cup, which came to a conclusion on Wednesday (June 17), broke television records in no fewer than three countries, new figures have shown.

Sweden’s Henrik Stenson and Dustin Johnson of America shared the lead on five-under-par as 14-time major champion Tiger Woods carded his worst-ever first round with a 10-over-par 80 on the opening day of the US Open at Chambers Bay.

Peru reignited their bid to qualify for the Copa América knock-out stages after Claudio Pizarro’s second-half gold secured them a 1-0 victory against Venezuela at the Estadio Elías Figueroa Brander in Valparaíso.

Media pressure on Mo Farah, whose coach Alberto Salazar was alleged to have engaged in doping violations by a BBC Panorama programme aired earlier this month, has continued to grow with a claim by the Daily Mail that he missed two random drug tests before he won his Olympic 5000/10,000 metres double at the London 2012 Games.

This year’s International Swimming Federation (FINA) World Championships will offer a record prize fund of $5.5 million (£3.5 million/€4.8 million). 

Australia's Olympic gold medallist Kylie Palmer has been provisionally suspended after she tested positive for a banned substance in 2013, the International Swimming Federation (FINA) has announced.

Ukraine's Oleg Verniaiev and Russia's Aliya Mustafina won the European Games gold medals in the individual all-around events here today, despite failing to live up to their normal high standards. 

An additional 30,000 tickets for the 2015 Rugby World Cup are set to go on sale at 10am next Thursday (June 25), giving fans a further opportunity to watch quarter-final matches at Twickenham.

Germany’s Henri Junghaenel defeated a stellar field to earn European Games gold medal in the 50 metre rifle prone men's event here, and the second gold of the day, in the new event of the mixed team trap, went to the Slovakian pairing of Zuzana Rehak Stefecekova and world champion Erik Varga, who earned an emphatic 27-21 win over Russia’s newly crowned men’s champion Alexey Alipov and Elena Tkach.