Beijing will host the 2029 World Aquatics Championships, becoming the second Chinese city to do so after Shanghai in 2011. As previously announced, Singapore and Budapest will host the 2025 and 2027 editions respectively.

Kelvin Kiptum, one of the favourites to win a medal at the 2024 Paris Olympics and one of the athletes on the verge of making athletics history, has died in a car accident in Kenya at the age of 24. He was driving his car when it veered off the road and overturned. His coach, Rwandan Gervais Hakizimana, also died.

This weekend saw the end of the four pre-Olympic tournaments, with 10 of the 16 participants winning the last of the coveted tickets to the Paris 2024 Olympic Games women's basketball competition, with USA the defending champions and gold medallists at the last seven Games.

The president of the Pan American Taekwondo Union, Juan Manuel López, successfully chaired a meeting with representatives from 35 countries in the region to discuss technical and administrative aspects of the upcoming Olympic qualifying event to be held in the Dominican Republic in April. The meeting highlighted the unity and commitment of the Pan American Taekwondo family. Key issues were discussed to ensure a spectacular event in the Caribbean nation.  

The 2024 European Weightlifting Championships will be held from 12-20 February in Sofia, Bulgaria. This is a qualifying competition for Paris 2024. Athletes will therefore need to perform at their best to improve their position in the Olympic rankings. 

The Aussies won the tournament for the fourth time in their history after beating India in a hard-fought final in Benoni, South Africa, on Sunday. India had a brilliant tournament but couldn't claim a sixth title.

Olympian and former World champion cyclist Kate Bates has been named the official ambassador of the 2024 Brisbane Cycling Festival at a family bike ride at South Bank on Saturday.

Former Australian swimming star James Magnussen is set to use performance-enhancing drugs to break a world record and collect a US$1 million prize, according to AFP.

After a three-day hearing at the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Switzerland, former world number one Simona Halep said on Friday she was confident her appeal against a four-year doping ban would be successful.

The 2024 African Weightlifting Championships were held from 2-10 February in Ismailia, Egypt. The main star of the competition, Egypt's Karim Abokahla, the 2023 World Champion in the 96 kg category, did not disappoint the home crowd.

Seven Russian freestyle wrestlers have been denied visas by the Romanian embassy in Russia. The Russian Wrestling Federation (RWF) announced its freestyle wrestling squad for the 2024 European Championships a few days ago, but only Magomedov (61 kg), Rashidov (65 kg) and Kurbanov (92 kg) were granted visas.

South African athlete Caster Semenya, a double Olympic champion who is barred from competing in some races because she refuses to undergo treatment to reduce her testosterone levels, appealed for help on Friday to finance her legal battle against this regulation.

A major scandal is engulfing the Asian Swimming Federation (now Asia Aquatics) over alleged mismanagement of funds, according to a well-placed insider. Recent revelations directly implicate Sheikh Khalid B. Al Sabah, the current president of Asia Aquatics, and a sum of $7 million provided by the Kuwaiti Public Authority for Sport (PAS) from 2009 to 2016.

The first qualifying tournament of the year has started in Dakar, Senegal. On 9 February, the Para-Taekwondo qualifying tournament took place.

Spanish justice has confirmed that FC Barcelona must pay nearly 23 million euros ($24.7 million) in taxes on payments made to football agents between 2012 and 2015.