The UAE Jiu-Jitsu Federation and Aldar, a leading real estate developer, manager, and investor in Abu Dhabi, Announced a partnership to sponsor the Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed Jiu-Jitsu Championship, the largest and newest addition to the local jiu-jitsu calendar, with its first round kicking off on Friday, 2 July at Mubadala Arena in Zayed Sports City.

Transgender and nonbinary runner Nikki Hiltz qualified for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, clocking in a time of 3:55:33 in the women’s 1500m race at the US Olympic Trials Sunday: breaking Elle St. Pierre’s trials record of 3:58.03, set in 2021. Hiltz is not the first transgender non-binary person to compete at an Olympics  —Canadian football player Quinn, who competed at Tokyo 2020, was the first openly transgender and nonbinary athlete to participate and win a medal at the Games. 

Iran have completed a successful defence of the male title on the first day and claimed female title on the second day of the World Taekwondo World Cup Team Championships Series in Chuncheon, Korea.

Taekwondo athlete Kasra Mehdipournejad was among the Refugee Olympic Team named for Paris 2024 in May. 

The Slovenian attacked in the final kilometre of the Alpine giant, with only Vingegaard close behind. He crested the summit with an 8-second lead, but on the descent he extended his advantage to 50 seconds over his main rival. Pogacar attacked first and the Dane couldn't keep up. Behind them, Ayuso, Rodríguez and Evenepoel remained in the lead group.

He is 20 years old. On 28 July, he will become the first Palestinian boxer to compete in the Olympic Games. Abu Sal did not pass the qualifying rounds, but will enter the ring thanks to an invitation from the IOC. His coach in Gaza is training him from afar.

In an interview with AFP, Anti-doping expert April Henning calls out WADA for mishandling the 23 positive tests that led to the New York Times report and subsequent accusations of a cover-up by the international policing body from American officials and politicians.

After the Taliban took power three years ago, the Afghanistan women's cricket team effectively disbanded. Former players have since been urging officials to help them form a refugee cricket team based in Australia.

From today, Tuesday 2 July, until next 7 July, 24 teams will be competing for the last tickets to Paris this summer. The competition will take place in four venues: Valencia (Spain), San Juan (Puerto Rico), Athens (Greece) and Riga (Latvia). Only the champion of each venue will secure a place at the Olympic Games.

Before each Taekwon-Do competition is a joint meeting of all Umpires, the most responsible for applying the Tournament regulations for a fair competition.

First, Andrew Wiggins and the Warriors “mutual decision” left the national team without the two-way forward for the Olympics; then the Memphis Grizzlies’ rookie center said ‘no thank you’ to coach Jordi Fernandez’s training camp invite, opening a huge hole in the paint for the gold-medal contenders.

GAMMA World Gold medallist Zoe Nowicki secured an unanimous decision victory in her professional debut at Invicta Fighting Championships 55 in Kansas City on Friday. Her win came against amateur MMA world champion and multiple medallist Josiane Oliveira, who was also making her professional debut.

Taekwondo stars Jade Jones, Rebecca McGowan, Bradley Sinden and Cade Cunningham were named as Team Great Britain members for Paris 2024 Olympics. All four had secured Great Britain's place at the Olympic Games through their high rankings. 

It was quite a foregone conclusion, but the four-time Olympic gold medallist put a bow on it on Sunday, as she aced the US trials in Minneapolis and will lead another American bid for glory in Paris 2024, just three years removed from her disconcerting case of the ‘twisties’ during the Tokyo Games.

The International Boxing Association (IBA) is continuing its challenge against the International Olympic Committee and has filed an appeal with the Swiss Federal Tribunal against the decision of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). The story continues.