The membership numbers in the German Swimming Association DSV have risen again. According to Deutscher Schwimmverband, the level before the corona pandemic has been reached again.

The inaugural Singapore Open Virtual Taekwondo Championships was held on 8-9 June, with thrilling bouts contested at the Singapore Taekwondo Federation’s (STF) National Training Centre throughout the two-day event.

After a month-long journey across mainland France, the Olympic Torch Relay arrived in French Guiana on Sunday to start the Ocean Relay, becoming the first French overseas territory to welcome it for the first time in its history.

With 46 days to go before the start of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, French President Emmanuel Macron has called snap parliamentary elections in France this Sunday, after the far-right National Rally (RN) party won almost a third of the vote in the country's European Parliament elections. 

Bill May was vying to be the first man to compete in artistic swimming in this upcoming Olympic Games in Paris. After a rule change in December 2022 by World Aquatics opened the door for men to compete in the sport, allowing up to two per National Olympic Team.

Spain, Germany and France in the men's category and France, Australia and Great Britain in the women's category have secured their tickets to the Olympic Games. The final event of the International Canoe Federation's World Cup was held in Prague on Sunday. The names of the selected paddlers will now be decided by the national federations.

It was a memorable evening for Ukraine at the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome, as high jump sensation Yaroslava Mahuchikh claimed gold, joined on the podium by her teammate Iryna Gershchenko, who secured the bronze medal.

The 22nd edition of the World Aquatics Championships will be held in the city-state of Singapore from 11 July to 3 August 2025, bringing all six sports represented by World Aquatics to South East Asia.

The 59th Congress of the International Skating Union (ISU) begins today, 10 June, in Las Vegas. More than 350 participants are expected. The focus of this year's congress is the ISU Vision 2030, which was launched a year ago by the ISU Council.

China's Shi Yuqi will rise to badminton world number one for the first time this week and is targeting Olympic glory in Paris to go with the milestone. The 28-year-old dethrones Denmark's Viktor Axelsen as the top-ranked men's player, with the Games in the French capital just over six weeks away.

The 2024 World Rowing Cup series finals will be taking place in Poznan, Poland, from 14-16 June and will determine the overall winner with only 10 points separating the Netherlands and Great Britain. The event will be the last international racing opportunity before the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games and some nations —such as Great Britain, the Netherlands, and Romania— are using the regatta to test their LA 2028 hopefuls at the international level, according to World Rowing in a press release. 

In a remarkable turn of events on the back-nine, Sebastian Soberberg's collapse paved the way for Linn Grant to secure another victory in the Scandinavian Mixed on the DP World Tour.

Scottie Scheffler showed why he is world number one by keeping his cool to win the PGA Tour's Memorial Tournament in Ohio by one stroke on Sunday after a tense duel with Collin Morikawa. The victory comes in a month marked by his arrest and subsequent release on driving charges.

Three years after retiring from professional boxing, on 28 July, the multiple world champion, Manny Paquiao, will step back into the ring. He will face Japanese martial artist Chihiro Suzuki in Tokyo. A potential welterweight title fight with Mario Barrios is still on the cards, "There's still a lot to discuss," Paquiao said.

Spanish tennis player Carlos Alcaraz fought hard to beat Alexander Zverev in the Roland Garros final, triumphing in five sets. Rafael Nadal's successor won his first French Open title and his third Grand Slam, becoming the youngest player to win all three surfaces at major tournaments.