A Spanish judge has suggested that the former president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEA), Luis Rubiales, should stand trial for forcibly kissing Spain international Jenny Hermoso after Spain won the Women's World Cup. It was "non-consensual and a unilateral and unexpected gesture", the investigation concluded.

The European Weightlifting Federation has announced the formation of the EWF Temporary Athletes Commission under the new EWF Constitution. The working group, consisting of Mr. Caruana Jesmond (Chairman), Mr. Shai Oren (Legal Adviser), Mr. Osei Forrester (IWF AC Chairman), Dr Mihajlovic Milan (EWF General Secretary), Kt. Conflitti Antonio (EWF President), successfully established a procedure for EWF member federations to nominate athletes for this Commission and to present the proposal to the EWF EB and the EWF Congress.

Retired Cuban judo and Olympian Maricet "La Mole" Espinosa has died at the age of 34, according to NBC News.

Reigning Olympic champion Kate French is aiming to defend her modern pentathlon crown in Paris this summer as she prepares to return to competition for the first time in almost 18 months, informs the Team Bath/University of Bath.

The 2024 Odivelas Grand Prix in Portugal will kick off the Olympic year for judokas. Many of the world's strongest athletes will be in Portugal to earn qualification points and improve their position in the Olympic rankings.

Two-time SEA Games champion Syafiq Zuber will head to his favourite training ground - Seoul, South Korea - as part of his final preparations for the Asian Olympic Qualifiers in Tai'an, China, on 15-16 March, reports The Star.

The EJU's top executive - President László Toth, Senior Vice-President Otto Kneitinger, Vice-Presidents Sergei Aschwanden, Hrvoje Lindi, Secretary General Martin Poiger and General Treasurer Envic Galea - met in Budapest for a two-day Bureau meeting just in time for the start of the 2024 World and European Tour season.

World Sailing issued a press release announcing its decision to authorise the participation of Russian and Belarusian athletes, provided they compete as Independent Neutral Athletes, making them eligible to compete in the Last Chance Regatta scheduled for 20-27 April in Hyères, France.

The French Swimming Federation (FFN) and its public partners have been selected to host the prestigious European Aquatics Championships in Paris-St Denis in 2026. This will be the third time that France has hosted the European Aquatics Championships, following Paris in 1931 and Strasbourg in 1987.

With six months to go until the 2024 Paris Olympics, Steve Kerr's team has officially released its first roster of 41 players, including 23 Olympic gold medallists and world champions.

A year after the country approved the presence of female boxers in pre-Olympic competitions, Cuba has invited two boxers, likely to be the national champions Legnis Calá (57 kg) and Yakelin Stornell (66 kg), to the event in Italy in February. Two places for Paris 2024 are at stake.

The Asian Taekwondo Union (ATU) has published its calendar for 2024. The first event will kick off on 4 February, in Fujairah, UAE, where the 11th edition of Fujairah cup (kyorugi, senior, junior and cadets) taekwondo will take place. 

Following last week's pre-Olympic hockey tournaments in Spain, India and Oman, the groups have been drawn for the 12 teams of each gender to compete for gold at Paris 2024.

On 16 January, Judge Ana Avendaño Muñoz of the Court of First Instance No. 7 in Alicante issued issued an order in which she reiterated that the president and four other senior leaders of the Royal Spanish Taekwondo Federation would have "acted by common agreement in order to obtain money from the Supreme Sports Council (CSD)", reports THE OBJECTIVE reports.

In a bid to qualify for Paris 2024, the Fiji Taekwondo Association will send athletes to a taekwondo training camp in the Solomon Islands, funded by World Taekwondo in partnership with the International Olympic Committee's Olympic Solidarity Programme, the FASANOC reports.