Australian women’s basketball team the Seven Consulting Opals will kick start their world tour in Asia tomorrow: playing three games against China in the next week, then on to Japan for the Mitsui Fudosan Cup 2024. The Opals clash with China again, hosting the team this time at the Ford BALLIN’24 series this July, according to Basketball Australia who posted the team’s schedule last week. 

Tokyo 2020 gold medallist Richard Carapaz will not defend his title in Paris after the Ecuadorian Cycling Federation (FEC) chose Jhonathan Narváez for the country's sole road race spot. Carapaz slammed the selection criteria as "biased and lacking the principles of fairness and sporting equality".

Olympic champions Marcell Jacobs and Andre De Grasse said Monday they relished "sharing every moment" as they competed with each other during joint training sessions, Agence France-Presse reported ahead of the Golden Spike meet in the Czech city of Ostrava.

The World Taekwondo Olympic Solidarity Camp 2024 for Youth, aimed at the African region, commenced on May 20, 2024, at the Senegal National Arena (Arène Nationale du Sénégal). This camp, organized by World Taekwondo in partnership with the IOC Olympic Solidarity Team and the African Taekwondo Union (AFTU), seeks to provide top-tier training and strategic guidance to young athletes and coaches in preparation for the Dakar 2026 Youth Olympic Games and the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games.

Australian Taekwondo (AT) and the Combat Institute of Australia announced the athletes selected for Australia’s Olympic Team for the Paris 2024. Stacey Hymer, Bailey Lewis, and Leon Sejranovic, who won the Oceania Qualifiers, will represent their country after Australian Olympic Team Chef de Mission Anna Meares announced the trio's official selection.

Hungary's Csaba Bohm set a new world record to take the men's event at the UIPM Pentathlon World Cup Final in Ankara on Saturday (25 May), with Lithuania's Laser Run specialist Gintare Venckauskaite claiming the biggest win of her career.

World Taekwondo has today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with K-DOC Co. Ltd, a Korean medical services company, that will see the two organisations work together on global expansion of medical services in Taekwondo.

French swimming sensation Maxime Grousset says Paris 2024 "will be the best competition of my life," ahead of the Games in Paris this summer.

Welsh athletics ace Jeremiah Azu is eyeing a British record after breaking the 10-second barrier at the True Athletes Classic in Leverkusen, Germany, on Saturday.

India strutted confidently with comfortable victories in the opening round of the Bangkok Games, the last chance to qualify for Paris 2024. Lovlina Borgohain, Nikhat Zareen and Preeti Pawar have already secured three Olympic berths for Paris 2024. The Asian country went home empty-handed after failing to qualify for the previous Olympic qualifiers in Italy.

British tennis star Andy Murray's potential last singles match at the French Open could have occurred following his defeat to Stan Wawrinka in a one-sided first-round encounter between the seasoned players. There were, however, wins for both Carlos Alcaraz and Naomi Osaka.

The Chinese women’s recurve team beat the top-seeded Koreans for the second time in a row, taking the gold at the Hyundai Archery World Cup 2024 in Yecheon, Republic of Korea. China and Korea had played out an exciting gold medal match in the season opener in Shanghai last month with the former pulling ahead of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games champions.

SGFH won the competition for the second time in seven years, beating defending champions Füchse Berlin 36-31 in a fierce German battle. The 'Foxes' couldn't match the pace of Emil Jakobsen on the left wing and former FC Barcelona goalkeeper Kevin Möller.

British Eventing has confirmed that 37-year-old event rider Georgie Campbell has died after falling from her horse at the Bicton International Horse Trials in Devon on Sunday.