Euroleague Basketball has pressed ahead with launching a new brand identity for the 2016 to 2017 season amid the ongoing row between their parent company and the International Basketball Federation (FIBA).

Italian race walker Alex Schwazer has been provisionally suspended by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) after his B-sample came back positive.

International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Council member David Okeyo, Athletics Kenya chairman Isaiah Kiplagat and former treasurer Joseph Kinyua have failed in their attempt to overturn their respective extensions to their 180-day provisional suspensions, it has been announced.

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) "welcomes" the decision of the Court of Arbitration for Sport’s (CAS) decision to dismiss an appeal lodged by Turkish middle distance runner Aslı Çakır Alptekin, who was attempting to get her doping ban lifted five years early because she acted as a whistleblower.

Two judges have been sanctioned by the International Gymnastics Federation’s (FIG) Disciplinary Commission after being deemed to have given biased scores in favour of their nation’s athletes.

Former FIFA President Sepp Blatter’s appeal against a six-year ban from all footballing activity will be heard at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) on August 25, it was announced today.

South Korean swimmer Park Tae-hwan looks set to compete at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro after the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) upheld his appeal against a controversial Korean Olympic Committee (KOC) ruling.

South Korea’s Mirim Lee fired a record-equalling round of 64 to open up a three-shot lead on the opening day of the US Women's Open at the CordeValle Golf Club in California.

Former world champions Amnat Ruenrong of Thailand and Cameroon’s Hassan N’Dam both secured places at Rio 2016 with semi-final victories at the World Series of Boxing (WSB)/AIBA Pro Boxing (APB) Olympic Qualification Tournament in Vargas.

Emma Coburn has certainly made a splash this week - on a rain-swept track at the US Olympic Track and Field trials she earned her Rio 2016 place with victory in the 3000m steeplechase a day after the release of ESPN’s annual Body Issue which featured her and other leading sporting figures in the nude.

Commonwealth Games champion Michelle Li saw off the challenge of her fellow Canadian Tai Yi to reach the quarter-finals of the Badminton World Federation (BWF) US Open in Los Angeles.

Antoine Griezmann's double guided France to the final of the UEFA European Championships as they overcame World Cup winners Germany 2-0 at the Stade Vélodrome in Marseille tonight..

Russian whistleblower Yuliya Stepanova, who limped home injured and last in her 800 metres heat here at the European Athletics Championships before being disqualified for a lane infringement, was today thanked for her courage by Sebastian Coe, President of the International Association of Athletics Federations, who invited her to attend the forthcoming IAAF Values Commission.

An unexpected last lunge of a 100 metres victory for home sprinter Churandy Martina provided the first full night of finals at the 23rd European Athletics Championships with a startling climax after a sequence of performances which had seen Belgium’s cancer survivor Thomas van der Plaetsen produce a heroic decathlon win here.