The Australian Government, through PacificAus Sports, will work with the Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) to support more than 250 athletes from 13 Pacific nations to prepare for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Two teenagers have been charged in connection with the shooting at the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl parade that left one person dead and 22 injured, authorities said on Friday.

Seventy-eight top Spanish athletes on Wednesday expressed their "firm and absolute rejection of the recent actions" of the Spanish anti-doping agency (CELAD), whose head was sacked last month following allegations of irregularities.

Boxing star Gennady Golovkin has been nominated to replace Timur Kulibayev as president of Kazakhstan's National Olympic Committee, following a meeting of the organisation on 14 February.

Nigeria and Venezuela have been referred to the Court of Arbitration for Sport for alleged failure of their anti-doping agencies to comply with WADA rules, the World Anti-Doping Agency announced on Tuesday.

Kenyan athlete Sarah Chepchirchir, winner of the 2017 Tokyo Marathon, has been banned for eight years after testing positive for testosterone. The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) announced the ban on Wednesday.

Beijing will host the 2029 World Aquatics Championships, becoming the second Chinese city to do so after Shanghai in 2011. As previously announced, Singapore and Budapest will host the 2025 and 2027 editions respectively.

South African athlete Caster Semenya, a double Olympic champion who is barred from competing in some races because she refuses to undergo treatment to reduce her testosterone levels, appealed for help on Friday to finance her legal battle against this regulation.

Spanish justice has confirmed that FC Barcelona must pay nearly 23 million euros ($24.7 million) in taxes on payments made to football agents between 2012 and 2015.

Five months before the Olympic Games, French fencer Ysaora Thibus, 2022 World Champion, has been provisionally suspended by the International Fencing Federation. As the French Fencing Federation (FFE) announced on Friday, this is due to an abnormal anti-doping test carried out on 14 January.

Spanish athlete Mohamed Katir, the reigning world 5000m runner-up, announced in an official statement on Wednesday that he had been "provisionally suspended" by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) for "a violation resulting from three whereabouts failures in the last twelve months". 

Kenyan athlete Michael Saruni, 28, has been banned for four years after he was caught trying to send a proxy to a doping test. The 800m runner tried to cheat his way through the test at the national trials for the World Championships and the Commonwealth Games in Nairobi in June 2022. 

Formula One's governing body, the FIA, on Monday proposed a change to the sprint format for the weekend races of the 2024 season, which starts in Bahrain later this month.

Saudi Arabia will host the 2024 West Asian Football Federation (WAFF) Women's Championship this month - the first official 11-a-side women's tournament to be held in the Kingdom.