In a remarkable milestone for both the University of Calgary and Canada, the University has been awarded the prestigious Healthy Campus Certificate by FISU, achieving a remarkable Platinum distinction by excelling in 94 out of 100 criteria. This achievement is a wonderful Christmas present for the academic community, the University stated.

Herning is a small town in the middle of the Jutland peninsula with a population of around 53,000 inhabitants, which rises to almost 90,000 when the entire municipality is taken into account. It is the eleventh largest town in Denmark in terms of population. Nothing special so far.

The Scandinavian countries shone not only on the handball court, but also as hosts of the 26th IHF Women's World Championship in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. It was the first time in history that three countries hosted a handball world championship.

France are the new world handball queens after beating defending champions Norway 31-28 in a thrilling final at the Jyske Bank Boxen in Herning in front of 12,000 spectators. Three hours earlier, Denmark's bronze medal (27-28 to Sweden) made the party complete.

On the initiative of the National Olympic Committee (NOC) of the Republic of Azerbaijan and under the joint partnership of the Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC) and the European Olympic Committees (EOC), the 3rd Regional Workshop on Digital Communication and Social Media was held in Lausanne on 14 December.

France and Norway will meet in the final of the Women's Handball World Championship at the Jyske Bank Boxen in Herning on Sunday at 19.00, while Denmark and Sweden will play for the bronze medal at 16.00.

The Women's Handball World Championship will go down to the wire on Sunday after both France and Norway have fulfilled the prediction of meeting for the fifth time in a world championship final at 19:00 in Herning, Denmark.

The meeting of the Executive Committee of the International Committee of the Mediterranean Games (ICMG) began in Tirana in the presence of the Albanian Prime Minister, Edi Rama, who welcomed the assistants and expressed his pleasure at their presence in Albania. The Deputy Minister of Education and Sports, Endrit Hoxha, also attended the event.

John Gall has been elected president of USA Baseball, the organisation announced on Thursday. Gall, a three-time USA Baseball alumnus and 2008 Olympic medalist, is a former big leaguer who has served on the USA Baseball Board of Directors since 2013.

In the four months since the last FIFA/Coca-Cola Women's World Ranking was published in August, more than 400 international matches have been played. Never before have so many matches been played in such a short space of time.

The Women's Handball World Championship, co-hosted by Denmark, Sweden and Norway, has reached its climax with the quarter-finals setting up the semi-finals, which will be played on Friday at the venue of the last four matches of the tournament, the majestic Jyske Bank Boxen in the small Danish town of Herning, with a capacity of around 12,000.

The Qatar Olympic Committee (QOC) has signed the Joint Sport Pledge on Inclusion and Protection of Refugees to strengthen its commitment to supporting refugees through sport.

The WBSC Africa has announced the dates for the qualifying tournaments for the WBSC U-15 Baseball World Cup, the WBSC U23 Baseball World Cup, the WBSC Men's Softball World Cup and the WBSC Baseball5 World Cup due to be held in 2024.

Just 13 months before Turin will host the Winter Universiade for the second time from 13-23 January 2025, Torino 2025 and FISU were together at the European Parliament in Strasbourg.