The star pole vaulter doesn't want to miss out on the 2024 Olympics on his home turf, but the 5.82 metre mark required to qualify for Paris is no longer a foregone conclusion for the former champion and world record-holder after his recent rash of injuries.

The Greek national team’s coach Vassilis Spanoulis confirmed that the NBA superstar, who missed the Playoffs due to injury, will take part in the upcoming FIBA Olympic qualifying basketball tournament in Piraeus.

The French league slapped the Malian midfielder with a four-game suspension on Thursday, after he taped over his shirt’s awareness campaign badge in the last game of the football season, yet his club received no punishment for allowing him to do so.

After setting a trend in boxing and seeing World Athletics follow through for the upcoming Olympics, the International Boxing Association (IBA) announced on Wednesday it plans to pay medallists while also guaranteeing them rights to future title fights, a groundbreaking decision in the sport.

Paying amateur athletes has for a long time been a high-voltage debate within college sports circles in the United States, as well as the Olympic movement. Ardent defenders of the purity of the game often face the harsh reality of the current landscape in a cut-throat business world.

Like a constant drizzle, criticism and demands for clarification keep pouring over the World Anti-Doping agency s handling of the 23 positive tests from China’s 2021 swimming team. American politicians have now united in their ask for answers from the global watchdog, the Associated Press reports.

It's fitting that Rafael Nadal is making his big comeback on the same clay courts where he made his tennis legend and where he may soon say 'adieu' to the sport, either at the upcoming French Open or just a month and a half later at the Olympic Games.

Mohammed Camara chose not to abide by the Ligue 1 mandate to don an anti-homophobia badge last weekend. social media backlash ensued, Monaco apologised, many Malian countrymen backed his actions and now the star midfielder is set to explain himself to the French Football federation.

The Ligue 1 initiative to support the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer communities was widely celebrated this weekend, but a few footballers, like Mohamed Camara, boycotted the league-mandated goodwill action, a decision Amelie Oudea-Catera deemed “unacceptable'.

Mike Sullivan, who guided the Pittsburgh Penguins to Stanley Cup titles in 2016 and 2017, will take charge of Team USA at Milano-Cortina 2026 as NHL players make their return to the Winter Olympics.

With the kickoff in China’s hippest city just a day away, Australian Logan Martin and Britain’s Charlotte Worthington headline the BMX freestyle competition, while Leonardo Veddriq, of Indonesia and Nonaka Miho, of Japan, are sport climbing’s main attraction for this inaugural two-part-series event.

With the Olympics less than three months away and the aftermath of the Chinese doping scandal still lingering, worldwide suspicions about an uneven playing field won’t die down; but it’s in the United States, where the news broke, that the World Anti-Doping Agency faces the biggest pushback.

Newly re-elected president of the Spanish Basketball Federation (FEB) Elisa Aguilar confirmed that national team coaches Sergio Scariolo and Miguel Méndez, of the men's and women's sides, respectively, will extend their contracts until 2028.

Spain's El País newspaper has published claims from at least two former athletes that Carlos Gil Pérez, who died in 2009, abused them and other minors during his time as technical director of the Spanish Athletics Federation in the 1980s.