International Judo Federation (IJF) President Marius Vizer is set to ask for an increase in the sport's quota for this year's Olympic Games in Tokyo to ensure that Chinese competitors are not disadvantaged by the coronavirus crisis which is having a major impact on sport, he revealed here.

France's Teddy Riner will continue his campaign for a record-equalling third Olympic gold medal when he competes in the International Judo Federation (IJF) Paris Grand Slam here tomorrow.

International Olympic Committee (IOC) member Tidjane Thiam has resigned as resigned as the chief executive of Credit Suisse following two spy scandals at the Swiss bank. 

Hungarian Olympic short track gold medallist Csaba Burján has been banned from the sport for a year after he was ruled to have made offensive comments about China on social media.

Polina Golovina has been appointed as the new secretary general of the National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Belarus (NOC RB), it has been announced.

André Bouters has been re-elected as President of the Belgium Bodybuilding and Fitness Federation (BIBFF).

Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) President John Coates has rubbished a campaign started by controversial politician Pauline Hanson to try to scupper Queensland's bid for the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games, claiming that the event will not cost the taxpayer any money and could even make a profit.

Australia’s greatest-ever basketball player Andrew Gaze’s signed uniform is to be auctioned off to raise funds for bushfire relief.

An attempt by a group of female race walkers to force World Athletics and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to add a 50 kilometres event for women to the programme for this year's Olympic Games in Tokyo has suffered a potentially fatal setback.

Britain's 1956 Olympic gold medallist Dick McTaggart is among those who have contributed to a new exhibition displaying Scotland's boxing history that has opened at the University of Stirling.

PB Esports Indonesia (PB ESI), a national governing that claims to represent all esports associations in the country, has been launched in Jakarta with the country's National Intelligence Agency (BIN) chief Budi Gunawan as its head.

World Athletics President Sebastian Coe is to write to Russia's new Sports Minister Oleg Matytsin warning him that his country's athletes will not be allowed to compete at this year's Olympic Games in Tokyo unless its sport's leaders admit charges of breaking anti-doping rules.

Tokyo 2020-bound softball teams Japan, Mexico and Italy are set to take on the hosts in an important warm-up at the Australia Pacific Cup, a tournament due to start in Blacktown tomorrow.

The Russian Athletics Federation (RusAF) faces the very real threat of being expelled from World Athletics following the publication of a report today by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) that accuses it of failing to accept responsibility for several "serious anti-doping breaches" and that it needs to change.