Former short track speed skating star Allison Baver, an Olympic bronze medallist at Vancouver 2010, has pleaded not guilty against nine charges of fraud.

The International Tennis Federation (ITF) has revealed the players that have been elected to its World Tennis Tour Player Panels.

Veteran ski jumper Simon Ammann is set to contest his seventh Winter Olympic Games after being named in Switzerland’s squad for Beijing 2022.

The Combat Institute of Australia's (CombatAUS) new National Performance Centre has officially opened in Melbourne.

Hans-Jürgen Dörner, a member of East Germany’s Olympic medal-winning football team at Montreal 1976, has died at the age of 70, his former club Dynamo Dresden has announced.

Spain’s Garbiñe Muguruza and Estonia’s Anett Kontaveit became the highest women’s seeds to exit the Australian Open after both suffering comprehensive second-round defeats in Melbourne.

There will be a new name on football’s Africa Cup of Nations trophy next month, after holders Algeria were knocked out of the tournament at the group stage, when they were beaten 3-1 by Ivory Coast.

France won the first gold medal of the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) 10 metres Grand Prix in Osijek in Croatia after beating Hungary in the mixed team air rifle final.

The main round of the men’s European Handball Federation European Championship got underway today across Hungary and Slovakia, with all the big-hitters in action.

Eight-time winners China opened the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Women's Asian Cup with a comfortable 4-0 victory over Chinese Taipei, while hosts India played out a goalless draw with Iran.

Kenya’s women came from behind against Nigeria to triumph at the Africa Cup of Nations hockey in Accra, Ghana, reaching the semi-finals in the process, despite a troubled build-up and start to the tournament.

Qatar remain unbeaten in the Asian Men's Handball Championship as they stay in hot pursuit of a fifth consecutive trophy in Saudi Arabia.

Sri Lanka eased to a nine-wicket victory over Kenya to make it back-to-back wins in the final women’s Twenty20 cricket qualifier for this year’s Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.

Norway's women became the first team to earn a playoff spot at the curling World Qualification Event after beating Denmark 7-4 in Lohja in Finland.