An emergency committee meeting will be held by the World Health Organisation (WHO) tomorrow to discuss the outbreak of a new coronavirus in China, which has killed six people and infected almost 300.
British cyclist Geraint Thomas revealed his aim to compete in the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games road race just a week after participating in the Tour de France.
International University Sports Federation (FISU) Executive Committee member Leopold Senghor has been named Senegal's director of high competition.
Five major Tokyo-based private television networks will reportedly take turns broadcasting daily coverage of this year's Olympic Games in the Japanese capital.
By Liam Morgan and Michael Pavitt in Lausanne
A Qatari sheikh is one of two show jumpers from the country to have failed a drugs test for cannabis, with the national team's Tokyo 2020 Olympic place now under threat.
Romania’s chances of competing at this year's Olympic Games in Tokyo took another hit again when it was announced that another of its London 2012 lifters had tested positive.
Tokyo 2020 have announced the Japan Keirin Autorace Foundation (JKA) as an official contributor of the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Josie Baff became Australia’s first Winter Youth Olympic Games champion by the narrowest of margins, edging out France’s Marguax Herpin to win the women’s snowboard cross title.
South Korea's Winter Youth Olympic Games short track speed skating success at Lausanne 2020 continued with Lee Jeong-min and Seo Whi-min triumphing in the men’s and women’s 500 metre events.
Gu Ailing Eileen led a Chinese one-two in the women’s freeski halfpipe final at the Winter Youth Olympic Games, while Kiernan Fagan broke the United States’ Lausanne 2020 gold medal duck by winning the men’s slopestyle title.
Austria were crowned mixed team ski jumping champions at the Winter Youth Olympic Games after producing a dominant performance at Les Tuffes Nordic Centre.
Alexander Czudaj of Germany and Romanian Andrei Robert Nica shared the men's monobob gold medal in a dead heat at the Winter Youth Olympic Games in St Moritz.
Russia broke Germany's dominance of the luge events with victory in the mixed team relay at the Winter Youth Olympic Games in St Moritz.
Peacock, the new over-the-top streaming service of NBCUniversal (NBCU), will provide extensive coverage of this year’s Olympic Games in Tokyo, it has been announced.
At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Iranian judoka Arash Miresmaeili was disqualified for weighing in at nearly four pounds above the limit for his weight class of his under-66 kilograms match against an Israeli opponent Ehud Vaks in the first round. It was claimed Miresmaeili had gone on an eating binge to protest the International Olympic Committee's recognition of the state of Israel. Iran does not recognise the state of Israel, and Miresmaeili's actions won praise from high-ranking Iranian officials. Mohammad Khatami, the country's President at the time, was quoted as saying Miresmaili's actions would be "recorded in the history of Iranian glories". He was later awarded $125,000 by the Government - the same amount given to Olympic gold medallists.
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The Australian Open begins this week amid fears over air quality due to the country's bushfire crisis. Mike Rowbottom explores the wider debate about athletes and potentially harmful environments.
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