The World Anti-Doping Agency has suspended the accreditation of the Athletes’ Anti-Doping Laboratory in Almaty in Kazakhstan for a period of four months, it was announced today.

Rio 2016 top seeds Talita Antunes and Larissa Franca of Brazil will bid for a second straight International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) World Tour Porec Major title when the event in Croatia gets underway tomorrow.

Spanish basketball star Pau Gasol has confirmed he will represent his country at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games despite initially admitting he was considering withdrawing from the event due to fears over the Zika virus.

Russia avenged their defeat to Italy in last year’s final to secure women’s team foil gold at the European Fencing Championships at the Arena Toruń in Poland.

Tokyo 2020 has unveiled its first batch of official merchandise for the Olympic Games, with 15 of the 26 product lines selling out in the online shop on the opening day of sales.

Outgoing International Hockey Federation (FIH) chief executive Kelly Fairweather has defended the axing of the Champions Trophy event as part of the organisation’s extensive competition reshuffle, insisting the new calendar will help take the sport “to the next level”.

Five men and six women snapped up the last available Rio 2016 recurve quota places at the Final Qualification Tournament in Antalya today.

Hockey nearly being axed from the Olympic Games programme in 2013 was the “driver” behind the sport’s governing body implementing a revamped competition system as part of their 10-year strategic plan, International Hockey Federation (FIH) sport and development director David Luckes admitted here today.

Russia's suspension from the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) will remain in place after a failure to meet criteria required by the body's Task Force.

International Olympic Committee (IOC) vice-president John Coates has launched a scathing attack on the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) and the All-Russia Athletic Federation (ARAF) after Australian racewalker Jared Tallent was finally presented with his Olympic gold medal from London 2012 at a special ceremony in Melbourne today.

Olympic aquatics events in 2024 will take place in Saint-Denis if Paris is successful with its bid for the Games in eight years' time.

Sixty years ago, the city of Melbourne was making ready for the Olympics. It was the first time they had been staged in the Southern Hemisphere, but this sporting gathering did not include equestrian events.

An Olympic Stakeholder meeting is due to take place on June 21 in order to "coordinate and harmonise" anti-doping approaches before Rio 2016, it was decided at the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board meeting here today.

This weekend found me struggling to resurrect my cricket skills in a stunningly verdant corner of Leicestershire barely six miles from the now internationally famous King Power Stadium.

I had a call last week on behalf of the Organising Committee of the Rio Olympics as, I imagine, did some of my colleagues.