Double Olympic discus champion Sandra Perković won the title of best Croatian female athlete of the year for a record eighth time in a row, and gymnast Tin Srbić has been named as the best male athlete.

Petra Vlhová produced a superb performance to win the slalom at the International Ski Federation Alpine Skiing World Cup in Zagreb and deny Mikaela Shiffrin a hat-trick of victories.

Norway's Johannes Høsflot Klæbo took over the overall Tour de Ski lead after he won the men's classic sprint event to record his second successive victory in the grand final in Val di Fiemme.

The world’s two leading players made victorious starts at the inaugural Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) Cup in Australia, as top-ranked Rafael Nadal helped Spain beat Georgia and Novak Djokovic earned a decisive but ill-tempered win for Serbia.

Employees of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) will be among the 3,000 volunteers who will support the Winter Youth Olympic Games in Lausanne this month.

Former National Hockey League (NHL) player Gordie Dwyer has been named head coach of Canada’s ice hockey team for this month’s Winter Youth Olympic Games in Lausanne.

Mongolia will send a record number of six athletes to this month's Winter Youth Olympic Games in Lausanne, the country's National Olympic Committee (NOC) has announced.

Organisers of this year's World Athletics Indoor Championships in Nanjing have announced their ticketing programme and revealed the event's mascot, Cedar.

Australia has named its largest ever team for a Winter Youth Olympic Games (YOG) in naming 33 athletes who will compete at Lausanne 2020 next month.

Stefan Kraft of Austria topped qualification at the first event of this year's Four Hills ski jumping tournament in Oberstdorf.

Therese Johaug maintained her overall lead in the International Ski Federation Cross-Country World Cup rankings as she won the first event in the annual Tour de Ski in Lenzerheide.

Mikaela Shiffrin earned her first giant slalom victory of the season in the Austrian resort of Lienz, taking her total of International Ski Federation (FIS) Alpine Skiing World Cup wins to 63 and moving her to outright second on the women’s all-time list.

Italy’s world super-G champion Dominik Paris secured his second downhill triumph in the space of two days on the Stelvio course at the International Ski Federation Alpine Skiing World Cup stop in Bormio.

Organisers of the 2021 World Games in Birmingham in Alabama have held a workshop to raise awareness of the event in schools across the state.