Defending champions Brazil picked up their third consecutive win at the Women’s World Handball Championships with a narrow 23-19 success over South American rivals Argentina in Denmark.

Former National Basketball League (NBL) star and Leon Trimmingham has been named as the third ambassador for the International Sports Federation for Persons with Intellectual Disability (Inas).

Defending champions The Netherlands are one of eight confirmed entrants in the 2016 International Wheelchair and Amputee Sports Federation (IWAS) Powerchair Hockey European Championships.

Reigning men’s world champion Ma Long of China and team-mate Liu Shiwen, winner of this year’s women’s World Cup, scooped the headline prizes at the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) Star Awards ceremony in Lisbon.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has revealed here it has targeted Pyeongchang 2018 to have established an independent anti-doping testing body. 

Recent scandals surrounding the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) and FIFA are not the same and concern “different issues”, International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach claimed here today as he expressed confidence that steps are being taken in the right direction to address the problems within both governing bodies.

An independent financial audit will be conducted by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) into grants it awards to the various International Federations and National Olympic Committees (NOCs) in a bid to increase transparency within sport in the midst of corruption and doping scandals, Thomas Bach announced here today. 

Monaco’s Stade Louis II will play host to the men’s Olympic repechage qualification tournament and Dublin’s UCD Bowl will stage the women’s event, World Rugby announced today.

The International Meeting of Great Sporting Events (RIGES) is now due to place on March 14 and 15 next year, co-organisers City Events have announced after the original event was postponed because of the terrorist attacks in Paris last month. 

Sports Federations have a “strategic choice” to release financial records in a bid to improve transparency, International Institute for Management Development (IMD) professor Didier Cossin claimed here as his company began an analysis into the governance of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

Liberian Football Association President Musa Bility has launched an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) after FIFA’s Ad-hoc Electoral Committee rejected his candidacy for the head of world football’s governing body in November.

Construction at the Jeongseon Alpine Centre is on a “very tight timeline” to be ready for the Pyeongchang 2018 test events, International Olympic Committee (IOC) Olympic Games Executive Director Christophe Dubi warned here, admitting they are keeping a close eye on the progress at the venue.

Three potential Olympic athletes have been discovered by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in their bid to help those involved in the worldwide refugee crisis, deputy director general and director of NOC relations Pere Miró has revealed.

Nigeria and Algeria booked their places in the men’s Olympic football tournament at Rio 2016 after both teams recorded semi-final victories at the 2015 African Under-23 Championships in Dakar today.