The England and Wales Cricket Board have announced its membership have unanimously approved significant governance reforms, paving the way for the creation of a fully independent board next year.

Speed skater Daniel Greig has been selected as the seventh member of the Australian team to compete at Pyeongchang in next year’s Winter Olympics as the countdown to the Games hits the 50-day mark.

Cross-country skier Nikita Kryukov has claimed that Russian doping crisis whistleblower Grigory Rodchenkov could attend the Court of Arbitration for Sport's (CAS) hearing into Russian athletes expected to take place early next year.

Mikaela Shiffrin followed up yesterday’s victory in the giant slalom by clinching gold in today's parallel slalom in a dominant performance at the International Ski Federation (FIS) Alpine Skiing World Cup event at Club des Sports, Courchevel.

Switzerland’s Fanny Smith topped the table in qualifying on the first day of the International Ski Federation Ladies’ Ski Cross event in Innichen, Italy.

Cervinia is set to host the final International Ski Federation Snowboard Cross World Cup event before Christmas.

Organisers discussed budgets and sports programmes as Birmingham, Alabama, gears up to host the 2021 World Games.

Slovenian have unveiled the uniforms they will wear at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, at the Grand Hotel Union, Ljubljana.

Italian President Sergio Mattarella and Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) President Giovanni Malagò have handed the ceremonial national flags to five-time Olympic speed skating medalist Arianna Fontana and Florian Plancker, captain of the Italian Paralympic ice hockey team, prior to Pyeongchang 2018.

Team Scotland have released images of the uniform the team will wear at the Opening Ceremony of the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games.

French former Wimbledon champion Marion Bartoli has announced she is returning to the professional tennis circuit after a four-year gap at the age of 33.

The International University Sports Federation (FISU), along with US-based strategic company EPIC, have completed an inspection visit to 2019 Summer Universiade host Naples.

The Winter Universiade 2021, scheduled to take place in Lucerne, will receive an extra CHF 3 million (£2.2m/$3m/€2.5m) from the Swiss Government after a landslide vote of 181 to one.

FIFA have signed an agreement with the Mengniu Group, a market leader in dairy products in Greater China, to become the latest official sponsor for the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia.