Świdnica, located 55 kilometres away from host city Wrocław, will stage roller inline hockey and artistic roller skating at the 2017 World Games, it has been announced.

Hong Kong’s Tie Yana failed to capitalise on her recent success at the Hungarian Open as she suffered a shock defeat at the hands of France's Li Xue in the preliminary round of the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) Berlin Open today.

The designs for the medals which will be awarded at next month's Winter Youth Olympic Games have today been unveiled by Lillehammer 2016.

The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has announced it has opened the bid process for the 2019 Athletics World Championships.

Mike Earl has been appointed World Rugby's anti-doping general manager in a bid to continue the fight against performance enhancing drug use in the sport, it has been announced.

The Karate1 Premier League event in Sharm el-Sheikh will go ahead as planned despite security concerns in the region, World Karate Federation (WKF) President Antonio Espinós has confirmed after claiming cancelling the event would be “following the recommendations that the terrorists are giving us”.

The World Flying Disc Federation (WFDF) has announced it is inviting bids for the 2018 World Ultimate Club Championships and World Ultimate Masters Club Championships.

Los Angeles 2024 has officially dropped its plans to house its Athletes' Village at the LA Transportation Center should the city be successful in its bid for the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, after the Bid Committee selected the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) as the site for the venue.

Broadcaster Sunset+Vine has secured the production rights for the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) Non Live Programming for events between 2016 and 2019, it has been announced.

The town of Inawashiro and the city of Koriyama look set to partner with athletes from Ghana and The Netherlands as part of a Government drive to help locals interact with those competing at Tokyo 2020, it has been announced.

Eight-time Professional Golf Association (PGA) Tour winner Choi Kyung-ju and World Golf hall of famer Pak Se-ri will coach the South Korean men’s and women’s teams respectively at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, it has been announced.

Wushu will be included at the 2017 Islamic Solidarity Games in Baku, the sport’s governing body has confirmed.

FIFA Presidential candidate Shaikh Salman Bin Ibrahim Al-Khalifa says he can guarantee “one million per cent” that no Bahraini footballers or athletes were tortured following accusations he oversaw a committee which targeted athletes participating in anti-Governmental protests in the nation in 2011.

Former international cricketer Gulam Bodi has been given a 20-year ban by Cricket South Africa (CSA) for attempting to fix matches in the country's premier domestic Twenty20 tournament.