The Spanish Olympic Committee (COE) has named its first eight athlete ambassadors for a project to construct sports facilities in different refugee centres across the country.

Argentina forward Lionel Messi and Spain midfielder Aitana Bonmati won football's 2023 Ballon d'Or titles.

British athlete Bianca Williams says she is "shocked" at the amount of money raised by a crowdfunding page set up to support two police officers sacked for their roles in a stop-and-search incident of her and Portuguese athlete Ricardo Dos Santos.

France's Minister for Sport and the Olympic and Paralympic Games Amelie Oudea-Castera has condemned attacks on the Lyon team bus outside Paris 2024 venue the Stade Velodrome.

Jiu-jitsu athletes have praised the first edition of the Abu Dhabi Extreme Championship (ADXC), a new event combining jiu-jitsu and grappling.

France's Oriane Bertone and Britain's Toby Roberts secured places at next year's Olympics In Paris 2024 after winning the women's and men's events at the International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC) European qualifier for the boulder and lead discipline.

There was a double triumph for riders from the Netherlands at the second round of the International Cycling Union Cyclo-Cross World Cup season at Maasmechelen in Belgium.

The National Olympic Committee (NOC) of the Republic of Azerbaijan has held an event featuring sports competitions for schoolchildren to mark Olympic Day.

Soviet Union sambo wrestler Evgeniy Nikolaevich Esin has died following a heart attack.

Asian Paralympic Committee President Majid Rashed has declared the fourth Asian Para Games in Hangzhou "the biggest and best ever", during a speech at the Closing Ceremony.

Bringing a friend to the tatami was the theme as the International Judo Federation (IJF) celebrated the 2023 edition of World Judo Day today.

Morocco, Portugal and Spain have officially unveiled their joint bid to host the 2030 FIFA World Cup.

Esports and hockey were combined at an event in Scotland, which was held to see how the sports could come together to increase participation.

China surpassed the record number of gold medals at a single Asian Para Games as they moved on to 196 on the penultimate day of Hangzhou 2022.

Nigerian sprinter Nzubechi Grace Nwokocha has been banned for three years by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) for the presence and use of two prohibited substances - ostarine and ligandrol.