The Rwandan capital Kigali will from Sunday host some of the biggest names in cycling, including the men’s and women’s Tour de France winners, for the first staging in Africa of the UCI road world championships.

The event wants emulate golf's Ryder Cup. For now, the composition of Team World reveals some of the ways that tennis limits its ambition.

Paralympic champion Benjamin Pritchard says victory at the World Rowing Championships in Shanghai would complete the "top trump card" of major titles.

When the prestigious Ballon d'Or is decided this evening at the Theatre du Chatelet in Paris, one prominent name is unlikely to play much of a role.Of course, we're talking about Vinícius Júnior,

The failure of Michael Johnson’s attempt to transform track and field, the Grand Slam Track league, hovered over big swaths of the sport’s world championships this week

American runner Cole Hocker soared through the pack to clinch gold in the men’s 5000m at the World Athletics Championships on Sunday, bouncing back from a painful disqualification in the 1500m event.

Satwiksairaj Rankireddy / Chirag Shetty lost their BWF China Masters Super 750 final against newly-crowned world champions Seo Seung-jae / Kim Won-ho in straight games by a 19-21, 15-21 scoreline. It was the Indians' second loss in a final in two weeks, having also lost the Hong Kong Open final last week.

Britain's hot and dry summer has put this year's World Conker Championships in jeopardy with a series of heatwaves leading to smaller than normal conkers, organisers say.

Colleagues and fighters pay tribute to a legendary journalist, author, and mentor in the combat sports media world.

Jeanette Kwakye presents from the studio in Salford with analysis from Olympic heptathlon champion Jessica Ennis-Hill and Jenny Meadows