Beijing will host the 2029 World Aquatics Championships, becoming the second Chinese city to do so after Shanghai in 2011. As previously announced, Singapore and Budapest will host the 2025 and 2027 editions respectively.

South African athlete Caster Semenya, a double Olympic champion who is barred from competing in some races because she refuses to undergo treatment to reduce her testosterone levels, appealed for help on Friday to finance her legal battle against this regulation.

Spanish justice has confirmed that FC Barcelona must pay nearly 23 million euros ($24.7 million) in taxes on payments made to football agents between 2012 and 2015.

Five months before the Olympic Games, French fencer Ysaora Thibus, 2022 World Champion, has been provisionally suspended by the International Fencing Federation. As the French Fencing Federation (FFE) announced on Friday, this is due to an abnormal anti-doping test carried out on 14 January.

Spanish athlete Mohamed Katir, the reigning world 5000m runner-up, announced in an official statement on Wednesday that he had been "provisionally suspended" by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) for "a violation resulting from three whereabouts failures in the last twelve months". 

Kenyan athlete Michael Saruni, 28, has been banned for four years after he was caught trying to send a proxy to a doping test. The 800m runner tried to cheat his way through the test at the national trials for the World Championships and the Commonwealth Games in Nairobi in June 2022. 

Formula One's governing body, the FIA, on Monday proposed a change to the sprint format for the weekend races of the 2024 season, which starts in Bahrain later this month.

Saudi Arabia will host the 2024 West Asian Football Federation (WAFF) Women's Championship this month - the first official 11-a-side women's tournament to be held in the Kingdom.

Latvia's parliament passed an amendment banning its national sports teams from competing against Russia and Belarus in a show of solidarity with Ukraine.

The president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, raised the possibility of the region hosting the 2036 Olympic Games after the securing of a Formula 1 Grand Prix. "We are working on it," she said. That would be more than four decades after the 1992 Barcelona Olympics.

A change to the final dates of the 20th Mediterranean Games, with the Opening Ceremony on 21 August and the Closing Ceremony on 3 September 2026, has been announced by the International Committee of the Mediterranean Games in collaboration with the Taranto 2026 Organising Committee..

The French Swimming Federation (FFN) and its public partners have been selected to host the prestigious European Aquatics Championships in Paris-St Denis in 2026. This will be the third time that France has hosted the European Aquatics Championships, following Paris in 1931 and Strasbourg in 1987.

French President Emmanuel Macron visited the National Institute for Sport and Performance (INSEP) on Tuesday and declared that success at the Olympic Games was "within our reach", expressing confidence despite the "massive" challenges of security and transport.

The Egyptian Olympic Committee has officially dismissed Hisham Hatab as president of the committee during an extraordinary general assembly.