Nobody will have an advantage of knowing the newly-built Reserva de Marapendi course and it remains to be seen whether it will favour power or precision

Incomparable Usain Bolt leads the charge, but lingering fitness concerns over several stars could see Jamaican athletes struggle to repeat their 12 medal haul of London at the Rio Olympic Stadium.

Track and field has been dragged through the ringer since Sebastian Coe took over as president of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) in Beijing last August on a ‘zero-tolerance’ anti-doping mandate

The risk of Zika virus infections at the Olympic Games is both low and manageable, the chief of the World Health Organisation said on Friday, a week before the event kicks off in Rio de Janeiro.

Qatar coach Daniel Carreno yesterday named a batch of 28 players in his squad that will play the final phase of the 2018 FIFA World Cup.

Action from the COTIF Tournament match between Qatar (in maroon) and Mexico in Alcudia, Mallorca, Spain, yesterday.

One of the highlights of the third day of the Qatar Goodwood Festival was the Qatar Goodwood Cup (Gr2).

Al Shaqab Racing’s Mehmas imposed himself courageously at the very end of the Qatar Richmond Stakes (Gr2) on third day of the Qatar Goodwood Festival.

Russia’s Olympic committee (ROC) has removed three cyclists from the team heading to the Rio Games while three more, who were potentially implicated in the McLaren report, are under investigation, the UCI announced yesterday.

A riot during the Olympic torch relay cast a shadow over the Rio Games starting in just over a week yesterday, marking a new low in a ritual that had been meant to unite Brazil.

Nico Rosberg hopes history will repeat itself as he seeks a much-needed win on home soil at the German Grand Prix to put him back on top of the drivers’ world championship.

Venus Williams breezed into the third round of the Rogers Cup in Montreal on Wednesday with a straight sets rout of Barbora Strycova as home hope Eugenie Bouchard upset 11th seed Dominika Cibulkova.