Double gold medallist Teddy Riner walked up to the mat with judokas of Lycee Voltaire looking up at him, the giant of a man that he is at 6 feet 8 inches.

ANOC president Sheikh Ahmad al-Fahad al-Sabah (left) and Qatar Olympic Committee president HE Sheikh Joaan bin Hamad al-Thani at the ANOC reception at Al Shaqab Arena.

International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach has said he expects Qatar will bid to host the Summer Olympics in the future.

Katrin Quooss retained her shotgun trap gold at the 49th CISM World Military Shooting Championship yesterday.

Daryl Selby has been on a roll of late. In the last 16 stage of the recent World Championship in Cairo, the 34-year-old Englishman gave a big fright to eventual finalist Ramy Ashour, before going down fighting.

Channing Frye scored five of Cleveland’s 14 three pointers as the Cavaliers broke an NBA three-point shooting record in a 100-93 win over the Charlotte Hornets on Sunday night.

The Seattle Seahawks, getting a small measure of revenge for losing Super Bowl XLIX to New England in the final seconds, staged a valiant goal-line stand in the closing seconds and the stunned the Patriots 31-24 on Sunday night in the National Football League.

Max Verstappen earned comparisons to Formula One’s greatest champions after his spectacular charge through the field to finish on the podium in Sunday’s rain-hit Brazilian Grand Prix.

American Pat Perez, benefiting from a greatly improved mental approach to the game, ended a seven-year title drought on the PGA Tour with a two-shot victory in the OHL Classic at Mayakoba in Mexico on Sunday.

Rory McIlroy is aiming to displace Australian Jason Day as world number one by winning the European Tour’s season-ending DP World Tour Championship in Dubai that starts on Thursday.

Nissans dominate the entry list for Saudi Arabia’s Rally Jeddah, which takes place to a revised format in the Kingdom’s western deserts on November 17-18.

Qatar-based drivers Rob and Charlie Frijns and the unmistakeable sound of their Porsche 911 GT3 Cups roared into life at the Bahrain International Circuit as testing for Season 8 of the Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge Middle East got underway.