North Korea say during rare talks with the South that it will send a delegation to the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in South Korea next month and Seoul said it was prepared to lift some sanctions temporarily to facilitate the visit if needed.

National coaches of different disciplines found some potential athletes on the opening day of the divisional phase of the inaugural Bangladesh Youth Games yesterday.

The 41st National Athletics Championships are all set to get underway at the Bangabandhu National Stadium tomorrow in presence of Asian Athletics Association (AAA) president Dahlan Al-Hamad, who arrived in the capital yesterday on a three-day visit.

World 100 metres champion Justin Gatlin says he is "shocked and surprised" by allegations in a British newspaper that his coach and an athletics agent offered to sell performance-enhancing drugs to undercover reporters.

A South African appeals court increases paralympic champion Oscar Pistorius' sentence for murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp to 13 years and five months.

The 33rd National Junior Athletics Championships get underway today at the Bangabandhu National Stadium, with

Four-time Olympic champion Mo Farah ends his track career in thrilling fashion with victory in the 5,000m at the Diamond League final in Zurich while world 100m champion Justin Gatlin slumps to defeat.

Mo Farah brings down the curtain on his peerless track career in Britain by winning his farewell race on home soil on an emotional afternoon at the Birmingham Grand Prix Diamond League meeting.

A sentimental Justin Gatlin hails Usain Bolt as an "amazing showman" whose career would certainly not be defined by him pulling up with cramp in the world 4x100m relay, the Jamaican's final competitive race.

Usain Bolt will run in the 4x100 metres relay heats for Jamaica on Saturday despite being a bit sore after winning bronze in the 100m final at the weekend, he informs Reuters.

Usain Bolt rues a disastrous start as his failure to fire saw American arch-rival Justin Gatlin poop what was supposed to be a party in his final 100m race at the world championships.

Usain Bolt kicks off the defence of his world 100m in his swansong season, the first step to bringing down the curtain on his glittering career.

Usain Bolt's rivals will, for once, be glad to see the back of a man who has dominated global sprinting for the last decade but the sport of athletics will be far less enthusiastic about bidding a final farewell to the charismatic Jamaican.

The Japanese women’s volleyball team beat Italy 3-0 in the final of the 23rd Summer Deaflympics, an international competition for the hearing-impaired, in Samsun, Turkey. The gold medal was the team’s first in 16 years.

Britain's Adam Peaty says it was about time that he broke his own men's 50m breaststroke world-record in the heats of the world aquatic championships.

Jamaican sprinting legend Usain Bolt insists he is on the right path as he targets the defence of his 100m crown at next month's world championships in London.

Mezbahuddin Ahmed and Shirin Akter retain the titles for the fastest man and woman of the country on Saturday.

British athletics great Mo Farah insists off the track matters didn't concern him after he eased to victory in the 3000 metres at the Diamond League meet in the London Stadium.

Manny Pacquiao's camp slam the officials after the Filipino great lost his World Boxing Organisation welterweight title in a controversial unanimous decision to Australia's Jeff Horn on Sunday.

Australian challenger Jeff Horn weighs in slightly heavier than Filipino great Manny Pacquiao ahead of their World Boxing Organization welterweight title fight in Brisbane.