Europe

Super League clubs have voted in favour of a new measure that will allow teams in the English rugby league competition to sign players with part of their finances outside the salary cap.

Mark Waller, executive vice-president for international at the NFL, has said the American football league has been contacted by a number of German cities over staging games in the country, adding that plans are progressing over fixtures in Mexico and Brazil.

The National Basketball Association has announced that the Boston Celtics will travel to Italy to play a pre-season game on October 6 against Olimpia Milano as part of the NBA Global Games Europe 2015 series.

The English Premier League has revamped its solidarity payments system for clubs competing in the Football League as it prepares to reap the benefits of its bumper new media rights deal.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has released the report by its Evaluation Commission into the bid cities for the 2022 winter Olympic Games, with Almaty and Beijing’s main concerns flagged up as being financial issues and the provision of suitable snow levels, respectively.

Nikolai Tolstykh has been fired as president of the cash-strapped Russian Football Union (RFU), with officials maintaining the decision will have no effect on the country’s preparations to host the 2018 Fifa World Cup.

Fiba, the global governing body of basketball, has revealed that it held a “constructive” meeting with a number of the sport’s European stakeholders earlier this week.

Canada-based gaming company Amaya Gaming has secured its second major endorsement deal this month for its PokerStars brand, with Portuguese football superstar Cristiano Ronaldo joining Neymar as a partner.

Kazakhstan’s Constitutional Council has struck down a controversial law that would have criminalised dissemination of information supporting homosexuality, with two month remaining until Almaty discovers whether it will host the 2022 winter Olympic Games.

The Russian government has made further cuts to the budget for preparations for the 2018 Fifa World Cup national team football tournament.

Gilbert Ysern, general manager of the French Tennis Federation (FFT), has said the bid from Paris to stage the 2024 edition of the Olympic Games could help drive the stalled revamp of Roland Garros, the home of the French Open tennis grand slam that takes place in the city.

Wales’ First Minister Carwyn Jones has appeared to rule out the possibility of the country hosting a future edition of the Commonwealth Games, stating the multi-sport event would be too expensive to stage.

With Cybathlon already attracting global interest ahead of its October 2016 debut, could the event pose a threat to the Paralympic Games? Elisha Chauhan asked IPC (International Paralympic Committee) President Sir Philip Craven.

English Premiership rugby union club London Irish has confirmed that it is in talks over the possibility of staging a regular season game overseas, amid reports that the team could play one of its home matches in New York.

Elisha Chauhan looks at how event organisers and marketing agency H+H Management have approached the sale and distribution of commercial rights for the 2016 Cybathlon.

Cybathlon – the new Paralympic-style event that will see man and machine race as one – has been created to advance engineering and technology that assists people with disabilities. However, it will also put on a spectacle that is unrivalled in the world of sport. Elisha Chauhan reports.