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Turkey has switched one of its venues for its co-hosting of the 2017 EuroBasket national team tournament, while the International Basketball Federation (Fiba) has confirmed it will put forward the 3x3 format as part of the sport’s programme for the 2020 summer Olympic Games.

The Dentsu Sports Asia division of Japan-based advertising and public relations firm Dentsu has entered into a four-year partnership with the Olympic Council of Malaysia (OCM).

Formula One’s long-term future in Southeast Asia has been called into question after the motor racing series’ chief executive, Bernie Ecclestone, said Singapore was reluctant to extend its race deal and Malaysian stakeholders repeated their stance that the country’s event would not continue beyond 2018.

The PyeongChang Organising Committee for the 2018 Olympic and Paralympic winter Games (POCOG) has today (Friday) agreed a partnership with GS Group through which the South Korean conglomerate has made a donation to aid its preparations for the event.

Riccardo Fraccari, president of the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC), has backed plans for Japan's Fukushima Prefecture to stage some of the sports’ fixtures during the Tokyo 2020 summer Olympic Games.

The Sporty Solutionz agency has committed to developing the sport of boxing in India by entering into a wide-ranging partnership with the Indian Boxing Council (IBC).

The long-running saga over the future of AC Milan is set to be concluded next month, after the Chinese consortium seeking to buy the Italian Serie A football club said it expects to complete the deal by December 13.

The construction cost of a new gymnastics arena for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games has more than doubled after Shimzu Corp was awarded a Y20.5bn (€175.1m/$187.8m) contract to build the facility.

The English city of Manchester will stage the World Taekwondo Championships in 2019 after the World Taekwondo Federation (WTF) assigned hosting rights to a number of its leading events.

Japanese automotive giant Honda and Italian company Ducati have each agreed five-year extensions to their manufacturer agreements for the MotoGP motorcycling championship.

Narinder Batra has been elected as the new president of the International Hockey Federation (FIH), becoming the first Indian official to lead an Olympic sport’s global governing body.

The International Hockey Federation (FIH) has announced that the Chinese city of Changzhou will host the final edition of its Women’s Champions Trophy in 2018.

The organising committee for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games has approved plans to stage some baseball and softball games in Japan’s Fukushima Prefecture, one of the worst-hit areas during the 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster.

The Japanese city of Sapporo has stepped up its efforts to land the 2026 winter Olympic and Paralympic Games after presenting a bid plan to the Japanese Olympic Committee (JOC).

The PyeongChang Organising Committee for the 2018 Olympic and Paralympic winter Games (POCOG) has distanced itself from a mounting political scandal in South Korea by denying that Games contracts have been “contaminated” by outside factors.

Yoshiaki Ito has been appointed as the inaugural president of the One Championship in Japan as the mixed martial arts series seeks to further raise its profile in the country.