Snooker: Former world champion Stuart Bingham is facing a disciplinary hearing after falling foul of the sport’s betting laws, the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA) said. The governing body said that it had investigated a breach by England’s 2015 world champion and that “there was a case to answer”. Bingham, 40, has admitted breaking WPBSA rules, but there is no suggestion of match-fixing.  “I did not know I was not allowed to bet on other players’ matches. I thought it was just my own I could not bet on, and I have never done that,” Bingham said.

Ice Hockey: The US women’s national ice hockey team will boycott the 2017 world championships unless their demands for higher wages are met by USA Hockey, lawyers for the players said. The defending world champions, citing a lack of progress in year-long negotiations, indicated they will not report for training camp on March 21 unless adequate progress is made. The world championships begin March 31 in Michigan.

Olympics: A senior International Olympic Committee member has apologised after comparing calls for a blanket ban of Russian athletes for state-sponsored doping to Nazi Germany’s treatment of Jews. In a statement, Gian-Franco Kasper said: “It was an inappropriate and insensitive comment. I apologise unreservedly for any offence I have caused. I am truly sorry.” The 73-year-old Swiss made the Holocaust comparison during yesterday’s IOC executive board meeting in Pyeongchang, the host city for next February’s Winter Olympics.