With the New Year just three days away, I think it is fair to say 2018 has been an eventful year for the Olympic Movement.

"Those were the best days of my life," sings Bryan Adams in Summer of ‘69.

It is Christmas week at insidethegames, which means that it is time for our annual survey of top International Olympic Committee (IOC) Tweeters.

Nine years ago the Women's Sport and Fitness Foundation (WSFF) asked a sample of over 2,000 UK people what was the most Iconic Moment in the previous 25 years of British women’s sport. Top choice was the gold-medal performance in the ice dance at the 1984 Winter Olympic Games in Sarajevo. 

Boxing Day seemed an appropriate time to reflect on a fantastic year for the fight game, culminating in an emotional and uplifting comeback for the sport’s most controversial figure, Tyson Fury, and, last Saturday night the fight of the year, indeed arguably any year, in Britain, which boasts more than a fistful of world champions,..

One of the most damning indictments of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) failing in its Russian data mission was that very few were surprised.

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach has repeatedly warned International Federations to "change or be changed".

As we enter 2019 it feels an important moment in our countdown to Tokyo 2020, with our planning for the Games ramping up even further.

Next year the Universiade will head to both Krasnoyarsk and Naples to celebrate the 60th anniversary of a worldwide event under the control of the International University Sport Federation (FISU). But 2019 will also mark 150 years since a race which could be said to have launched international student competition.

International Swimming League (ISL) financer Konstantin Grigorishin suggested at his Stamford Bridge summit yesterday that the "day of the sports governing body is coming to an end" and has called for swimmers to accept nothing less than 50 per cent of revenues from competition organisers.

A new financial report - for 2017 - has appeared on the International Swimming Federation (FINA) website.

The line between sport and showbiz grows thinner by the day to the point of obliteration.

An announcement from the Confederation of African Football (CAF) last week regarding the location of its Super Cup final represents a worrying trend for supporters of the so-called beautiful game.

International Cycling Union (UCI) President David Lappartient mused earlier this year that some television viewers might have been put off by the dominance of Team Sky at the Tour de France.