We have increasingly been told that it is becoming harder and harder to keep people’s attention, particularly with technology playing a greater role in our daily lives. Twitter and Snapchat are seen as indicative of this, with thoughts or photos instantly and quickly produced, before seemingly fading out of our consciousness.

In the German city of Stuttgart on Wednesday (April 26), a certain high-profile Russian tennis player will return to competitive action after serving a 15-month drugs ban.

A month ago the entire future of the Commonwealth Games appeared in serious danger after Durban were stripped of the 2022 edition of the event. 

There are, as you might expect, numerous definitions of "sport" in the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary.

Wages and electoral politics make uneasy bedfellows.

Sixteen years separate the super-heavyweight Olympic gold medals won by Anthony Joshua at London 2012 and Wladimir Klitschko at Atlanta 1996. 

Whisper it quietly, but in the spirit of festivities I am going to begin with some rare praise for the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

The Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) Presidential race took a brief X-rated twist earlier this week, when incumbent John Coates admitted swearing at the Australian Sports Commission (ASC) chairman John Wylie earlier this year.

One of International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach's favourite mantras is the "change or be changed" line, which he uses at every possible opportunity.

Inevitably, whenever the conversational topic gets around to the Olympics, the question I am asked is: "Which is the best Games you have ever covered?"

So the Rio de Janeiro Mayor has become embroiled in another 2016 Olympics-related corruption scandal. And Kenya’s 2016 Olympic marathon champion Jemima Sumgong has tested positive for EPO. And yes, six international riders have been provisionally suspended by the International Equestrian Federation after their horses failed doping tests.

To appropriate Randy Bachman’s best-known line, "You ain’t seen nothing yet."

The Rainbow Round of Sport, held between April 6 and 9, aimed to highlight the issue of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) prejudice in sport, by showing support for athletes, fans, volunteers and others involved in sport who may be LGBTI by wearing rainbow laces.

A name change is largely a symbolic gesture but can be an important way to create the perception of change. Think Cassius Clay to Muhammad Ali, Old Labour to New Labour, International Federation of Associated Wrestling Styles to United World Wrestling…