International Paralympic Committee (IPC) President Andrew Parsons and International Gymnastics Federation counterpart Morinari Watanabe are among the nine officials proposed for membership of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), it was announced here today.
International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach has hinted boxing's place on the Tokyo 2020 programme could be in doubt if Gafur Rakhimov is elected President of the sport's worldwide governing body later this year.
International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach says the organisation is "not concerned" with the state of the race to host the 2026 Winter Olympics and Paralympics, despite question marks remaining over all five cities looking to bid.
The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) has today announced that Olympic 3,000 metres steeplechase champion Ruth Jebet is among more than 100 track and field athletes and officials who are subject to disciplinary proceedings for doping offences.
A major event planned for Tunisia has been suspended by the International Judo Federation (IJF) over the country's treatment of Israeli athletes, a day after the nation's bid for the 2022 Youth Olympic Games was reinstated.
Kazakhstan's Interior Ministry has said it has identified the two suspects in the murder of Olympic figure skating bronze medallist Denis Ten and detained one of them.
Global Association of International Sports Federations (GAISF) President Patrick Baumann has claimed esports can be helpful to the development of traditional sports rather than a hindrance, as the organisation prepares to host a forum on the topic with the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
The most expensive tickets for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, for the Opening and Closing Ceremonies, will cost ¥300,000 ($2,685/£2,049/€2,294) while half of all tickets will cost ¥8,000 ($72/£55/€61) or less, the Organising Committee have announced today.
The International Olympic Committee's (IOC) Executive Board has decided to withhold all payments to the International Committee of Sports for the Deaf (ICSD) amid continuing allegations of embezzlement against its President Valery Rukhledev.
The European Olympic Committees' (EOC) Marketing and Communication Commission hosted a meeting in Cluj-Napoca in Romania.
London's Olympic Stadium, the host last week to the new-style Athletics World Cup, will reverberate to the sound of track and field again this weekend as the 11th of the International Association of Athletics Federations Diamond League meetings of the season takes place tomorrow and Sunday (July 22).
Peter Sagan won his third stage of this year's Tour de France as Geraint Thomas remained in the yellow jersey.
Qualification action continued today at the World Fencing Championships in Wuxi.
The United States reached the final of the mixed team compound competition at the Archery World Cup in Berlin, to guarantee a first medal of the season at the final event.
The unified Korean team of Jang Woojin from the South and Cha Hyo Sim from the North reached the final of the mixed doubles at the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) Korea Open, as another combined pair exited at the semi-finals of the men's doubles today.
At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Iranian judoka Arash Miresmaeili was disqualified for weighing in at nearly four pounds above the limit for his weight class of his under-66 kilograms match against an Israeli opponent Ehud Vaks in the first round. It was claimed Miresmaeili had gone on an eating binge to protest the International Olympic Committee's recognition of the state of Israel. Iran does not recognise the state of Israel, and Miresmaeili's actions won praise from high-ranking Iranian officials. Mohammad Khatami, the country's President at the time, was quoted as saying Miresmaili's actions would be "recorded in the history of Iranian glories". He was later awarded $125,000 by the Government - the same amount given to Olympic gold medallists.
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