Ali Khan, chief executive of the International Swimming League (ISL), has accused the International Swimming Federation (FINA) of being "out of touch" with global sports.
Birmingham City Council has named Australian company Lendlease Ltd as the principal contractor for the Athletes' Village being built for the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Perry Barr.
The International Swimming Federation (FINA) has signed an "anti-doping service agreement" with the International Testing Agency (ITA) at their World Aquatics Convention in Hangzhou in China.
President of the Afghan Football Federation (AFF) Keramuudin Karim and five other officials have all been suspended following allegations of sexual abuse against players from the women’s national team.
Tokyo 2020 has welcomed leading font designers and developers Morisawa as an official supporter, the third domestic tier of its sponsorship programme for the Olympic and Paralympic Games in two years' time.
Algerian Olympic Committee (COA) members have been thanked by President Mustapha Berraf following his election as head of the Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa (ANOCA).
USA Powerlifting has been effectively been told that 171 of its doping suspensions are invalid and has been ordered to restructure its anti-doping programme by the sport’s global governing body, the International Powerlifting Federation (IPF).
Germany beat Malaysia in an eight-goal thriller today at the International Hockey Federation (FIH) Men’s World Cup in Bhrubaneswar to finish top of Pool D and advance directly into the quarter-finals.
South Korea beat hosts Japan in the final of the Women's Asian Handball Championships in Kumamoto to win the title for the fourth consecutive year.
Fiji beat the United States 29-15 in the final of the HSBC World Rugby Seven Series in Cape Town to secure their first title win in South Africa since 2009.
Mikaela Shiffrin has shown her class yet again to win the International Ski Federation Alpine Ski World Cup event in St Moritz today.
Olympic champion Francesco Friedrich of Germany won a second successive two-man bobsleigh race at the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (IBSF) World Cup event in Sigulda.
Johannes Thingnes Bø won his second gold in dramatic circumstances as the first International Biathlon Union (IBU) World Cup leg of the season concluded in Pokljuka in Slovenia.
Norway won both the men and women's team relay race at the International Ski Federation (FIS) Cross-Country World Cup event in Beitostølen.
The Netherlands secured two of the four golds available on the final day of the International Skating Union Speed Skating World Cup in Tomaszów Mazowiecki in Poland.
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.
World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) - Deputy Director, Education - Montreal, Canada
Reporting to the Director of Education and Communications, the Deputy Director, Education will be responsible for leading the development and implementation of WADA’s strategic education priorities, programs and activities; including, managing WADA’s Social Science Research Grant Program and coordinating the activities of WADA’s Education Committee.
FINA is facing an unprecedented threat with the top swimmers taking legal action against them after they were barred from competing in the new International Swimming League. But FINA President Julio Maglione claims the new concept would represent a threat to the future wellbeing of the sport, as he tells Mike Rowbottom
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