Worldwide governing bodies representing boxing and weightlifting have called for the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to clarify the exact requirements they need to meet in order to retain their places on the Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024 programmes respectively.
The International Olympic Committee's (IOC) suspension of Kuwait will remain in place but progress towards their reinstatement is being made, the organisation's Executive Board (EB) announced here today.
New sports will be provisionally approved for the Paris 2024 Olympics at the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) Session scheduled for Milan in October 2019, it has been announced here in Lausanne.
Olympic figure skating bronze medallist Denis Ten has died at the age of 25 after he was stabbed in a knife attack in Almaty today.
Swimming finals at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games are set to be held in the morning after the sport's worldwide governing body sided with the American networks in a dispute with Japanese broadcasters over the timing of gold medal races.
American bobsledder Elana Meyers Taylor has accused the International Olympic Committee (IOC) of ignoring the wishes of athletes after the monobob discipline was added to the Beijing 2022 programme instead of the four-woman event.
Tunisia's bid for the 2022 Summer Youth Olympic Games (YOG) has been reinstated after the country's Government claimed they had ended restrictions on Israeli athletes competing at events in the nation.
Kate Caithness, the World Curling Federation (WCF) President, will stand unopposed for a third term at the governing body's annual general assembly in September, the organisation have announced.
All sports organisations have been urged to "carefully consider" awarding events to either Serbia or Kosovo by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) amid ongoing political tension in the region.
The International Basketball Federation (FIBA) has banned 13 players and fined the national federations of The Philippines and Australia after a mass brawl broke out in a World Cup 2019 Asian qualifier between the two countries earlier this month.
A Calgary City Council Committee has approved CAD$5.1 million (£3 million/$3.8 million/€3.3 million) of extra funding to help decide whether the city should pursue a bid for the 2026 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Russian curler Aleksandr Krushelnitckii's doping case following his positive drugs test at the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang will be heard by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) on September 19.
Chilean shot putter Natalia Duco has been provisionally suspended having tested positive for a banned substance in April, the country's athletics federation has confirmed.
Jakarta's Governor Anies Baswedan has ordered that flags of countries set to compete at the Asian Games in the city be reinstalled after they were removed following social media criticism.
The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has announced the members of its Standing Committees, with Matthias Kamber named as the new Anti-Doping chairperson.
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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