May 4 - Niels Nygaard has been elected for another two-year term as President of the National Olympic Committee and Sports Confederation of Denmark (DIF).
May 6 - An international match bewteen the United States and Iran is due to take place at the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena this month as part of the campaign to keep the sport in the Olympic Games.
May 6 - Players will have two challenges per match when the new instant review system comes into effect in the World Superseries tour at the Indonesia Open, the Badminton World Federation (BWF) announced today.
May 6 - Canadian ice sledge hockey player Todd Nicholson has been elected as the new chair of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Athletes' Council for a four-year term, it was announced today.
May 6 - International Rugby Board (IRB) chairman Bernard Lapasset and International Judo Federation (IJF) President Marius Vizer (pictured) have officially been confirmed as the only two candidates for the position of SportAccord President when the elections take place later this month.
May 5 - The world's top tennis superstars Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer, Andy Murray and Rafael Nadal have led a minute's silence at the Mutua Madrid Open in memory of Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) executive chairman and President Brad Drewett.
May 6 - Former wheelchair fencer Emmanuelle Assmann, a bronze medallist in the team epee at Athens 2004, has been elected the new President of the French Paralympic and Sports Committee (CPSF).
May 5 - Wheelchair tennis star Jordanne Whiley sealed the first International Tennis Federation (ITF) 1 Series women's singles title of her career as she defeated British compatriot Lucy Shuker 6-3, 3-6, 6-1 in the final of the Atlanta Open in the United States.
May 6 - International Boxing Association (AIBA) President C K Wu has sent a letter reassuring the Olympic boxing community that there are no problems following a public attack from the World Boxing Council (WBC).
May 5 - Britain's Sir Bradley Wiggins properly launched his campaign to add the Giro d'Italia to the Tour De France title he won last year as Team Sky raced to victory in the team time trial.
May 5 - Swimming New Zealand have hired former British coach David Lyles to lead their preparations for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.
May 5 - Australia's John Coates has ruled out putting himself forward as a candidate for the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Presidency later this year when Jacques Rogge steps down.
May 1 - UK Sport's director of performance Simon Timson has been invited to join a ten-strong Rugby Football Union (RFU) panel which has drawn from across the world to help shape the first ever rugby union talent consensus statement.
May 4 - Miklós Gyulai, who has competed in both the Summer and Winter Olympics, has been re-elected as President of the Hungarian Athletics Federation (MASZ) for a second four-year term.
May 5 - Calls by England for a review of the future of the Commonwealth Table Tennis Championships, which started in New Delhi today, have been backed by other countries.
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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