By David Owen at the Monte Carlo Sporting ClubNBC was the big winner at this year's Olympic Golden Rings

©IOCThe sale of broadcasting rights for the Games constitutes the Olympic Movement's biggest revenue

Winter Games on NBCProducers - Barbara Blangiandi, Joseph Lee, John MillerBronze: America Movil, Team

FeatureAwarded by Marisol Casado and Danka BartekovaGold: NBC Olympics, XXII Olympic Winter Games –

Winter Games on CBCProducers - Chris Irwin, Sherali Najak, Karen Sebesta, Paul McDougall, Jeff Pearlman

rights through to 2032 in a $7 billion boost to Olympic MovementApril 2014: NBC coverage of Sochi 2014

By David OwenThe International Olympic Committee (IOC) has exploited China's likely status as host of

the 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games to agree a bumper new broadcasting deal with China Central

The state broadcaster has been awarded exclusive rights to screen the next four Games after Rio 2016

They have demonstrated many times their ability to bring first class coverage of the Olympic Games to

Games, as well as supporting sport and athletes in China and around the world."

rightsSeven Network secure Australian TV Olympic rightsMay 2014: NBCUniversal buys US Olympic rights

through to 2032 in a $7 billion boost to Olympic MovementApril 2014: NBC coverage of Sochi 2014 boosts

mammal in the room had a label around one of its tusks with the word "Temperature" on it.The Qatar Olympic

NBC's massively renewed $7.75 billion (£5 billion/€6.2 billion) deal to cover the Olympics through to 2032

and Paralympics as chief feature writer for insidethegames, having covered the previous five summer Games

, and four winter Games, for The Independent.

By Mike RowbottomDoha will host the 2019 World Athletics Championships after beating rivals Barcelona and Eugene in a secret ballot vote at the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Council meeting in Monaco today.

first time to our region," said Sheikh Saoud Bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, secretary general of the Qatar Olympic

ambitions of hosting the 2024 Olympics, considerably strengthened by NBC's massive underwriting of live Games

coverage through to 2032.Eugene's presentation called upon athletes Allyson Felix, the multiple world

and Olympic 200 metres champion, and world mile and 1500m record holder Hicham El Guerrouj, who described

year bought exclusive rights to show live coverage of six winter and summer Olympics, from 2022 to 2032

By David OwenAt London 2012, Australians had the privilege of being the most valuable Summer Games audience

measured by the fee per capita paid by media companies for the right to air Olympic coverage in the

of Rio 2016 broadcasting deals, conducted by insidethegames, Australians, hosts of the 2000 Summer Games

across the globe ©Getty ImagesTheir demotion appears to underline how much the Australian market for Olympic

rightsSeven Network secure Australian TV Olympic rightsMay 2014: NBCUniversal buys US Olympic rights

through to 2032 in a $7 billion boost to Olympic MovementApril 2014: NBC coverage of Sochi 2014 boosts

income of media giant ComcastJune 2011: NBC retain US Olympic television rights after multi-billion

On July 8, Thomas Bach rounded off the second day of an International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive

Games between 2021 and 2032 across all media platforms to NBCUniversal (NBCU).Yes, some might argue

Games, is an effective - and cost-effective - way of enticing young people to engage with the Movement.With

States, while appearing to do what he can to encourage other potential bidders for the 2024 Summer Games

TV channel is also sensible.For the rest - most notably the consequences of his Olympic Agenda 2020

Universal Sports Network will combine to deliver 54.5 hours of coverage of the Nanjing 2014 Summer Youth Olympic

Games.

exclusive United States coverage rights to all Olympic Games through until 2032.As well as the Summer

and Winter Games, this agreement also covers the IOC's Youth Olympic Games, with the company set to

, SingTel mio TV will offer coverage of the Youth Olympic Games in Singapore, featuring four channels

of 24-hour HD action, including a news channel.The 2014 Youth Olympic Games will feature approximately

rights through to 2032 in a $7 billion boost to Olympic MovementMarch 2014: Paralympics are "diamond

ShirinianNBC Sports Group has been nominated for four Primetime Emmy Awards for its coverage of the Sochi 2014 Olympic

of Television Arts & Sciences in Los Angeles, California.Sochi's Opening Ceremony at the Fisht Olympic

Stadium on February 7 included a tribute to Russia's history, and the unveiling of the Olympic rings

Games ©AFP/Getty Images"No single event captures the world's attention and imagination like an Olympics

NBC says the Sochi Games produced "the most dominant" primetime Winter Olympics performance on record

rights through to 2032 in a $7 billion boost to Olympic MovementMarch 2014: Paralympics are "diamond

public-service broadcaster NHK and the Japan Commercial Broadcasters Association (JBA), has extended its Olympic

Games rights deal through to the 2024 summer edition in a 110 billion yen (£593 million/$1 billion/€733

billion (£4.51 billion/€5.49 billion). agreement with the IOC to extend its broadcast rights deal through 2032

Games and the Rio 2016 Olympic Games in a deal unveiled in 2012.Tokyo being awarded the 2020 Olympics

"The 2020 Olympic Summer Games in Tokyo, which will be the first Summer Games to be held in Japan for

NHK is devoted to spreading the excitement of the Olympic Games and to delivering inspiring Games through

In particular, as for the 2020 Olympic Games held in our local city of Tokyo, coverage of the Games will

By Gary AndersonThe United States Olympic Committee (USOC) has revealed that Boston, Los Angeles, San

and Washington D.C. are the four cities that have been shortlisted as candidates for a potential 2024 Olympic

and Paralympic Games bid.

We have no doubt about the ability of Dallas to host the Olympic and Paralympic Games, and look forward

Last month New York and Philadelphia pulled out of mounting any potential bid for the 2024 Summer Games

The iconic Golden Gate Bridge could provide a stunning backdrop to the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games

NBCUniversal worth a reported $7.65 billion (£4.51 billion/€5.49 billion) covering the period from 2021 to 2032

.The IOC is set to name the host city for the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2017.Contact the writer

Next came an athletics doping exclusive, then a Commonwealth Games boxing announcement, and then yet

commercial deals in the history of the Olympics," was the reply.The extension of the deal with NBC until 2032

Games.

but the first South American Games has recently received a bombardment of criticism ©Getty ImagesThe

race for the Games in 2022 is not proving much happier viewing.

Games between 2021 and 2032 this week.The whole process took just six months - and this at the instigation

executive Brian Roberts understatedly acknowledged: "No-one can be quite sure what the world looks like in 2032

Brian Roberts sign an agreement to secure the United States broadcast rights to the Olympics until 2032

mutually beneficial for them too.Talks between the IOC and NBC about extending their television deal until 2032

content in between Games, rather than when Games are on.In this way, the venture should be complementary

By David OwenThe International Olympic Committee (IOC) today announced one of the most important commercial

agreements in its history, selling United States broadcasting rights to the Olympic Games between 2021

and 2032 to NBCUniversal (NBCU) for $7.65 billion (£4.51 billion/€5.49 billion).

economies have been struggling to generate growth.The deal will take to 23 the number of editions of the Games

millennium.Many observers believe that if a US city is not selected to host the next available Summer Games

partnership with NBC for many decades" and was "thrilled we will continue to work with them through to 2032

shall be able to continue to offer first-class broadcast coverage of the Olympic Games to the widest

Bach sign the deal which gives NBC rights to broadcast the Games until 2032 ©IOC NBCU has acquired the

Diego has submitted a host city bid proposal for the 2024 Olympics and Paralympics to the United States Olympic

Exploratory Committee, claimed they are not successful this time they will keep trying at least until the 2032

Games."

Olympics and Paralympics already exist and revealed that Fiesta Island would become a key site for the Games

end of last year that it was talking to less than ten cities about the possibility of bidding for the Games

bid, Probst claimsNovember 2013: USOC visits potential 2024 Olympic bid citiesOctober 2013: Committee

It's blue-sky thinking time at the International Olympic Committee (IOC).It remains to be seen quite

how radical the changes ultimately engendered by new President Thomas Bach's Olympic Agenda 2020 turn

Games programme.There are, as IOC members lined up to point out, plenty of sound reasons for such an

on gender equality, in terms of the absolute numbers of male and female athletes who compete at the Games

programme of, say, 2032 will feature many more mixed events than we have at present; but it could take