Dakar in Senegal is in pole position to stage the 2022 Summer Youth Olympic Games (YOG) after a proposal

Games in Africa in either 2032 or 2036.An IOC delegation has already visited Senegal to meet with Government

 "That is why we want to take the Youth Olympic Games 2022 to Africa.

Games 2022".

 Buenos Aires is due to host the third Summer Youth Olympic Games in October to follow the first

Games event.Cape Town in South Africa came closest when reaching the candidature stage of the 2004 edition

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has started honouring its financial commitments under the Host

City Contract for the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

projects related to the development of youth and sport-oriented activities” in Los Angeles before the Games

$4.5 billion (£3.3 billion/€3.8 billion) from broadcasting rights in the current 2017-2020 four-year Olympic

already agreed a deal worth $7.7 billion (£5.6 billion/€6.3 billion) for broadcasting rights to the Olympic

Games between 2021 and 2032 in the United States alone.Los Angeles was awarded the 2028 Games at the

Narinder Batra has targeted bidding for major events including the 2026 Commonwealth Games after being

elected President of the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) today.

International Hockey Federation, polled 143 of the 160 votes during an Annual General Meeting held at "Olympic

nominations.Batra is now one of the few figures to lead an International Federation and a National Olympic

Once I settle down, the IOA will take a proposal to the Government to host the 2032 Olympics, 2030 Asian

Games and 2026 Commonwealth Games," Batra was quoted as saying by Sports Keeda afterwards."

We should think big but hosting these Games depends on [the] Government as it is the Government which

confirmed that Thomas Bach had been elected International Olympic Committee (IOC) President. 

reached the halfway stage of his first term ©Getty Images Managing business interests of IOC and wider Olympic

Movement - B plusThe early deal with NBC, locking the US network into broadcasting the Games until 2032

business when circumstances are right.For all that, the rate of growth of cash distributions to National Olympic

slowed dramatically.This may lead to tensions in the second half of Bach’s mandate, if hard-pressed Olympic

other IOC spending priorities, such as central staffing and administrative costs, the new HQ and the Olympic

When a new President of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) is elected on September 8 at the IPC Assembly in Abu Dhabi, Sir Philip Craven, who has filled that role since 2001, will be free of what he describes as an "eight-days-a-week job". 

person at the helm…Craven may not be flavour of the month, or even the year, with the International Olympic

Thomas Bach.A passionately delivered announcement in Rio de Janeiro last year, just two days after the Olympic

Maybe the fact that I announced our position just a couple of days before the start of the Olympic Games

The Paralympic Games themselves have become a high-performance sporting event as part of a two-Games,

Board level to develop the new long-term agreement with the IOC made in June last year which goes up to 2032

In the absence of a genuine contest to determine host cities for either the 2024 or 2028 Olympic Games

, it is hard to get too excited about the agenda for next month’s International Olympic Committee (IOC

knowledge, it is certainly not something which is so far being discussed at any great length in the wider Olympic

joint-awarding plans were approved, Bach repeatedly suggested it will not be his responsibility to choose the 2032

The most obvious figure, if you had to pick one, would still be Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) and Association

of National Olympic Committees President Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah.

The former three-time Olympic slalom canoeing champion would have plenty of rapids to paddle past first

– the International Olympic Committee (IOC)?

Now that the matter of choosing the Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games host has been taken care of,

which its most important task looks already to have been accomplished at least until 2025, when the 2032

that astute stamp-collecting lawyer and sports politician Peter Coni later shrewdly observed: “The Olympic

it, Samaranch had to wait close to a decade before he felt able to get the President of the Summer Games

Movement”.Nebiolo was also President of the Association of Summer Olympic International Federations

Innsbruck 2026 officials have presented more details on the possible Austrian bid for the Winter Olympics and Paralympics - including the possibility of events in Germany.

preferred site for speed skating.Competition would be held at the Eisstadion Inzell which would allow the Games

 If approved, it would mean Olympic sport in the home country of current International Olympic Committee

An "Olympic Roadshow" will promote the Games to residents before the key referendum.Defeats at similar

Games in 2012.Sion in Switzerland and Calgary in Canada are among other contenders for 2026.Almaty in

, however, which will be held in February.An ambitious plan for Germany to stage the 2032 Summer Olympics

A potential 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games bid from The Netherlands is not currently on the cards,

according the European country's National Olympic Committee.

, with Dutch capital Amsterdam the likely host city.It follows a decision by the International Olympic

 Focus has now set towards 2032, with Dutch radio station BNR claiming documents had been compiled

to look at a possible bid in the country.When asked by insidethegames, however, the Dutch Olympic

Of course, as an Olympic Committee, we would like it if the Olympic and Paralympic Games would ever come

Paralympics has also been staged in The Netherlands with Arnhem hosting the 1980 Games.Interest for the 2032

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) will start sending money to California almost immediately if

full agreement is reached for Los Angeles to host the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

already agreed a deal worth $7.7 billion (£5.8 billion/€6.5 billion) for broadcasting rights to the Olympic

Games between 2021 and 2032 in the United States alone.Los Angeles agreed on Monday to host the 2028

Los Angeles 2028 Organising Committee.The Los Angeles 2028 deal means Paris are set to host the 2024 Olympic

Games ©Getty ImagesUnder the traditional timetable, the 2028 Games would not have been awarded until

take place.Any surplus derived from the 2028 Games is to stay in the US, with the United States Olympic

Transparency is a buzzword in international sport, even if to my mind it is a concept still more honoured in the breach than the observance.

So let’s give the International Olympic Committee (IOC) a little credit for accompanying yesterday's

billion/€6.5 billion) deal, averaging out at more than $2.5 billion (£1.9 billion/€2.1 billion) per Olympic

quadrennium, for United States broadcasting rights to the Games between 2021 and 2032.The Los Angeles

produced a surplus of more than $200 million - will remain in the United States: the United States Olympic

- possibly a prudent measure given the need to nurture and sustain public support for the Olympic project

International Floorball Federation secretary general John Liljelund has claimed success at the 2021 World Games

in American city Birmingham may propel the sport to the Olympic programme if Los Angeles hosts in 2028

Otherwise 2032 would be the more logical time that we could think about maybe being added to the Olympic

was made possible earlier this month when plans received unanimous approval from the International Olympic

become a launchpad for several sports which use it as a showcase for inclusion on the programme of the Olympic

With Olympic Agenda 2020 we are among 10 or 12 International Federations that see a possibility," Liljelund

President Thomas Bach said that the IOC are looking to see which sports logistically could be on the Olympic

Ministry is reportedly pressing ahead with a feasibility process as they consider a possible bid for the 2032

Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games.

It follows a call from Indian Olympic Association (IOA) President N Ramachandran last month for the Government

to consider bids for the 2030 Asian Games before an Olympic tilt two years later.A process to consider

Indian Olympic Association President N Ramachandran has spoken positively about a possible bid ©Getty

 It follows interest in a 2032 Olympic bid from Brisbane in Australia and in Germany, where an ambitious

week.Amsterdam, Madrid and Saint Petersburg are among other locations to have been linked to a possible bid.The 2032

An ambitious 13-city plan for the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games has been unveiled by the German state

Eight months of discussions have led to a planning paper which has allocated all of the Olympic sports

Games has never been held in so many cities before but the plan could adhere to Bach's Olympic Agenda

cities in Germany ©RROCCountries interested in hosting the Summer Olympics now have to turn to the 2032

13.The 2032 Games are currently due to be awarded in 2025 - which would be the last year of Bach's Presidency

 Brisbane in Australia has emerged as another possible contender for 2032. 

Swiss watchmaker Omega has implemented new technology with the aim of boosting the excitement of open water swimming events at the ongoing International Swimming Federation (FINA) World Aquatics Championships in Budapest.

five kilometre event on Lake Balaton.In May, Omega extended its partnership with the International Olympic

Committee through to 2032.The extension marks 100 years since the start of Omega's relationship with

the Olympic Games, which dates back to Los Angeles 1932.Omega, a part of the Switzerland-based Swatch

Group, has served as official timekeeper at the Olympic Games on 27 occasions.It is a member of The

Olympic Partner programme.