By Daniel Etchells at the Westminster Boating Base in LondonLondon Mayor Boris Johnson was on hand here to help launch London Sport, which aims to inspire one million inhabitants in the English capital to be more active by 2020 and ensure the city becomes the most physically active in the world.

offer opportunities to people of all ages and abilities to find an activity that inspires them - from parkour

By Duncan MackayParkour has taken a significant step on the journey to one day joining the Olympic programme by creating a new international organisation to help promote the sport, which is also known as freerunning or l'art du déplacement.

The Mouvement International du Parkour, Freerunning et l'Art Du Déplacement, which will be known as The

It is claimed that national groups for parkour have already been recognised by 12 national Governments

"When my friends, my family and I started parkour 25 years ago, we had no idea that it would come to

Mouvement International du Parkour, Freerunning et l’Art Du Déplacement will be based in France and the

"We will also make sure parkour, freerunning and l'art du déplacement are not seen by the authorities

By Paul Osborne at at the Susesi Convention Center in BelekApril 11 - SportAccord has unveiled the 17 International Sports Federations which will make up the programme for the inaugural World Urban Games, expected to take place in 2016 following the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.

fit with the young, modern and urban culture of this new sporting competition.Other sports such as parkour

, dance, floorball, baseball/softball, basketball, lacrosse, hockey, netball, fistball, pentathlon, parkour

By Paul OsborneJanuary 16 - International Cycling Union (UCI) President Brian Cookson and Sébastien Foucan, the pioneer behind freerunning, will be among the speakers at the 2014 SportAccord International Convention, it was announced today.

Conference Programme.Foucan, considered to be one of the early developers of the urban youth discipline Parkour

By Tom Degun at Festival Wakeboard Park in EssexApril 10 - Sport England have announced a major £24 million ($37 million/€28 million) investment boost for their successful Sportivate programme which aims to get young people between 14 to 25-year-olds more involved in sport.

hundreds of thousands of young people get involved in sports from judo and tennis to wakeboarding and parkour

By Tom Degun at Trafalgar Square in LondonMarch 22 - Five time Olympic rowing champion Sir Steve Redgrave (pictured left) and Youth Sport Trust chair Baroness Sue Campbell presented a special demonstration heren to help promote Matalan Sporting Promise.

at school as part of the project including street cheer, jump rope, ultimate frisbee, dodgeball and parkour

school, Stepney Green College and Westminster Academy were joined by a number of leading UK stars of parkour

By Emily GoddardOctober 19 - Time is running out for non-commercial projects and events inspired by the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games to be part of the official London 2012 Inspire project as the organising committee has put out a last call for entrants.

awarded to "Jump London", a London based project designed to support the safe teaching and learning of parkour

By Tom DegunJuly 19 - Rowing icon Sir Steve Redgrave, arguably Britain's greatest ever Olympian after claiming five gold medals in five consecutive Games, has visited Badgerbrook Primary School in Leicester as an ambassador for Matalan Sporting Promise.

sports.Hundreds of schools are signed up already and their pupils now have the chance to try activities like parkour