Jean-Christophe Rolland, President of the World Rowing Federation (FISA) and newly promoted as a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), is a relieved man right now.
With one week to go before the deadline for nominations for the International Cycling Union (UCI) Presidency in June, incumbent Brian Cookson mused about the "happy possibility" he could be unopposed for a second and final term.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) Session in Lima, due to open on Wednesday (September 13), is the third time the "Olympic family" has met in South America in the last four years but in truth it is really making up for lost time.
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".
Switzerland has a privileged position in the world of sport. Its favourable tax rules and neutrality have helped to make it a remarkably popular location for international sports organisations.
Paris, already gearing itself up as the prospective host of the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, will welcome the quintessential Olympic sport of wrestling this week when it hosts the World Wrestling Championships at the AccorHotels Arena in Boulevard de Bercy, which run from tomorrow until next Sunday (August 27).
As final preparations are being made for the 29th Summer Universiade due to start in Taipei on Saturday (August 19), the International University Sports Federation (FISU) President Oleg Matytsin is looking 10 years into the future.
The reaction to the draw for the eighth Women's Rugby World Cup - due to start in Ireland on Wednesday (August 9) - appeared to offer clear evidence of how the women's game has progressed, even in the space of the last three years.
When the 16th International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Championships open at the Olympic Stadium in London this week it will represent the end of a long and torturous campaign by the British capital to stage the event.
As the 25th anniversary of the Opening Ceremony of the 1992 Barcelona Olympics looms on Tuesday (July 25), many will recall the drama of the Olympic Cauldron being lit by a single, flaming arrow dispatched from the infield by Paralympic archer Antonio Rebollo.
From July 20 Wrocław, a city of just over 600,000 people in the west of Poland, will become the centre of an alternative sporting world. The International World Games Association (IWGA) is bringing its flagship event to the 2016 European Capital of Culture.
Some three decades after the idea that turned into Sportel was conceived at a meeting of the General Association of International Sports Federations in Colorado Springs, the brand is adding a new gathering of the sports marketing and media sector's very heaviest hitters to its events portfolio.
As of this month, Ryan Lochte is officially back in the swim.
On the eve of the London 2012 Olympics, the Korea Herald assessed the prospects for a taekwondo team that, four years earlier in Beijing, had won gold in all four of the events it was entitled to enter.
June 25 will bring a milestone of some significance for sport which, it has to be said, is approaching largely without fanfare. The date marks the 125th anniversary of the foundation in Turin in northern Italy of the first international sports federation (IF).
When Liechtenstein made its Olympic debut at Berlin in 1936 they discovered that the country's flag of two equal horizontal bands of blue on the top and red was identical to that of Haiti. It led to a crown being added to the top left hand corner of Liechtenstein's flag the following year to differentiate it. But it was not until 1976 that it got hoisted at an Olympic medal ceremony when Hanni Wenzel won a bronze in the giant slalom at the Winter Games in Innsbruck.
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France's World Rowing Federation President Jean-Christophe Rolland is a relieved man after this week's World Championships in Florida escaped the destruction of Hurricane Irma. But as Mike Rowbottom discovers, he still has some tricky waters to negotiate.
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