International Cycling Union (UCI) President David Lappartient mused earlier this year that some television viewers might have been put off by the dominance of Team Sky at the Tour de France.

Last month the International Surfing Association (ISA) President told me he thinks his sport will "surprise people" when it makes its Olympic debut at Tokyo 2020.

In the New Year, former television executive Susanna Dinnage succeeds Richard Scudamore at the helm of what she describes as "the pinnacle of professional sport". When it was announced, her appointment to head the Premier League was widely welcomed.

Years ago, back in the days when you had to feed the television with farthings to keep it working - actually I may be misremembering this. Half-crowns? Florins?

Tyson Fury's was not the only sporting resurrection to hit the headlines recently. Britain now has another new national treasure - or rather, an old one - in former football manager Harry Redknapp.  

Anyone struggling to think of an appropriate Christmas gift for International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach or other members of the Olympic family at the end of another long and difficult year could do worse than pick up a copy of Middle England, the new novel by Jonathan Coe.

Governing bodies in the Olympic Movement have made a habit of going back on their word by saying one thing and doing the other.

Some of the logic is questionable, but the International Olympic Committee have made the right call when cooling their flirtation with esports.

When it was revealed, somewhat surprisingly, on the eve of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) election in 2015 that Russia were backing Sebastian Coe rather than his rival Sergey Bubka to replace Lamine Diack as the world governing body's new President, they could surely never have imagined they would spend most of the Briton's first term banned from the sport.

Birmingham has been described as "the perfect place" for cricket to return to the Commonwealth Games programme in 2022.

The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Heritage Legends Reception that took place in Monaco on Sunday (December 2) evening was, essentially, a devotional event.

"What is the only privilege for [having] my money? I can choose whatever passions I like. That’s all. Only one privilege. No more."

As I was saying here last week about Tyson Fury’s world title fight with Deontay Wilder in Los Angeles: “There may well be a hugely controversial ending.”

The Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC) General Assembly was in danger of being a somewhat understated affair from a news standpoint a few weeks before the annual meeting took place here in the Japanese capital.