This week, International Olympic Committee (IOC) vice-president Yu Zaiqing unveiled a new bust of President Thomas Bach at the Dongsi Olympic Community Park in the heart of Beijing.

So, the process to find the replacement for riding as the fifth discipline in Olympic modern pentathlon after Paris 2024 is not as transparent as those involved might lead you to believe. 

The Winter Olympics will soon be upon us but I am afraid the prospect leaves me as cold as the competitors will be in Beijing.

So farewell then Vero Communications, skilled practitioners of the art of winning sports elections.

Wonder if you saw the TV news footage earlier today? Gripping stuff - a covert selfie-turned-someone-elsie was getting a lot of airplay, with the camera view creeping up past the face of the phone-holder to attain a view of Novak Djokovic further down the aisle on a flight headed for Belgrade.

The second part of the 2022 Australian Open will begin tomorrow as the Grand Slam tournament gets underway, with the two-week Novak Djokovic sideshow having finally concluded.

As performance director I am keen to share the busy, varied and challenging world of performance sport at British Gymnastics. I've been taking some time to reflect on the Summer Games in Tokyo and wanted to provide an insight into what it’s like in my role at a Games, what we do afterwards and the preparations that are already underway for the next cycle, leading to Paris in 2024.

Those who were fortunate enough to be there will never forget the moment when gymnast Li Ning soared towards the heavens to light the Beijing 2008 Olympic Cauldron.

Another week, another non-answer from the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

Back in the day (actually more days than I care to remember) when I first embarked on a career in journalism, getting a sports story on the front page of a newspaper was a cause for celebration because it happened so rarely.

Events in Almaty make one apprehensive for Kazakhstan; they should also act as a warning for the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

Watching the draw take place for the FA Cup Fourth Round on BBC was what did it.  Having just seen my team, West Ham United, earn their place in it by beating a proud but weakened Leeds United team 2-0, I was already enthused about the latest version of the competition first held in season 1871-72.

It is unbelievably exciting that today marks just 200 days to go to the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games. It means, in a little over six months, 4,500 of the world’s top athletes from 19 sports will be heading to the West Midlands to compete in one of the biggest sporting competitions on the planet.

Fifty years ago the world saw for the first time canoe slalom on the Olympic programme. This year, our canoeing family will return to this historic venue in Augsburg to celebrate an auspicious anniversary when it hosts the 2022 International Canoe Federation (ICF) Canoe and Extreme Slalom World Championships.