Over the past year or two, the word "refugee" has assumed quite a prominent position in the International Olympic Committee (IOC)'s lexicon.
There is no doubt who was the star attraction when boxing returned to the Copper Box in the Olympic Park last Saturday (September 16) night.
Richard McLaren’s report into Russian doping published in December was careful to always use the phrase "scratches and marks" when referring to the tampering of urine samples at the 2014 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Sochi.
It was extremely telling that a media round table with organisers of the Lima 2019 Pan American Games was held during the four hour long “half-time” update on the progress of the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) Agenda 2020 reforms.
Before travelling here to cover the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Session, I made sure I sat down and watched Icarus, the explosive documentary on the Russian doping scandal.
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The International Olympic Committee's (IOC) official rubber-stamp thudded very...officially...at its 131st Session in Lima yesterday evening to confirm that Paris will indeed host the 2024 Games and the 2028 Games will go to Los Angeles.
It is four years since a relieved Germanic "Ouffff!" confirmed that Thomas Bach had been elected International Olympic Committee (IOC) President.
They used to call the heavyweight championship of the world the richest prize in sport. Then along came Floyd Mayweather Jr.
South American geography aside, there appears little in common between the two International Olympic Committee Sessions taking place four years apart in Buenos Aires and Lima.
There is something equally frustrating and amusing that any time a British athlete achieves a great sporting feat that the words “BBC Sports Personality of the Year” is mentioned. For the second time this year, Chris Froome is the central topic of this discussion.
When the International Olympic Committee (IOC) confirmed the inclusion of a mixed team judo event at Tokyo 2020, the sport's leader Marius Vizer reacted by claiming its addition to the programme was a "dream come true".
The 2024 host city vote was to have been the crowning moment of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Session in Lima. Now that it has been agreed that Paris and Los Angeles will stage the next two Games, the Peruvians may well feel that someone has stolen their thunder.
Responsible drinking. Responsible gambling. Responsible smoking.
I have already grown quite fond of the new Global Association of International Sports Federations (GAISF) logo.
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.
UEFA – Euro 2020 LOS Liaison Manager - Nyon, Switzerland
To mark the 60th anniversary of the European Football Championship, UEFA EURO 2020 will be organised as a truly pan-European event for the first time.
Brian Cookson won a bitter election against Pat McQuaid four years ago to be elected the new President of the UCI but now he is the one having to defend his record against French challenger David Lappartient.
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