A significant potential update to the Olympic sport agenda is the prospective inclusion of an obstacle sports event as the new fifth discipline in modern pentathlon.

Fifty years ago this month, 60 leading tennis players formed an organisation to "promote and protect " their interests.

My drive has always been to achieve all you can - sometimes against the odds. I tested positive for the genetic mutation that gives Huntington’s disease in my twenties, so I know I’m likely to get ill from that at some point.

The next time someone tells you that the Olympic Games are a load of balls, you can be forgiven for nodding your head in agreement. 

An All-Star game for the Premier League?

Engagement with The Youth. How many times have we seen or heard that phrase in recent years, expressed by the silver-haired guardians of our most valued sports?

As people started to make their way home after watching the medal ceremonies where winners of the elite races lapped up the adulation of the crowd, an exhausted Eskild Ebbesen pedalled across the finish line at the Haderslev MTB Challenge XCM.

The Champions League has come to denote the crème de la crème across several European sports, but with the footballing variant being lightyears ahead of its counterparts how can they keep up?

"This is what a World Championships should look like, and this is how a World Championships should be run." Those were not my words, or one of the event organisers or an elected official.

It was somehow fitting that England's cricketers should win the decisive match in the Test series against South Africa at the Oval in London earlier this week.

The recent evocative pieces on the 50th anniversary of the 1972 Olympic Games by my insidethegames colleague Philip Barker brought personal memories flooding back. Not that they were ever far from consciousness.

After two years of COVID, inflation has taken over as the chief economic problem for the Olympic Movement.

Rangers will start the ball rolling again in the Scottish Women's Premier League 1 (SWPL1) on Wednesday as elite domestic football in Britain resumes following the weekend postponements imposed as a mark of respect to the late Queen Elizabeth II.

Given the furore surrounding the presence of more than a dozen LIV Golf players at this week's British PGA Championship, the irony of the tournament being turned into a 54-hole event has not been lost.