Generally, I find strategic plans with grandiose names quite a painful experience to read through. So my hopes were not high when I set about reading a press release about the International Cycling Union's (UCI) Agenda 2022 roadmap.
The XXI Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast, Australia will be remembered for many reasons, not least because of the number of "firsts" that the world witnessed during 12 days of sensational sporting competition and exhilarating arts and culture events.
Organisers of the 2018 Mediterranean Games are staying tight-lipped about the Opening Ceremony tonight, but 63-years-ago when Barcelona became the first Catalan city to host these Games, they included a moment that captured the unique character of the region.
I’d never met Janet Evans before, although I remembered her from that unsettling footage taken during the 1996 Atlanta Games, when, while being interviewed by German television, she was horribly startled by the nearby explosion of the bomb that directly killed one person and injured over a hundred others.
Having come down like a ton of bricks - to spectacular effect - on international football, United States lawmakers are now training their sights on doping.
VAR is the latest acronym to join sport's already overcrowded lexicon. Soon it will be as much in common usage as LBW, KO or even IOC. But those three new characters are already changing the very nature of the games we play and watch.
I enjoyed my first-ever World Cup match on Saturday (June 16) and even witnessed footballing history in the form of the first goalscoring incident affected by VAR (Video Assistant Replay) technology, in France's 2-1 victory over Australia.
It is fair to say that the main purpose of the Oceania National Olympic Committees (ONOC) and Pacific Games Council (PGC) holding their General Assemblies in Samoa was to provide a flavour of next year's edition of the continental event.
There is no doubting that the headline claim from last week’s official debrief on the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics, held in Beijing, was that the Games had achieved a multi-million dollar surplus.
It fell to Robbie Williams to launch Russia 2018 in Moscow. The opening chords of Tchaikovsky's piano concerto segued into "Let Me Entertain You" as the Brit strode onto the stage for what turned out to be a very short opening.
Five minutes was not enough then.
Remember the last time the eyes of the world were glued on Singapore?
"He wasn't quite quick enough." These are words I never thought we would hear from a sports commentator about Usain Bolt.
Thomas Bach’s election as President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) was still a few hours away on September 10 in 2013 the last time a successful referendum was held on an Olympic and Paralympic Games bid.
Comments from two very different athletes caught my eye over the past week, with both stories providing food for thought.
At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Iranian judoka Arash Miresmaeili was disqualified for weighing in at nearly four pounds above the limit for his weight class of his under-66 kilograms match against an Israeli opponent Ehud Vaks in the first round. It was claimed Miresmaeili had gone on an eating binge to protest the International Olympic Committee's recognition of the state of Israel. Iran does not recognise the state of Israel, and Miresmaeili's actions won praise from high-ranking Iranian officials. Mohammad Khatami, the country's President at the time, was quoted as saying Miresmaili's actions would be "recorded in the history of Iranian glories". He was later awarded $125,000 by the Government - the same amount given to Olympic gold medallists.
Union Cycliste International - Head of Digital, Communications & Marketing - Aigle, Switzerland
Reporting directly to the Director-General, the Head of Digital, Communications & Marketing is to lead and be responsible for four business units with a growing team of 12 staff. She/he will shape and implement the UCI’s Digital strategy, deliver an effective and influential Communications strategy, and lead the UCI’s Marketing & TV delivery.
The candidate will grow the UCI’s existing commercial revenue channels and add innovative new ones as well as creating digital tools to engage cycling fans worldwide.
Ivo Ferriani is this week seeking to be re-elected as President of the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation. Mike Rowbottom previews a vote which will have big implications for the sliding sports.
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