In an insidethegames blog earlier this month I presented some arguments for how a sports organisation is fundamentally very different from a commercial business (and from a traditional not-for-profit organisation).
During a two-day visit to Marseille from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Coordination Commission for the Paris 2024 Olympics and Paralympics, the extent to which the Organising Committee is attempting to engage the French population with the Games became evident.
At the Vatican this week, Pope Francis gave his blessing to the Flame bound for the Naples 2019 Universiade.
Strictly speaking, the New Zealand men's individual pursuit record set by multiple world and Olympic rowing champion Hamish Bond in February would not have earned him a medal at the World Track Cycling Championships that took place at Pruszków in Poland a month later.
On July 2, 2015 in Tokyo, Tsunekazu Takeda, President of the Japanese Olympic Committee, told me that Tokyo 2020 had already hit its ¥150 billion (£1.09 billion/$1.38 billion/€1.2 billion) domestic sponsorship target – more than five years in advance.
The race is now under way to become the next leader of Britain’s Conservative Party with a huge field of 10 runners already out of the blocks now that the hapless Theresa May has been shot in the back by the starter’s pistol.
Last week, members of the biggest and best-known International Federation in the Olympic Movement clapped their President into a fresh four-year term.
Anybody who takes a serious interest in weightlifting will be checking the Olympic ranking lists when results from the second and third competitions in phase two are added into the mix.
During the Krasnoyarsk Winter Universiade in March, the International University Sports Federation (FISU) issued a polite warning to the organisers of the summer edition in Naples.
Greece has a special place in the Olympic Movement.
It’s funny. I could have sworn Gianmarco Tamberi won the men’s high jump competition at the 2016 IAAF Diamond League meeting in Rome.
A good month for women’s sport just got a little better.
Well, was it an accident waiting to happen? The consensus among the fight fraternity was that sooner or later the fallibility of Anthony Joshua’s defence and in particular his jawbone, would be exposed. It is just that no-one expected to happen against a bloke who looked like Humpty Dumpty.
International Olympic Committee (IOC) sports director Kit McConnell has proved he is nothing if not consistent with his views that skateboarding will be a success at Tokyo 2020, despite the trials and tribulations which plagued the path to its inclusion and beyond.
Last week was a rare one in tennis as three players who made their name in doubles - and are therefore complete unknowns to those who follow the sport only fleetingly - were in the news.
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.
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All eyes will be on Minsk this week as the Belarus capital readies itself to host the second edition of the European Games. Mike Rowbottom explores how preparations are going.
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