By most yardsticks - technical ability, physical fitness, quality of facilities and equipment - elite-level sport is objectively better today than it has ever been.

I’m trying to make this genuine, so right now, having covered the sport for a long long time, I am asking myself for three outstanding athletics memories.

Short format fever continues to wash over sport and has often been hit and miss but World Triathlon's foray into the market may have struck gold.

As an athlete who knows what it is like to compete on the world stage, the pressure you can feel - it’s so important to recognise the talent and personality that we have in British Athletics.

The traditional summer Promenade Concerts are set to begin tonight at the Royal Albert Hall in London.

It may have been Sheikh Talal Fahad Al Ahmad Al Sabah who kept being stopped on his way to the top table to be congratulated on being elected as the new President of the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA), but everyone knew who was really responsible for his victory.

A week has now passed since the Flame of Peace was extinguished during a festive Closing Ceremony of Kraków-Małopolska 2023 at the Henryk Reyman Stadium. Its light, however, has shown us the way to a bright future for the European Games.

One way or another, the shadow of war looks set to hang over Paris 2024. The only question is whether the conflict will still be ongoing, or whether Olympicland will be attempting to navigate its aftermath.

The photo of Zharnel Hughes in the wake of his 100 metres victory at the weekend’s UK Athletics Championships in a monumental Manchester deluge is one that will endure.

The summer sports event season is well and truly under way. Sports marketing is in action.

Having been instrumental in the creation of the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) TOP programme, as well as FIFA’s marketing programme, I have a long background in sports marketing and am now leading the sporting development of match poker worldwide.

For anyone with an interest in the Olympics, a first visit to Ancient Olympia where the Games of antiquity took place is an important moment. 

Indonesia, a chain of thousands of islands between Asia and Australia, Southeast Asia's biggest economy and ethnically diverse, with more than 300 local languages, seemed like an attractive new destination for the sports world when it begun bidding for major events.

With the first edition of the European Para Championships in Rotterdam just over a month away, it is time to start thinking about the future.