Dutch Olympian Madiea Ghafoor has been arrested in Germany after police allegedly found 50 kilograms of methamphetamine and ecstasy worth around €2 million (£1.8 million/€2.2 million) in the boot of her car.

Moala Takelo, a gold medallist for Tonga at the 2019 Pacific Games, has paid tribute to the country’s most well-known taekwondo athlete, Pita Taufatofua, for his role in the nation’s success in Samoa.

International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Committee member Sergey Bubka rejected claims made by the former Rio State Governor that he was involved in corruption and warned he would use "all the legal means" in his power to clear his name.

USA Triathlon has announced that Rio 2016 Olympian Joe Maloy has been hired as coordinator of its Collegiate Recruitment Programme (CRP), which identifies and recruits top-level National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) runners and swimmers to elite triathlon.

The International Paralympic Committee's (IPC) chief marketing and communications officer Craig Spence has challenged the advertising industry to do more to promote the world's one in six people with disabilities.

Michael Rotich, Kenya's athletics team manager at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, has been banned from the sport for 10 years after the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Ethics Board found him guilty of "dishonest and corrupt" conduct.

Rio 2016 hammer silver medallist Ivan Tsikhan ran with the 2019 European Games Torch as it reached Grodno at the end of the second week of its journey to Minsk.

You may have seen it. You probably have. It’s all over social media. Athlete as Superman.

New Zealand’s Nikita Howarth has today announced her retirement from Para sport due to medical reasons.

Paralympic silver medallist Daniel Perez of the Netherlands beat Slovakia's Tomas Kral to secure the BC1 gold medal at the Boccia International Sports Federation World Open in Montreal.

Olympic champion Alexander Lesun topped men's qualification at the International Modern Pentathlon Union World Cup in Székesfehérvár in Hungary.

Earlier this week I spoke to Andrew Parsons, President of the International Paralympic Committee, in an interview to mark 500 days to go until the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics get under way.

The Olympic Federation of Ireland's (OFI) 2017 accounts have revealed legal fees of €349,138 (£300,000/$392,000) in relation to the Rio 2016 ticketing allegations which saw former President Patrick Hickey arrested.

The International Boxing Association (AIBA) appears to be anticipating that payments made by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to International Sports Federations (IFs) post-Tokyo 2020 will be pitched at around Rio 2016 levels, or very slightly higher.

News earlier this week that authorities in France had issued an arrest warrant for two Russian officials in connection with their investigation into former International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) President and leading International Olympic Committee (IOC) member Lamine Diack seemed to indicate we are entering the end game of a case that started more than three-and-a-half years ago.