Two years later than originally planned, Sarajevo and East Sarajevo are playing host to the Winter European Youth Olympic Festival (EYOF), which got underway today and is due to run until Friday (February 15).
Grace Bullen, Norway’s Summer Youth Olympic Games champion and 2017 world junior bronze medallist, produced a superb performance to win women’s freestyle gold at the United World Wrestling under-23 World Championships in Bucharest as she defeated a senior world champion.
Seven athletes due to compete in weightlifting at the recent Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires were unable to do so having failed to log their own whereabouts on the global anti-doping database, insidethegames has been told.
International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach channelled his inner Donald Trump as he gave a glowing assessment of the 2018 Summer Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires.
It is not without a certain irony that Africa will become the last of the five continents to stage a sporting event under the Olympic banner.
A short and compact Closing Ceremony which broke from tradition brought the curtain down on the 2018 Summer Youth Olympic Games as the flag was passed to the first African host of an Olympic event here tonight.
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All 28 core sports are set to feature at the 2022 Summer Youth Olympic Games in Dakar and the exact programme could be confirmed by the middle of next year, International Olympic Committee (IOC) sports director Kit McConnell has revealed here.
World Taekwondo has hosted two focus days aimed at educating rising taekwondo stars on the importance of anti-doping.
By Liam Morgan and Michael Pavitt in Buenos Aires
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Basketball players competing at the Summer Youth Olympic Games here have hailed the influence of Patrick Baumann in getting the 3x3 discipline onto the Tokyo 2020 programme as they paid tribute to the Swiss official following his death at the age of 51.
My column this week was initially going to take a rather different direction.
By Liam Morgan and Michael Pavitt in Buenos Aires
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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Vitaly Mutko is set to sever his last link with sport this week when he's replaced as President of the Russian Football Union. Mike Rowbottom looks back on a controversial career where Mutko has never been far from the headlines
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