Two Romanians who won medals at London 2012 have come up positive for anabolic steroids in the retesting of samples by the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
Britain's Royal Mint is launching a new coin to commemorate Team GB's participation at this year's Olympic Games in Tokyo, they have announced.
It was the Moment of the Decade, according to World Athletics. It was the Race of the Decade, according to letsrun.com. Two pretty good judges.
Ten years ago, at the end of the Noughties, I was given the perfect laptop bag. It is sturdy, compact and sensibly compartmentalised. I still take it on every overseas trip.
Ukraine's Oleksiy Torokhtiy has been stripped of his men's 105-kilogram weightlifting title following a positive drug test, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has confirmed.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has confirmed bans for Russian athletes Yuliya Gushchina and Anna Nazarova following retests of their samples from the 2012 Olympic Games in London.
Funding worth up to $5 million (£4 million/€4.5 million) is to be provided by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to International Federations and National Anti-Doping Organisations (NADOs) to encourage them to store drug samples for up to 10 years.
Paralympic gold medallist Marieke Vervoort has ended her life through euthanasia, aged 40.
At the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Athletics Championships, which came to an end last weekend, a son et lumiere with electronic lights flashing names around the Khalifa International Stadium accompanied the introduction of athletes before competition.
Almost exactly a decade ago - on 20 October 2009 - Thomas Cook was unveiled as the 23rd sponsor of the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics.
For centuries, London's East End has been notorious as a cesspit of crime, so it was no wonder that eyebrows were raised when the seediest part of the capital was nominated to host the 2012 Olympic Games.
Former Latvian Athletics Federation (LVS) President Ineta Radēviča has been banned for two years following her positive retest from the 2012 Olympic Games in London.
Amidst the euphoria of this summer’s cricket World Cup and Ashes series, a FIFA Women's World Cup, an epic Wimbledon finals weekend and Shane Lowry winning The Open on home territory you had perhaps have been forgiven for having blinked and missed the "One Year to Go" celebrations ahead of the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo.
By the eighth day of the 2011 World Athletics Championships in Daegu, the joke about the programme “hoodoo” had become serious as a sequence of star turns featured on the front cover had failed to deliver.
Britain's nine-time Paralympic swimming champion Lord Chris Holmes is due to face trial on charges of sexual assault of a woman at a London hotel.
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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Cloud computing technology supplied by China's Alibaba is rapidly transforming the Olympic broadcasting operation, with ticketing set to follow. David Owen looks into the future.
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