Thomas Bach, President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), recalled his days as an Olympic athlete representative with Sebastian Coe here today as he said he was “absolutely sure” that, under the Briton's impending Presidency of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), the two organisations would work “very, very closely together” to eradicate doping.

Concerns over pollution in Guanabara Bay have intensified after South Korean windsurfer Wonwoo Cho was taken to hospital during a Rio 2016 sailing test event. 

Pyeongchang 2018 have announced they have published, what they claim is, South Korea’s first sustainability report ahead of the Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games, aimed at providing a legacy to enable the country to host more major sporting events in the future.

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach has become only the fourth man to be made an honourary 10th Dan black belt in taekwondo, the World Taekwondo Federation (WTF) has announced.

Pyeongchang 2018 has made “great progress” in their preparations to host the Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games, International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach said following a meeting with organisers in South Korea today.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) experienced a jump in central operating and administrative costs in President Thomas Bach’s first full year in office.

It was all smiles in Kuala Lumpur earlier this month when International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach welcomed South Sudan as the newest members of the Olympic family.

Seeing former International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Jacques Rogge in Kuala Lumpur earlier this month reminded me how time marches on.

A musical homage to Brazilian culture formed the finale of a ceremony tonight attended by Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff and International Olympic Committee (IOC) counterpart Thomas Bach marking exactly one year until the Opening Ceremony of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.

Nearly half of respondents to a survey conducted by a Hungarian pollster are in support of Budapest’s bid to host the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, it has been announced, with 42 per cent in opposition.

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach has insisted Rio 2016 will achieve a "great legacy" when asked about pollution concerns on Guanabara Bay here on the eve of celebrations marking exactly one-year until the Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games.

When Tony Blair became leader of the British Labour Party in 1994 he realised that, while his two predecessors had gone some way towards modernising the party from its socialist roots, too few people believed there had been genuine change.

His remodelled “New” Labour Party thus introduced some substantial measures, but was more than anything else a rhetorical device to hammer home this symbolic break from the past.

Sepp Blatter, FIFA President at least for another six months, has ceased to be a member of world sport’s most powerful club.

A new raft of doping allegations may delay publication of the report by a three-man World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Commission into alleged widespread, systematised doping in Russia.

South Sudan has been rubber-stamped as the 206th member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) here today, with plans already in place to send a four-strong team to Rio 2016.