A new study has sought to measure the size of the sports economy in France.

Senegalese President Macky Sall has launched construction of a new 50,000-capacity stadium in Diamniadio in the West African country destined to stage events at the 2022 Youth Olympic Games.

The Japanese economy went sharply into reverse in the final months of 2019, with the country entering the final stages of preparations for this year's Olympic and Paralympic Games in the capital Tokyo.

With exactly six months to go before Tokyo 2020 begins, a new forecast suggests hosts Japan may be on course to hit their 30 gold-medal target.

The International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) has become the latest Olympic sports body to make its annual financial report publicly available.

A senior Alibaba executive has provided fresh details about its plans for handling Olympic ticketing at its home Games in Beijing in 2022, and thereafter. 

An increase in the size of the women's Olympic football tournament may be more likely now that FIFA President Gianni Infantino has joined the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

The Olympic Channel is "very firmly on track" to be self-sustaining by the end of 2021, as originally planned, according to Yiannis Exarchos, chief executive of Olympic Broadcasting Services (OBS).

Online retail marketplace AliExpress has today launched a two-week campaign to promote winter sports and encourage fan engagement around the Lausanne 2020 Winter Youth Olympics.

The number of full International Olympic Committee (IOC) members has dipped temporarily back below the one hundred mark, after seven senior members reached the end of their respective terms.

An audit of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Intelligence and Investigations department has described the unit’s lack of resources as "acute" and urged the hiring of three people "as soon as possible".

Italian athletes were responsible for comfortably the most confirmed anti-doping rule violations (ADRVs) in 2017, according to new statistics made public by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).

Martin Peters, who scored England’s second goal in the 4-2 victory over West Germany in the 1966 World Cup final, has died at the age of 76.

An analytical method known as gas chromatography combustion isotope ratio mass spectrometry (GC/C/IRMS) has emerged as one of the most potent weapons in the anti-doping police's armoury, in new testing statistics published by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).