A trip to France by senior officers from the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) to help with security planning for the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games in the American city has sparked an international incident following accusations of a wrongful arrest.

Holding the re-arranged Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo without spectators is set to save Japanese organisers more than a billion dollars, it has been reported.

UK Sport will provide an additional £11.2 million ($14.8 million/€13.1 million) of funding to assist preparations for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, benefitting 33 sports.

Los Angeles City Council has approved the Games Agreement - a key accord which outlines responsibilities held by the city and the Organising Committee - concerning the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has claimed the Brisbane 2032 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games will help to deliver a "golden age" for the Australian state.

Los Angeles 2028 chairperson Casey Wasserman has claimed organisers of the Olympics and Paralympics have already secured "well over" 50 per cent of their revenue target after the Games Agreement was approved by a City Council Ad-Hoc Committee.

Women who have been victims of domestic abuse are set to be offered housing at the Paris 2024 Olympic Village after the conclusion of the Games, according to France's Equality Minister.

Dominique Hervieu, the mind behind directing the Maison de la Danse and the Biennale de la Danse de Lyon, has been appointed as the director of culture for the Paris 2024 Olympics.

Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa (ANOCA) secretary general Francis Mutuku has called on National Olympic Committees (NOCs) from Africa to focus their development across numerous sports on the Los Angeles 2028 Games, with an aim of getting the continent's medal tally above 50.

Former Rio 2016 and Brazilian Olympic Committee President Carlos Nuzman has been sentenced to 30 years and 11 months in jail for buying votes for the Brazilian city's successful bid to host the Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Three Cypriot athletes have criticised the Cyprus Olympic Committee (KOE) for pulling its funding of their training programmes in preparation for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.

Online abuse during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games overwhelmingly targeted female athletes, research published by World Athletics has found.

The Unite Here Local 11 labour union has called on the Los Angeles City Council to delay a vote on the Games Agreement for the 2028 Olympics and Paralympics, claiming it risks "massive cost overruns without meaningful public input".

Pierre Ducrey, the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) Olympic Games operations director, has identified three key requirements for prospective Games bidders in the wake of the Tokyo 2020 Games.