So, by the width of a goalpost, Morocco will be on the ballot paper when the FIFA membership votes for their preferred host of the 2026 World Cup.

The idea came before the First World War, but it was not until 1951 that the first Games for the entire continent of Asia were held in Delhi.

As he mulls over his job offers this summer, Arsene Wenger will be able at least to reflect upon, okay, not a Champions League win, but something perfect. 2003-2004.

Reading this website's excellent coverage of Max Hartung's thinking on payments to Olympic athletes has prompted me to reflect properly on another remuneration-related issue that occurs to me whenever I attend a Games: ought Olympic volunteers to be paid?

A recent headline in the Sunday Times informed us: "Rugby has soared to the top of the doping charts".

Fencers, it seems, are all the rage in sports politics these days.

Looking around at the spectators yesterday at the Street League Skateboarding (SLS) competition being held in London's Olympic Park, I was clearly not the only middle-aged dad to have dragged along a child. 

The level of suspicion which accompanies magnificent sporting feats these days was there for all to see after Chris Froome’s performance during a dramatic 19^th stage of the Giro d’Italia.

Forty years ago this week, the World Cup finals began in Argentina.

One of the most exciting things about watching Italian track and field athletes is the excitement they generate among their own supporters.

Now here's a thing: for all the, er, developments of the past couple of years, Russia's pursuit of soft power through sport still appears to be going swimmingly.

Vasyl Lomachenko is a name which does not trip easily off the tongue but it has found its way to the lips of the boxing cognoscenti. They argue that the double Olympic and world amateur gold medal winner from Ukraine, a world professional champion at three weight divisions after only 12 fights, may now be the greatest of all time.

There was a great story told at the Giro d'Italia last week involving Australian and Belgian cyclists Adam Hansen and Tim Wellens.

Credit to Gianni Infantino. His plans for a revamped 24-team Club World Cup have already made the tournament far more entertaining than the existing one.