An expected 90,000 spectators will walk down Wembley Way later this evening, heading towards the iconic arch which overlooks the home of English football.

South Africa’s World Cup winning rugby captain Siya Kolisi is leading his team and the Webb Ellis trophy on an extended victory parade around the country due to end in Cape Town on Monday (November 11).

Former Manchester United captain turned criticiser-in-chief Roy Keane is famous for his no-nonsense quotes and one of them got me thinking about the Olympic Movement.

Thomas Bach's speechwriter has been working overtime lately. This week is the fifth World Conference on Doping in Sport, and so the theme of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) President's latest address was doping - an 11-page blockbuster.

Although I am a Londoner born and bred, please do not think I am being unpatriotic when I say I could not be more delighted that South Africa have won the Rugby World Cup.

Neymar playing teqball. Ronaldinho playing teqball. Justin Bieber playing teqball (surprisingly well). It's all there if you care to find it, just a click away on an internet search.

The clash between the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the Tokyo Metropolitan Government (TMG) over the marathon and race walk move to Sapporo played out last week as if it were scripted.

Despite the ongoing chaos that surrounds the International Boxing Association (AIBA), this year’s Men and Women’s World Boxing Championships went smoothly. 

Thirty years ago, demonstrators were on the streets in Eastern Germany in protests which would eventually bring down the Government of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) and with it, the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Gerardo Seeliger knew he was in trouble the moment the race began.

International Olympic Committee (IOC) Media provoked a minor Twitter storm last week. It took to the social media platform to assert that the (IOC) and the Olympic Games "are not there for making money".

I have dined out frequently on the true tale of when, as The Observer sports editor, I telephoned the late Lord Banks, then plain Tony Banks MP, Minister for Sport, about his support of a Bill to ban punches to the head in boxing. Knowing that Banks was a boxing buff, I expressed surprise and asked him whether this was true.

Once upon a time - and in fact many more times than that now I come to think of it - an Aussie mate and fellow sub-editor would say to me, as we mused over the world’s latest novelties: "You’ll find it very easy to mock."

In recent years the debate about the hosting of major sports events has intensified.