The late Sir Henry Cooper, Britain's most loved boxing figure, is finally to be honoured with a statue, a rarity among sporting personalities.

Tokyo 2020 is going to do many good things for the Japanese capital.

The Vuelta a España provided an unlikely hand to Spanish police earlier last week when the Grand Tour cycling race helped uncover cannabis plants.

Boxers are currently congregating here in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg, located just over 1,000 miles east of Moscow, for an ultimate showdown.

Nominations for candidates for the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Athletes’ Commission close on Monday (September 9).

International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) President Vladimir Lisin will be hoping it is second time lucky when the General Assembly votes on a proposed new constitution in December.

Luciano Rossi's appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) over last year's Presidential election (which he narrowly lost), has drawn my attention to a rarely discussed aspect of the democratic process on Planet Sport: proxy voting.

For centuries, London's East End has been notorious as a cesspit of crime, so it was no wonder that eyebrows were raised when the seediest part of the capital was nominated to host the 2012 Olympic Games.

We're doomed. At least I think we are. Certainly Eric Cantona seems to think we are, if I correctly understand his acceptance speech on Thursday (August 29) as his contribution to European football was marked by the President's Award at the UEFA prize-giving ceremony in Monaco.

The Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) and our membership are very excited to be going to Rwanda for our 2019 General Assembly from September 3 to 5.

Iran has had a mixed week in the sporting world. It began with reports that the country's 40-year ban on women attending football matches is set to end in October, before culminating with an Iranian judoka causing great consternation for the International Judo Federation (IJF).

Last Sunday (August 25), England's Ben Stokes electrified the cricketing world with an astonishing innings to level the Ashes series against Australia at Leeds.

Bulgarian Emilia Grueva is not your typical International Boxing Association (AIBA) official.

I have written before on my concerns over the future of long-form sport. Yet if any event demonstrated why it is not just worth saving, but worth its weight in gold, it was last week's third Ashes cricket Test Match between England and Australia at Leeds.