The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has a new champion Tweeter.

You could understand it if both Louis van Gaal and Lord Sebastian Coe called their respective newsagents and demanded: "Please cancel my papers indefinitely". 

A great thing about our job is how sometimes we find ourselves in situations which can only be described as utterly bizarre.

One such instance involved being invited to Damascus by a Syrian Olympic Committee official in a bid to show us how safe it supposedly was. “Come to Beirut and I will ask my friend, the President Assad, to send a car over the border…” we were urged in an invitation we are still yet to take up.

The move by the World Taekwondo Federation (WTF) to occasionally rebrand themselves as World Taekwondo has garnered interest from outside the sporting world, judging by a brief search on the internet this morning.

The International Tennis Federation (ITF) named supreme Serbian Novak Djokovic as the male World Champion of 2015 this week to further cement the 28-year-old’s position as the best player on the planet.

Creating dialogue and raising more public awareness: this is the goal that we set ourselves with the launch of the Peace and Sport Watch in April 2015.

If the organisers of next year’s European Athletics Championships in Amsterdam have their wish, Dafne Schippers will be one of the names of 2016.

As if FIFA didn’t have enough problems at present, the recently-published television audience report for last year’s World Cup in Brazil gives rise to the question, "Has the governing body’s flagship tournament plateaued out as a global TV phenomenon?"

Twenty-fifteen: The year in which the high and mighty fell to earth with a resounding thump.

A festive season of football and winter World Cups turned our attention briefly to sporting action this weekend before tainted normality resumed in the shape of a fresh glut of Sepp Blatter and Hein Verbruggen-themed scandals.

Several other stories also caught our attention in recent days, however, showing just how much sport has been affected by changes in science and technology.

It is gratifying to look back over another groundbreaking year for the International Boxing Association (AIBA), during which we have continued to look for ways to develop boxing, protecting our athletes and pushing our sport into new areas whilst never losing its noble spirit.

Imagine securing a place at the Olympic Games only to have it snatched away from you by the organisation that are ultimately supposed to aid and help the development of sport in your country.

It’s only surmise, but in the picture re-tweeted by Alex Gregory soon after he had done his 2,000 metres stint at last weekend’s British Rowing Indoor Championships in the Lee Valley Velopark, it looks as if the Olympic and world champion is puking into a large bin.

The Sports Journalists Association, of which I am a member, have withdrawn their invitation to the new world heavyweight champion Tyson Fury to attend their annual awards and one presumes any votes already cast for him to be their Sportsman of the Year will be discounted.