The restoration of yesterday’s London Marathon to its familiar route from Greenwich to The Mall, with cheering and whooping crowds back lining the route, was deeply reassuring after the bleakness of COVID-19 lockdown.

The Me Too Movement can be traced all the way back to 2006, attributed to sexual assault survivor and activist Tarana Burke, who posted on Myspace about her ordeal and how she sought empowerment from it - but like most notable activism in recent years, it picked up steam when celebrities posted similar messages.

How do you stage two of the biggest sporting events on the planet during a global health crisis and ensure they are safe and secure?

The 19th Mediterranean Games are scheduled to open on June 25 next year in the Algerian port city of Oran, but 70 years ago next week, they had just become the newest addition to the sporting calendar. They were held in Alexandria, another North African port city.

One of the most damning indictments of the culture created by the International Boxing Association (AIBA), which facilitated the manipulation of more than 10 bouts at the 2016 Olympic Games and numerous matches at dozens of other events, comes on two troubling pages of the latest edition of sport’s own series of horror novels.

The vanquished Anthony Joshua was taught several lessons in his defeat by fellow former Olympic champion Oleksandr Usyk last weekend, one of the most significant of which surely being the fact that his trade is blow business, not show business.

It was interesting to read my colleague Brian Oliver’s piece on the XIth Olympic Congress in Baden-Baden in then-divided Germany exactly forty years ago.

Thirty-three years ago today an unscheduled Olympic occurrence in South Korea jolted a generation of sports writers out of their beds.

The International Cycling Union (UCI) announced Rwanda as the host nation for the 2025 Road World Championships on Friday (September 24), which will mark the first time the event takes place on the African continent.

A whole lot, it seems, can happen in 50 days. Rewind the clock back by 50 days and we were gathered at Tokyo Stadium waiting in anticipation to see the destination of the first modern pentathlon medals of the 2020 Olympics be decided.

Next month, the Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou is set to join International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach for the lighting of the Beijing 2022 Olympic Flame.

During a visit last week to the home of Classical beauty, Greece, it occurred to me how unlovely the team sports I enjoy are becoming.

The oldest adage in boxing is that a good little 'un will always beat a good little ‘un, and by and large, so to speak, history has proved this is to be true. Especially when boxers, particularly in the heavier division, move up to challenge for titles at a higher weight.

You might have missed it, but last week was "Sport Integrity Week".