Missing you already. The message is intended for Jose Mourinho, although I accept it is one that will not be shared by every English football fan.

The 100 metres, as expected, provided the highlight of yesterday's Golden Gala meeting on the Mount San Antonio College track in Walnut, California.

Two Mayoral candidates have taken very different approaches to the Olympic Games this week, with one calling for a cancellation and another viewing a potential bid as a vote-winning ploy.

It felt as if 2021 would be the year that sport would resume and a bumper crowd could celebrate the long-awaited Tokyo 2020 Olympics, yet we find ourselves less than three months away still unsure exactly what is going on.

The vaccine deal announced by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) this week provides yet another example of how desperate the organisation is for Tokyo 2020 to go ahead.

One of the most important and symbolic parts of the Olympic Opening Ceremony looks set to change in Tokyo, and for that matter, the look of the Games might also need a late makeover if International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach gets his wish.

So yesterday's revelation that the Mayor of one of the world’s great cities - London - still regards the Games as enough of an electoral asset to talk publicly about exploring a bid just two days before polling day must be accounted a considerable public relations bonus.

Having taken the knee - actually it was both knees - in a rather nasty fall and ended up flat on my back in hospital these past couple of weeks, I have had time to reflect on and reassess certain aspects of this sporting life.

A little under three weeks from now the Gateshead International Stadium will live up to its name as of old when it hosts the opening Wanda Diamond League meeting of the season.

On the advice of the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) Athletes' Commission, the IOC Executive Board last week resolved to continue to censor athletes who participate in peaceful protest at the Olympic Games, especially in the most powerful spaces of the podium and the arena. Patronisingly, the censorship is now coupled with scripting, with the IOC endorsing the use of the words, "peace, respect, solidarity, inclusion and equality."

I have unexpectedly become invested in the fortunes of Germany’s curling team this week, as the World Women's Curling Championships began in Calgary.

By the time this is published, football clubs across England will already have started their social media blackout in a joint effort to confront discrimination and abuse in sport.

There is no doubt these are testing times in more ways than one as organisers aim to stage a safe and clean Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo.

The announcement that an excerpt of Piano Concerto No. 1 by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky has been accepted for use at medal ceremonies for Russian athletes in Tokyo will cause eyebrows to be raised for a number of reasons.