We all know that Tokyo 2020 will be very different to any other Olympic Games in recent memory.

Men's tennis is in an odd civil war at the moment - one that involves seemingly out-of-touch executives, an old guard, anti-vaxxers and player unions.

At the recent International Olympic Committee (IOC) Session, President Thomas Bach revealed that he regularly "talks" to Olympic founder Baron Pierre de Coubertin and often consults his writings.

The first set of 2020 financial statements from a Summer Olympic International Federation (IF) landed last week.

A media release drops into my inbox from UK Anti-Doping with the information that a rugby player, one Ralph Rainbow (no, me neither) has been banned for four years after UK Border Forces seized a package which contained £200 worth of items used in the process of injecting Human Growth Hormone (HGH), a case which echoes British Cycling’s infamous jiffy bag affair.

The less said about the London 2012 mascots, Wenlock and Mandeville - or was it Manlock and Wendeville? - the better. So let’s leave it at that. Spawn of Cyclops…

After weeks of rumours, it is now official. International spectators will not be present at the rescheduled Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games this year.

A Friday night in the United Kingdom does not have the same excitement it had just over a year ago - it might as well be a Monday or a Wednesday while we continue to face lockdown.

Ingmar de Vos has put plenty of his more acquiescent counterparts to shame during his relatively short tenure as a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

A year later than scheduled, members of the Japan’s 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup-winning team are next Thursday (March 25) set to carry the Olympic Flame in Fukushima at the "Grand Start" of the Torch Relay to Tokyo.

At the risk of stating the obvious, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) is in a tight spot over Beijing 2022.

Back in the 1980s, Mills Lane, a United States District Attorney who was boxing’s best-known referee, famously issued his final command to the combatants as they touched gloves: "Let’s get it on!" And in those days they invariably did. Unfortunately, they don’t always seem to any more.

Dark as is the cloud of the pandemic, there have been silver linings in the world of sport - not least for the Museum of World Athletics (MOWA) that launched today.

Today we are celebrating 500 days to go until Birmingham 2022, and we’re using this milestone to announce that, thanks to a partnership with Severn Trent, Birmingham 2022 will be the first-ever carbon-neutral Commonwealth Games.