If anyone was still in doubt about the fact that politics and sport do mix - however much International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach might like to think otherwise - the actuality was laid out in steadfast fashion in Kraków yesterday.

With 20 minutes gone and Japan leading 3-1, Britain's Katie Melville delivered a long pass that saw the disc hanging in the air.

On paper, the European Games as a concept should thrive in a continent which loves its sport. Its inaugural edition in Baku in 2015 completed a full set of five continental Games across the Olympic Movement.

The match schedule for the International Cricket Council (ICC) Men's World Cup in India has revealed that holders England are to open proceedings against New Zealand on October 5 in a re-match of the dramatic 2019 final.

An "historic milestone, a celebration of the best of virtual sport and esports" was how Olympic Esports Week, which concluded in Singapore earlier this week, was described by International Olympic Committee (IOC) vice-president Ng Ser Miang.

"I have a problem that my two boys are playing games," said Azerbaijan’s Minister of Youth and Sport Farid Gayibov as he reached out for advice from Global Esports Federation (GEF) vice-president Adrian Lismore.

There is a golden rule when looking to analyse the International Olympic Committee (IOC)’s financial performance: cross-refer to numbers from four years earlier - the equivalent point in the previous Olympic cycle - not one year earlier, as you would typically do with non-Olympic organisations.

It’s funny what people remember about…anything really. But about sports events, often it is the odd or apparently insignificant detail that endures when all the rest blurs and fades.

The Cubs and the Cardinals are two of Major League Baseball's (MLB) oldest foes following their first meeting in 1892 and in London, they are closing in on a 2,500th meeting but the pair are joining forces in a way as the league, and sport on the whole, continues its conquest for world domination.

Spring Media Group gears up its production planning, and the media rights sales and distribution, of our inaugural European Para Championships (EPC), scheduled to be held from August 8 to 20. 

Olympic Day always has a special resonance for the Olympic Movement and is celebrated every June 23.

Today marks 75 years ago that a ship landed at Tilbury Dock near London, carrying more than 800 passengers to start new lives in Britain.

In many ways, Berlin is a perfect city to be staging the Special Olympics World Games, a multi-sport event which places 7,000 athletes with intellectual disabilities in the world's spotlight.

One word has dominated the English sporting discourse in recent days, and for once it isn't "Haaland."