Nineteen former and current Olympic softball players from the United States, with 36 Olympic medals between them, have reunited for an exhibition game at the University of New Orleans.

The Opening Ceremony is one of the most-watched events of the Olympic Games. 

Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed has claimed political leaders are becoming "uncomfortable of the deal" of hosting major sporting events and believes cities need to put forward the best plan and information to the public.

Janet Evans will return to Atlanta tomorrow as part of the city's celebrations of the 20th anniversary of the 1996 Olympic and Paralympic Games and to take part in a meeting to find out from athletes ideas to help Los Angeles win its bid for 2024.

Hulking Swedish actor Dolph Lundgren is best known to movie fans for his role in the film Rocky IV in 1985. For the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta he was selected by the United States Olympic Committee as the team leader of the American modern pentathlon team. Though he attended the Games and marched with the US delegation in the Opening Ceremony, his role was largely honorary. It was bestowed on Lundgren as a result of the time he spent training with the team in preparation for his role in the film Pentathlon, where he starred as an East German Olympic gold medalist on the run from an abusive coach played by David Soul. As a result of the time he spent with the team, Lundgren became a major supporter of the campaign to keep modern pentathlon on the Olympic programme. 

Gold medallists in the men’s and women’s Olympic golf tournaments at Rio 2016 will be given passes to the sport’s majors, it has been announced.

Roger Haller, designer of the eventing course for the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, has died at the age of 70, it has been announced.

William Rosenberg, the former executive director of USA Judo, died unexpectedly, it has been announced.

France's two-time Grand Slam singles champion Mary Pierce and Australia's Olympic doubles gold medallist Mark Woodforde have been appointed to the International Tennis Federation (ITF) Board of Directors, it has been announced.

The Olympic Games are considered the pinnacle of any athlete’s career by many, but for some, an appearance on the grandest stage of them all barely tops their ever-growing list of priorities.

Three-time Summer Olympic sportscaster Jeff Ruffolo has been appointed to Volleyball England’s new marketing, communications and commercial advisory group.

Tonga's King Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV declared a national holiday after boxer Paea Wolfgramm won an Olympic silver medal in the super-heavyweight division at Atlanta 1996. Wolfgramm, who stood at 1.93 metres tall and weighed 147 kilograms, was beaten in the final by Ukraine's Wladimir Klitschko. Klitschko won the world heavyweight title in 2006 and, as of November 2015, had successfully defended the title 23 times. Woflgramm's professional career was less successful and he retired after 20 victories and four defeats, including losing to Klitschko in just 90 seconds in 2000 for the WBC International heavyweight title. Wolfgramm now runs a car hire business in Brisbane.

Russia’s two-time Olympic fencing champion Sergei Sharikov has died in a car accident, it has been announced. 

Four-time Olympic gold medallist Sir Matthew Pinsent is set to visit Gainesville, in Georgia this week as part of the USRowing Referee Exchange Programme.

An historic change to the Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) Constitution to recognise the nation’s indigenous population has been unanimously passed at the body’s Annual General Meeting in Sydney.