China’s women’s volleyball head coach Lang Ping has confirmed her intention to retire after the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
Finland's two-time Olympic rowing bronze medallist Veli Lehtelä has died at the age of 84 in the city of Valkeakoski.
The International Swimming Federation (FINA) is aiming to secure significant changes to the Olympic aquatics programme at Paris 2024, as it seeks to build on its status as the international sports federation (IF) with the most medal events at Tokyo 2020.
Ireland's high performance boxers have been granted special dispensation to return to training on July 20 to start preparations for the postponed Olympic Games in Tokyo.
Purplebricks have released a series of adverts featuring British athletes in the build-up to next year's postponed Olympic Games in Tokyo.
Russian double Olympic water polo champion Alexander Sergeyevich Kabanov, has passed away weeks after his 72nd birthday.
For the past couple of weeks, I have been immersed in the rowing scene of the 1950s and 1960s - a minority pursuit, no doubt, but the reasons should become plain to insidethegames readers very shortly.
The Bahamas Olympic Committee (BOC) has made $30,000 (£24,200/€26,700) available to athletes struggling as a result of the coronavirus crisis.
Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju says there is "no doubt in his mind" that India will break into the top-10 of the Summer Olympics medal table by Los Angeles 2028.
A new survey has found that more than half of Tokyo residents do not want the postponed Olympic and Paralympic Games to be held next year.
Atlanta 1996 Olympic champion Liu Guoliang has been announced as chair of the World Table Tennis (WTT) Council.
Tokyo 2020 is looking to extend deals with local sponsors and reach out to new partners following the postponement of the Olympic Games until 2021.
The organisers of the Paris 2024 Olympics have mobilised more than 100 French champions to stress the importance that sports clubs play in athlete growth.
World Athletics has launched a Road to Tokyo 2020 qualification tracking tool to help fans and athletes follow the race to secure spots at the rearranged Olympic Games.
Crowds are set to return to Japanese sporting events next month - more than a year before the start of the rescheduled Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Iranian judoka Arash Miresmaeili was disqualified for weighing in at nearly four pounds above the limit for his weight class of his under-66 kilograms match against an Israeli opponent Ehud Vaks in the first round. It was claimed Miresmaeili had gone on an eating binge to protest the International Olympic Committee's recognition of the state of Israel. Iran does not recognise the state of Israel, and Miresmaeili's actions won praise from high-ranking Iranian officials. Mohammad Khatami, the country's President at the time, was quoted as saying Miresmaili's actions would be "recorded in the history of Iranian glories". He was later awarded $125,000 by the Government - the same amount given to Olympic gold medallists.
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As sports innovations go, the Albano system, used in rowing and canoeing, has proved remarkably enduring. David Owen tells the story behind its introduction at the Rome Olympics 60 years ago.
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