With a rueful chuckle, Alex Gough, chief executive of the Professional Squash Association (PSA), admitted that in the wake of the sport’s historic inclusion on the Olympic programme at Los Angeles 2028 he was put in mind of the celebrated comment by late United States tennis player Vitas Gerulaitis.

World Aquatics claimed that the "health" of its athletes is its "top priority" after the cancellation of the Open Water Swimming World Cup, its test event for next year’s Olympics in Paris, because of pollution in the Seine.

Brazil’s Thiago Braz, who won the men’s pole vault title at his home Rio 2016 Olympics, has been provisionally suspended by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) after testing positive for the banned substance ostarine.

Record 14-time winner Rafael Nadal has pulled out of this month's French Open because of a hip injury, and suggested next year would be his last on the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) Tour.

Five retired Russian weightlifters, three of whom lost Olympic silver medals at London 2012 because of doping violations, have been suspended for periods of 18 months to four years for historic offences.

A five-year suspension for Brazil’s Olympic volleyball gold medallist Wallace Leandro de Souza for using social media to incite violence against State President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has been upheld by the Brazilian Olympic Committee's Ethics Committee.

Double Olympic rowing gold medallist Helen Glover has announced her intention to try and qualify for a fourth Olympic Games at Paris 2024.

Chinese boxer Lü Bin was reduced to tears when reflecting on his controversial defeat at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro that caused him to accuse the judges of "stealing" his dream.

Ticket prices for the next year's Olympics in Paris are broadly similar to those at previous Games and used London 2012 as a benchmark, organisers have claimed.

A key member of the coaching squad for Great Britain’s Olympic gold medal-winning women’s hockey team at Rio 2016 has died.

Brazilian Olympic gold medallist Wallace de Souza has been suspended by his club Cruzeiro after the volleyball player conducted a social media poll asking his audience if he should shoot newly-elected President of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, in the face.

Nigerian two-time Olympic medal-winning football coach Samson Siasia has lost an appeal to overturn a ban for match fixing at a court in New York City.

Beach volleyball player Bruno Schmidt, one of the stars of Brazil's home Olympic Games at Rio de Janeiro in 2016, has retired from the sport at the age of 36.

Jamaica’s former world 100 metres champion Yohan Blake plans to hang up his spikes after next year’s Olympic Games in Paris, he has revealed.

The Kenyan High Court has ruled Stephen Soi to be innocent in the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Olympic Games corruption case following his appeal.