James Macleod will replace Pere Miró as head of National Olympic Committee (NOC) relations and Olympic Solidarity at the International Olympic Committee (IOC) from the start of next year, it was announced today.
The International Olympic Committee has taken up a leadership role within the "Sports for Climate Action Initiative", a new programme established by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
International Sambo Federation (FIAS) President Vasily Shestakov has said it will be "difficult" for the sport to gain a spot on the Olympic programme, but that chances to achieve that goal still remain.
An appeal filed by the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) against a Moscow court ruling which attempted to overturn Alexander Zubkov's disqualification from Sochi 2014 will be heard later this month, it has been announced.
Anyone struggling to think of an appropriate Christmas gift for International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach or other members of the Olympic family at the end of another long and difficult year could do worse than pick up a copy of Middle England, the new novel by Jonathan Coe.
International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach has issued a personal plea to the Senegalese Government to cooperate with a French investigation into alleged corruption involving former International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) President Lamine Diack and his son Papa Massata Diack.
Governing bodies in the Olympic Movement have made a habit of going back on their word by saying one thing and doing the other.
Any hopes that esports had of becoming an Olympic sport in the near future appear to have been dashed after senior International Olympic Committee officials, led by President Thomas Bach, claimed talk of it becoming a medal event is "premature".
New offices for the Chinese Olympic Committee (COC) have been officially inaugurated in Lausanne.
London 2012 flyweight bronze medallist Michael Conlan has claimed it would be a "major shame" if boxing does not feature on the Olympic programme at Tokyo 2020.
The Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) will appeal a Moscow court ruling which attempted to overturn Alexander Zubkov's disqualification from Sochi 2014 for doping, it was announced today.
International Boxing Association (AIBA) President Gafur Rakhimov has claimed the governing body is now in a position to confirm it has "finally and fully left the troubled past behind us" in a letter sent to all National Member Federations.
Chair of the International Sambo Federation’s (FIAS) Athlete Committee has hailed the sport’s provisional recognition by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as "an amazing achievement".
The director of Olympic Solidarity, Pere Miró, has today written to National Olympic Committees (NOCs) to invite them to contact the body’s athletes’ unit to discuss the re-activation of boxing-related activities.
An agreement has been reached by the International Olympic Committee and Samsung to extend their global partnership through to 2028.
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.
World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) - Deputy Director, Education - Montreal, Canada
Reporting to the Director of Education and Communications, the Deputy Director, Education will be responsible for leading the development and implementation of WADA’s strategic education priorities, programs and activities; including, managing WADA’s Social Science Research Grant Program and coordinating the activities of WADA’s Education Committee.
FINA is facing an unprecedented threat with the top swimmers taking legal action against them after they were barred from competing in the new International Swimming League. But FINA President Julio Maglione claims the new concept would represent a threat to the future well-being of the sport, as he tells Mike Rowbottom.
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