The coronavirus pandemic has sparked an unprecedented crisis for sport, but it has equally provided those that govern it with a valuable opportunity.

As the International Olympic Committee and Tokyo 2020 work on the "huge jigsaw puzzle" following the postponement of the Olympic Games because of the coronavirus pandemic, Federations are dealing with the impact on their own calendars.

Tokyo 2020 President Yoshirō Mori has warned International Federations that deciding who covers the additional costs arising from the postponement of the Olympic Games will be a "major challenge".

International Federations have expressed unanimous support for the decision to postpone this year's Olympic Games in Tokyo to 2021.

Eight more International Federations are adopting ".sport" domain names for their websites, which have been delivered by the Global Association of International Sports Federations (GAISF).

World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) officials have reminded international governing bodies that they are prepared to challenge them in the courts if they do not prosecute cases against individual Russian athletes.

International Olympic Committee (IOC) veteran Richard Pound has launched a stinging attack on world governing bodies for only feeling pain in "their wallets" and not showing a genuine commitment to anti-doping problems.

Weightlifting executives and independent experts from all over the world gather in Bucharest in Romania this weekend for one of the sport’s most important decision-making meetings since it gained a regular place on the Olympic Games programme nearly 100 years ago.

Lost in the drama of last week’s Extraordinary Session in Lausanne, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) released its 2016 annual report.

The mixed zone outside the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Session during August’s Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro was a hostile place. Journalists were barely bothering to hide their disgust at the IOC’s attempts to pin the blame for Russian drugs problems on the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) during the meeting and sports officials were trying their best to evade lingering press corps as they headed towards lunch.

Over the years, I have been lucky enough to work for many, many International Federations ranging from FIFA and the International Association of Athletics Federations to the International Hockey Federation and International Gymnastics Federation.

insidethegames.biz has been named top of a survey of media most followed by Olympic organisations on Twitter.

The recently launched Olympic Channel has announced that it will broadcast 35 upcoming live events across a variety of sports, in partnership with a number of International Federations (IFs).

About half of Summer Olympic International Sports Federations now publish financial accounts every year, according to exclusive insidethegames analysis conducted this month.

"Good governance and autonomy are strongly linked; they are two sides of the same coin.” This maxim, taken from the background document to the Olympic Agenda 2020 proposals approved almost exactly a year ago by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), meeting in Monaco, encapsulates why 2015 has been such a disastrous year for advocates of maximum autonomy for sports organisations.