The New Year has dawned and one of the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) most vexing problems remains irritatingly unresolved. Will boxing, one of the most traditional of Olympic sports, still be on the agenda for Tokyo 2020?

Former world heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko has claimed the World Boxing Association (WBA) should replace the International Boxing Association (AIBA) as the body responsible for organising the sport at the Olympic Games amid the doubt about its place on the Tokyo 2020 programme.

This is the time of year when we scribes make fools of ourselves by predicting what may - or may not - happen in the next 12 months.

The sighs of relief emanating from the headquarters of British Cycling and Team Sky must have sounded like the explosion of air from a thousand or so punctured bicycle tyres after UK Anti-Doping declared that no charges will be brought against the two bodies over the mysterious Jiffygate affair.

Anthony Joshua now has a real fight on his hands – not in the ring but for the title of Sports Personality of the Year.

Former world heavyweight and Olympic boxing champion Wladimir Klitschko has called for unity between the sport’s amateur and professional ranks after recent acrimony between the two. 

Within the space of a few days sport has lost a couple of its biggest contemporary superstars - two-of-a-kind whose legendary status is unquestioned and whose careers have been unblemished by sleaze or scandal.

Former world heavyweight and Olympic boxing champion Wladimir Klitschko has announced his retirement from the ring.

Trousering the thick end of £15 million ($19.4 million/€17.8 million), a fraction of what is likely to come his way in the future, Anthony Joshua declared after his stunning conquest of Wladimir Klitschko on Saturday night that his proudest possession remained not a world championship belt, but his Olympic gold medal.

Sixteen years separate the super-heavyweight Olympic gold medals won by Anthony Joshua at London 2012 and Wladimir Klitschko at Atlanta 1996. 

Britain's world heavyweight boxing champion Tyson Fury could potentially be stripped of his titles after reports claimed he had tested positive for cocaine.

An Extraordinary Congress is set to be held by the International Boxing Association (AIBA) in May to pass new rules that would allow top professional boxers like Wladimir Klitschko and Manny Pacquiao to compete in this year's Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. 

Twenty-fifteen: The year in which the high and mighty fell to earth with a resounding thump.

Two historic events of global significance at the weekend have left British sport punching the air.

First, Tyson Fury’s impudent acquisition of Wladimir Klitschko’s triple world heavyweight crowns seems to have "shook up the world" just as another underdog, Muhammad Ali, did when he upset all the odds to dethrone the so-called unbeatable ogre that was Sonny Liston half a century ago.

Then Britain's Andy Murray-led Davis Cup tennis squad defied the spectre of terrorism to claim the sport’s biggest team prize, one that had eluded the nation for over three quarters of a century.