South Africa's former Paralympic Games medallist Achmat Hassiem is in a coma at a hospital in the Western Cape region after recently undergoing surgery.

World Athletics President Sebastian Coe has teamed up with former London 2012 chief executive Sir Keith Mills at the Czech Republic company trying to win the franchise to run the National Lottery in the United Kingdom.

Malyasia’s Chef de Mission at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, Tun Ahmad Sarji Abdul Hamid, has died at the age of 82 from complications related to COVID-19, it has been announced.

It is September 3, 2012 and I am in the middle of a West London square sipping something fizzy and celebrating a friend’s birthday.

London’s Olympic Stadium has staged another "Super Saturday" nearly nine years after Jessica Ennis-Hill, Greg Rutherford and Mo Farah produced one of the greatest nights in British sporting history, except this time it was not gold medals being handed out but coronavirus vaccines.

A Kazakhstan weightlifter who was moved up from fourth to second place at the Olympic Games because of doping disqualifications by rival athletes will not be awarded a medal - because she is herself suspended for doping.

Azerbaijan’s Minister of Youth and Sport Azad Rahimov, a key figure in the launching of the first European Games in Baku in 2015, has died at the age of 56, it was announced tonight.

Australia’s most successful male Olympic athlete, race walker Jared Tallent, will miss Tokyo 2020 after injury forced him to announce his retirement at the age of 36.

The London 2012 Opening Ceremony has been declared the "most viewed" on social media platforms in a new survey which lists the top 15 since the 1988 Summer Games in Seoul.

To mark my last day at insidethegames, I wrote down every trip I embarked on during my two-and-a-half years with the company.

Plans have been unveiled for a National Centre for Child Health Technology (CCHT), a diagnostic imagery research hub, a community arena and stadium at the Sheffield Olympic Legacy Park.

Olympic gold medals awarded to long jumper jumper Iván Pedroso and shooter Leuris Pupo have both sold for more than $70,000 (£51,000/€58,000) at an online auction as both exceeded their estimates.

A pair of Olympic gold medals won by Cuban athletes are up for auction with the price expected to soar in the closing days.

The Versace fashion house and designer Stella McCartney have led tributes to model Stella Tennant, who has died suddenly five days after her 50th birthday.