Khadzhimurat Akkaev has been provisionally suspended by the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) as part of the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) re-testing of samples from the London 2012 Olympic Games.

London has been chosen as the host city for the 2017 World Para Taekwondo Championships.

Six weightlifters, including three Chinese Olympic gold medallists, are among the athletes to have been disqualified by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as part of the re-testing of samples stored since Beijing 2008 and London 2012.

New Zealand's double medallist Polly Powrie has announced her retirement from Olympic sailing.

Double Olympic gold medallist Alex Gregory has announced his retirement from rowing, more than 12 years after representing Great Britain for the first time.

Two-time Olympic silver medal-winning canoeist Richard Hounslow has retired from the sport.

Double Paralympic gold medallist Samuel Muchai Kimani of Kenya has set his sights on the breaking the world record in the T11 5,000 metres event at the World Para-Athletics Championships in London this year.

China's Zheng Tao has revealed he will not be training as regularly during 2017 as he looks to “fall in love” with swimming again.

One of the highlights of the Opening Ceremony of the 2012 Olympics in London was the sketch featuring the Queen and James Bond. In the full clip, Bond - played by British actor Daniel Craig - is greeted by Her Royal Highness and her corgis at Buckingham Palace. Secret agent 007 whisks the Queen off into a helicopter flying over the capital to East London before the daredevils parachute out of the helicopter into the Olympic Stadium. Mark Sutton, the stuntman who parachuted into the Stadium dressed as Bond, died the following year in a wingsuit flying accident in Switzerland. He had been travelling at around 125 miles per hour when he hit a ridge. 

Sebastian Coe has admitted his "anger" at the allegations of Russian doping which have removed the gloss from the London 2012 Olympics he helped win for his country.

Following the release of his first report, Richard McLaren was the subject of criticism and scrutiny from those who claimed he had no proof.

More than 1,000 athletes across summer, winter and Paralympic sports were involved in a widespread state-sponsored doping system in Russia akin to an "institutional conspiracy", Canadian lawyer Richard McLaren has claimed when delivering the second part of his report here today.

More positive doping tests have been found by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as they continue to re-analyse samples from the Beijing 2008 and London 2012 Games.

Double-Olympic taekwondo gold medallist Jade Jones beat footballer Gareth Bale to claim a second BBC Cymru Wales Sports Personality of the Year prize.

Organisers of the Glasgow 2018 European Championships have confirmed Atos as the preferred bidder to provide timing, scoring and results (TSR) services for four sports at the event, despite a number of calls being made for the digital services company to be dropped when it served as a leading sponsor of the 2014 Commonwealth Games in the Scottish city.