It will be harder for new sports to be included on the Winter Olympic Games programme in the future because the ones currently there are continually innovating with new disciplines. 

Former international hockey player David Luckes has been appointed as the head of summer sports and International Federation (IF) relations at the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

International Olympic Committee (IOC) sports director Kit McConnell has claimed he is confident that the world's top skateboarders and event organisers will participate at Tokyo 2020, despite the hostility expressed by some in the sport about it being in the Olympics. 

International Boxing Association (AIBA) President C K Wu has met with the National Federations gathered here for the 2017 World Championships to reflect on the event and to look ahead through the Olympic cycle to Tokyo 2020.

International Korfball Federation (IKF) President Jan Fransoo has claimed that the sport's core of gender equality is perfectly aligned to the wishes of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

International Olympic Committee (IOC) sports director Kit McConnell has warned that the composition of the sports programme for the 2028 Olympic Games will remain at the same level as 2024 to avoid the host having to incur extra costs.

Ski Mountaineering has been approved as the eighth sport on the programme for the 2020 Winter Youth Olympic Games in Lausanne.

The highlight of last week’s International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board press conference in Lausanne was a complicated analogy about two big birds circling somewhere between the sky, a roof and somebody’s hand. In terms of clarity, it was about as helpful as footballer Eric Cantona’s memorable bird-related quote about seagulls, sardines and a trawler when sentenced for kung-fu kicking a spectator in 1995.

Controversial International Skateboarding Federation (ISF) President Gary Ream is to chair the new Tokyo 2020 Skateboarding Commission set-up following the sport’s acceptance onto the Olympic programme, it has been confirmed.

Never underestimate the capacity of an organisation to say one thing and do another.

A final decision on new events being added to the Tokyo 2020 Olympic programme from within existing sports is set to be taken in June 2017.

A Working Group is to be set-up in the next two months to consider the future path of the World Combat Games following a meeting in which the concept of the multisport event was discussed today.

"Serious concerns" have been raised by the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) regarding the state of preparations for Rio 2016 - including a fear of power cuts at the venue.