Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo is due to have a belated opportunity to woo voters in the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic race when she attends next week's SportAccord Convention in Lausanne.

Working with the new Olympic TV Channel to showcase expanded multi-sports Games is among the ideas proposed by SportAccord Presidential candidate Anna Arzhanova, as she plans for a more powerful and active organisation.

Switzerland's Patrick Bauman and Russia's Anna Arzhanova have put themselves forward to be the new President of SportAccord, insidethegames can exclusively reveal.

Association of Summer Olympic International Federations (ASOIF) President Francesco Ricci Bitti is not planning to stand for the Presidency of SportAccord when elections are due to be held in April, insidethegames has been told here today.

SportAccord has abandoned its proposal to reduce membership to just four umbrella Federations in new draft Statutes circulated to members today, reverting back to the traditional system of each constituent sporting body being a full member.

A proposal to merge SportAccord and SportAccord Convention has been postponed following a Council meeting in Lausanne today, with the former body to remain composed of individual sports rather than just four umbrella bodies.

Delegate and exhibition registration for the 2016 SportAccord Convention in Lausanne is now open online.

A perceived imbalance between the power of Olympic and non-Olympic Federations and an organisational structure "not in line with standards of good governance" are criticisms set to be addressed by the SportAccord Council when they meet to discuss the body's proposed new statutes on January 26.

The Alliance of Independent Recognised Members of Sport (AIMS) has announced it will soon be an International Olympic Committee (IOC)-recognised organisation after its status was granted by the ruling Executive Board.

SportAccord Convention today launched the search to find hosts for 2017 and 2018 just two days after announcing Lausanne as the venue for next year's event.

Lausanne was today confirmed as the host for next year's SportAccord Convention, ending an eight-month search to find a city to stage the Olympic Movement's biggest conference and networking opportunity. 

Plans to reform the statutes and composition of SportAccord are facing much opposition, insidethegames understands, with the proposal for the body to only have four voting members proving particularly controversial.

Lausanne has emerged as a leading candidate to host the 2016 SportAccord Convention, insidethegames has learned, as a merger between the organisation and SportAccord was approved at an Extraordinary General Meeting here today.

A crucial moment in the history of SportAccord is set to take place here tomorrow with an Extraordinary General Meeting at which a proposed merger with SportAccord Convention will be discussed, followed by the opening of the ninth International Federations (IF) Forum.

A letter reiterating the aims of next week's crunch SportAccord Extraordinary General Meeting has been sent out by Council chairman Gian-Franco Kasper following more suggestions there is no longer any need for the body.