Nick Butler Senior Reporter

Since joining insidethegames.biz in 2013, Butler has travelled to a variety of major global sporting events, including the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics and the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games as well as the most recent editions of the Asian, European and Pan American Games in Incheon, Baku and Toronto. He has also attended the last four International Olympic Committee (IOC) Sessions and has particularly enjoyed tackling the politics and diplomacy of the Olympic Movement.

Nick Butler

Recent articles by Nick


We owe Olympic survival to embracing technology, admits taekwondo chief

By Nick Butler at the Rolex Learning Centre in Lausanne

Jean Marie Ayer was speaking at the “Conference on Smart Textile Opportunities for Sport” in LausanneNovember 13 - Jean-Marie Ayer, secretary general of the World Taekwondo Federation (WTF), has admitted here the survival of taekwondo's Olympic status was dependent on the sport's successful embracing of new technologies introduced in the aftermath of Beijing 2008.



ITU announce Arimany as new director general

By Nick Butler

Antonio Fernandez Arimany has been announced as the new secretary general of the ITU ©ITUNovember 13 - Spaniard Antonio Fernandez Arimany has been appointed the International Triathlon Union's (ITU) new director general, effectively replacing Canadian Loreen Barnett who is stepping down as chief executive at the end of the year.


Centre of Excellence "among the best in Europe" unveiled by British Judo

By Nick Butler at the University of Wolverhampton in Walsall

Olympic heptathlon Denise Lewis opened the new British Judo Centre of ExcellenceNovember 12 - Denise Lewis, the Sydney 2000 Olympic heptathlon champion, this afternoon opened the new British Judo Centre for Excellence here, part of Britain's aim to build upon the success of London 2012 and win their first Olympic gold medal in the sport in Rio.