World Rugby, the rugby union governing body, has reported a pre-tax loss of £36.1 million ($47.5 million/€40.2 million) for 2016, the first year of its four-year business cycle.

The first Board meeting of the new Independent Testing Authority (ITA) will take place before the end of the year, with appointment of the body’s first director general among items up for discussion.

The corporation behind the Kalashnikov brand has entered a new niche market and appears to have high hopes of export sales.

It looks like Paris 2024 is going to come under pressure to justify every centime of spending, with the future pay of its top officials succeeding the cost of last month’s trip to Lima as a subject of fascination in the French media.

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has explained the thinking behind the removal of alcohol from the 2018 list of prohibited substances, saying that an anti-doping laboratory was not necessary to test for the substance’s presence.

France’s Sports Ministry is set to suffer a seven per cent cut in its annual budget, according to figures included in the Government’s 2018 Finance Bill. 

A new survey of sports industry leaders includes a worrying message for the International Olympic Committee (IOC), with the Olympic Games and winter sports said to be "showing signs of slipping down the appeal rankings of global sports properties".

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has been forced to scrap original plans for a new version of its ADAMS data management system at considerable expense.

Annual revenue generated by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has nearly doubled over the past four years.

Exclusive new analysis of the International Olympic Committee (IOC)'s financial accounts reveals how the body used the more than $5.6 billion (£4.4 billion/€4.8 billion) of revenue it generated over the last full Olympic cycle between 2013 and 2016.

New evidence has emerged of how growth in the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) cash distributions to International Federations (IFs) slowed dramatically in the 2013-2016 quadrennium.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) will start sending money to California almost immediately if full agreement is reached for Los Angeles to host the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

“The French people are ready” is the message the country’s new President Emmanuel Macron told International Olympic Committee (IOC) members in Lausanne today - emphasising that they could “count on” him even if he no longer occupied his present post in 2024.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) ought to give its Ethics Commission more independence to investigate cases of ethical misconduct.