The Ukrainian Fencing Federation (UFF) has urged Interim President Emmanuel Katsiadakis and other senior International Fencing Federation (FIE) officials to "prevent" the return of Russian and Belarusian athletes to the international sports arena.

World Athletics has quietly entered into an agreement to lend $2 million (£1.75 million/€2 million) to Diamond League AG.

Broadcasting rights fees covering the Pyeongchang 2018-Tokyo 2020 Olympic cycle in the Middle East and Africa appear to have reached little more than half of the values achieved for the 2013-2016 quadrennium.

The dividend from Tokyo 2020 has helped World Athletics to boost cash reserves after a year characterised by President Sebastian Coe as a time when the sport learnt how to dance in the rain.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC)’s head of marketing is leaving for the high-octane world of Premier League football.

Long-time PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) sports practice head David Dellea is making the switch to Altman Solon, a consulting firm focusing on the telecommunications, media and technology sector.

The process of consolidation in the media sector, one of sport’s main paymasters, has continued with news that Warner Bros. Discovery and BT Group have closed a deal to form a new sports joint venture.

The International Tennis Federation (ITF) has posted a second consecutive annual deficit, as COVID-19 continued to cast a long shadow.

A year on from the fall of Kabul, the Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) has completed the evacuation from Afghanistan of five athletes and their families in exceptionally challenging circumstances, it can now be revealed.

The Extraordinary Congress to elect a new President of the European Fencing Confederation (EFC) has been set for October 1 in Warsaw.

Alisher Usmanov has made it clear that he had "no role" in the preparation of documents encouraging his reinstatement as President of the International Fencing Federation (FIE), and also that the Russian Fencing Federation (FFR) "did not initiate these acts" in his support.

The Russian Fencing Federation (FFR) appears to be attempting to enlist Thomas Bach’s support in efforts to have Alisher Usmanov reinstated as President of the International Fencing Federation (FIE).

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has confirmed that payments to Winter Olympic International Sport Federations (IFs) for the contributions of their sports to the Beijing 2022 Winter Games are set to fall back below Pyeongchang 2018 levels.

A reassessment of the likely cost of past Olympic Games anti-doping efforts has triggered a substantial increase in the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) reported expenditure on medical and doping control programmes in the last - five-year - Olympic cycle.