World Sailing has posted a smaller-than-expected deficit for 2020, while serving notice that it expects its Tokyo 2020-related Olympic dividend to be no smaller than what it received for Rio 2016.

EA Sports, the United States-based entity behind the FIFA video game, is considering renaming its football-themed output.

Another International Federation has disclosed a significant deficit for 2020, with United World Wrestling (UWW) posting a CHF5.24 million (£4.16 million/$5.63 million/€4.86 million) loss for the COVID-19-scarred year.

World Archery’s unrestricted funds at the end of 2020 plunged to little more than CHF1 million (£790,000/$1.07 million/€924,000) as the International Federation (IF) wrestled with the fall-out from a COVID-19 pandemic that prompted postponement of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games and wreaked havoc with last year’s outdoor archery season.

Swingeing cuts to event, development and marketing spending enabled World Rowing to report a surplus of almost CHF1 million (£790,000/$1.1 million/€920,000) in 2020, in spite of what President Jean-Christophe Rolland referred to as a "quasi-inexistent racing programme", except for Indoor Championships in February and the European Rowing Championships in October.

Stringent cost-cutting has enabled the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) to emerge from the COVID-blighted year of 2020 with only a modest loss and relatively slight erosion of its asset base.

A survey of almost 800 sports industry executives worldwide has forecast annual market growth of just under five per cent for the next three to five years.

World Athletics has borrowed $7.5 million (£5.5 million/€6.4 million) from the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the biggest such loan to have come to light since the IOC published a list of 15 International Federations to which it was lending money.

The Japanese economy looks to be in danger of missing out on an Olympic bounce, after new figures revealed that it achieved only sluggish growth in the second quarter.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) sponsor Airbnb is rebounding strongly from a COVID-blighted 2020, as travel picks up again in some regions of the world.

Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce and cloud computing company that is one of the International Olympic Committee (IOC)’s most important commercial partners, has eased back into profit over the three months to end-June 2021.

NBCUniversal is expecting to open a new theme park in Beijing "in the next couple of months", leaving it well-placed to cash in on an influx of international tourists coinciding with next year’s Winter Olympics in the Chinese capital.

It will be some time before the full picture on Tokyo 2020 global viewing figures emerges, but early indications suggest patterns are in line with what you might expect from an event taking place in the Asian time-zone, in an increasingly fragmented, technology-led media market.

The International Cycling Union (UCI) has borrowed $5 million (£3.6 million/€4.2 million) from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to help mitigate the impact of Tokyo 2020's postponement.