It has been another supremely testing year for the International Olympic Committee (IOC), but, as it draws to a close, the body can point to at least one modest achievement in the edgy field of social media: full gender parity on Twitter.
Etienne Thobois has been appointed director general of the Paris Organising Committee for the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, it has been confirmed tonight.
The International Skating Union (ISU) is facing an uncertain commercial future, with testing markets for European TV rights and sponsorship adding to the question-marks arising from last week’s European Commission ruling on the federation’s eligibility rules.
Russia’s Bosco appears to have succeeded Nike of the United States as clothing supplier to the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
Football clubs which supply squad members for next year’s FIFA World Cup in Russia can look forward to massively increased payments of around $8,530 (£6,360/€7,180) per player per day, in recognition of their “contribution to the successful staging” of the tournament.
Cities may be reluctant to bid for the Olympic Games at the moment, but there is evidently no shortage of people keen to organise them.
A CHF4.85 million (£3.7 million/$4.95 million/€4.1 million) donation from President Alisher Usmanov has enabled the International Fencing Federation (FIE) to report a CHF4.36 million (£3.3 million/$4.45 million/€3.7 million) surplus for 2016.
The South African Sports Minister has joined in the war of words over the host selection process for the 2023 Rugby World Cup, drawing parallels between the "attempted undermining" of the current South African bid and the 2010 FIFA World Cup bidding process.
Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has made a forthright intervention in the battle for the 2023 Rugby World Cup, insisting that the Irish bid was “still alive” and that “we won’t be pulling out”.
England wanted to stage a football World Cup in 2018 - and now it is to get its wish.
La Liga, the top Spanish football league, has decided to start investing significant sums in Spanish federations representing other sports.
The International Equestrian Federation (FEI) has announced a modest net result of CHF1.27 million (£978,000/$1.28 million/€1.09 million) for the Olympic year of 2016.
The new UEFA Nations League is set to enhance the value of European international football matches, according to Guy-Laurent Epstein, the European football body's marketing director.
The International Equestrian Federation (FEI) is restructuring its marketing programme along discipline lines.
Mouton Cadet has been unveiled as the official wine of the 2018 Ryder Cup.
At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Iranian judoka Arash Miresmaeili was disqualified for weighing in at nearly four pounds above the limit for his weight class of his under-66 kilograms match against an Israeli opponent Ehud Vaks in the first round. It was claimed Miresmaeili had gone on an eating binge to protest the International Olympic Committee's recognition of the state of Israel. Iran does not recognise the state of Israel, and Miresmaeili's actions won praise from high-ranking Iranian officials. Mohammad Khatami, the country's President at the time, was quoted as saying Miresmaili's actions would be "recorded in the history of Iranian glories". He was later awarded $125,000 by the Government - the same amount given to Olympic gold medallists.
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The CARIFTA Games has a long line of success stories – Obadele Thompson, Yohan Blake, Debbie Ferguson, Shaunae Miller-Uibo – and that's before you even mention Usain Bolt. Mike Rowbottom meets the man who started the Games off, Sir Austin Sealy, as the 48th edition launches in the Cayman Islands.
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