Weightlifting will be granted full inclusion on the programme for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris once the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) has handed over its entire anti-doping operation to the International Testing Agency (ITA), it was announced here today.
Tsunekazu Takeda officially ceased to be a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) today after the organisation's ruling Executive Board accepted his resignation at a meeting here.
Umar Kremlev, secretary general of the Boxing Federation of Russia, has positioned himself as an early contender to replace Gafur Rakhimov as President of the International Boxing Association (AIBA) by admitting he has already considered standing.
A legal challenge filed by the Kazakhstan Weightlifting Federation (WFRK) against the International Weightlifting Federation's (IWF) Olympic qualification system for Tokyo 2020 has been dropped, it was announced today.
The final total cost for the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) new multi-million dollar headquarters will be around CHF145 million (£110 million/$146 million/€129million) and the first members of staff are due to move into the building at the start of May, it was revealed here today.
Brașov is set to enter the race for the 2024 Winter Youth Olympic Games after officials from the Romanian Government pledged to support a possible bid from the city.
Tokyo 2020 today published a report summarising progress, made mainly during 2018, in the implementation of its sustainability plan.
London 2012 Olympic high jump champion Ivan Ukhov is among five Russian athletes to have launched an appeal against a doping ban handed down by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) last month, the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) announced today.
The Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) is taking its own Disciplinary Committee to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) after it decided not to punish an athletics coach for trying to bribe an anti-doping official.
Brest will be the first Belarusian region to receive the Minsk 2019 European Games Flame of Peace as part of the Torch Relay for the event.
Townsville has won the right to host the 2021 International Triathlon Union (ITU) Multisport World Championships.
A total of 20 countries have submitted expressions of interest to host International Equestrian Federation (FEI) World Championships in 2022, it was announced in Lausanne today.
Samoa 2019 has been described "the miracle Games” by director of sponsorship Tagaloa Fouina Su'a,
The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) has certified the track to be used for the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima as being a class one facility.
A man who stabbed two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitová in her own home has been sentenced to eight years in jail.
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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Jakob Larsen, head of the Organising Committee for this week's International Association of Athletics Federations World Cross Country Championships in Aarhus, wants to provoke a serious debate about the sport returning to the Olympic programme, as he tells Mike Rowbottom.
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