When the African Weightlifting Championships officially closed in Tunis on Friday (May 19) the medals table looked just like it usually does, with Egypt and other northern nations dominating.

In his closing remarks at the 43rd European Olympic Committees (EOC) Seminar in Paris yesterday, the EOC President Spyros Capralos observed: "There was no better way to finish this Seminar than hearing the words from our Ukrainian friends. They remind us that we need solidiarity, we need to work for peace, and I hope that we will all continue working together and providing our help  as we have done up to now for Ukraine."

European Athletics reached a crossroads in Belgrade last month  with a Presidential election between two candidates promoting very different views. History records that the incumbent, Dobromir Karamarinov, held off the challenge of vice-president Libor Varhanik by 28 votes to 21.

One of the first engagements for King Charles III after his accession was to welcome the British Olympic and Paralympic medallists from Beijing 2022 and Tokyo 2020 to Buckingham Palace.

There has been a sports stadium in North London at what was known in Anglo Saxon times as "Wemba’s Lea" for 100 years.

With 500 days to go today until the start of next year's Paralympic Games in Paris, the International Paralympics Committee (IPC) President Andrew Parsons has described the Games Organising Committee as "even more revolutionary than we are."

It is July 25, 2036. After months of sweltering heat and dry weather, the state of Gujarat is relishing the pleasant dip in temperatures.

In the last few days, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) have insisted that the participation of Russian and Belarusian athletes at the Paris 2024 Olympics was not discussed at this week's Executive Board meeting.

The decision by the World Athletics Council last Thursday (March 23) to exclude transgender athletes from women’s competition was welcomed by many in the sport; it also provoked strong criticism from groups who felt it was an unwarranted move which nullified the principle of inclusion.

Russia and Belarus' status in international sport while the war in Ukraine is ongoing has been described as an "unsolvable dilemma" by the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

A group of 76 people with, at a conservative estimate, well over 2,000 years of experience in weightlifting gathered in Sweden this weekend to help their sport take another step "in a new direction".

Organisers of Paris 2024 have described many of their preparations for the Paris 2024 Olympics and Paralympics as "revolutionary."

The work of World Taekwondo and the Taekwondo Humanitarian Foundation (THF) at its flagship Humanitarian Sports Center at the Azraq Refugee Camp in Jordan has garnered a strong reputation in sport. A fitting location, then, for the opening of the second Hopes and Dreams Sports Festival.

This Friday (February 24) will mark the anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, with Belarus allowing additional access via its border.

After the latest flourish in its visual identity - this week’s revelation of sports pictograms and the generic Games venue branding - Paris 2024 is looking good.