The tidal wave of emotion released by Roger Federer's tearful farewell performance at London's O2 Arena on Friday night travelled around the sporting world - and will continue to do so for some time.

Individual time trial events took place at Wollongong today. They mark the start of the International Cycling Union (UCI) Road World Championships; but also something much bigger. Namely Australia's "Decade of Sport".

On a grassy bank outside the Olympic Stadium in Munich, a series of plaques record the name of every gold medallist at the 1972 Games.

Last month, during the European Athletics Championships in Munich, my Italian friend and colleague Franco Fava was recalling how he took part in the 1972 Games held in the city's Olympic stadium.

Two years into his Presidency of the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB), Ary Graça was literally bouncing up and down in a state of high excitement at the Stadion Narodowy in Warsaw.

To say that things had gone smoothly for Oscar Pistorius before he competed in the London 2012 Paralympics would be a nonsense. 

Weightlifting is wasting 60 per cent of its potential, says the man who is coordinating plans to transform the sport by distancing it from its troubled past and taking it into a new era.

Earlier today at Edgbaston Cricket Ground, there were grey clouds accompanied by persistent drizzle and some anxious glances towards the skies from Birmingham 2022 officials.

On Wednesday (July 27), the 10th anniversary of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games will be celebrated at the City's Guildhall.

The children of Year 4 at Raddlebarn Primary School in Selly Oak, Birmingham will never forget the show they worked on this year.

Among the innovations at the Hayward Field venue that has been re-built to host the Oregon22 World Athletics Championships that start on Friday (July 15) is a 10-storey tower which pays tribute to five track and field legends from the neighbouring University of Oregon.

When the last World Games opened in the Polish city of Wrocław five years ago, International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach was present to make the official declaration.

On March 20 this year, organisers of the Chengdu 2021 International University Sports Federation (FISU) World University Games unveiled the design of medals for the event at a ceremony marking 100 days until it was scheduled to get underway.

The International Swimming Federation (FINA) World Championships - last held in 2019 - got underway this weekend in Budapest.

The reaction against the Saudi-backed LIV Golf Invitational Series that yesterday concluded its long-awaited - or for some, long-dreaded - debut event at the Centurion Club in Hemel Hempstead, England, has been strong.