Samoan Prime Minister Tuilaepa Aiono Sailele Malielegaoi recently announced his intention to compete at this year’s Pacific Games in Apia.
Montreal is experiencing a construction spree, as this sassy city emerges from the bitter Quebec winter.
My return to Australia’s Gold Coast last week was very special. It was my first visit to the city since the 2018 Commonwealth Games, a spectacular event that was a huge success for everyone involved.
In just over a month, another city will learn its Olympic destiny in the city they call "Capitale Olympique". It will come exactly 100 years after the first such coronation.
You may have seen it. You probably have. It’s all over social media. Athlete as Superman.
I am a bit of an insomniac – well, rather more than a bit – and counting sheep does not count me out.
We are so used to officials and organisations praising Tokyo 2020 that the ears prick up that much quicker when anything bordering on criticism is pointed in their direction.
My week began and ended speaking to Global Association of International Sports Federations (GAISF) President Raffaele Chiulli.
This week I made the short train journey from Milton Keynes to Birmingham to attend a ground-breaking ceremony for the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games Athletes’ Village.
Some eyebrows were raised this week when European Olympic Committees (EOC) President Janez Kocijančič claimed the European Games could be "a massive sports event which would be second only to the Olympics".
A paradox: being honest about cheating.
Horse racing is not an Olympic sport. Yet a subsidiary of the venerable but surprisingly forward-thinking Jockey Club is establishing a growing reputation as a provider of services that help other sports organisations, including national governing bodies, to run their operations efficiently.
I confess an acute dilemma both morally and mentally over the case of Caster Semenya, the South African runner who has become embroiled in one of the most vexed and complex arguments sport has ever known.
Following the landmark Caster Semenya versus International Association of Athletics Federations case, another dispute appears to be heading to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) later this month.
Occasionally a story from Kent University, a place I allegedly spent three years studying at the start of this decade, attracts my attention.
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.
Golazo Sports - Account Director: Bridgestone Olympic Sponsorship - Paris, France
Based in Golazo’s Paris office, the Account Director has the task of managing the French account on a day-to-day basis and assist the Senior Project Director in the pan-European delivery.
This essentially involves leading the account team in France and overviewing the other European offices, liaising with the client and partner agencies across Europe and ensuring that campaigns are executed to the highest standards whilst meeting clear objectives.
Yiannis Kouros is a Greek who, 30 years ago this week, ran 1,000 miles faster than anyone in history which is why Brian Oliver thinks he is the greatest distance-runner you have never heard of.
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