There was a great story told at the Giro d'Italia last week involving Australian and Belgian cyclists Adam Hansen and Tim Wellens.
Credit to Gianni Infantino. His plans for a revamped 24-team Club World Cup have already made the tournament far more entertaining than the existing one.
Ever since the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) was declared non-compliant in November 2015, a question has ominously lingered over the sports movement; just how long can this go on?
The finishing touches have just been added to ‘’Olympic language’’, a new exhibition at the Olympic Museum in Lausanne. It concentrates on the ‘’look‘’ of the Games which coordinates symbols, decoration of the stadium and even street signs.
Long ago, in another millennium, there was a weekly television show called The Word. It wasn't in the beginning - it actually started at 6pm on Fridays and then moved to a late-night slot.
Not all time is of equal value; this can - or should - have a bearing on the administration of justice.
Internationally renowned sports stars from Egypt are a bit thin on the ground, give or take the odd squash player or émigrés like Jaroslav Drobny, the exiled Czech who took temporary political refuge under the African nation's flag and won Wimbledon back in 1954.
A sporting performance which caught my eye more than any other over the weekend was a superb 800 metres time of 1min 47.50sec in Manchester, clocked by Great Britain's Max Burgin eight days before his 16th birthday.
The Baku 2015 band are almost back together, as the European Games prepares for the second leg of its tour around Europe - well, Eastern Europe.
The taking part that counts mantra is often derided by those among us who feel sport is about competition rather than participation.
It has already been a year of celebration for Irish sport. Back in March, they clinched the Grand Slam in rugby union on St Patrick's Day.
Who knows what lies behind the great Swansea Marriott Hotel mystery?
Imagine this: you launch a bidding contest to select a host-city and over 200 candidates throw their hats into the ring.
It is far from fanciful to suggest that the return of Tyson Fury is the most anticipated comeback by a former undefeated world heavyweight champion since the great Muhammad Ali almost half a century ago.
Russian journalists were on bullish form at the press conference which closed last week’s International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board meeting in Lausanne.
The road cycle race at the 1948 Olympic Games in London was moved to Windsor from its originally planned venue at Richmond Park when it was discovered that any activity at more than 20 miles per hour was prohibited. The race was held on Friday August 13 and was started in a torrential downpour on Smith's Lawn in Windsor Great Park by HRH Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh. The race distance was 120 miles, comprised of 17 laps which took the leaders approximately 18 minutes each to complete. The individual race was won by France's José Beyaert, while Belgium took the gold medal in the team event. Beyaert remains the last French cyclist to win the Olympic road race.
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Skateboarding will make its Olympic debut at Tokyo 2020 but the governance of the sport has been far from smooth. Mike Rowbottom reports as a major competition makes its way to London.
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