With an ambitious tagline of “Go beyond. Create tomorrow” Lillehammer 2016 can already satisfy itself with having achieved the first half of its promise. The second half will still need others to follow what was undoubtedly a great example.

As the dust settled on a day of drama, Gianni Infantino sat down to conduct his first press conference as the new President of FIFA and admitted his surprise victory at the Extraordinary Congress hadn’t quite sunk in.

He is a lucky man, but you have to acknowledge he made his own luck.

So Sepp Blatter is “deeply disappointed” by the decision of the FIFA Appeal Committee to reduce the ban imposed upon him and his UEFA Presidential counterpart Michel Platini from eight years to six. Well, he said it.

Democracy, FIFA-style - even allowing for some of the weird and wonderful variants of the concept elsewhere in the sporting world, there is nothing quite like it.

Those close to Lord Sebastian Coe say he has aged ten years in the six months he has been President of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), hardly surprising in view of the pile of manure into which he has trodden.

A lot of bests have been seen over the last 11 days here in snowy Norway.

The “less is more” ethos of Agenda 2020 poses a novel problem for Olympic bid spin-doctors.

Lausanne 2020 chief executive Ian Logan views the world from a different angle following his many years as an F-18 fighter pilot.

Up in the Olympic Park here in Lillehammer, they are selling tee-shirts which proclaim "Lillehammer’s second best Games". It is the kind of self deprecatory humour which has endeared us all to these 2016 Winter Youth Olympic Games.

So the official logo and bid slogan for Los Angeles 2024, depicting an arched, athletic angel bedazzled with sunlight, has now officially arisen.

Manchester United executive Ed Woodward sees the newly-acquisitive Chinese Super League (CSL) as “another useful market if we are looking to sell players”.

For years now exiles and émigrés have been a major component in the rich fabric of boxing, dating back well before the lifting of the Iron Curtain in 1991. This opened the floodgates for such as the Klitschkos and now those big-hitting Beasts from the East, Gennady Golovkin and Sergey Kovalev, to exert so much influence on the professional game.

Just like in American politics, election season is upon us in sport, and lobby bars are becoming full of a familiar combination of plotting and campaigning as strategies and alliances are put into place.