Umar Kremlev, secretary general of the Boxing Federation of Russia, has positioned himself as an early contender to replace Gafur Rakhimov as President of the International Boxing Association (AIBA) by admitting he has already considered standing.
Weightlifting will be granted full inclusion on the programme for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris once the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) has handed over its entire anti-doping operation to the International Testing Agency (ITA), it was announced here today.
Tsunekazu Takeda officially ceased to be a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) today after the organisation's ruling Executive Board accepted his resignation at a meeting here.
There are fistfuls of big fights for aficionados of the noble art to look forward to this year.
The final total cost for the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) new multi-million dollar headquarters will be around CHF145 million (£110 million/$146 million/€129million) and the first members of staff are due to move into the building at the start of May, it was revealed here today.
An ongoing inquiry into the International Boxing Association (AIBA) reaches a key milestone this week as the first findings are set to be presented to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board when it holds its latest meeting here.
The International Testing Agency (ITA) was billed as a "major player in the global fight against anti-doping" when it became fully operational in June of last year.
News earlier this week that authorities in France had issued an arrest warrant for two Russian officials in connection with their investigation into former International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) President and leading International Olympic Committee (IOC) member Lamine Diack seemed to indicate we are entering the end game of a case that started more than three-and-a-half years ago.
International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach has met with United Nations (UN) secretary general António Guterres in New York City, where he presented Colombia's Luis Alberto Moreno as the IOC's new permanent observer at the UN.
Tsunekazu Takeda will resign as President of the Japanese Olympic Committee (JOC) following bribery allegations linked to the successful bid from Tokyo 2020.
Global Athlete director general Rob Koehler has called for action from the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the Association of Summer Olympic International Federations (ASOIF) and the World Karate Federation (WKF) amid a dispute in Irish karate.
Stockholm Åre 2026 is the "exceptional bid" that could help save the Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games, one of the Olympic Movement's top officials claimed today.
A three-and-a-half hour coach trip to inspect the ski jumping and Nordic combined facilities that would be used if Stockholm Åre 2026 is awarded the Olympic and Paralympic Games, which followed a 60 minute flight to visit the downhill skiing course, does not give the International Olympic Committee (IOC) any concern, it was claimed here today.
A door has been left open for the Swedish Governments to provide the guarantees needed for the country's bid for the 2026 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games to continue even if they miss a key deadline next month.
Sony Pictures Networks (SPN) have been awarded Tokyo 2020 broadcast rights for India and the subcontinent, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has said.
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.
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Jakob Larsen, head of the Organising Committee for this week's International Association of Athletics Federations World Cross Country Championships in Aarhus, wants to provoke a serious debate about the sport returning to the Olympic programme, as he tells Mike Rowbottom.
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