Australia’s most successful male Olympic athlete, race walker Jared Tallent, will miss Tokyo 2020 after injury forced him to announce his retirement at the age of 36.
A decision on what format the International Ski Federation (FIS) will hold its Congress in Portorož in Slovenia in June is set to be the main topic of the organisation’s Council meeting tomorrow with some countries growing concerned that an in-person event could prevent them from fully participating.
Team USA has launched a range of products featuring Hello Kitty, the popular fictional Japanese cartoon character, including plush toys and pin badges, in time for this year's rearranged Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo.
Robin Mitchell, the Acting President of the Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC), has claimed the start of Tokyo 2020 has moved a major step closer after the Torch Relay resumed in Japan.
Chinese state company China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC) has won a bid to build the seven major projects, including the main stadium, being funded by the Government in Beijing for the 2023 Pacific Games in the Solomon Islands.
The bike ridden by Sir Bradley Wiggins when he became the first Briton to win the Tour de France in 2012 has been put up for sale on Facebook.
It is not a "done deal" that Brisbane will host the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games, Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) President John Coates has warned.
Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC) secretary general Gunilla Lindberg has claimed that she "fully respects" the decision by Tokyo 2020 last week to ban international spectators because of the coronavirus pandemic and hopes that no-one will suffer financially as a result.
A new Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC) Social Media Audit has encouraged officials in Jordan that it is successfully engaging with a young audience in the country.
A leading candidate for election to the FIFA Council next month is facing allegations of financial irregularities after the offices of the Romanian Football Federation (FRF) were placed under investigation by the Government in Bucharest.
A bull adorned with a patchwork of multi-coloured hexagons called Perry has been revealed as the official mascot of next year’s Commonwealth Games.
National Olympic Committees (NOCs) around the world have a combined social media size of 28.4 million, with more than half of them coming from the Americas, a new survey has revealed.
Authorised ticket resellers (ATRs), the official agents appointed to sell packages to overseas fans for the Olympics and Paralympics, have made a last-ditch plea to Tokyo 2020 not to ban international spectators from this year’s Games amid fears that it could put some of them out of business.
Former Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) chief executive David Grevemberg is joining the Centre for Sport and Human Rights (CSHR) as its chief innovation and partnerships officer, it was announced today.
Cue sports are set to return to the Asian Games programme after what will have been a 20-year absence at Doha 2030.
Denver were awarded the 1976 Winter Olympic Games ahead of Sion in Switzerland, Tempere in Finland and Vancouver in Canada at the International Olympic Committee Session in 1970. But in a Colorado referendum in November 1972, voters rejected funding for the event. It is the only time a city has been awarded the Olympics but pulled out. The IOC then offered the Games to Whistler in Canada, but they too declined owing to a change of Government following elections. Salt Lake City offered to host the Games, but the IOC, still reeling from the Denver rejection, declined and selected Innsbruck, the 1964 host city, as a replacement.
Commonwealth Games Federation - Sport Manager - London, United Kingdom
The Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) is the international governing body that oversees the quadrennial Commonwealth Games and Commonwealth Youth Games. The CGF is a small passionate team, wholeheartedly committed to its vision, mission and values. Based in our central London headquarters and reporting to the CGF’s Sports Director, this role will play a key role within the team, providing operational and strategic support across all areas of the sport programme, including bespoke projects and events.
Tributes from across sport have been paid following the death of Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, at the age of 99. Philip Barker recalls the Prince's deep connection to sport and his influence on it.
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