Figures detailing the financial performance of World Athletics have at long last emerged, showing that the body made hefty deficits in both 2017 and 2018.
Two-thirds of Swiss-based International Federations (IFs) have accepted the joint loan offer from the Swiss Government and International Olympic Committee (IOC).
A Canadian who was a victim of Tamás Aján's vote-rigging corruption says the current Executive Board of the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) should not be trusted to take any immediate decisions on the sport’s future.
Papa Massata Diack has requested the postponement of a trial where he and his father are among the defendants, as two of his regular lawyers are unable to travel to Paris for the case.
World Sailing staging a virtual Presidential election later this year has moved a step closer after the Board asked member national associations (MNAs) to vote on a resolution to hold an electronic Annual General Assembly (AGM).
Fencer Race Imboden - who was placed on probation by the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) following a podium protest at the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima - declined an invitation to act as a facilitator at a USOPC town hall yesterday.
Rio 2016 Olympic bronze medallist Viktor Axelsen claimed badminton players will have to be "cautious" about the "extremely ambitious" schedule for the remainder of this year.
The headquarters of Dentsu, the Tokyo 2020 marketing agency, had to be evacuated yesterday (May 5) due to a bomb threat.
Salwa Eid Naser, the women's 400 metres world champion, who was yesterday given a provisional ban for whereabouts failures said she had "never been a cheat" during an Instagram live video.
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has published guidelines for Anti-Doping Organisations (ADOs) on conducting remote educational programmes during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) Coordination Commission's visit for the Birmingham 2022 Games has had to be cancelled due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
Ice dancer Asher Hill has accused Skate Canada of hypocrisy regarding the governing body's statement on racial equality as protests take place across the world.
The International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC) has again changed the dates of its European Championships due to the coronavirus crisis.
Former Russian biathlon coach Anatoli Khovantsev has admitted that he could "count clean biathletes on one hand" as recent as six years ago, but has stressed he believes it is now harder to cheat in the sport.
Another Concours Complet International (CCI) five-star eventing competition has been cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic, leaving only one left on the 2020 calendar.
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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England’s 50 years of footballing hurt started at the Mexico 1970 World Cup. But, as David Owen writes, the tournament that got under way half a century ago at the Azteca has never been bettered.
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