Looking around at the spectators yesterday at the Street League Skateboarding (SLS) competition being held in London's Olympic Park, I was clearly not the only middle-aged dad to have dragged along a child.
The level of suspicion which accompanies magnificent sporting feats these days was there for all to see after Chris Froome’s performance during a dramatic 19th stage of the Giro d’Italia.
Forty years ago this week, the World Cup finals began in Argentina.
One of the most exciting things about watching Italian track and field athletes is the excitement they generate among their own supporters.
Now here's a thing: for all the, er, developments of the past couple of years, Russia's pursuit of soft power through sport still appears to be going swimmingly.
Vasyl Lomachenko is a name which does not trip easily off the tongue but it has found its way to the lips of the boxing cognoscenti. They argue that the double Olympic and world amateur gold medal winner from Ukraine, a world professional champion at three weight divisions after only 12 fights, may now be the greatest of all time.
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.
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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A dusty ring binder from 1976 offers a fascinating look at the world of sports business and how far Olympic marketing has come. David Owen reports.
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