It is not an overstatement to say that sport’s integrity is being questioned like no time before.

At no point during Norwich City’s fateful Premier League match against Watford last night did the club’s joint owner, best-selling cookery author and TV presenter Delia Smith, take to the pitch to exhort the home fans to greater efforts, as she so memorably did when her team was in the throes of another unsuccessful fight against relegation 11 years ago. Which was rather a shame.

As a cricket fan whose love of the game was nurtured in the 1970s and 1980s, I know a thing or two about Caribbean sporting dominance.

At least one Brit named Khan scored a knock-out victory in a catchweight contest over a bigger opponent this weekend.

Last week for me was a lesson in politics. A lesson in electioneering, backroom deals and ruthless efficiency; starting in a luxury but virtually empty resort hotel in Brasilia and ending, equally eerily, in the serene stillness of a Sunday morning in London’s financial epicentre at Canary Wharf.

It is regularly mentioned by athletes in interviews during the build-up to an Olympic Games about the number of hours they have trained for what could be their only chance at claiming gold on the greatest sporting stage. Their moment in the Olympic spotlight could be just a minute, but it's a potentially life-changing portion of their career. Often it is their different journeys to that point which prove to be the most fascinating.

For a brief, fleeting moment earlier this week, attention veered sharply from the troubles plaguing Rio 2016 to Pyeongchang 2018 following the shock resignation of Organising Committee President Cho Yang-ho.

Next week, I am delighted to be attending the global anti-corruption summit convened by the British Prime Minister David Cameron.

What is the default response to this week’s news that Andy Murray has become the latest high profile athlete to decide not to stay in the Olympic Village at the Rio 2016?

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has endured a difficult year, but it is to be commended for the data on sample outcomes it has started to publish in recent times.

Back in February 1976 when I edited the magazine Sportsworld, then the official publication of the British Olympic Association, I received a telephone call from a Melbourne radio station in the middle of the night following the British figure skater John Curry’s breathtakingly artistic gold medal-winning performance in the Innsbruck Winter Games.  

“Autonomy” is among the top words of today in sporting circles. This has chiefly concerned National Olympic Committees and ensuring they are free of Government interference. But in recent weeks we have also seen the emergence of conflict on several fronts between established sporting events and unsanctioned rivals.

Last week it was 100 days to go, then there was the formal handover in Athens. But this latest milestone is particularly special as the Olympic Torch arrives on home soil.

In the world of sport, invariably, if a coach is the subject of headlines it is normally a sign that something has gone drastically wrong.