Budapest's bid for the 2024 Olympics and Paralympics has cleared another major hurdle after the Hungarian National Assembly voted strongly in favour of the project.

Cuban International Olympic Committee (IOC) member Reynaldo González López has died in Mexico City aged 66.

A new study has found that 49.5 per cent of Brazilians do not practice sport or partake in physical activity, with just over a year to go until the Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Selected sports officials from across China have been training at the Russian International Olympic University (RIOU) in order to gain expertise necessary for organising a Winter Olympics and Paralympics.

Rio 2016 today revealed its design for the Olympic Torch and the route for the Torch Relay, 399 days before the Opening Ceremony is due to take place.

Boston 2024 bid leader Steve Pagliuca has claimed there is “no scope” for cost increases of venues following the unveiling of their revamped $4.6 billion (£2.9 billion/€4 billion) plan but has not ruled out further changes being made.

Tokyo 2020 has already hit its domestic sponsorship target fully five years in advance of the Games.

The International Olympic Committee had revealed the winning design of the Lillehammer 2016 Winter Youth Olympic Games medals following a design competition.

Rome's bid to host the 2024 Olympic Games was formally and unanimously endorsed by the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) at a meeting in Milan today. 

Song Seung-whan has been appointed as executive creative director for both the Opening and Closing Ceremonies at the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang, it has been announced.

Yoshirō  Mori, Tokyo 2020 President, today blamed an “imbalance of demand and supply” for the soaring construction costs threatening to afflict Japan’s Olympic and Paralympic project, as the second visit by top International Olympic Committee (IOC) inspectors drew to a close in a positive mood of mutual satisfaction.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) plans to implement changes to the Olympic Charter to hand International Sports Federations (IFs) a bigger role in how their events are run at the Olympic Games.

United States Olympic Committee (USOC) officials have firmly endorsed Boston's under fire 2024 Olympic and Paralympic bid today, hailing "remarkable progress" made over the last five weeks and predicting public support will rise over coming months.

Unclear finance models and "rather high" levels of investment in additional venues forming part of Brașov's 2020 Winter Youth Olympic Games bid were the main concerns highlighted in the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Evaluation Report released today.

The convention centre recently chosen as the venue for three sports - fencing, taekwondo and wrestling - at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics is to benefit from an estimated ¥15 billion on(£80 million/$120 million/€110 million) facelift.