The English Football Association have just appointed Baroness Sue Campbell as their new head of women’s football. Now I have a lot of time for Sue, who has been one of the most formidable, influential and successful females in British sport.

France's Jean Gracia has been named interim chief executive and general secretary of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) today as the process to select a full-time appointment begins.

I see that Lord Sebastian Coe has followed the hirsute trend of sporting celebs by sprouting a small beard.

Part two of the World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA) Independent Commission report revealed a nepotistic cabal surrounding former International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) President Lamine Diack, which, instead of taking on the parasitic culture of doping eating away at the sport, reacted by bribing and extorting their way to a personal fortune.

It stuck another dagger into the already-punctured heart of athletics but also the entire structure of global sports administration.

One of the things that struck me over the course of last year about the many issues we face in sports governance, and which gave me cause for reflection during the festive season when I spent some quality time with my family, is the high incidence of nepotism at the highest levels of sport.

Sebastian Coe today said he had "no suspicions" about Lamine Diack, the man he replaced as President of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), after being called to task for praise he heaped on the now disgraced Senegalese.

International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) President Sebastian Coe has promised to investigate the whereabouts of a sponsorship worth $25 million (£17 million/€23 million) supposedly paid to the world governing body by a Russian bank. 

Turkey's Aslı Çakır Alptekin was told she could keep the Olympic gold medal she won in the 1500 metres at London 2012 if she paid a bribe of €650,000 (£490,000/$700,000).

Tokyo's victory in the race for the 2020 Olympics and Paralympic Games has been implicated in the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) corruption scandal after it was suggested a sponsorship payment agreed between Japan and the the world governing body may have encouraged some International Olympic Committee members to vote for it rather than rival Istanbul.  

A wanted notice has been issued by Interpol for Papa Massata Diack, the son of former International Association of Athletics Federations President Lamine, calling for his arrest for alleged corruption and money laundering.

As the athletics and wider sporting worlds prepare for today’s release in Munich of the “wow factor” report - the second part of the World Anti-Doping Agency’s Independent Commission investigation, as trailed by its chairman Richard Pound - debate over what to do about dubious track and field records has intensified. 

Sebastian Coe's position as President of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) is set to come under even more pressure when the second part of the report due to be published here later today by the World Anti-Doping Agency Independent Commission will claim top officials must have been aware of the growing problem with doping in Russia. 

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has been refused access to emails which allegedly reveal that the disgraced son of former International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) President Lamine Diack helped arrange "parcels" for some of its senior members when Qatar's capital Doha was bidding for the 2016 Games.

The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) were tonight forced to deny allegations they considered hiding drugs cases involving Russian athletes from the public before the 2012 Olympic Games in London.