Boycotts have not stopped the International Boxing Association (IBA) from announcing a huge prize money bag for the Women's World Championships.

The renewed aspiration of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for maintaining "universality" with ideological integration at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games - embracing drug-free athletes from Russia and Belarus uninvolved in Ukraine atrocities - could be spectacularly counter-productive.

Lithuania has become the fifth country to withdraw from next month's International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) Congress due to Russian and Belarusian officials being allowed to attend the event, joining Ukraine, Norway, Estonia and Poland.

Sweden and Finland have refused to participate at two global bandy championships due to be held next month in Russia, citing the latter's military assault on Ukraine.

Tibetan, Uyghur, Hong Kong, Chinese and Taiwanese people have protested the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) decision to go ahead with the 2022 Winter Olympic Games in Beijing, calling for reform within the organisation.

David Wallechinsky, the doyen of Olympic observers, has said he will not attend the Beijing 2022 Winter Games that start on Friday (February 4) because of what he describes as "the intrusive 'surveillance bubble' imposed on visitors by the Chinese Government."

Boycotts have been the talk of sport this week for different reasons.

Chinese state-run newspaper Global Times has warned a boycott of next year's Winter Olympic Games in Beijing would result in trade sanctions.

The Canadian Olympic Committee (COC) and the Canadian Paralympic Committee (CPC) have released a joint statement saying that a "boycott is not the answer" for Beijing 2022, as part of one-year-to-go celebrations.

Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom, Iain Duncan Smith, has said that Australia should not "shy away" from boycotting the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, even if the nation could face further maltreatment from China.

This past weekend was supposed to be full of celebration and anticipation for organisers of the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.

Australia's Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has said that the country's men's football team will compete at this year's FIFA World Cup in Russia despite reportedly implying that a boycott was on the cards.

Nigerian wrestlers are threatening to boycott the upcoming Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast after it was reported they have not been paid their allowances for various African and international championships.

Russia's state-owned media giants Rossiya Segodnya are boycotting the Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro as a gesture of "solidarity" with the country's banned athletes, they have announced.