Broadcasting giants NBCUniversal have acquired media rights for several Olympic sports from Universal Sports Network following the channel’s collapse, it has been announced.

San Diego could use staging the inaugural ANOC World Beach Games in 2017 as a launchpad for another bid to host the Olympics and Paralympic Games but Californian officials are promising a "pretty cool" event whatever happens.

Construction work on the stadium being built for the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics in Tokyo has been pushed back to 2017, Japanese Government officials announced today. 

José  Perurena, President of the International Canoe Federation (ICF), has revealed the sport will be seeking gender equality by the time of the Tokyo 2020 Games - and that it will deploy, literally, cutting edge technology to overcome some of the potential pollution problems encountered at the Rio 2016 Canoe Sprint venue on the Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas.

Canoe slalom is one of the bumpiest of sports events, but José Perurena, President of the International Canoe Federation (ICF), is expecting a smooth ride for the Rio 2016 Test event due to take place at the end of this month at the Whitewater Stadium within the Deodoro Olympic Park.

A world record-breaking number of 6,211 people turned out to form the Olympic Rings at Hamburg’s Stadtpark to show support for the city’s bid to host the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

An explosion at the Stade de France in Paris during France's win over Germany tonight left three people dead and several more injured, it has been reported.

Broadcasting giant Eurosport has announced a new brand identity which carries the tagline “Fuel Your Passion”  and is due to be launched on air tomorrow.

Russia will not boycott next year's Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro if the country's athletes are banned following allegations of "state-supported" doping, the country's Sports Minister has promised.

Russia have been given until the end of this week to respond to the publication of today's report published by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) that recommended the country's athletes be suspended from international competition, which could include next year's Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. 

Margaret Abbott was the first American woman to win an Olympic event when she won the women's golf tournament at Paris in 1900. Abbott won a porcelain bowl for her first place as these were the only Games where the winners received valuable artifacts instead of medals. Historical research did not establish that the game was on the Olympic programme until after Abbott's death at the age of 78 in 1955, so she herself never knew it. Abbott had traveled to Paris to study art under Edgar Degas and Auguste Rodin. Her mother, Mary Perkins Ives Abbott, a novelist and Chicago Tribune book reviewer, also competed in the event, finishing equal seventh, making it the first - and still only - Olympic event in which a mother and daughter competed at the same time.

You can guarantee that following the conclusion of every major sporting event, one of the organisers will declare it as “the best-ever”.

Los Angeles were the only bidders for the 1984 Summer Olympics following the withdrawal of Tehran before the final selection in 1978. Los Angeles had unsuccessfully bid for the two previous Summer Olympics, in 1976 and 1980, awarded to Montreal and Moscow respectively. The United States Olympic Committee had at least one bid for every Olympics since 1944, but had not succeeded since the Los Angeles Olympics in 1932, the previous time there had been a single city in the race. Los Angeles is bidding to host the 2024 Olympics and will follow London as the only city to stage them three times if they are successful when the International Olympic Committee votes at its Session in Lima in 2017. 

This coming Sunday, City Park in Hamburg will be packed with people in rain-capes of different colours - blue, black, red, yellow and green.

Paris plans to build its Athletes' Village in the northern suburbs on the banks of the River Seine in the French capital if its bid to host the 2024 Olympics and Paralympics if successful, they revealed today.