Olympic gold medal winning basketball player Leo Gutiérrez has been given a Distinction of the Institution by the Argentine Olympic Committee (COA) after his retirement from the sport.

It is August 25, 2004, in the Athens velodrome and I am all strapped-in in the media seats waiting for my first taste of track cycling.

Greece's economy may be as much in ruins as the Acropolis, but one of its wealthiest citizens still has more than enough euros in his back pocket to buy a football club in England.

Three athletes who believe they were cheated out of Olympic medals in the long jump event at Athens 2004 are calling for an investigation into the result to be launched after Russian competitors swept the podium.

A new Olympic medal was distributed to winners at Athens 2004, replacing a long-standing one by Giuseppe Cassioli, an Italian who had designed the medals for Amsterdam 1928 with the Greek goddess Nike shown on the medals, seated on a chariot with a wreath in one hand and an ear of corn in the other, symbolically honoring winning athletes. Next to Nike was usually a stadium that looked a lot like a Roman amphitheatre. The error was finally corrected 76 years later when Elena Votsi, a Greek artist, was chosen to design the medals when the Games returned to Athens. Votsi's design had a winged, almost angelic Nike boldly swooshing down feet-first from the heavens, delivering the laurel in the Panathenaic Stadium, the all-marble venue for archery and the finish line of the marathon at the first modern Olympics in Athens in 1896. Her Nike is based on a marble statue by the sculptor Paionios of Chalkidiki from 421 B.C. In the background of the medal is the Acropolis, a design that has remained for subsequent Games. 

Japan's Tadahiro Nomura is widely considered the greatest judoka in Olympic history, having won gold medals in the under 60 kilogram category at Atlanta 1996, Sydney 2000 and Athens. Nomura is only judoka to have won three consecutive Olympic gold medals. He was first Olympic competitor from Asia to win three consecutive gold medals in any event. His win in Athens was 100th gold medal won by Japan in the Summer Olympics since the country's debut at Stockholm in 1912. Nomura's father was the coach of Shinji Hosokawa, winner of an Olympic gold medal at Los Angeles 1984 in the same division. Nomura's uncle, Toyokazu Nomura, meanwhile, was also an Olympic gold medalist at Munich 1972 in the under 70 kg division.

Nineteen former and current Olympic softball players from the United States, with 36 Olympic medals between them, have reunited for an exhibition game at the University of New Orleans.

Olympic silver medallist Nia Abdallah is among the six athletes to have secured a spot on the Athlete Advisory Council of USA Taekwondo.

Two Russians who won gold medals at the Athens 2004 Olympic Games have opted to appeal at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) after being retrospectively disqualified from Beijing 2008.

Greek triple jumper Hrysopiyi Devetsi has had her bronze medal result at the 2008 Olympics annulled today by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF).

Retired Greek triple jumper Hrysopiyi Devetzi has denied doping after admitting she is under investigation by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for failing a drugs test at Beijing 2008.

Two-time Olympic gold medal-winning javelin thrower Andreas Thorkildsen has announced his retirement.

Canada's double Paralympic gold medallist Earle Connor has been suspended for four years after testing positive for banned anabolic steroids for the second time in his career. 

Double world champion and two-time Olympic silver medallist Andrei Rybakov of Belarus has tested positive for banned substance meldonium, the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) has announced.

A controversial decision to scrap the perfect 10 score still divides people within the sport, International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) President Bruno Grandi has admitted.