A series of events to mark the 50th anniversary of Munich 1972 is underway, with the centrepiece set to be the European Championships, the biggest multi-sport event to be held in the German city since the Olympic Games.

Jim Forbes, a member of the United States basketball team controversially defeated at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, has died from complications relating to COVID-19 at the age of 69.

One of the great pleasures of the Tokyo Olympics was to visit the equestrian events. These were staged in an arena that had been part of the Games in 1964. And, when Britain took the team eventing crown, it also brought back memories of a previous golden era.

Entries have closed for the competition to design a mascot for next year’s European Championships in Munich with a juror admitting the pressure is on to find a worthy successor to Waldi.

Designs for a mascot for next year's European Championships in Munich are being accepted with the competition open to children aged between three and 13.

Munich 2022 has unveiled "Back to the Roofs" as its slogan for next year's European Championships.

Inger Frith was never world or Olympic champion but 60 years ago she broke new ground as President of World Archery, then known by the French name Federation Internationale de Tir a L’Arc (FITA).

Next year’s European Championships in Munich will be the highlight of the 50th anniversary celebrations of the 1972 Olympic Games, the city’s Lord Mayor Dieter Reiter has declared.

Russian wrestler Gennady Strakhov, winner of an Olympic silver medal at Munich 1972 when he represented the Soviet Union, has died following complications caused by a COVID-19 infection.

The United States' Bill Bentsen, an Olympic champion in sailing from the Munich 1972 Games, has died at the age of 90.

Walther Tröger, an Honorary International Olympic Committee (IOC) member whose contributions to the Olympic Movement included being Mayor of the Olympic Village at Munich 1972 and leading Germany's National Olympic Committee (NOC) for a decade, has passed away at the age of 91.

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach paid tribute to Israel's Chef de Mission at the Munich 1972 Olympic Games - Shmuel Lalkin - who has died aged 95.

An Olympic gold medal won by Sergei Kovalenko when the Soviet Union beat the United States in the final of the basketball tournament at Munich 1972 in one of the most controversial moments in the history of the Games has been put up for sale on eBay.

Of the 150 or so boxers who have taken part in the principal pandemic punch-ups conducted behind closed doors over the last couple of months I have noticed only one, 25-year-old middleweight Denzel Bentley from Battersea in south London, has taken the knee as a symbolic gesture towards the Black Lives Matter movement. Yet there has been no Lewis Hamilton-like complaints from him just because nobody followed suit.

A small ceremony has been held to mark the 48th anniversary of the murder of 11 Israeli athletes and officials and one West German policeman at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich.