International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach has met with United Nations (UN) secretary general António Guterres in New York City, where he presented Colombia's Luis Alberto Moreno as the IOC's new permanent observer at the UN.
The International Hockey Federation (FIH) Executive Board has reiterated the need to create a rolling four-year international competition calendar at their first meeting of the year in Lausanne.
Ghana Olympic Committee (GOC) President Ben Nunoo Mensah has met Thomas Bach at the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) headquarters in Lausanne.
International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach outlined what he considers to be the digital future of the Olympic Games during a keynote speech at the annual Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
Following much debate and discussion in recent months, esports will be a part of the Olympic Games after all. Well, sort of.
Brisbane formally entering the race for the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games has moved a step closer after a feasibility study gave a possible bid from the Australian city the green light.
Officials from North and South Korea have presented their idea of hosting a joint Olympic Games in 2032 to the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) President René Fasel will attend the Opening Ceremony of next month's Winter Universiade in Krasnoyarsk.
Today marks the first anniversary of the Opening Ceremony of the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang, an event best remembered for North and South Korea marching together under a united flag to mark a symbolic break in tensions between the two nations.
Thomas Bach has used the impending first anniversary of last year's Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang to highlight the important role the event played in helping open the Korean peace process.
China's two-time taekwondo Olympic gold medallist Wu Jingyu has announced she is planning to make a return to the sport in time for Tokyo 2020 after receiving encouragement from International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach.
The long-running legal dispute involving Germany's five-time Olympic speed skating champion Claudia Pechstein looks to have come to a final halt with her request to refer her case to the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) for a further judicial review dismissed.
Now the calendars have turned to the second month of 2019, attention switches to an intriguing and much-debated process in the Olympic world.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has today expressed a strong stance against doping during a meeting with International Olympic Committee (IOC) head Thomas Bach in Beijing, where they discussed the progress of preparations for the capital city's hosting of the 2022 Winter Olympic Games and the development of sport in the country.
International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach has given Beijing's preparations for the 2022 Winter Games a "ten out of ten" mark after visiting venues in China.
At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Iranian judoka Arash Miresmaeili was disqualified for weighing in at nearly four pounds above the limit for his weight class of his under-66 kilograms match against an Israeli opponent Ehud Vaks in the first round. It was claimed Miresmaeili had gone on an eating binge to protest the International Olympic Committee's recognition of the state of Israel. Iran does not recognise the state of Israel, and Miresmaeili's actions won praise from high-ranking Iranian officials. Mohammad Khatami, the country's President at the time, was quoted as saying Miresmaili's actions would be "recorded in the history of Iranian glories". He was later awarded $125,000 by the Government - the same amount given to Olympic gold medallists.
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Jakob Larsen, head of the Organising Committee for this week's International Association of Athletics Federations World Cross Country Championships in Aarhus, wants to provoke a serious debate about the sport returning to the Olympic programme, as he tells Mike Rowbottom.
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