A change of names and a shift to a two-year rotating Presidency are among proposed amendments to the SportAccord statutes set to be approved at next month's General Assembly.

World Bowls President John Bell met with International Olympic Committee (IOC) officials in Lausanne to discuss the sport's continued push for recognition.

The International Racquetball Federation (IRF) has signed a deal with SportAccord which will see the organisation oversee anti-doping testing in 2017.

SportAccord President Patrick Baumann has said serious consideration will be given to making laser-run, the latest creation of the International Modern Pentathlon Union (UIPM), part of the sports programme for the World Urban Games if plans to revive the event go through.

World Underwater Federation (CMAS) President Anna Arzhanova has hailed the importance of 2016 for the organisation and the whole underwater movement in her New Year’s message.

Cities bidding to host the 2024 Summer Olympics and Paralympics will not be allowed to have stands promoting their campaigns during April's SportAccord Convention in Aarhus, insidethegames understands.

If last week’s United States Presidential election taught us anything it is that, like with Brexit earlier in the year, pollsters, the media and much of the liberal elite had abjectly failed to spot the cultural phenomenon that propelled Donald Trump to the White House.

Houston in Texas is leading the race to host a revamped version of the SportAccord-organised World Combat Games in March and April in 2018, insidethegames understands. 

The International Pole Sports Federation (IPSF) has announced a number of changes for the next World Pole Sports Championships, scheduled to take place in the Dutch city of 's-Hertogenbosch.

A Working Group commissioned by SportAccord is expected to meet during next month's International Federations (IF) Forum to consider whether to revive plans to host a World Urban Games.

"Significant losses" were incurred during April's SportAccord Convention in Lausanne, organisers have admitted, although 50 per cent of the budgeted revenue has now been distributed.

Britain's Kate Caithness and Serbia's Nenad Lalovic, the respective Presidents of the World Curling Federation and United World Wrestling, have been elected to the SportAccord Council today following a meeting in which there was allegedly no discussion on the doping crisis currently tearing apart sporting governing bodies.

The Rugby League International Federation (RLIF) has launched a new website in a bid to support and promote what it claims to be a growing membership and worldwide fan base.

As votes were being cast to elect the new President of SportAccord on Friday (April 22), leading candidate Patrick Baumann could be spotted trotting around the Swiss Tech Convention Centre, chatting to delegates while periodically taking phone calls.

Rugby League International Federation (RLIF) chief executive David Collier is "frustrated" that the RLIF's SportAccord membership was not approved at today's meeting, claiming they have fulfilled all of the necessary criteria.