Togay Bayatli died on 2 April 2024 at the age of 85. He was awarded the OC Merit Award, the Gold Medal of the French Ministry of Sport, the FIFA Centennial Medal of Honour and the Burhan Felek Press Service Award.

New rules to make the event more attractive are being tested in Madrid by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP). The tournament will have 16 places based on the singles rankings, will last five days and spectators will be able to move freely around the court. Players will have less time to sit down and the time between serves will be reduced.

The tournament will take place next July in Los Angeles, where the sport will be an Olympic event in 2028. USA Football will announce the final list of twelve players who will represent the country. This youth team will form the foundation for the sport's Olympic debut in Los Angeles in 2028.

In line with the 2024 theme of 'Sport for the Promotion of Peaceful and Inclusive Societies,' Special Olympics promotes inclusivity. It uses sport initiatives around the world to encourage investment and promote inclusive education.

On Wednesday in Spain, Senegal goalkeeper Cheikh Sarr was handed a two-match ban after being sent off for confronting an opposing fan who had hurled racist abuse at him.

The commissioner of Japanese baseball has announced that the first games of the upcoming Major League Baseball season will be played in Japan on 19 and 20 March 2025.

The Dutch Combat Sports Association (NVB) has given its support to the international governing body Global Association of Mixed Martial Arts (GAMMA) in the organisation of Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) as a demonstration discipline at the 2023 African Games in Accra, Ghana.

The Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) announced on Wednesday that elections to find a new president to replace the disgraced Luis Rubiales will take place on 6 May, according to AFP and to Spanish media.

The International Boxing Association (IBA) disagrees with the arguments used by CAS to dismiss its appeal against the IOC, including "not having a coherent roadmap for the IBA to follow or a direct channel to communicate." Meanwhile, the IOC has announced that it "needs to partner with the International Boxing Federation by early 2025."

A recording of International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach, the victim of a prank call from someone claiming to be a senior official of the African Union Commission, has been posted online. 

World Boxing has positioned itself as 'the international federation', following the High Court's decision to dismiss the IBA's appeal against its expulsion. It urges all national federations 'to join and support World Boxing'.

The French Minister for Sport and the Olympic Games, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, has assured that the Paris 2024 Opening Ceremony has a contingency plan in place and has ruled out any "terrorist threat" at this stage.

More than 4,000 children gather at the Porte de La Chapelle arena for the launch of Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Week, with educational activities for more than 2 million young people across France.

Paris 2024 boasts that it will host the Olympic and Paralympic Games on an equal footing. The village for both events will be the same, they will be held under the same logo, the mascot is almost identical -the Paralympic mascot has a prosthesis to represent its athletes - the medals are also the same, the ticketing system, transport and TV coverage are the same, but not everything will be the same.

The Olympic marina in Marseille, which will host the sailing events of the Paris Games this summer, was inaugurated on Tuesday in the presence of the president of the organising committee, Tony Estanguet, who praised a facility designed for the "top level" and "to inspire new vocations."