Russian weightlifter Apti Aukhadov has been stripped of a London 2012 silver medal after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) confirmed he had tested positive following the re-analysis of samples.

Indian badminton player Saina Nehwal, Argentinian basketball star Luis Scola, Egyptian modern pentathlete Aya Medany and Jordan taekwondo ace Nadin Dawani have been appointed as four new members of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Athletes' Commission.

After a brief and no doubt much-needed break post-Rio 2016, International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach has been back working on his air miles and making the most of his diplomatic passport - which German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung have reported that he has been using since 1994 - over the last few weeks. 

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach has accused Rome authorities of taking a "politically motivated" decision to oppose the city's bid for the 2024 Games.

The International Sport Fishing Confederation (CIPS) has become the latest governing body to submit an application to become an International Olympic Committee (IOC) recognised sport.

Chiba Mayor Toshihito Kumagai has visited London in a bid to gain understanding and knowledge of staging Olympic and Paralympic events ahead of Tokyo 2020.

Picture inadvertently crashing a wedding, being mercilessly mocked for an inability to use chopsticks and enduring a lengthy delay to allow the International Olympic Committee (IOC) officials to receive the VIP treatment in the city of Zhangjiakou and you have a pretty accurate summation of my recent visit to China for the first Beijing 2022 Coordination Commission inspection.

International Sambo Federation (FIAS) President Vasily Shestakov has cooled talk of the sport he leads being added to the Olympic programme, insisting the most important step at this moment in time is to get full recognition from the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

An application to become an International Olympic Committee (IOC) recognised sport has been submitted by the International Pole Sports Federation (IPSF).

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach will give a speech at the International Gymnastics Federation’s (FIG) key Congress here next week, it has been confirmed.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has called for "every effort" to be made to have sambo recognised by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) after the sport’s world governing body officially submitted its application.

Alexander Zhukov is set to lose his status as a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) after he revealed plans to step down as President of the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) to concentrate on his work in the country's Parliament.

Russia's Olympic hammer champion Tatyana Lysenko has been stripped of her London 2012 gold medal after failing a retrospective drugs test.

Richard Pound has claimed the recommendations made by the Olympic Summit were "long on generality and short on specifics", before adding it is the World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA) role to see which of the proposals are feasible to accomplish.

Beijing 2022 Coordination Commission chair Alexander Zhukov will miss the planned inspections of the Zhangjiakou and Zanqing zones as he is returning to Moscow later today for a "very important" meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin tomorrow.