Thomas Bach, President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), has praised the “unity” of the Paris 2024 bid, and its state of readiness in terms of potential Olympic venues and sites.

“A week is a long time in politics,” former British Prime Minister Harold Wilson is adjudged to have told lobby journalists in the early 1960s. His descendent David Cameron learnt this lesson too well last week after Britain's most tumultuous seven days in generations.

Back in December, I wrote a blog in the aftermath of the 2015 World Weightlifting Championships in Houston commending the sport’s world governing body’s decision to ban 11 Bulgarian weightlifters from competing at Rio 2016 after testing positive for the banned anabolic steroid stanozolol during a training camp for last year’s European Championships in Georgia’s capital Tbilisi.

A set of guidelines for Russian athletes seeking exceptional eligibility to compete in international competitions, including this year's Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, have been published today by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF).

It’s Olympic Day today. It should really be called Olympic Birthday as it commemorates the creation of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on June 23 in 1894.

World Anti-Doping Agency President Sir Craig Reedie has backed the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) stance that any Russian athletes allowed to compete in this year's Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro should do so only under a neutral flag.

Pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva admits she has been given new hope by the ruling of International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach that Russian athletes would be able to compete under their own flag should they be deemed eligible to compete at Rio 2016.

It has been a hectic 48 hours in the never-ending saga of the international sports movement and the Kremlin.

We will discover over the next few days what Thomas Bach really thinks “zero tolerance" on doping should look like. 

Rio 2016 has unveiled the official slogan for the Olympic and Paralympic Games - "A New World".

Medal designs for the Olympic and Paralympic Games have been unveiled today in a special ceremony in Rio de Janeiro.

A 16-year cooperation agreement has been signed today between the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) in order to enhance long-term associations between the two bodies.

Beijing 2022 have erected the Olympic Rings on the Olympic Tower in the Chinese capital.

Germany Athletics Federation (DLV) President Clemens Prokop has urged International Olympic Committee (IOC) counterpart Thomas Bach not to allow athletes from countries without fully functioning anti-doping systems to compete at Rio 2016.

Record-breaking Olympic day activities in Turkey have come to an end with a closing event held in the north-western city of Eskişehir.