The World Karate Federation has signed a far-reaching renewed deal with United States-based platform CSI Entertainment (Fight Sports Channel) to distribute its biggest events worldwide.

How to describe the effect of the sanctions imposed on Russia in response to its orchestrated doping programme and subsequent attempts to cover it up?

Badminton England has announced a new performance structure which will broaden its recent emphasis on doubles and seek to develop "rounded athletes" while moving away from "the objective, results-based methods of selection only".

Former Tokyo 2020 Executive Board member Haruyuki Takahashi has been served with a fourth bribery charge in Japan - this time in relation to cash allegedly received from mascot distributor Sun Arrow.

Mike Stanley, who steps down this month after being President of the New Zealand Olympic Committee (NZOC) since 2009, has said that the greatest challenge during his time in the role was managing the logistics of the most recent Summer and Winter Games.

A fresh arrest warrant is reported to have been served on Haruyuki Takahashi, a former member of the Tokyo 2020 Executive Board who has been at the centre of bribery allegations.

Pierre Ducrey, the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) Olympic Games operations director, has identified three key requirements for prospective Games bidders in the wake of the Tokyo 2020 Games.

An organiser of two online petitions with more than 131,000 signatures, which demand that Taiwan should compete under its own choice of name and flag at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, has requested a meeting with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the Japanese Olympic Committee (JOC).

Fiji has announced that its squad for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics has received a first dose of vaccination against COVID-19.

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach has thanked international sports federations (IFs) for "giving proof" that the postponed Tokyo 2020 Games can be organised safely despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

The announcement last week of the death of Lee Evans, the 1968 Olympic 400 metres gold medallist, re-focused attention on the athlete protests - by him and several United States team mates - that marked those Games in Mexico.

The Brazilian Olympic Committee (COB) will begin immunising all its Tokyo 2020 athletes. officials and participating media against COVID-19 from May 14 having taken up the offer of vaccine from the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

It is "almost a certainty" that the postponed Tokyo Olympics will take place next summer, according to the International Judo Federation’s (IJF) chief media and marketing officer, Vlad Marinescu.

World Athletics will launch a new campaign to support those who have discovered the sport in lockdown, during which research indicates that exercise has increased by 88 per cent.

The Euromeetings group, representing European one-day meetings, has added its voice to those calling on World Athletics to reverse this year’s freeze of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic qualifying window.