For every $6 (£3.70/€5.20) of revenue from the sale of broadcasting rights to the Games that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) collected in its last four-year cycle, $1 (£0.60/€0.90) is being channelled via Olympic Solidarity (OS) on its way back out.

This amounted to $663 million (£470 million/€590 million) from rights for that Vancouver 2010 and London 2012 quadrennium - a substantial wad of cash by any reckoning.

Sheikh Ahmad Al Fahad Al Sabah declared the new Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC) headquarters officially open here this evening following a garden party attended by around 250 members of the sporting family, including International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach.

Scholars from Bangladesh, Colombia, Zimbabwe and Palestine have been selected to study on the Association of National Olympic Committees' (ANOC) Dream Together Programme at Seoul National University.

Plans for the Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC) Beach Games dominated the agenda at today's ANOC Executive Committee meeting here, with the event to be utterly separate from the SportAccord World Beach Games awarded to Sochi earlier this year.

After several attempts at arriving in Sochi yesterday were halted by uncompromising weather, our plane was forced to land 200 kilometres to the east in the wonderfully named Mineralnye Vode airfield, before resuming its journey four hours later once the conditions had calmed.

Sochi will play host to the first edition of the World Beach Games in 2019, it was announced here today at the General Assembly of the SportAccord Convention, but the Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC) has implied it will organise its own event separately.

Thomas Bach is due to travel to Vanuatu next month for what will be the first visit by an International Olympic Committee (IOC) President to the nation since Juan Antonio Samaranch in 1987.

An official request to the Prime Minister and Minister of Housing and Sport that the Government’s housing policy should reward national athletes for their service has been submitted by the Trinidad and Tobago Olympic Committee (TTOC).