The World Squash Federation (WSF), still coming to terms with its latest failure to earn the chance of Olympic inclusion, has requested an explanation from the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

The 2015 International Boxing Association (AIBA) World Championships have been officially declared open here by Sheikh Joaan bin Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, President of the Qatar Olympic Committee (QOC).

The debacle involving the Tokyo 2020 National Stadium has been “disappointing” and preparations for the event in the Japanese capital must move in a “new direction”, Olympic swimming champion Daichi Suzuki has claimed following the launch of a new sports agency in Japan.

Dubai is among cities bidding for the 2016 SportAccord Convention, the organisation's managing director Nis Hatt has confirmed, with the event set to be at a lower scale than other recent editions with a maximum of 2,000 delegates attending.

A United Nations Women project titled “One Win Leads to Another” is set to receive the support of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) after they pledged to give $600,000 (£396,000/€533,000) to the programme, based in the State of Rio de Janeiro.

You can never know with these votes, and it is always rash to make bold predictions. Yet it seemed a fairly safe bet that baseball and softball would be among the sports proposed for Tokyo 2020 Olympic inclusion by Games organisers today.

So far as we could see, karate, rather than squash, was being mooted as another likely choice, while there was always a chance that a youth oriented event would be selected: skateboarding under the guise of roller skating, perhaps.

International Sambo Federation (FIAS) President Vasily Shestakov claims there are no longer “any kind of barriers” to stop the sport which he heads from securing International Olympic Committee (IOC) recognition.

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach has vowed to "work even harder to put sport at the centre of society" after the United Nations (UN) General Assembly adopted sport in its post-2015 Development Agenda in New York.

Doing well but could do better seems to be the verdict on Pyeongchang 2018’s preparations as the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Coordination Commission concluded their fifth visit to the South Korean county this week.

Four-times Olympic swimming champion Janet Evans has been appointed vice-chair of Los Angeles 2024, it has been announced, marking the first major addition to the city’s bid to host the Olympic and Paralympic Games in nine years’ time.

Not specifically mentioning human rights in its Host City Contract for the 2024 Games was an "astonishing omission" by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), not living up to the expectations created by the Agenda 2020 reform process, they have been told today.

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach is due to speak at the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Summit 2015 in New York on Saturday (September 26), a key-step in his highly-publicised aim of including sport as one of the UN's goals following the event.

Members of the Pyeongchang 2018 International Olympic Committee (IOC) Coordination Commission are continuing to arrive here ahead of their fifth visit to the South Korean county, which officially begins tomorrow.

Three-times Olympic champion Dario Cologna of Switzerland has been awarded the International Olympic Committee (IOC) President’s Trophy for sportsmanship at a ceremony in Lausanne.

International Olympic Committee (IOC) member Prince Albert II of Monaco will officially open the World Olympians Forum (WOF) in Moscow next month, it has been announced.