Lamine Diack, the disgraced former chief of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), now known as World Athletics, has died aged 88.

Next year’s Commonwealth Games here are heading for a sell-out in record time as the English city was backed to host an "amazing" event following the conclusion of the latest inspection visit.

FIFA vice-president Victor Montagliani has suggested reviving the Confederation Cup or creating a new global nations league as alternatives to a controversial plan to stage the men's World Cup every two years.

India’s hockey teams will compete at Birmingham 2022 after reversing a decision to miss the event, Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) President Dame Louise Martin has confirmed.

Los Angeles City Council has approved the Games Agreement - a key accord which outlines responsibilities held by the city and the Organising Committee - concerning the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Budapest Mayor Gergely Karácsony has withdrawn a threat to block the 2023 World Athletics Championships after claiming that the Hungarian Government had bowed to his demands and given him what he wanted.

The Junior Pan American Games here in Cali has entered its second week and despite a successful start, Organising Committee President Baltazar Medina still wishes certain things had been done differently.

The United Nations (UN) has adopted an Olympic Truce that will remain in force for the duration of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympics.

Serious fan disorder prior to the UEFA Euro 2020 final between England and Italy involving "ticketless, drunken and drugged-up thugs" could have caused deaths, according to an independent report into the event.

Paris 2024 organisers have set a "very ambitious" target of selling three million tickets for the Paralympics as the 1,000-days-to-go countdown for the Games begins.

Mohamed Tahar Mesbahi of Algeria has been re-elected President of the African Karate Federation (UFAK).

Two-time Olympic bobsleigh gold medallist and reigning world champion Kaillie Humphries has been given the go-ahead to represent the United States at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics after gaining full citizenship.

Former world relay champion Adam Gemili and Laviai Nielsen have had their lottery funding removed by UK Athletics for continuing to work with a coach who is being investigated after sexual abuse allegations were made against him.

Russian ice hockey player Artemi Panarin, who earlier this year offered his public support to Vladimir Putin rival Alexei Navalny, has declared that he still hopes to play at the 2022 Winter Olympic Games in Beijing.