More consideration must be given to how the one venue still to be decided for Tokyo 2020 is due to host wheelchair basketball finals and Olympic volleyball matches, the President of the Japanese Paralympic Committee (JPC) has warned.
A full audit of Kenya's spending at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games has been called for after a damning report was studied by the African country's Parliament.
FIFA President Gianni Infantino has postponed a visit to Australia so that he can attend funeral services in Brazil for the 71 people that died in a Colombian plane crash earlier this week.
Usain Bolt earned a record sixth World Athlete of the Year award here tonight after acknowledging the efforts by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) to reform itself in the wake of the scandal that has beset the sport within the last year.
Rune Andersen, head of the International Association of Athletics Federations’ (IAAF) Taskforce overseeing the current Russian suspension from competition, has described the creation of the Athletics Integrity Unit as "ground-breaking".
Budapest hosting the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games would help the Hungarian capital "spread the sustainability message as widely as possible", an official from the Bid Committee has claimed.
Aarhus’ successful bid to host the 2019 International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Cross Country Championships has been welcomed by the IAAF President Sebastian Coe as part of a Danish success story begun by Copenhagen’s landmark staging of the IAAF World Half Marathon Championships in 2014.
The World Taekwondo Grand Prix final in Baku in Azerbaijan next week is set to headline four days of competition and an awards ceremony that will draw the sport's competitions to a close for 2016.
The fourth International Swimming Association (FINA) World Aquatics Convention will take place in Canadian city Windsor from tomorrow with representatives from all disciplines set to feature.
Special permission has reportedly been requested for an exemption to be made to the rule banning North Korean citizens from Japan so their athletes can compete at the Asian Winter Games taking place in Sapporo in February.
A new programme which offers National Olympians Associations (NOAs) with the chance to apply for one of five $5,000 (£4,000/€4,700) grants has been launched by the World Olympians Association (WOA).
Croatian brothers Martin and Valent Sinkovic are among the Rio 2016 gold medallists who have been named as winners in the 2016 World Rowing Awards honours list announced today.
Vin Lananna has been elected President of USA Track and Field (USATF) following fellow candidate Jackie Joyner-Kersee’s withdrawal from the race.
Clothing manufacturer Fushan Textile have signed on as premium official sponsors of the Taipei 2017 Summer Universiade.
Ukrainian National Olympic Committee (NOC) President Sergey Bubka has officially welcomed a delegation from the country’s National Karate Federation to congratulate them on their achievements at the recent World Championships.
Canadian show jumper Ian Millar holds the record for the most Olympic appearances by an athlete in any sport. When he competed at London 2012 at the age of 65 it was the tenth time he had competed in the Games since making his debut 30 years earlier at Munich 1972. He had won his only Olympic medal at Beijing 2008 when he was part of Canada’s team that took silver in the team jumping event. Millar won a gold medal in the Pan American Games team jumping event at Toronto 2015. He announced his retirement in 2019.
International Paralympic Committee - Paralympic Games Brand Manager - Bonn, Germany
The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) offers the position of a full-time Paralympic Games Brand Manager (f/m/x) in an international and multicultural team at the IPC Headquarters in Bonn, Germany, starting in early 2021. The IPC is the global governing body of the Paralympic Movement. We supervise the organisation of the Paralympic Games and Paralympic Winter Games and serve as International Federation for 10 Para sports. The Paralympic Games Brand Manager is accountable to the Head of Brand and Engagement and will be responsible for ensuring the Paralympic brand is represented in a consistent and impactful way at the Paralympic Games.
As the International Ice Hockey Federation prepares to decide whether Belarus remains a co-host of its World Championship later this year, Philip Barker recalls other occasions where human rights has been a key topic in the build-up to a country staging a major sports event.
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