November 28 - Hosting the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics in Istanbul would help transform the futures of millions of young people in Turkey, it has been claimed.
November 29 - The bid process has been officially opened by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) for the 2014 Swimming European Championships.
November 29 - USA Triathlon has been awarded a $50,000 (£31,000/€38,000) grant to help boost participation among military veterans as the sport gears up for its Paralympic debut at Rio in 2016, it has been announced.
November 29 - Former Formula One driver Alex Zanardi has set his sights on competing at Rio 2016 even though he will be nearly 50 by then.
November 29 - A new law is expected to come into force in Russia soon that will make it easier for foreigners to be volunteers at Sochi 2014.
November 29 - The World Taekwondo Federation (WTF) has signed the Host City contact for its 2013 World Championships with the Mexican city of Puebla.
November 29 - Ian Kershaw of Pinvin, Worcestershire, has been crowned winner of insidegamescollectings My Favourite Pin Story competition earning himself £800 ($1,300/€1,000) worth of official limited edition London 2012 pins.By Emily Goddard
November 29 - Kazan is hosting the University Sambo World Cup at the Ak Bars Wrestling Palace this weekend, which will act as another test event in preparation for the 2013 Summer Universiade.
December 1 - Ukraine's 37-year-old cross country specialist Sergiy Lebid will seek his tenth European cross country title in Budapest later this month.
November 29 - A design based on a pebble has today been unveiled as the mascot of the 2014 Summer Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing.
November 29 - The British sailing team faces a hunt for a new sponsor following the announcement that Skandia is to end its association next March, when the present deal concludes.
November 29 - Russia's Darya Pishchalnikova is set to be stripped of the silver medal she won in the discus at London 2012 after her B-sample confirmed a positive drugs test for anabolic steroids.
November 29 - The power struggle to determine who can and who cannot challenge for the top job in African football is being taken all the way to sport's highest court of law, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).
November 29 - Triple Tour de France winner Greg LeMond is the latest leading name to join Change Cycling Now, the new pressure set up to try to force the International Cycling Union (UCI) to reform in the wake of the Lance Armstrong scandal.
November 27 - Ross Halpin has been appointed as the interim chief executive of Paralympics New Zealand (PNZ) while Fiona Allan is on maternity leave.
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.
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Almost 35 years after losing out to Barcelona for the 1992 Olympics, Brisbane is poised to stage the Games in 2032. Philip Barker reports on the long history of Australian Olympic bids, with the country still one of only two in the Southern Hemisphere to have hosted the Games.
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