When the last World Games opened in the Polish city of Wrocław five years ago, International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach was present to make the official declaration.

On March 20 this year, organisers of the Chengdu 2021 International University Sports Federation (FISU) World University Games unveiled the design of medals for the event at a ceremony marking 100 days until it was scheduled to get underway.

The International Swimming Federation (FINA) World Championships - last held in 2019 - got underway this weekend in Budapest.

The reaction against the Saudi-backed LIV Golf Invitational Series that yesterday concluded its long-awaited - or for some, long-dreaded - debut event at the Centurion Club in Hemel Hempstead, England, has been strong.

In February 2001, aged 17, Natalie Du Toit was riding a scooter back to her school in Johannesburg after swimming practice when she was hit by a car. Doctors had to amputate her left leg at the knee.

Experienced observers of the International Ski Federation (FIS) scene - or as it is now reincarnated, the International Ski and Snowboard Federation (FIS) - described the scenes at Thursday’s Congress at the Allianz Tower in Milan as "unprecedented".

On this day in 2003, Annika Sörenstam became the first woman in 58 years to play the PGA Tour - an honour previously accorded to sporting polymath Babe Zaharias, winner of two golds and a silver in athletics at the 1932 Olympics.

On Saturday (May 21), Birmingham’s newly-reconstructed Alexander Stadium, imminent centrepiece of this summer's Commonwealth Games, has its grand opening.

On Thursday (May 13) Doha is due to host the opening Diamond League meeting of the season at the Qatar Sports Club Stadium.

Suddenly the handshake between Thomas Bach and Besim Hasani was not happening any more. The hand of the upwardly mobile International Olympic Committee vice president had halted in mid-air - at the point where Hasani had introduced himself as "President of the Kosovo Olympic Committee (KOC)."

In early 1964, John Coates reportedly took a day off school to watch Richie Benaud play his last Test match. A photograph in the next day’s Sydney Morning Herald pictured him alongside the Australian cricket captain as they left the pitch.

A year before he ran the 1982 Boston Marathon, Dick Beardsley had shared his first victory over 26.2 miles at the inaugural London Marathon, holding hands with Norway’s Inge Simonsen as they crossed the line together.

How many Olympians have owned horses in the Grand National, the gruelling Liverpool steeplechase whose 2022 edition took place yesterday? My supposition would be very few.

On a junior school playground in Buckinghamshire, long, long ago, overly-excited groups of children opposed each other, chanting, respectively and in the main ignorantly: "Cam-bridge! Cam-bridge!" and "Ox-ford!" "Ox-ford!"

In September, the World Curling Federation (WCF) will have a new face as their President, with the 12-year reign of Kate Caithness set to come to an end.