Australia has been traumatised in recent months by the bushfires raging throughout the country. Meanwhile the resulting damage to the atmosphere has been impacting in a very obvious and difficult way for the organisers of the Australian Open tennis tournament that begins in Melbourne tomorrow.
Yiannis Exarchos gets straight to the point. "In the digital world, the need for volumes of content is practically insatiable," the chief executive of Olympic Broadcasting Services (OBS) says.
A collection of 20 official Tokyo 2020 posters are set to go on public display for the first time at the Museum of Contemporary Art in the Olympic city this week.
Ten years ago, at the end of the Noughties, I was given the perfect laptop bag. It is sturdy, compact and sensibly compartmentalised. I still take it on every overseas trip.
In 1958, while on a golfing holiday in Cuba, Johnny Weissmuller ran into a serious problem. A group of rebel soldiers involved in the Cuban Revolution who were threatening to kidnap him and his US companions.
Monte Carlo towers above the Mediterranean, its steep and winding roads full of flashy cars and lined with casinos and designer clothes shops.
Friday 13th will be unlucky for some and lucky for some others this week as the Professional Darts Corporation’s (PDC) William Hill World Darts Championship, due to conclude on January 1, gets underway at the Alexandra Palace in London.
On December 1, 2006 the French sport newspaper L”Equipe arranged a reunion for the three marathon medallists from the Melbourne Olympic Games on the 50th anniversary of their race.
In July this year two freestyle swimming medallists at the World Aquatics Championships refused to stand on the podium alongside the multiple champion Sun Yang, of China, because they regard him as a cheat.
This should have been written 20 years ago: let's call it my better-late-than-never tribute to the man who created the perfect cricket ground.
On the night of November 9, 1989, 30 years ago, the gates along the 45-kilometre expanse of the Berlin Wall were flung open and the world changed.
In the space of the last month there have been significant official acknowledgements of the role played by the three athletes who took part in the most infamous - at the time - and now famous podium protests - Tommie Smith and John Carlos of the United States, and Australia’s Peter Norman.
One hundred years ago, the world’s oldest international Association football competition made its comeback after an absence of five-and-a-half years. An as yet undivided Ireland took on England in the opening match of the 1919-1920 Home International Championship at Windsor Park in Belfast.
One hundred years ago, a scandal in baseball rocked American sport to its foundations.
In 2015, World Taekwondo President Chungwon Choue was travelling to London with a plan forming in his head.
At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Iranian judoka Arash Miresmaeili was disqualified for weighing in at nearly four pounds above the limit for his weight class of his under-66 kilograms match against an Israeli opponent Ehud Vaks in the first round. It was claimed Miresmaeili had gone on an eating binge to protest the International Olympic Committee's recognition of the state of Israel. Iran does not recognise the state of Israel, and Miresmaeili's actions won praise from high-ranking Iranian officials. Mohammad Khatami, the country's President at the time, was quoted as saying Miresmaili's actions would be "recorded in the history of Iranian glories". He was later awarded $125,000 by the Government - the same amount given to Olympic gold medallists.
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The Australian Open begins this week amid fears over air quality due to the country's bushfire crisis. Mike Rowbottom explores the wider debate about athletes and potentially harmful environments.
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