Thirty-five years ago today the cauldron in the Olympic Stadium in Seoul was set alight to mark the opening of the second summer Games to be held in Asia.

Ten years ago, to the day I was there in the Buenos Aires Hilton as Thomas Bach made his first public utterance as Olympic boss - a less than presidential but very human “Ouffff!”

Fireworks crackled in the night sky earlier this week as Azerbaijan's FK Qarabağ drew 1-1 against Olimpija Ljubljana from Slovenia to secure a 3-1 aggregate victory in the UEFA Europa League playoffs. 

With one year to go until the start of the Paris 2024 Paralympics on August 28, Andrew Parsons, the International Paralympic Committee President, is assessing new challenges for the Movement after what he says will be "a vital benchmark."

World Athletics President Sebastian Coe gazed up into the towering stands of the new National Athletics Centre here and declared, "this is a city that really wants us here".

When the 2023 World Athletics Championships get underway in Budapest on Saturday (August 19) it will be just over 40 years since the staging of the first edition in Helsinki.

It was a day which started with the Commonwealth Games organisers hoping to put its issues securing a host for future editions of its events to one side for the duration of Trinbago 2023 here. 

On the waterfront in Port of Spain, not far from where many of the officials and teams for are set to stay during the Commonwealth Youth Games, which are due to open on Friday (August 4), there is a frieze which pays tribute to every Olympic medallist from Trinidad and Tobago with outsize reproductions of the medals won.

Weightlifting is heading towards a future that could feature not just different kinds of competition but "a different kind of weightlifter" - and hundreds of people are involved in the process.

Sky News is running a feature this morning on anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries - reason being that England, already European champions, will shortly seek the FIFA Women's World Cup lacking two of their leading players due to this affliction.

This week, the next generation of swimmers have been in action at the European Junior Championships in Belgrade but 50 years ago, the same city was the setting for the inaugural World Championships in aquatic sports.

Two years after the original scheduled, the International Island Games (IIG) are returning to Guernsey for the third time next weekend, 20 years after they were last held there.

The television screen in the restaurant of our hotel - which is a 10-minute walk from the Silesian Stadium where the European Athletics Team Championships are taking place as part of the third European Games - is smartly placed above the coffee machines.

Later this week, Paris 2024 organisers are set to reveal the details of the domestic journey of the Olympic Flame after it arrives on French soil at the port of Marseille in May next year.

As part of their visit to the French capital last week members of the International Olympic Committee's Coordination Commission for Paris 2024 were invited to Roland Garros to watch the tennis.