Forums, such as the one held in Lausanne yesterday, rarely produce concrete outcomes but a prevailing theme once the gaming world had departed the Olympic Capital was clear; someday, somehow, a form of esports will be part of the world’s biggest sporting event.
The axe remains delicately poised above boxing and weightlifting following the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board meeting in Lausanne earlier this week. And the IOC are completely right to keep it there.
The flame for the 2018 Youth Olympic Games is all set to begin its journey to Argentina.
A couple of years before the Rio 2016 Olympics I asked British Rowing's head coach Jürgen Grobler, currently seeking to extend his extraordinary record of success to the Tokyo 2020 Games that will probably - but only probably - mark his last competitive challenge, a question which evoked a strange noise.
It can be only a matter of time now, surely, before Gianni Infantino becomes a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
After hosting a football World Cup brimming with home-brewed bonhomie, Russia's next sporting objective is a somewhat less friendly exercise aimed at harming Britain. Or rather, one Briton in particular.
So the FIFA World Cup, which ended yesterday with France lifting the trophy for the second time with a 4-2 victory over Croatia at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, was officially the greatest in the tournament's 88-year history.
If I have learnt anything from the FIFA World Cup, it is that Croatia and Iceland have populations of 4.3 million and 344,000 respectively.
It is little wonder the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and its Coordination Commission for Tokyo 2020 seem to relish visits to the Japanese capital to inspect preparations for the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
There will be two World Cup finals this weekend - France v Croatia in Moscow, and an Athletics World Cup at the London Stadium.
Last week I travelled to Lausanne to cover the International Association of Athletics Federations Diamond League meeting there, and as I walked down in blazing sunshine from the station to the athletes' hotel by the side of Lake Leman, I passed cafes full of intent television viewers. Switzerland were playing Sweden in their World Cup match of 16.
A strange phenomenon infiltrated my country last month, as we looked forward to Russia 2018: for probably the first time I can remember, the England football team approached a major tournament without seemingly the entire male population from Lindisfarne to Mevagissey thinking they could win it.
I make the suggestion in the headline somewhat tongue in cheek of course, but I can't help feeling that Britain's beleaguered Prime Minister Theresa May has scored another massive own goal in insisting on a political and diplomatic boycott of the World Cup in Russia, especially now that Gareth Southgate's young lions are doing the nation so proud.
Violence and foul play was an enduring theme across sport last week, with differing incidents occupying varying levels on the fighting-ometer.
I must admit Worlds Collide does seem a fitting anthem to sum up the collaboration of the International Volleyball Federation and Grammy award winning DJ duo NERVO.
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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Japan will this week mark the important milestone of two years until the start of the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo with a series of special events. Michael Pavitt takes a look behind the scenes to see how preparations are progressing
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