Bidding for the ball involved in Diego Maradona's infamous "Hand of God" goal at the 1986 FIFA World Cup has reached nearly $1.5 million (£1.25 million/€1.4 million) with a day left before the auction is due to end.

A memorial and museum in honour of former International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Juan Antonio Samaranch has reopened to commemorate the first anniversary of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics.

The first names in the bobsleigh Hall of Fame have been formally inducted at a Ceremony in St Moritz.

The Monnaie de Paris has released its third set of collector coins for next year’s Olympic Games in Paris.

Former secretary general Co Koren has donated 300 boxes and more than 50 folders of material to the International World Games Association (IWGA), which is set to form a notable addition to its archive.

The FIFA Museum enjoyed a new visitor record in 2022, with 400,000 people from around the world attending its site in Zurich, Switzerland, and its international exhibitions.

An Olympic gold medal won by a member of the legendary "Miracle on Ice" United States team at Lake Placid 1980 is set to go up for auction next month and is expected to fetch more than $350,000 (£284,000/€323,000).

A Michael Jordan 1997 Upper Deck Game Jersey Patch autograph card has been sold for $840,000 (£680,000/€770,000) at an auction.

A Walk of Fame is to be inaugurated at the famous Olympic Bob Run in St. Moritz, where the world’s first international bobsleigh races took place in 1897.

A competition has been launched to design a silver collector coin to help celebrate Estonia’s participation at next year’s Olympic Games in Paris.

A rare second-place Olympic medal from the first modern Games at Athens in 1896, complete with its box, is one of the choice items in a huge lot of Olympic memorabilia being put up for sale by RR Auction  with the deadline falling on Thursday (January 19).

A Los Angeles Lakers jersey worn by Kobe Bryant more than 25 times during the 2007-2008 season, when he won the Most Valuable Player award has been put up for auction at Sotheby’s, where it is expected to fetch up to $7 million (£5.8 million/€6.5 million).

A row over the sale of memorabilia has led to South Africa's nine-time major winner Gary Player suing his own son and grandson.

A 1966 FIFA World Cup winner’s medal awarded to the late England footballer Alan Ball has gone under the hammer for £200,000 ($243,000/€226,000).

Suppliers of the Paris 2024 mascot Phryges are set to double production in France to half a million.