It was at Seoul in 1988 that Anthony Nesty made history when he became the first black swimmer to win an Olympic gold medal, so it was fitting that on the 35th anniversary of that ground-breaking performance it should be announced that he would be the head coach for the United States men’s squad at Paris 2024.

The photo of Zharnel Hughes in the wake of his 100 metres victory at the weekend’s UK Athletics Championships in a monumental Manchester deluge is one that will endure.

Olympic champion Greg Searle has led a clean-up following the Henley Royal Regatta as part of the "Plastic Free July" movement which aims to rid the world of plastic waste.

The jacket worn by American basketball legend Michael Jordan after winning gold at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona has been sold for more than $1.512 million (1.189 million/€1.385 million).

Cuba's Barcelona 1992 and Atlanta 1996 Olympic volleyball champion Raisa O'Farrill Bolaños has died at the age of 51.

Michael Jordan's practice jersey from the Barcelona 1992 Olympic Games is up for action later this month.

Two-time Olympic champion Karl Malone has generated $5 million (£4 million/€4.7 million) at auction from 24 pieces of memorabilia related to the United States' men's basketball "Dream Team" at Barcelona 1992.

As a guest on a podcast this weekend I was asked to name three athletes who had inspired me, and three top athletics moments. How to start? When to finish? A day later I realised with a guilty jolt - I’d forgotten Curtis Robb.

Officials from Brisbane have travelled to Barcelona to learn from city officials, conduct site visits and walking tours; 30 years on from the Spanish city hosting the 1992 Olympic Games.

Derek Redmond's father, Jim, whose intervention to help his stricken son across the finish line at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona has become an iconic moment in sport, has died at the age of 81.

Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union before its dissolution in 1991 which changed the Olympic map forever, has died in Moscow at the age of 91.

Football Club Barcelona's away kit for the 2022-2023 season have been designed as a tribute to the 1992 Olympic Games held in the city with the theme 'The Flame Lives On'.

Catalan Government official Ricardo Font has claimed that a 2030 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games staged in Barcelona and the Pyrenees could generate a profit of more than €1 billion (£843 million/$1.1 billion) for the region.

Igor Nikulin has become the latest Olympic hammer medallist to die.

Tokyo 2020 President Seiko Hashimoto has led the tributes to her former team mate and Olympic judo gold medallist Toshihiko Koga who has died from cancer at the age of 53.