Sports management company Sport:80 has announced it will attempt to raise funds through investment firm CrowdBnk as it prepares to be listed on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM).

Olympic silver medallist Jaime Fernandez has been appointed as team leader of the Australian rowing team for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, while Chris O’Brien has been chosen as head coach.

Swimming Australia President John Bertrand has criticised the response of former leaders of the organisation after scandals involving the country's team at London 2012.

Niels de Vos, chief executive of next year's International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Championships in London, has denied that the recently announced priority ticket scheme for coaches, volunteers and longstanding supporters is a reaction to doping and corruption scandals at the highest levels of the sport.

Lyn Orbell has been a volunteer at Birchfield Harriers athletics club for more than 40 years. She’s worked as a team manager, a coach, an administrator, a tea-maker, a sweeper-upper…you name it.  And right now she is feeling very excited about the prospect of watching World Championship athletics in the Olympic Stadium next summer – a prospect that has been made virtually certain by the recent ticketing announcement made by the organisers of London 2017. She is bang in the centre of their target…

Australia's Government has called on the country’s sporting organisations to reduce the gap in gender inequality when sending its athletes to major sporting events across the world.

Rebel Events Brasil Ltd (REBL) have been appointed to take charge of the merchandise and retail programme at this summer's Olympic and Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in conjunction with Venue Retail Ltd (VRL), the company that led operations at the London 2012.

A new mass-participation disability event for runners and walkers, due to take place on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London, has been officially launched.

A total of 384 Nepalese athletes will represent their country at the upcoming South Asian Games in Indian cities Guwahati and Shillong, the Nepal Olympic Committee (NOC) has announced.

Bulgaria’s Stanka Zlateva, the two-time Olympic silver medal-winning freestyle wrestler who recently retired, has claimed she was once offered cash to lose a World Championship final but declined to do so. 

Britain's six-time Paralympic champion David Weir has admitted it will be difficult for Rio 2016 to match the high of London 2012, claiming full stadiums are important to the success of the event.

Plans to attract countries visiting Australia to take part in the 2018 Commonwealth Games in the Gold Coast are beginning to be drawn up by ambitious local councils.

UK Sport believe that Great Britain's ambitious target to improve on their London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic performance in Rio de Janeiro this summer is "within sight".

International Hockey Federation (FIH) President Leandro Negre has confirmed he will stand for a third term as head of the world governing body, claiming he expects to be re-elected unopposed.

An appeal attempting to prevent the release of full details outlining West Ham United's Olympic Stadium deal is due to be heard in London on Monday (January 25).