The organisers of the Paris bid for the 2024 Olympic Games have expressed their "shock and sadness" after the horrific terror attacks which shook the French capital.

Plans to reform the statutes and composition of SportAccord are facing much opposition, insidethegames understands, with the proposal for the body to only have four voting members proving particularly controversial.

Vladimir Putin has called for an investigation into allegations of systemic doping within Russian athletics, admitting it is a "pressing issue which requires unending attention".

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach has claimed an independent drugs testing system is "more important than ever" and believes it should be responsible for sanctioning as well as testing.

There is "no reason" to question the credibility of the anti-doping testing regime carried out at Sochi 2014, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has claimed following an emergency Executive Board meeting here today.

First, we were shocked by the conflict between SportAccord and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in April. 

That was followed by a summer of scandal involving world football's governing body, FIFA, which flickered and intensified into an autumn of anguish.

Russia’s Oleg Matytsin has been elected as the new President of the International University Sports Federation (FISU) after beating French incumbent Claude-Louis Gallien at the body’s General Assembly in Lausanne.

Criticising FIFA and distancing themselves from governance and corruption problems is a hypocritical stance for the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to take so soon after their own Salt Lake City scandal, International Centre for Sport and Security (ICSS) director of integrity Chris Eaton has claimed. 

Remember back in April at the SportAccord Convention when Marius Vizer had made himself the Olympic Movement's number one enemy following his explosive speech criticising Thomas Bach, who was it that was in the vanguard opposing this dangerous mutineer? It was Lamine Diack, then still the President of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF).

Like fetid fumes, bad news continues to emanate from the citadels of power in world sport - with the seemingly endless fug of the FIFA investigation now casting itself over the shoulders of the great Franz Beckenbauer, and the International Association of Athletics Federations’ ex-President Lamine Diack newly announced as being under investigation by French police and the International Olympic Committee’s Ethics Commission following allegations of corruption.

Working in your room may be quieter and less distracting, I have always been told, but it is far better to sit and work in a hotel lobby (wearing company branded clothing, of course) because people will come up and talk to you and provide you with extra crumbs of information.

Wise words, but advice we arguably took to extremes on Saturday night by stubbornly refusing to budge despite the entire hotel being taken over by what turned out to be the biggest annual drag queen pageant in Washington D.C.

Ten stars of the five Continental Games held over the past 14 months were honoured here tonight during the second edition of the ANOC Awards, which aimed to celebrated athletes’ achievements and show sport’s power to unite nations and cultures.

National Olympic Committees (NOCs) have been urged to support the 2017 World Games in a letter sent by International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach.

Refugees with ties to no particular country will be able to compete at Rio 2016 under the International Olympic Committee (IOC) flag, President Thomas Bach declared at today's United Nations General Assembly in New York City.

Slovakia’s Danka Bartekova has become the youngest-ever chair of an International Olympic Committee (IOC) Coordination Commission after being appointed as head of a six-member team which will oversee preparations for Lausanne 2020.