"Basic mistakes" on bidding delay demolition of Tokyo's old Olympic Stadium
By Mike Rowbottom in Tokyo
As preparations get underway to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the 1964 Olympic Games here, there has been a further delay to preparations for Tokyo 2020 with the news demolition of Japan's National Stadium will need to wait until another round of bidding for the project has taken place.
As preparations get underway to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the 1964 Olympic Games here, there has been a further delay to preparations for Tokyo 2020 with the news demolition of Japan's National Stadium will need to wait until another round of bidding for the project has taken place.
Koji Murofushi, Japan's Olympic and world gold medallist in the hammer, has today thrown out some new ideas about the possible key aspects of the Tokyo 2020, for whom he was named sports director in June.
High jump rivals Mutaz Essa Barshim and Bohdan Bondarenko are among the 10 men nominated by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) for this year's World Athlete of the Year Award - and so, controversially, is Justin Gatlin.
The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has "a lot of work to do" to build up a wider spread of competitors worldwide, its President, Sir Philip Craven, has said.
Katherine Grainger, Britain's multiple Olympic and world rowing medallist, is making what could be a comeback for Rio 2016 after a two-year break from the sport.
Rio 2016 announced today that The Dow Chemical Company will be its Official Carbon Partner for the forthcoming Games, which will benefit from "the most comprehensive carbon mitigation programme in the history of the Olympic Games".
Brian Cookson, who will complete his first year in office as President of the International Cycling Union (UCI) on September 27, is seeking to add cyclo-cross and downhill mountain biking to the Olympic Programme - but not at the expense of any existing cycling events.
Sir Philip Craven, President of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC), has stressed that while his organisation has said Oscar Pistorius, found guilty of culpable homicide, would be free to return to competition once he has satisfied the South African legal system, it is far from welcoming him back into the fold.
Maximum points from three French athletes - Éloyse Lesueur, Renaud Lavillenie and Benjamin Compaoré - helped Team Europe build on their comfortable overnight lead to win the International Association of Athletics Federations' (IAAF) Continental Cup in Marrakech by a huge margin from the Americas.
Bohdan Bondarenko had the final word in the season-long athletic argument he has had with Qatar's Mutaz Essa Barshim as to who is the world's best high jumper.
Six-times Paralympic champion Oscar Pistorius, found guilty of culpable homicide by a Pretoria court, is free to return to top -evel competition as soon as he has served whatever punishment he receives, the International Paralympic Committee says.
Qatar's Mutaz Essa Barshim, who went second on the all-time high jump rankings with his 2.43 metres in Brussels last week, will have one final meeting this season with his great rival Bohdan Bondarenko, Ukraine's world champion, as both compete this weekend in the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) second Continental Cup event.
Lithuania's modern pentathlon world champions of 2013 - reigning Olympic champion Laura Asadauskaite and Justinas Kinderis - used all their experience to win a hugely competitive battle with Britain's young pairing of Kate French and Joe Evans to win the mixed relay title on the final day of the 54th UIPM World Championships in Warsaw.
It was a day of records at the Great North Run as Mo Farah won the men's race in a British best of an hour exactly and Kenya's Mary Keitany ran 65min 39sec to take a second off Briton Paula Radcliffe's 2003 course record.
Ary Graça, President of the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB), has assured insidethegames that his sport, which he accused earlier this year of being "too far from the Olympic Movement", is now enjoying better relations with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) than ever before.
