A reassessment of the likely cost of past Olympic Games anti-doping efforts has triggered a substantial increase in the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) reported expenditure on medical and doping control programmes in the last - five-year - Olympic cycle.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) paid just over $17 million (£13.5 million/€15.8 million) to buy cancellation insurance for the postponed Tokyo 2020 Games.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) channelled nearly $800 million (£640 million/€747.2 million) of distributions to the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) over the five years culminating in 2021, analysis of IOC financial statements indicates.

The world’s best-known sports volunteer has received a substantial increase in the "indemnity" he gets to partially cover expenses on his 365 days-a-year mission as International Olympic Committee (IOC) President.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has written to Umar Kremlev underlining that the International Boxing Association remains suspended and expressing "significant concerns" on a range of issues.

Umar Kremlev survived an attempt to force him to step aside as International Boxing Association (IBA) President at the body’s Board of Directors meeting last month, insidethegames has learned.

The Global Association of International Sports Federations (GAISF) is to proceed next month with a Statutory General Assembly in virtual format.

Gazprom, the Russian energy giant, may have pumped as much as CHF30 million (£24.5 million/$31 million/€29 million) into the International Boxing Association (IBA) under a sponsorship deal agreed last year, insidethegames analysis suggests.

The Alliance of Independent Recognised Members of Sport (AIMS) is to hold a virtual General Assembly on May 17.

FIFA's 14 top managers were paid just over $19 million (£14.5 million/€17.2 million) in 2021 - equivalent to $1.36 million (£1.04 million/€1.23 million) each on average.

Hosts Qatar paid most of the $86.3 million (£65.8 million/€78.1 million) cost of staging the 10th edition of the FIFA Arab Cup last year.

FIFA has become the first major international sports body to publish its financial statements for 2021, disclosing that world football’s governing body made a net loss of $312.2 million (£238.1 million/€282.7 million) on revenue of $766.5 million (£584.7 million/€694 million) for the year immediately preceding the next men’s World Cup - Qatar 2022 - its all-important cash-cow.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has announced the opening of a tender process for the sale of European media rights to the 2026 and 2028 Games.

Duvall Hecht, an Olympic gold medal-winning rower, has died in California aged 91.