The United States media conglomerate Comcast has posted a third-quarter loss after including $8.6 billion (£7.5 billion/€8.6 billion) of impairment charges related to its United Kingdom-centred Sky media and telecommunications business.

The International Hockey Federation (FIH) has posted an annual profit for the first time since 2017, as the heavily COVID-impacted Pro League moved close to breakeven.

The International Fencing Federation (FIE) expects to dip heavily into its reserves this year and next, according to a new draft budget circulated ahead of next month’s Ordinary Congress in Lausanne.

Spending by the Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC) on its World Beach Games dossier amounted to less than $15,000 (£13,350/€15,300) over the first six months of this year, as the organisation seemingly strove to live within its much-reduced means.

The Ukrainian Fencing Federation (UFF) has renewed and sharpened its appeal for Russian athletes to be kept out of international sport.

The Ukrainian Fencing Federation (UFF) has urged Interim President Emmanuel Katsiadakis and other senior International Fencing Federation (FIE) officials to "prevent" the return of Russian and Belarusian athletes to the international sports arena.

World Athletics has quietly entered into an agreement to lend $2 million (£1.75 million/€2 million) to Diamond League AG.

Broadcasting rights fees covering the Pyeongchang 2018-Tokyo 2020 Olympic cycle in the Middle East and Africa appear to have reached little more than half of the values achieved for the 2013-2016 quadrennium.

The dividend from Tokyo 2020 has helped World Athletics to boost cash reserves after a year characterised by President Sebastian Coe as a time when the sport learnt how to dance in the rain.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC)’s head of marketing is leaving for the high-octane world of Premier League football.

Long-time PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) sports practice head David Dellea is making the switch to Altman Solon, a consulting firm focusing on the telecommunications, media and technology sector.

The process of consolidation in the media sector, one of sport’s main paymasters, has continued with news that Warner Bros. Discovery and BT Group have closed a deal to form a new sports joint venture.

The International Tennis Federation (ITF) has posted a second consecutive annual deficit, as COVID-19 continued to cast a long shadow.

A year on from the fall of Kabul, the Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) has completed the evacuation from Afghanistan of five athletes and their families in exceptionally challenging circumstances, it can now be revealed.