Russian Skating Union President Nikolay Gulyayev has extended an invitation for South Korean-born Russian short track speed skater Viktor An to come back to his adopted nation, after being publicly rejected from a skating coaching role in Seongnam.

International World Games Association (IWGA) chief executive Joachim Gossow has admitted 2023 will not be a relaxed year for the organisation, with just two years until the Chengdu 2025 World Games.

More than 100,000 tickets have been sold for the Budapest 2023 World Athletics Championships, with the event now just 200 days away, it was revealed today. 

Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) President Stanislav Pozdnyakov has been swiftly closed down by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) today after he complained about the potential conditions that athletes from the country may be forced to compete under if they are allowed to take part at Paris 2024. 

Élancourt is set to host the the test event for mountain biking for next year's Olympic Games in Paris on September 23 and 24, with the cross-country event nestled between two legs of the International Cycling Union (UCI) Mountain Bike World Cup.

The Chess Federation of Russia (FCR) looks set to change its continental body from the European Chess Union (ECU) to the Asian Chess Federation (ACF) - in what could be the first instance of a Russian federation moving to Asia due to the fallout from the invasion of Ukraine.

Approximately JPY40 billion (£249 million/$307 million/€283 million) worth of contracts were given to firms allegedly involved in bidding corruption for the re-arranged 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games test events and competitions in Tokyo, it has been claimed. 

Professional boxing great Wladimir Klitschko has claimed the International Olympic Committee (IOC) will be complicit in the war in Ukraine if it allows athletes from Russia and Belarus to compete at next year's Olympic Games in Paris. 

A group of 130 young athletes in Rwanda have begun their preparations to compete at the 2026 Youth Olympic Games in Dakar, having been selected from a pool of 372 people.

Kenya Judo Federation President and African Judo Union chair Shadrack Maluki has been named the nation's Chef de Mission for the Paris 2024 Olympics, with the management team being announced today in Nairobi.

The Caribbean Association of National Olympic Committees (CANOC) President Keith Joseph has said physical education must be treated as importantly as academic to improve the wellbeing of its citizens.

Athletes who have accused Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) President Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh of sexual harassment have decided not to attend a panel meeting with the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) panel, and have been given one more chance to provide evidence.

The World Flying Disc Federation (WFDF) has accepted the Saudi Flying Disc Committee (SFD) as its newest member, bringing the number of nations and territories associated with the organisation up to 104.

Russian player Andrey Rublev and Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov have joined the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) Player Advisory Council for 2023, having held their first meeting of the year on the eve of the Australian Open in Melbourne.