Multi-sport

International Cricket Council (ICC) chief executive David Richardson has expressed his concern the sport’s fledgling bid to secure a place on the Olympic programme may have become more difficult due to the negativity surrounding golf’s place at the Games.

Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi has warned that opponents of Rome’s bid for the 2024 summer Olympics will be held responsible by the “citizens and the country” if they are successful in blocking the city from hosting the Games.

Craig Reedie, president of the World Anti-Doping agency (Wada), has said that Russia must do “much more” to combat issues relating to doping within its professional athletics sector, but acknowledged that the country is making progress.

Brazilian Sports Minister Leonardo Picciani expects the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) to reinstate accreditation of a key anti-doping laboratory in Rio ahead of the summer Olympic Games in the city.

The All-Russia Athletics Federation (ARAF) has named the 68 athletes it is seeking to send to the 2016 Olympic Games if its ban from international track and field is lifted, with the list including a triple jumper who has previously served a doping ban.

Rio de Janeiro’s Mayor, Eduardo Paes, has lashed out at state officials over the policing of violent crime, stating they are doing a “terrible, horrible job” as the clock counts down to the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

The dispute over whether Russian track and field athletes can compete at the Rio 2016 summer Olympic Games will be settled by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in Lausanne, Switzerland.

As the national broadcaster for the host country at the London 2012 Olympic Games, the BBC set the bar high.

Back in 1960 Olympic broadcast rights sold for $1.2m. Now, with thousands of hours of quality content on a range of platforms, leading broadcasters contribute billions of dollars to the IOC coffers. Kevin Roberts reports.

Olympic Broadcasting Services is the host broadcast organisation set up in 2001 by the IOC to ensure consistency and quality of delivery of the Games to rightsholding broadcasters worldwide. Here Mark Wallace, chief content officer at OBS, answers key questions about the massive Rio 2016 broadcast operation.

Since 1988 NBC has been the Olympic rights-holder for the US, paying more for those rights than any other broadcaster. So how does executive producer Jim Bell view the upcoming Rio Games?

Brazil’s government has pumped an extra R2.9bn (€805m/$895m) into covering security at the Rio de Janeiro summer Olympic Games.

A senior Brazilian government official has said he remains confident that the security measures implemented at the upcoming Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro will be of the standard required to ensure the safety of spectators and athletes.

The PyeongChang Organising Committee for the 2018 Olympic and Paralympic winter Games (POCOG) is seeking a further W600bn (€460.6m/$507.4m) from the Korean government to aid preparations for the event.

Sidney Levy, the chief executive of the organising committee for the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, has insisted security, and not other matters such as the Zika virus, remains the utmost concern ahead of the multi-sport showpiece.

Just in case you were too busy to notice, June 23 was Olympic Day, held to mark the founding of the International Olympic Committee by Baron Pierre de Coubertin back in 1894.