Battle For 2024 Heats Up As IOC Heads To LA
A team of International Olympic Committee delegates kick off a three-day tour of Los Angeles Wednesday as the city attempts ...
Tag: International Olympic Committee
Athletes Warn Coates To Bring In AOC Change
Australia's athletes say they will hold John Coates to account after the country's most powerful sports figure was returned as ...
Coates Wins Bitter Fight To Remain Australian Olympic Chief
Long-time Australian Olympic Committee chief John Coates on Saturday beat off challenger Danni Roche to remain the president of the ...
Fifa Powerbroker Ahmad Quits After Fraud Claims
High-ranking Fifa official Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah has resigned a day after denying claims linking him to a fraud case. ...
Mali To Play At 2017 CAF U17 Nations Cup After FIFA Lifts Suspension
Mali have been cleared to play in next month's African Junior Championship after FIFA lifted the suspension on its football ...
Kuwaiti Quits FIFA Council To Fight Bribery Claim
World sport powerbroker Sheikh Ahmad al-Fahad al-Sabah announced his resignation Sunday from the FIFA council, saying he did not want ...
Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah Resigns Following Denial of Any Wrongdoing
High-ranking Fifa official Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah has resigned a day after denying claims linking him to a fraud case. ...
Bitter Rift Rocks AOC As Coates Fights For Olympic Job
Powerful Australian Olympic Committee chief John Coates is facing a crisis as he seeks re-election, with the organisation rocked by ...
Thailand’s Worawi Vows To Challenge FIFA Ban
Former Thai football chief Worawi Makudi has vowed to push FIFA to lift its ban on him after an appeals ...
Other Sports Have ‘bullies’ Too, Says World Cycling Boss
World cycling chief Brian Cookson said he didn't recognise dark accounts of a "culture of fear" in the British team ...
Activist Demands Iran Olympics Ban Over ‘sexual Apartheid’
Iranian human rights activist Darya Safai on Friday demanded sports sanctions against her country as punishment for banning women from ...
Tycoon Chung To Appeal FIFA Ban, Slams ‘hitmen’
South Korean billionaire Chung Mong-Joon said Thursday he would appeal to the international sports tribunal over his five-year ban by ...
WADA Records 14% Rise In Doping Sanctions
More than 1,900 athletes were sanctioned for doping in 2015, new World Anti-Doping Agency figures show. The 1,929 punishments for ...
Pyeongchang Hopeful NHL Stars Will Play
Winter Olympics organisers said on Wednesday they hoped that ice hockey's top names would still come to Pyeongchang in 2018 ...
NHL Won’t Participate In 2018 Olympic Games
The National Hockey League announced on Monday that it will not shut down it's regular season to allow top players ...
No Olympic Ultimatum From LA 2024 Chiefs
The head of Los Angeles's bid for the 2024 Olympics ruled out issuing an ultimatum to the International Olympic Committee ...
FIFA Completes Internal Investigation, Shares Findings With Authorities
FIFA announced Friday that it has completed the internal investigation it began in June 2015 after the Office of the ...
‘Time Is Right’ For Cricket At the Olympics
West Indies beat England in the final of last year's World T20 The "time is right" for cricket to apply ...
Tech Changes Allow Greater Fan Engagement In Sports
As technology permits greater interactivity with fans, sports clubs and leagues have consulted sometimes far-flung supporters on everything from a ...
The Fall of A God
By Ohene Bampoe Lucifer’s fall from heaven is considered the greatest in the history of creation but Issa Hayatou’s defeat ...