The British Olympic Association (BOA) has appointed American public relations specialist Darryl Seibel as head of Olympic media and communications strategy.
Seibel was chie...More>
More than a million people have registered an interest for tickets for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, it has been announced.
Online registration for eight mi...More>
International Baseball Federation president Riccardo Fraccari has vowed to fight to get baseball back into the Olympics by working to change the perception that it is solely a...More>
Olympic pole vault champion Yelena Isinbayeva has agreed to help promote this year's inaugural Youth Olympic Games alongside swimmer Michael Phelps, the International Olympic ...More>
Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum has insisted that Dubai will be “in it to win it” if it decides to bid for the 2020 Olympic Games.
The emirate has previously expresse...More>
French president Nicolas Sarkozy has vowed that the Government will do everything in its power to help Annecy win the race to host the 2018 Winter Olympics.
Sarkozy had alr...More>
The United States Olympic Committee (USOC) has scrapped plans to launch an Olympic television channel.
The USOC and Comcast had been in talks about launching a dedicated ch...More>
Former International Olympic Committee president Juan Antonio Samaranch has died aged 89.
Samaranch was president of the IOC from 1980 until 2001 and is credited with brin...More>
The Scottish National Party wants £150m of lottery money given to the London Olympics to go to Glasgow’s 2014 Commonwealth Games instead.
First minister Alex Salmond a...More>
Munich’s 2018 Winter Olympic bid has promised the “best-ever” conditions for Paralympic athletes if it wins the right to host the event.
Following a meeting of the general ...More>
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is to investigate the safety of all Olympic sports following the death of Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili at the Vancouver Winter...More>
Vancouver 2010 chief executive John Furlong believes this year’s Winter Olympics changed Canada for the better.
In his swansong speech, Furlong said: "I would like to think...More>
Jean Dupre has been named the new chief executive of the Canadian Olympic Committee (COC).
Dupre joins the COC after 15 years as director general of Speed Skating Canada. H...More>
The Norwegian Olympic and Paralympic Committee and Confederation of Sports (NOC) is mulling a possible bid for the 2016 Youth Winter Olympic Games.
The NOC confirmed it was...More>
Vancouver spent $727.6m on infrastructure and operations for this year’s Winter Olympics, a report due to go before the city council this week has revealed.
That figure was...More>
The International Olympic Committee Co-ordination Commission for the Sochi 2014 Winter Games has praised the progress being made by local organisers in the Russian city.
Th...More>
The British Olympic Association (BOA) has performed a U-turn by choosing Loughborough University as its training base ahead of the 2012 Olympics in London.
The BOA announce...More>
