Unlike so many other recent International Federation elections, the one which saw Morinari Watanabe re-elected as President of the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) last month involved a proper contest. 

Congress embraced the annexation - but the attempted takeover has been energetically resisted by the protest

Was the IOC rejection of parkour for the Paris 2024 Games influenced by the unresolved dispute with Parkour

At the start of 2021, I identified seven non-Tokyo 2020 areas to keep an eye on throughout the duration of the year: Thomas Bach, Protests and activism, Athlete representation, athlete welfare, the European Olympic Committees, the Commonwealth Games and increased female representation.

been successful in his main role of preserving the future of the Games, having added Brisbane 2032 to Paris

Women’s football players were the first to take the knee at Tokyo 2020, while the potential for a protest-laden

The decision to omit the frame running and T33 athletics events from the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games

Association (CPISRA) said in a statement: "As a board and organisation, we remain hugely saddened that the Paris

World Para Athletics had proposed the inclusion of frame running events in the Paris 2024 programme to

A potential diplomatic boycott by European Union (EU) countries of the 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games in Beijing is set to be discussed at a meeting later this week but there is a warning that a decision is unlikely to be reached with the bloc split over what action to take.

already announced it will not send any Government officials to attend the Games in the Chinese capital in protest

the Chinese capital ©Getty ImagesFrench Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian revealed last week that Paris

Should you need quiet diplomacy with an upcoming Olympic host to ascertain whether an athlete is safe?

It was instructive that Paris 2024 President Tony Estanguet was one of the first officials within the

2020 Olympics expressed fears over the potential for a headstrong Winter Olympian to make a political protest

My name is Joe Choong. I competed at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics in modern pentathlon, and over the last few months I’ve been busy enjoying the benefits of coming home with a gold medal. 

opinion spoke for the athletes.The modern pentathlon format has already undergone a major change for the Paris

There have been athlete protests over riding since at least 2004, including a sit-down protest in Mexico

Beijing 2022 accounting services supplier PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) is to expand its operations in China, doubling its workforce in the country to 40,000.

investment in its operations in the country ©Getty ImagesPwC is additionally an official partner for the Paris

China fraught, President Joe Biden has confirmed the country is considering a diplomatic boycott as a protest

A protest against the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games has been staged in the French capital Paris by

Dhondup Wangchen has also scheduled meetings with politicians and journalists during his six-day stay in Paris

particularly in Tibet," Dhondup Wangchen said, as reported by The Tibet Post.Belle manifestation hier à Paris

Xinjiang has also proved a controversy in the build-up to next year's Winter Olympics and Paralympics.The protest

in Paris is the latest staged by Tibetan rights groups.When the Beijing 2022 Olympic Flame was lit in

Britain's London 2012 gold medallist Etienne Stott has warned that COP26 must be "about keeping fossil fuels in the ground" while the world leaders attend the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow in Scotland.

until November 12 and aims to "bring parties together to accelerate action towards the goals of the Paris

commitments at the event.Stott, who on the eve of the Conference was involved in an Extinction Rebellion (XR) protest

of the Esso Group and is "planning to expand their oil exploration," according to Baldwin, said the protest

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has revealed that more than 700 people remain in danger in Afghanistan following the Taliban's return to power.

flee the new regime.The IOC said it had worked with NOCs, International Federations, Asghari and the Paris

2021Australia's historic Test match against Afghanistan at the end of November is expected to be postponed in protest

Two arrests were made at the Acropolis in Athens after protesters waved Tibetan flags and unfurled a banner reading "Free Hong Kong Revolution."

rehearsal was about to take place in Ancient Olympia.Both protesters are members of the No Beijing 2022 protest

scheduled in preparation ©Getty ImagesHuman rights groups have called for the Games to be relocated in protest

by Olympic organisers faced serious disruption and violent protests at many destinations, notably in Paris

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board (EB) gathers in Greece this week to begin the second century of its existence.

he was ready to take a step back.He had made no secret of his need for "elbow room" and engineered Paris

succeeded him as IOC President.This was echoed in the decision to grant the 2024 and 2028 Games to Paris

was one of two future IOC Presidents on the first Executive Board ©Getty ImagesThe arrangements for Paris

insisted that "Political influence in the movement should be avoided".The 1960s proved a decade of protest

This was a protest against racial discrimination.Brundage branded it "a disgrace to sport, to the Olympic

Hamid Shinwari, an executive director of the Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB), has been sacked from his position by the new Taliban Government in the country.

States.The Australian Cricket Board last week cancelled a match with Afghanistan's cricket team in protest

revealed that the two had escaped to France and competed during the Games after a period of isolation in Paris

This week 40 years ago, Carl Lewis, Ed Moses, Ulrike Meyfarth, Jarmila Kratochvílová, Steve Ovett and Seb Coe were amongst the winners at the 1981 Athletics World Cup in Rome’s Olympic stadium.

However, by the time the IAAF council met in March 1980 during the World Cross Country Championships in Paris

, there were already calls for a boycott of the Moscow Olympics in protest at the Soviet invasion of

The ceremonial Olympic Flag arrived in Paris earlier this week as the countdown to Paris 2024 began in

This time the rival cities were Paris, Toronto, Istanbul and Osaka.The IOC Evaluation Commission visited

In Paris, despite the presence of RoboCop style police on roller skates, the Relay was once again truncated

organisations such as Falung Gong, even in designated media areas.There were supposedly areas set aside for protest

team mate tested positive.On the penultimate day in 2008, a man who has been centre stage this week in Paris