By Nick ButlerRio de Janeiro Mayor Eduardo Paes has claimed Olympic and Paralympic preparations are back on schedule, and insisted Organisers are "completely open" to full financial audits of all projects connected to the Games.

knifepoint in Rio de JaneiroNovember 2014: Brazilian judge rejects request to halt Rio 2016 Olympic golf

By Duncan MackayA campaign launched by the World Olympians Association to help raise awareness and funds to tackle the spread of Ebola in West Africa has been joined by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC), it was announced today.

as well as a number of world governing bodies, including SportAccord, World Rugby, the International Golf

By Emily GoddardThe Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) has claimed there are positive signs for the nation's team ahead of Rio 2016 following the results of its latest benchmark study.

We are optimistic when it comes to the new sports, golf and rugby sevens and as always our women's basketball

of the sport's world governing body, likened it to taking a friend to watch their first professional golf

time and complexity of scoring required to complete a two-player match.In keeping with Dornberger's golf

By Mike RowbottomFormula One world champion Lewis Hamilton was a surprise winner of the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award at the SSE Hydro in Glasgow tonight as he finished ahead of golfer Rory McIlroy, who won British Open and US PGA titles and contributed to Europe's Ryder Cup victory.

I'm more of a golf fan than F1.

By Nick ButlerA Rome bid for the 2024 Olympics and Paralympics is expected to be confirmed by Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi tomorrow.

sporting events on Italian soil in the early 2020s, with bids also being considered for the 2022 Ryder Cup golf

By Paul OsborneThe Olympic Council of Ireland (OCI) has announced the 17 team leaders for Rio 2016 as the Government revealed a €1 million (£800,000/$1.25 million) grant to support Olympic and Paralympic qualification, preparation and participation.

Among those named is European Ryder Cup captain Paul McGinley, team leader for golf, a sport which makes

delighted to have the opportunity to assist my country as team leader of the men's and ladies Irish Golf

By Emily GoddardDonna Cross, who won a bronze medal for Great Britain in football at the 2013 Deaflympics, has been named as the Deaf Sports Personality of the Year for 2014.

The multi-talented athlete, who also plays futsal, squash and golf, scooped the award with 24.75 per

cent of the vote after becoming the first English woman to compete at the World Deaf Golf Championships

competition in the United States in July.As well as being last year's female champion in Four Nations Golf

second in the Personality of the Year award stakes after garnering 24.68 per cent of the vote, while golf

By Nick ButlerA bid for the 2023 Rugby World Cup could form part of a three-pronged Italian effort to host major sporting events, with plans to stage the 2022 Ryder Cup and the 2024 Summer Olympics and Paralympics also in place.

for the first time since Rome 1960 ©Hulton Archive/Getty ImagesA bid for the Ryder Cup, the biennial golf

competition pitting Europe against the United States, is also an intriguing prospect, with Italian Golf

By Nick ButlerAn All-Ireland bid for the 2023 Rugby World Cup has been given the green light this morning by the Irish Rugby Football Union (IRFU).

"Regardless of whether it is cycling, golf, the World Police and Fire Games and now rugby, I have no

where Big Bird was singing to loitering shoppers - past the Sports Boutik, British Home Stores, Kedai golf

By Daniel EtchellsEnvironmentalists' attempts to halt the development of the Rio 2016 golf course have

This is a major boost for Games organisers given how the state of the golf course was becoming a major

go until the Games begin, with fears over slow progress having also been voiced by the International Golf

Eduardo Antonio Klausner said there is "no new fact justifying...a halt in the implementation of the golf

as strong advert ahead of Rio 2016 August 2014: Rio 2016 golf course progress "not ideal but should

at Olympic golf course begins amid delay concerns

By Nick ButlerA first set of commemorative coins are being released by the Brazilian Central Bank today to mark the Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

athletics and swimming , the two sports in which Brazil has won most Olympic medals, are shown, as well as golf

These include pétanque, kurash, and woodball, a blend of golf and croquet which would have many middle

By Paul OsborneRyder Cup Europe has announced today six nations have formally confirmed their intention to bid for the 2022 Ryder Cup.

concerns but reversed this decision last minute, according to Ryder Cup Europe.President of the Turkish Golf

Ryder Cup in 2022 is that the Montgomerie course is a resort course and not designed for a big scale golf

If you notice there is not one grandstand on the golf course this week and there is just no place for

due to to host the 2016 and 2020 editions, at Hazeltine and Whistling Straits respectively, while Le Golf