Two Mongolian wrestling coaches who removed their clothes in protest at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro

This was a protest, there was a problem with the refereeing," said Bayaraa at the time of the incident

Commission, with a full report set to be produced.Following the controversies, the UWW announced in Paris

Next Thursday on September 22 marks the 28th anniversary of what many believe, for all the controversies of Rio 2016, was the lowest point for boxing at the Olympics - the moment when a referee was attacked by home officials at the 1988 Games in Seoul after a decision had gone against a South Korean bantamweight, Byun Jong-il, who subsequently delayed the competition for more than an hour by occupying the ring.

Hamilton, who had to be treated for a badly cut hand.Once the ring had been cleared, Byun staged his own protest

Soo-In Oh, the vice-president of the Korean delegation lodged a formal protest against the judging of

impartial - and he may have had a point given the fact that he was Douglas’s father…At the 1924 Olympics in Paris

Major-General Douglas MacArthur prevented a United States protest withdrawal from the 1928 Olympic boxing

At Paris 1924, the decision of English refereee T H Walker to disqualify Guiseppi Oldani for persistent

As the Rio 2016 swimming programme got underway this weekend, the ripples were still spreading from the August 1 premiere airing at the Los Angeles Film Festival of The Last Gold.This is a documentary on the victory earned by the United States women’s 4x100 metre freestyle team at the 1976 Montreal Olympics, against the East German athletes who otherwise swept the board at those Games through what we now know were illegal means.

big; they were now beating us by 25 meters in a 200-metre race.”In October 1973, an article in the Paris

Minister Malcolm Fraser, patron of the Australian Olympic Committee, to boycott the Moscow Games in protest

While Euro 2016 meanders towards a close, with the bloated tournament having never really sparked into life, the somewhat chaotic and always eventful Tour de France is set to compete for centre stage across the host nation.

With the current state of emergency in France following the Paris terrorist attacks in November, around

for the second tier Hors Classe (HC) status for 2017 season, rather than the top tier WorldTour, in protest

Paris' efforts to secure the hosting rights to the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games have received support

As part of the agreement, a selection of Air France planes will display the Paris 2024 logo on 10,000

Millions of international tourists visit Paris each year and we are very proud of our status as a global

travel destination that has great cultural, artistic and sporting appeal," said Paris 2024 co-chairman

Our aim is to harness the enthusiasm and passion to see the Games come to Paris and ensure we deliver

it off early last week.The strike proposal had followed earlier walk outs between June 11 and 14 in protest

International Cycling Union (UCI) President Brian Cookson’s leadership has reportedly been criticised by European Cycling Union President David Lappartient in a letter detailing several key issues facing the sport.

informed the UCI in December that they would not register their road events to the top tier WorldTour in protest

at the reforms.Instead their events, such as the Tour de France and Paris-Roubaix, would be registered

suspended the trial of disc brakes following an injury suffered by Spain’s Francisco Ventoso in the Paris-Roubaix

Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) President Giovanni Malagò has hit out at Virginia Raggi, the favourite to be elected the new Mayor of Rome, after she claimed a bid from the city to host the 2024 Olympics and Paralympics was "criminal".

According to the opinion polls, Raggi, a 37-year-old lawyer who represents the Five Star Protest

Sixty years ago, the city of Melbourne was making ready for the Olympics. It was the first time they had been staged in the Southern Hemisphere, but this sporting gathering did not include equestrian events.

These included Rio de Janeiro.Stockholm polled 25 votes ahead of Paris with 10.

It ran for less than two months, but still yielded 183,546 Swedish crowns.By the 1955 session in Paris

One horse had to be destroyed causing widespread protest.

Games 1920 Silver: Olympic Games 1924 An Olympic champion at Antwerp in 1920 and silver medallist at Paris

He arrived late for the pistol-shooting competition, but was saved from disqualification due to a protest

The magnificent Panathinaiko Stadium in Athens is where representatives of Rio de Janeiro will tomorrow formally take charge of the Olympic flame for 2016 after Greek rower Katerina Nikolaidou has lit a special golden cauldron to end a journey of 2,235 kilometres around Greece.

Renate Stecher and Heidi Rosendahl to represent the German cities of Berlin and Munich, Michel Jazy for Paris

policy in Tibet from the very outset when journalists from Reporters Without Borders unveiled a flag in protest

Italian football rivals AS Roma and Lazio have come together ahead of this weekend’s Rome derby to show their support for the capital’s bid to host the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Supporters of Roma and Lazio, who are fierce rivals, say they will boycott tomorrow’s Rome derby in protest

behind the goal to be divided by concrete barriers.Rome are competing with Budapest, Los Angeles and Paris

Brian Cookson has revealed his intention to seek re-election as the International Cycling Union (UCI) President in 2017.

for the second tier Hors Classe (HC) status for 2017 season, rather than the top tier WorldTour, in protest

at the reforms.Currently their events, such as the Tour de France and Paris-Roubaix, are part of the

More than 20 events have applied to reach WorldTour status from 2017 until 2019, the International Cycling Union (UCI) has claimed.

for the second tier Hors Classe (HC) status for 2017 season, rather than the top tier WorldTour, in protest

at the UCI’s reforms.Currently their events, such as the Tour de France and Paris-Roubaix, are part

South African Tokyo Sexwale has hinted he is seeking to strike a deal with one of his fellow FIFA Presidential candidates ahead of next month’s election after declaring “the time for alliances is coming”.

involved in a public row with French Football Federation President Noël Le Graët in a restaurant in Paris

with French Football Federation (FFF) President Noël Le Graët, who stormed out of a restaurant in Paris

five nominations, had met with Le Graët in a bid to gain his vote in the election.He threatened to protest

A successful bid from Budapest for the 2024 Olympics and Paralympics would be a Games for Central and Eastern Europe and mark the 35th anniversary of the collapse of the Soviet Union, Hungary''s Prime Minister Viktor Orban claimed here today.

have been held in Eastern Europe so far was at Moscow in 1980, an event boycotted by 65 countries in protest