By Duncan MackayMay 19 - Iran have cut short a trip to the United States which was supposed to help showcase wrestling's campaign to stay in the Olympics and flown home abruptly. 

removed from the list of core sports after Rio 2016, Americans joined Iranian competitors in Tehran to protest

Olympic discipline..Of the 15 gold medals Iran has won in the Olympics since they made their debut at Paris

Month" as part of campaign to keep sport in OlympicsFebruary 2013: World's wrestlers stage Olympic protest

By Tom DegunMay 6 - An international match bewteen the United States and Iran is due to take place at the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena this month as part of the campaign to keep the sport in the Olympic Games.

removed from the list of core sports after Rio 2016, Americans joined Iranian competitors in Tehran to protest

Olympic discipline..Of the 15 gold medals Iran has won in the Olympics since they made their debut at Paris

Month" as part of campaign to keep sport in OlympicsFebruary 2013: World's wrestlers stage Olympic protest

By Duncan MackayMarch 3 - Protests against the decision to axe wrestling from the Olympics took a new twist when Armen Nazaryan, a two-time gold medallist, announced he was going on hunger strike.

IOC in protest.Part of the first modern Olympics in 1896 and all further editions, except the 1900 Paris

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By Duncan MackayFebruary 21 - Some of the world's top wrestlers have staged a protest against the decision

The protest, staged at the World Cup in Greco-Roman and freestyle wrestling in Tehran, saw wrestlers

successful Olympic sport.Of the 15 gold medals Iran has won in the Olympics since they made their debut at Paris

 The protest in Tehran once again highlighted how the decision to drop wrestling has brought together

Hojatollah Khatib, the President of Iran's Wrestling Federation, promised that the protest was just the

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By Tom DegunApril 21 - French NBA superstar Tony Parker has become the latest major sports star to pledge his support for the Annecy 2018 bid for the Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Annecy 2018," said the triple NBA champion.Parker was born in Belgium but was raised in France and calls Paris

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December 10 - Controversial changes criticised by Bradley Wiggins and Rebecca Romero (pictured left)  proposed to the track cycling programme for London 2012 by the International Cycling Union (UCI) were today approved by the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

 The last gold medalists were Americans Richard Williams and Hazel Wightman in Paris in 1924.Tennis

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April 2 - Chicago officials tonight greeted members of the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) Evaluation Commission on the first stop of their tour of the 2016 Olympic bid cities.

She also headed the Evaluation Commission in 2005 which leaned toward Paris for 2012, but in the end,

Hundreds of Chicago police officers surrounded City Hall earlier today protest coinciding with the IOC's

October 29 - Lance Armstrong's (pictured) sensational return to cycling has captured the imagination of the world but, in the second of this exclusive two-part interview, former World Anti-Doping Agency president Dick Pound is not celebrating, as he tells Paul Gains

subjected to re-analysis using the new testing procedure developed by the WADA accredited laboratory in Paris

“I don’t know how good your Shakespeare is,” Pound said then, “but methinks the laddie doth protest too

 POLICE today battled to keep pro-Tibet demonstrators away from the Beijing Olympics flame as it passed through London today, arresting 37 protesters who tried to disrupt the high-security tour.

Stand-up comedian Francesca Martinez withdrew from the event Thursday in protest against China.  

The torch heads for Paris tomorrow and French authorities have also prepared massive security for the

  JUNE 25 - THE GOVERNMENT admitted today that Zimbabwe will still be able to take part in the 2012 Olympics in London despite their cricket team being banned today from touring in England next year.

decision to block the tour, announced by Culture Secretary Andy Burnham in the House of Commons today in protest

among officials leading London’s Olympic bid that it would alienate potential African voters and give Paris

  PROTESTS against China's rights record and crackdown in Tibet disrupted ceremonies in Greece today to light the Olympic flame for the Beijing Games.

Later 10 Tibetan activists staged their own protest in the town's main street before they were detained

Three members of Reporters Sans Frontieres (Reporters Without Borders -- RSF) staged the first protest

Aside from Athens, the flame will only stop in London and Paris among European capitals.  

Chakrabongse, chosen to carry the Olympic torch when it crosses Thailand next month, has declined in protest

Pictures of the protest can be seen at http://www.youtube.com/watch?