Los Angeles 2024 has sought input from young computer programmers by presenting two of the challenges at the annual LA Hacks event, held at UCLA’s Pauley Pavilion at the weekend.

during live sporting events using sensors in the band.The top two entries won courtside basketball tickets

Before I can, like all of you, rejoice in the upcoming celebration of the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, my thoughts are elsewhere.

After Paris last November, it’s in Brussels that the ignorance of men cowardly struck again.

The last tickets for Rio will be distributed during the qualification sessions, which will take place

Late last year, the calls for cricket to regain its place as an Olympic sport became increasingly loud and as vociferous as they had ever been.

President Thomas Bach - where the possibility of cricket being added to the Games for the first time since Paris

India has surely provided it.Yes, there have been issues, most notably organisers opting to not put tickets

body UEFA have taken legal action in France against website guaranteetickets.com to stop them offering tickets

has a Cypriot address but a British phone number listed on its website, claims to be able to offer tickets

priced at €1,799 (£1,400/$2,027) for the Euro 2016 final at the Stade de France in Paris on July 10.

The site, which has advertised heavily on Google, has no right to sell UEFA Euro 2016 tickets and tickets

Major sports events in recent years have seen a spate of sites selling tickets which they then do not

Guaranteetickets.com claim to be able to offer tickets for any match ©Guaranteetickets.comUEFA claims

An Extraordinary Congress is set to be held by the International Boxing Association (AIBA) in May to pass new rules that would allow top professional boxers like Wladimir Klitschko and Manny Pacquiao to compete in this year's Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. 

professional after the Olympics, Joshua has won all 15 of his fights by knockout.Earlier this month, tickets

his country's first-ever Olympic gold medallist, ending a barren run stretching back to its debut in Paris

The great Jesse Owens embodied the Olympic ideal with his deeds at the stadium but long after his sporting career was over, he spoke in unforgettable fashion at the 1976 Montreal Olympics. In the forty years since then, few have come closer to encapsulating the Olympic spirit.

in arranging the transit of the Hungarian team from Budapest to Prague and helped them obtain plane tickets

the big screens.In recent weeks, the sporting community has rallied in the wake of the attacks in Paris

Usain Bolt has responded to a change in the British tax laws by committing himself to run in the Sainsbury’s Anniversary Games when London’s Olympic Stadium re-opens on July 24.

place on Sunday July 26.Other than Bolt, who pulled out of the last two Diamond League meetings in Paris

To buy tickets to the Sainsbury’s Anniversary Games click here.Related storiesJune 2015: Bolt says New

It being general election week here in the United Kingdom, I thought it would be a good time to take a look at the two high-profile electoral battles currently being waged in the world of sport, via the medium of the candidates’ Twitter feeds.Not because I judge this likely to offer great insights into the identity of the eventual winners: the sports officials in whose hands the outcomes lie are assuredly far too high-minded to be swayed by anything as trivial as social media.

retweets from the FIFA Women’s World Cup account; this one celebrates the fact that all individual tickets

contribution came nine days earlier: “I also condemn the actions of a small group of Chelsea fans in Paris

It is 6pm in the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi. Delegates to SportAccord Convention are reaching for their black ties and frocks in preparation for that night’s gala awards ceremony. The local frogs are cranking up for their evening chorus.Bernard Lapasset, President of World Rugby, is just back from a visit to a nearby national sports coaching and training centre. The calibre of the medical facilities has particularly impressed him.The approachable 67-year-old Frenchman, from the Pyrenean army town of Tarbes in the deep south, has been an increasingly influential figure in international sports for some time now, helping to...

And then there is the small matter of what role Lapasset will play in the impending Paris 2024 Olympic

arrangements for this year’s World Cup in September and October are “on the final straight”, with tickets

The second is when I try to pin Lapasset down on his eventual role on the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic

another term as World Rugby President.Bernard Lapasset is the obvious choice to act as President of a Paris

historic return to the Olympic programme.And while he is the obvious choice to act as President of a Paris