By Duncan Mackay in MoscowApril 10 - Baku's team travelling here to make its first international presentation in its campaign to host the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics will be led by Mehriban Aliyeva, Azerbaijan's First Lady, it has been announced. 

Baku has an ideal climate for sport; our city and country also offer a beautiful setting and an amazing

By David GoldMarch 7 - Specialist sportswear brand Crewroom have told insidethegames that they plan to continue their sponsorship of the London Youth Games when the current deal expires.

What makes the British climate quite severe is constant wind so the whole thing is built around looking

By Mike RowbottomFebruary 12 - Dwain Chambers, who earned a place in Britain's team for next month's IAAF World Indoor Championships in Istanbul by winning the 60 metres gold today at the Aviva Indoor UK Trials and Championships in Sheffield, has said he is prepared to take up his chance of appearing at the London 2012 Games if the British Olympic Association's (BOA) bylaw is overturned next month.

The climate is a lot different because I am not taking the fight, which I am grateful for.

By Tom DegunDecember 18 - There has been significant interest from companies in taking over the Main Press Centre (MPC) (pictured) and International Broadcast Centre (IBC) with the Olympic Park Legacy Company (OPLC) revealing that ten companies have bid to be significant tenants of the venues.

Such market interest in the current economic climate is testament to the private sector's confidence

By Tom DegunDecember 8 - Sport England today published new participation figures which revealed "very disappointing" results, showing a decline in the number of teenagers and women playing sport even though London is hosting the Olympics and Paralympics next year.

We are working in a tough climate, with a third of those playing less sport putting it down to economic

By David OwenDecember 4 - Barbados has commissioned a specialist consultancy to develop a sports tourism strategy for the Caribbean island.

sports tourism.Areas of action are likely to include the policy and regulatory framework, investment climate

By Alan HubbardI am not sure if Tanni Grey-Thompson has ever met Sepp Blatter – or  even desires to do so – but I would like to be the proverbial fly on the wall should they ever have a conversation which embraces the FIFA poobah's growing list of apparent prejudices.Slippery Sepp – hard to say whether he or the Houdini of Twickenham, Rob Andrew, has the thicker coating of Teflon – is not unfamiliar with isms.His current misadventure with racism was famously preceded by a chauvinistic flirtation with sexism when he suggested that women's football would be more aesthetically appealing...

They are an easy target in this economic climate."

By Alan HubbardI am not sure if Tanni Grey-Thompson has ever met Sepp Blatter – or  even desires to do so – but I would like to be the proverbial fly on the wall should they ever have a conversation which embraces the FIFA poobah's growing list of apparent prejudices.Slippery Sepp – hard to say whether he or the Houdini of Twickenham, Rob Andrew, has the thicker coating of Teflon – is not unfamiliar with isms.His current misadventure with racism was famously preceded by a chauvinistic flirtation with sexism when he suggested that women's football would be more aesthetically appealing...

They are an easy target in this economic climate."

By David GoldNovember 15 - Ukrainian pole vaulting legend Sergey Bubka, International Olympic Committee (IOC) member Patrick Hickey and Sochi 2014 chief executive Dmitry Chernyshenko (pictured) are the latest big names to be confirmed as speakers for the Russian International Olympic University's (RIOU) Brand Building and Communications course.

In the current economic climate, this will be essential in helping attract and keep new participants,

From Mike Rowbottom in Monte CarloNovember 11 - London's 2017 world championship bidders revealed in their presentation to the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Council here that they would match the guarantee made by their rivals, Doha, to cover the prize fund of $7.2 million (£4.5 million/€5.3 million) for athletes at the event.

the best possible conditions," she said.She also said athletes would have the ideal temperature and climate

By Duncan Mackay in Monte CarloNovember 10 -  Doha are unlikely to agree to a compromise that would see London host the 2017 World Athletics Championships and them the 2019 event, the head of the bid has claimed. 

Climate hasn't been an issue at all," he said"We think this is because the world of international sport

"So, rather than the climate being a barrier, it actually becomes a new and exciting opportunity."

"This solution can also be taken to other places around the world that are blocked by climate to help

By Andrew WarshawNovember 6 - London's bid to stage the 2017 World Athletics Championship is "head and shoulders" above that of Doha,  UK Athletics chairman Ed Warner claimed today.

"We have climate very much on our side.

we've made is that all around the world at the moment there are not Governments in the current economic climate

By David GoldNovember 1 - International Olympic Committee (IOC) member René Fasel (pictured) will join three executives from the Sochi 2014 Organising Committeeas guest lecturers on the Russian International Olympic University's (RIOU) "Brand Building and Communications Programme" later this year.

In the current economic climate any sports organisation that wants to be taken seriously by its target

By Tom Degun October 21 – The New Zealand Olympic Committee (NZOC) have confirmed that Oceania will be voting as a block for the Gold Coast bid for the 2018 Commonwealth Games.

The Gold Coast and Australia are proven in hosting world-class events such as this and offer a great climate

Duncan MackayOctober 10 - London has stolen a march on Doha, its only rival to host the 2017 World Athletics Championships, by signing-up Ethiopia's double Olympic champion Haile Gebrselassie as an official ambassador of its bid.

By the time 2017 arrives I hope to run the marathon, and London would provide an ideal climate and wonderful