I suppose it was inevitable that I would end up supporting Basingstoke Town Football Club.

Radosław Piesiewicz, age 42, the new President of the Polish Olympic Committee (POC), received 82 per cent of votes during the General Reporting and Election Assembly on April 22 2023, defeating his only opponent Kewin Rozum, 29, President of the Polish Sumo Association, by 138 votes to 24. 

If all goes to plan, they will be watching the horizon in Marseille a year from now for the first sight of the tall ship Belem as it brings the Olympic Flame. 

There are certain moments in time when the cards seem to fall perfectly. When complex scenarios become, for a brief period, relatively logical and clear. 

The last time I saw Jim Fox he could barely walk without stumbling, his hands were shaking as he reached for his teacup and his speech was starting to slur. 

News that Turkish Sports Minister Mehmet Kasapoğlu had followed up International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach’s recent trip to Istanbul by visiting the Olympic capital Lausanne transported me back momentarily to Buenos Aires.

Belgium and snooker. The words go together like fish and chiropodists. Or so you might have thought until Luca Brecel’s startling emergence to wider notice at the Crucible Theatre over the past two weeks.

I always knew that learning a foreign language might be of use someday.

Baku is an objectively glorious city with its wildly varying architecture from the old town to the Parisian-style streets of the centre, it is hard not to consider it the jewel of the Caucasus.

Amir Khan is currently in the jungle. No, not to rumble like Ali and Foreman back in the 1970s but as a contestant in the hit TV reality show "I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here!"

Over the last week, Pope Francis has insisted that the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games "may offer the opportunity, through sport, to bear witness to an authentic expression of fraternity, which the world greatly needs."

As the former British colonies in the Caribbean battle with runaway gun violence, youth crime, youth unemployment and under employment that has reached crisis levels, the consequences, scars and burden of the Colonial legacy of Caribbean Chattel slavery and the transatlantic slave trade, modern day slavery, contemporary racism, the social and economic inequalities and injustices continue to be passed on to generations born and yet to be born.  

Last week brought confirmation that Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton (LVMH), the French luxury goods behemoth, is in talks about a sponsorship contract with Paris 2024.

How to explain Sifan Hassan? If she were in Friends, she would be Phoebe. She has that same unpredictability - you think she might be an airhead and then - boom! - she gets right to the point.