Working in your room may be quieter and less distracting, I have always been told, but it is far better to sit and work in a hotel lobby (wearing company branded clothing, of course) because people will come up and talk to you and provide you with extra crumbs of information.

Wise words, but advice we arguably took to extremes on Saturday night by stubbornly refusing to budge despite the entire hotel being taken over by what turned out to be the biggest annual drag queen pageant in Washington D.C.

It’s taken its sweet time, but gymnastics has finally announced itself on the global stage.

The fact that the sport sits proudly in the top-tier of the Olympic Games, alongside athletics and swimming, those behemoths which largely dominate the sporting spectrum, may have been lost on many of those who witnessed the stunning Artistic Gymnastics World Championships here over an action-packed last 10 days.

It is worth all the trouble. Time is valuable.  We have to spend it wisely and focus on the things that really matter.

It is doubtless not the smartest move to begin a column you hope one or two people might actually read in the style of an IQ test or a maths exam.

Publicity shots for the current ITV sporting challenge programme, Eternal Glory, feature all the competitors posing on a shoreline in bespoke garb, each themed on a different colour.

The Taekwondo Humanitarian Foundation (THF) has well and truly been given the green light.

Olympic champion Lennox Lewis had a word for it: “Politricks”.

One of the things which makes sport so exciting is its unpredictability.

Imagine this scenario. The English Premier League team you support are playing in a crucial match, which could decide the outcome of that season’s title, and are awarded a dramatic last-minute penalty.

When Germany’s Markus Rehm leapt to gold in the men’s T44 long jump at the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Athletics World Championships in Doha yesterday, he was also leaping into the midst of another debate about whether Paralympians could and perhaps should be competing at the Olympics.

So Argentina have made it to their second Rugby World Cup semi-final.

This week’s news that the Orbit Tower in the London 2012 Olympic Park has made a loss of more than half a million pounds for the last financial year has given Len Duvall, a Labour member of the London Assembly, a sporting chance to make his opinion clear about the project that was commissioned in 2008 soon after the election of the Conservatives’ very own Boris Johnson as Mayor of London.

One hundred years ago, newspapers reported the death at 67 of the first great sporting superstar.

I was watching a TV re-run of the Thrilla in Manila in the compelling "A Fight to Remember" series on BoxNation this week and as the 14th round, three minutes of unremitting savagery, reached its bloody, bone-juddering conclusion, with a half-blinded Joe Frazier led back to his corner by referee Carlos Padilla, a friend asked: ”Was it because of this that they cut World Championship fights to 12 rounds?”