Dark as is the cloud of the pandemic, there have been silver linings in the world of sport - not least for the Museum of World Athletics (MOWA) that launched today.

Today we are celebrating 500 days to go until Birmingham 2022, and we’re using this milestone to announce that, thanks to a partnership with Severn Trent, Birmingham 2022 will be the first-ever carbon-neutral Commonwealth Games.

I could not sit through every moment of last week’s three-day videoconferenced 137^th International Olympic Committee (IOC) Session.

To mark my last day at insidethegames, I wrote down every trip I embarked on during my two-and-a-half years with the company.

This week in Lausanne, Thomas Bach marked his re-election for a final, four-year term as International Olympic Committee (IOC) President by suggesting the addition of the word "Together" to the Olympic motto.

The International Volleyball Federation has just announced its 2021 calendar, which includes a new multi-tournament event - the Cancun Hub - designed to enable players to seek Tokyo 2020 ranking points in conditions minimising travel risks during the pandemic.

These days billionaires from the former Soviet Union are ten a penny, so to speak, but few of them have invested their spare change in sporting ventures, unlike Roman Abramovich, whose vast fortune has underpinned Chelsea’s fortunes these past 18 years.

In 2013, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) elected Thomas Bach, an Olympic fencing gold medallist at the Montreal Olympic Games in 1976, as its ninth President. This outcome was not surprising on either a personal or organisational basis. 

Commonwealth Day is a very special day for our Movement. It is an annual celebration observed by people all over the Commonwealth, held on the second Monday in March.

The latest meeting for the International Football Association Board (IFAB) was held earlier this week, with the tinkermen announcing the latest changes to solve the issues created by their last amendments to the game's rules.

The guiding light for the newly formed Biathlon Integrity Unit (BIU) is to build confidence and trust in a clean biathlon, a better biathlon than we had witnessed in recent years. 

Inger Frith was never world or Olympic champion but 60 years ago she broke new ground as President of World Archery, then known by the French name Federation Internationale de Tir a L’Arc (FITA).

“We can change the world and make it a better place. It is in your hands to make a difference”

- Nelson Mandela

Barring another downwards spiral in world affairs, I would be surprised if any major winter sports nation proceeds with a full-scale boycott of Beijing 2022.