As it happens, on this day in 1968, Wyomia Tyus of the United States equalled her own world record for the 100 yards with 10.3sec.

Last Friday (May 29), National Hockey League star Evander Kane called on athletes to speak out against racism following the tragic death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. "We need so many more athletes that don’t look like me speaking out about this, having the same amount of outrage that I have inside, and using that to voice their opinion, to voice their frustration. Because that’s the only way it’s going to change," Kane said on ESPN’s First Take.

Colin Kaepernick last played in the National Football League (NFL) at the end of the 2016 season. After leaving the San Francisco 49ers, he became a free agent but has since remained unsigned. 

The Court of Arbitration for Sport has announced the Russian appeal against the sanctions imposed by the World Anti Doping Agency (WADA) will begin on November 2. If this hearing goes ahead it will go a long way to establishing who can take part if the Olympics open as planned on July 23 2021.

After what feels like an eternity, Russia finally has its date in court in its protracted battle with the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).

It looked likely to be the biggest story of the week in Olympic sport when insidethegames reported, on New Year’s Day, that two Egyptian coaches had been sent to jail during a Government inquiry into widespread doping and fraud.

Publication of my cricket buddy Adam Rutherford's new book – How to Argue with a Racist – could hardly have been better timed.

The wonderfully evocative Big Read by my insidethegames colleague David Owen on the 1970 FIFA World Cup in Mexico, which began exactly 50 years ago this week, brought personal memories of that fabulous tournament flooding back.

If the rescheduled Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics do take place next summer it will mean, one would fervently hope, that the COVID-19 pandemic has been controlled, if not eradicated. And if so, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) needs to gird itself.

The proverb that necessity is the mother of invention springs to mind as several major competitions attempt to adapt to the coronavirus pandemic enabling them to finish their respective seasons.

For most of us, these are strange and difficult times as we are limited in social interaction and outdoor activity. I’ve spent my entire life outdoors, near or in the ocean - so I’ve found myself daydreaming about the day I can return to the waves that I love. 

A steady stream of press releases from governing bodies in recent weeks has reinforced the view that sport returning to anywhere near normality is a distant proposition.

Forty years ago this week, the deadline for entries to the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games officially closed.

Deteriorating relations between the West and the next Winter Olympic host China; a renewed call for a referendum on Paris 2024; the placing on hold of Queensland's bid for the 2032 Games.