The Barbados Olympic Association Inc. has planned a schedule of activities to celebrate Olympic Day on 23 June.
These activities will commence on 17 June and conclude on 21 June with a daily virtual community walk to promote healthy habits and a 2km and 5km run. Prizes will be awarded to participating National Federations.

The latest Para Table Tennis Rankings for April have confirmed the qualification of 109 athletes for the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games.

Vanessa Amorosi, whose song Absolutely Everybody became the unofficial anthem of the 2000 Olympics, wants to reprise her role when the Games return to Australia at Brisbane 2032, she has revealed.

Thirty years ago this week, Sydney was chosen as host city for the Olympic Games in 2000, the last Australian city before Brisbane to be selected to stage the biggest sporting event in the world.

Obadele Thompson, the only Barbadian to win an Olympic medal, has been elected on the Barbados Olympic Association (BOA) Board of Directors.

Mary de Bruyn, who umpired during the Sydney 2000 Olympics women’s softball gold-medal match is among the latest inductees into Softball Canada’s Hall of Fame.

Tributes have been paid to British world, European and Commonwealth swimming medallist Helen Smart who has died at the age of 42.

Australia’s dramatic penalty shootout victory over France in the FIFA Women’s World Cup quarter-finals has become the most viewed television sporting event in the country since Cathy Freeman’s iconic gold medal at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, new figures published today have revealed.

Double Olympic basketball gold medallist Nikki McCray-Penson has died at the age of 51, it has been announced by Rutgers University.

Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) chief executive Matt Carroll has challenged Brisbane 2032 organisers to "not miss our chance" and learn lessons from Sydney 2000 to ensure a true sporting legacy is left after the Olympics in nine years time.

Reports have emerged that the Queensland Government is considering changing the name of Brisbane back to the indigenous name Meanjin before the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games takes place in the city.

Mabo Ismaila, who managed Nigeria's women's football team at the Sydney 2000 and Athens 2004 Olympic Games, has died at the age of 80.

So it is to be farewell to the "Gabbatoir," bastion of Australia Test cricket for the last 90 years.

After four long years away, the World Cross Country Championships is finally back. Bathurst, a city in the Central Tablelands of New South Wales, and commonly referred to as the "Gold Country" as it was the site of the first gold discovery and where the first gold rush occurred in Australia, will finally get to stage an event it must have feared would never come.

Phil Coles, who played a leading role in Sydney’s successful bid to host the 2000 Olympic and Paralympic Games, has died at the age of 91.