Bulgarian weightlifter Angel Genchev was winner of the Olympic gold medal in the lightweight division at Seoul 1988 before he tested positive for a banned diuretic and stripped of the title, In 1992 he was sent to prison for two years after being convicted of rape. But he was released early so he could represent his country at the World Championships in 1994, where he won a bronze medal.  He was sent to prison again in 2001 after he shot at a taxi driver. 

Four-time Olympic champion Simone Biles has became the latest American gymnast to allege she was sexually assaulted by former USA Gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar.

Australian sports official Kevan Gosper has vowed to urge the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to introduce an extreme heat policy at the Olympic Games and other sporting events.

Former England cricket captain Mike Gatting has never been one to shy away from a debate.

Seoul today played host to the first of a four-day Torch Relay for the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympic Games.

Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games Minister Shunichi Suzuki has visited Rio 2016 venues and facilities due to be used at this year's Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires as part of a visit to South America.

Former Sri Lankan cricketer Kumar Sangakkara has admitted it is unlikely the sport will feature at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris but claimed Los Angeles 2028 remains as a likely target for inclusion.

A Main Press Centre (MPC) due to house almost 3,000 accredited media during Pyeongchang 2018 has officially opened today with exactly one month to go until the Opening Ceremony.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) have said they will continue talks over North Korean involvement at Pyeongchang 2018 at "very short notice".

Cricket's potential attempt to be added to the Olympic programme for either Paris 2024 or Los Angeles 2028 is reportedly due to be discussed at a meeting of the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) starting tomorrow in Sydney.

American Kurt Angle won the Olympic gold medal in the men's freestyle wrestling heavyweight division at Atlanta 1996 despite suffering a fractured neck. After the Games, Angle went on to star in World Wrestling Entertainment and won the WWE Championship belt four times  and World Heavyweight Championship title one. He remains the only professional wrestler to have won an Olympic gold medal. 

The official theme music of the 1996 Olympic in Atlanta was Summon the Heroes by John Williams, his third composition at a Games following Olympic Fanfare and Theme at Los Angeles 1984 and The Olympic Spirit at Seoul 1988. The official song, however, of Atlanta 1996 was Reach, sung by Gloria Estefan at the Closing Ceremony. 

At the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm, Sweden's Anders Ahlgren fought Finland's Ivor Böhling in the final of the wrestling light heavyweight class. The pair wrested for nine hours without a winner emerging and the officials declared the match a tie. Neither of the two was awarded a gold medal, both receiving silver medals instead. 

In February 2006, it was announced that curling at the very first Winter Olympic Games at Chamonix in 1924 was part of the official programme and not a demonstration event as many authoritative sources had previously claimed. This official confirmation by the International Olympic Committee was the culmination of an investigative campaign begun by the Glasgow-based newspaper The Herald, on behalf of the families of the eight Scots who won the first curling gold medals. The winning team was selected by the Royal Caledonian Curling Club in Perth, the mother club of curling.

The Professional Squash Association (PSA) and World Squash Federation (WSF) have appointed Weber Shandwick as a communications campaign partner to provide strategic counsel and global public relations to support the bid for squash to be included on the Olympic programme for Paris 2024.