It is fair to say that 2016 has not been a vintage year for sports administrators. Too old, too stuck in the past and too out of touch with the needs and desires of the modern world are among common gripes. And, for all their powerful rhetoric about youth and innovation shown through gestures like adding skateboarding and surfing to the Tokyo 2020 programme, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) have been tarred with the same brush.

Organisers of the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo have unveiled a budget of between ¥1.6 trillion (£11 billion/$13.6 billion/€13.1 billion) and ¥1.8 trillion (£12.4 billion/$15.3 billion/€14.7 billion).

Kanakuri Shizō, a Japanese marathon runner, went missing during the race at the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm. He stopped at a party taking place in a villa on the marathon route in order to quench his thirst, then caught a train to the Swedish capital and left the country the next day. He returned to Japan without notifying race officials. But 50 years later, after being invited back by the Swedish authorities, he completed the race with an unofficial time of 54 years, 8 months, 6 days, 8 hours, 32 minutes and 20.3 seconds. Portugal's Francisco Lázaro died from heat exhaustion during, the only athlete to die during the running of an Olympic marathon.

Britain's Nicola Adams and Uzbekistan's Hasanboy Dusmatov were voted the International Boxing Association (AIBA) boxers of the year at the Miles Davis Hall in Montreux tonight. 

German Athletics Federation (DLV) President Clemens Prokop has criticised the arguments of compatriot Thomas Bach, while calling for the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) to be suspended until the country's doping problems are resolved.

New York-based bank Citi has confirmed it will not be renewing its sponsorship of the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) next year. 

Sata Maruyama, a member of the Japanese women's volleyball team that won the Olympic gold medal at Tokyo 1964, has died.

One of the highlights of the Opening Ceremony of the 2012 Olympics in London was the sketch featuring the Queen and James Bond. In the full clip, Bond - played by British actor Daniel Craig - is greeted by Her Royal Highness and her corgis at Buckingham Palace. Secret agent 007 whisks the Queen off into a helicopter flying over the capital to East London before the daredevils parachute out of the helicopter into the Olympic Stadium. Mark Sutton, the stuntman who parachuted into the Stadium dressed as Bond, died the following year in a wingsuit flying accident in Switzerland. He had been travelling at around 125 miles per hour when he hit a ridge. 

International Boxing Association (AIBA) President C K Wu today received the backing of the world governing body's Executive Committee following allegations that several million dollars is missing from its accounts.

The top 16 ranked nations in men’s and women’s hockey have been invited to submit an application to enter the brand-new global home and away league, due to launch in January 2019.

Tokyo 2020 will form a "transparent" external selection panel to decide on the process for choosing mascots for the Olympic and Paralympic Games in a bid to avoid the controversy surrounding their logo, it has been announced.

Representatives of the new sports on the programme for Tokyo 2020 are set to become members of the National Olympic Committee of Ukraine (NOCU) after the issue was discussed during the organisation’s General Assembly.

Patrick Hickey has reiterated that he will do "everything possible" to clear his name in a statement confirming his return to Ireland in order to receive medical treatment.

Kate Palmer has become the first woman for 31 years to be appointed as chief executive of the Australian Sports Commission (ASC) after she was chosen as the replacement for Simon Hollingsworth.

Tokyo 2020 have claimed hosting the Olympic and Paralympic Games will cost between ¥1.6 trillion (£10.8 billion/$13.6 billion/€13 billion) and ¥1.8 trillion (£12.2 billion/$15.2 billion/€14.6 billion), according to reports in Japan.