Britain's three-time Olympic rowing champion Peter Reed has set his sights on competing at Tokyo 2020 after returning to official training.

Olympic decathlon champion Ashton Eaton and wife Brianne Theisen-Eaton, who won a bronze medal in the heptathlon at Rio 2016, have both announced their retirements from athletics today.

Mark Cavendish and Tim Kneale feature in a new set of Olympic stamps issued by the Isle of Man Post Office.

Judo in Bangladesh has been given a boost after the All Japan Judo Federation (AJJF) donated 141 mats to aid the development of the sport in the nation.

The Turkish Volleyball Federation has appointed Macedonia’s Josko Milenkoski and Italy’s Giovanni Guidetti as the coaches of their respective men’s and women’s teams on four-year contracts.

Olympic marathon silver medallist Feyisa Lilesa of Ethiopia remains hopeful he will compete for his country again after he made an anti-Government gesture when crossing the line at Rio 2016. 

Four-time Paralympic medallist Kadeena Cox has had her UK Sport funding suspended by British Athletics while she participates in Channel 4’s winter sport series The Jump due to the safety risks involved.

When table tennis made its debut in the Olympics at Seoul in 1988 the men's competition was notable for the fact that none of the top five seeded players made it to the semi-finals. Among those defeated in the quarter-finals was two-time world champion Jiang Jialiang, one of China's biggest sports stars at the time, who was defeated in four games by tenth-ranked Erik Lindh from Sweden. The shock defeats for the top players meant that the final was an all-South Korean affair between Yoo Nam-Kyu and Kim Ki-Taik. Yoo triumphed in four games. Lindh, meanwhile, won the bronze medal. Yoo also won a bronze medal at Seoul 1988 in the men's doubles. Four years later he won the bronze medal in the men's doubles together with Kim and at Atlanta 1996 he claimed another bronze medal in the men's doubles, this time together with Lee Chul-seung.

World Rugby chairman Bill Beaumont has hailed 2016 as a "special, memorable and successful year" and believes the governing body can continue to fend off the threats which have plagued other sports in 2017.

Results of the retesting process of samples given by Russian athletes at the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi could be available in "one to two months", International Olympic Committee (IOC) member Gerhard Heiberg has claimed.

Thomas Bach's under-reported New Year’s message contains a remarkable statement.

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has promised to hold officials to account following alleged mismanagement of the Kenyan team at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.

Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC) President Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah has admitted the integrity of the Olympic Games was "threatened" during 2016 but claimed there is "no doubt we will finish 2017 in a stronger position than we have begun it".

The 1908 Olympics were due to be held in Rome, but the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 1906 left Italy needing to divert resources into disaster relief and rebuilding. With time running out, the International Olympic Committee asked Britain to step in as host. That gave London less than two years to prepare. But with Lord Desborough, the British Olympic Association's chairman, to the fore, and the support of King Edward VII, the challenge was accepted. A Franco-Britannic Exhibition was to be held in West London in 1908, and Desborough signed a deal that meant, in return for a share of gate receipts, the exhibition organisers agreed to fund and build a 66,000-capacity stadium next to their site, and even donated £2,000 towards its running costs.