President Dmitry Medvedev is demanding changes within the Russian Olympic Committee following the nation's lowest ever medals haul at a Winter Games.

Medvedev has publicly called upon officials...

A report issued by the London Assembly on the work of the Olympic Park Legacy Company (OPLC)raises concerns over the legacy of the 2012 London Games for the local community.

The report offers a list...

The placement of the Olympic cauldron in the city of Vancouver has been subject of critisism since the beginning of the Games this weekend. The 10 meters high steel construction holding the flame is...

Katia Rubia, a Sao Paulo University professor in sport psycology and Olympic studies, was recently threatened with criminal prosecusion by the Brazilian Olympic Committee (BOC)and ordered to destroy...

The International Olympic Commission's Executive Commission has followed the advice of its Ethics Commission and agreed to suspend rather than expell the South Korean Lee Kun-Hee, former...

After Nan Yong, former executive vice president of the Chinese Football Association (CFA), was arrested in late January, the new Head of CFA, Wei Di promises to quit if corruption continues.

The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has banned Togo from the next two Africa Cup of Nations, following their withdrawal from this year's tournament. CAF also fined the Togalese football team...

The protection of professional cyclist's privacy rights has suffered another blow with the rejection of the appeal by Carlos Roman Golbano by a provincial court in Almería, Spain. Golbano had...

Nan Yong, the executive vice president of the Chinese Football Association (CFA) was discharged last week after a nationwide crackdown on gambling and match fixing carried out by the Chinese public...

The newly founded Coalition of Athletes for Inclusion in Sport has issued an alternative to the current IOC Gender Policy.

In addition to gender equity, the Coalition seeks a sport system that is...

A group representing survivors of Indian residential schools on Canada's west coast announced last week that it will hold civil disobedience actions and disruptions during the February 2010...

Iraq will not be competing in this year's AFC Cup.

The Asian Football Confederation has reluctantly decided to follow FIFA's ban on the Iraq FA.

The Iraq Football Association was banned...

2009 was the year when sport and law became more and more linked together. Acording to Dr. Jack Anderson at Queens University in Belfast law's influence on especially professional sport has been...

The International Olympic Committee has suspended the National Olympic Committee of Kuwait over government interference. The suspension was effective from January 1 2010.

The IOC had given Kuwait...

On a meeting last week with an independent scientific expert panel, the head of UCI anti-doping Department, Anne Gripper, met to discuss possible anti-doping rule violations under the biological...