• Ring-fencing of Premiership expected from 2020-21 season• Premiership clubs do not want to expand beyond 12-team leagueDownsizing the European Champions Cup has been proposed as a way to protect player welfare if the Premiership is ring-fenced with m…
• IAAF president criticised for wilful ignorance by new report• ‘It stretches credibility to believe he was not aware of allegations’Sebastian Coe has today been accused of misleading a government inquiry about the extent to which he was aware of Russi…
• IAAF president says body’s tough stance on Russia will not soften• Russia has been banned from track and field since November 2015Sebastian Coe has promised that athletics will continue to play hardball with Russia despite the International Olympic C…
• IAAF president says body’s tough stance on Russia will not soften• Russia has been banned from track and field since November 2015Sebastian Coe has promised that athletics will continue to play hardball with Russia despite the International Olympic C…
Alexander Zhukov claims on state TV Russia’s rights are restoredRussians competed as neutral athletes at Winter OlympicsThe head of Russia’s Olympic Committee has claimed that the International Olympic Committee has reinstated his organisation’s member…
Russian scandal couldn’t overshadow spectacular sport and thawing relations between North and South KoreaMoments before the XXIII Winter Games ended amid a furious barrage of K-pop and firecrackers, the president of the International Olympic Committee,…
North and South Korea will play as a united team for the first time at the Winter OlympicsFor decades, the Olympics have shunned politics, hoping to keep the Games focused on sport rather than world affairs.But while this year’s women’s ice hockey team…
• Cas says there is ‘insufficient evidence’ to uphold suspensions• Aiba governance could threaten boxing place at 2020 OlympicsThomas Bach has confirmed the International Olympic Committee is contemplating an appeal against the Court of Arbitration for…
Russia was banned last year from the Winter Games because of its state-sponsored doping system but the IOC will still allow 169 of its athletes to compete in Pyeongchang this monthIt is a plotline worthy of Mikhail Bulgakov, or another of the great Sov…
Ruling by the court of arbitration for sport, overturning lifetime Olympic bans on 28 Russian athletes, leaves Olympic movement in state of chaos on the eve of Pyeongchang GamesA month before Rio 2016 a report authored by the Canadian lawyer Richard Mc…
• Athletes in badminton, archery, climbing and karate get funding• UK Sport has increased Olympic medal target for 2020 as a resultBadminton is one of four sports to benefit from increased National Lottery funding targeting potential medal-winning athl…
Prosecutors looking into racketeering, fraud and money launderingParticular interest in world athletics championshipsUS federal prosecutors are conducting an extensive investigation into global sports corruption, including at Fifa and the international…
Semenya and Chand will race at the Commonwealth Games in April but their fight for the right of hyperandrogenic athletes to compete is far from overIt’s been just under six months since Caster Semenya ran at the world championships, which makes it just…
The idea that Kim Jong-un’s heart has been melted because North Korea has been permitted to send a figure skating pair across the DMZ to compete in Pyeongchang next month feels a bit of a stretchFor an event that claims to exist in the rarefied air far…
The governing body’s willingness to let Vitaly Mutko, a man banned from the Olympics over state-sponsored doping, run next year’s World Cup shows how ethically compromised it remainsHow awkward it has been for Fifa and its president, Gianni Infantino, …
The whole project needs a rethink. Scrap all the flags: let athletes compete as citizens of the worldI have some sympathy for Vladimir Putin. For years, he was playing footsie with the International Olympic Committee (IOC). The IOC had surely known per…
• Vitaly Mutko, former sports minister and 2018 World Cup chief, banned for life • Some athletes will be able to compete at Pyeongchang 2018 under neutral flagThe Russian Olympic Committee has been banned from next year’s Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang…
No amount of evidence or condemnation has so far had the desired response from a committee which must now take action to avoid a farcical countdownThis time there is no justifiable room for doubt, nor reason to go wobbly. When the International Olympic…
• Idea to be discussed at Professional Game Board meeting on Wednesday• Plans would free up internationals to play more matches for their clubs Reducing the Premiership to 10 teams is one of a host of ideas being floated as a potential solution to the …
Gallic nation will put on a good show but the vote to award it rather than South Africa a second World Cup has all the hallmarks of naked self interestIt is worth keeping in mind on these occasions that rugby union usually strikes gold with its World C…
