Sepp Blatter is to miss next week’s 128th International Olympic Committee (IOC) Session in Kuala Lumpur.

With just 10 days left to go, the Host City race for the 2022 Winter Olympic Games is shaping up to be one of the most exciting and important in recent decades. Dramatic changes that have unfolded within the Olympic Movement since the beginning of the bidding process have had major implications on the race, and look to be a major factor in determining which city emerges victorious in Kuala Lumpur on July 31.

Rome Mayor Ignazio Marino today vowed not to build “cathedrals in the desert”, as a delegation from the Italian capital visited Lausanne to discuss its plans for the 2024 Olympics and Paralympics with the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

A representative of the Italian Government will join a high-powered delegation from the Rome 2024 Olympic and Paralympic bid in Lausanne tomorrow, as the bid makes its first technical presentation to the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has already generated as much from the sale of broadcasting rights for Games in the next Olympic quadrennium, from 2017 to 2020, as the $4.1 billion (£2.6 billion/€3.7 billion) sum it will receive from this, the Movement’s largest revenue source during the present Olympic cycle culminating with Rio 2016.

When I saw the headline of an article in CBC News last week, entitled: “Pan Am Games could boost a Toronto Olympic bid, IOC President says”, I half-chuckled to myself. With the exception of India, Thomas Bach has spoken positively about every single city of which a theoretical Olympic bid at some point is muted, and as well he might because it is his mission to generate as much interest as possible.

Oceania National Olympic Committees (ONOC) Women in Sport Commission chairwoman Helen Brownlee praised the women currently in leading positions in the region and called for unity among its members at a special breakfast held here today.

A highly emotional Thomas Bach paid his first visit back to the arena in which he won his Olympic team foil fencing gold medal 39 years ago today, fighting off tears as he paid tribute to a former team mate.

The International Sport Cooperation Centre of Korea (ISC) have hosted an education programme for student athletes taking part in the Gwangju 2015 Summer Universiade, under the theme “Champion’s Branding”.

Budapest's bid to host the 2024 Summer Olympics and Paralympics has been officially launched after a letter of intent was submitted to the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

Cuban International Olympic Committee (IOC) member Reynaldo González López has died in Mexico City aged 66.

Trinidad and Tobago’s 4x100 metres relay team have officially had their London 2012 bronze medal upgraded to silver following American sprinter Tyson Gay’s one-year ban for testing positive for anabolic steroids.

Unclear finance models and "rather high" levels of investment in additional venues forming part of Brașov's 2020 Winter Youth Olympic Games bid were the main concerns highlighted in the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Evaluation Report released today.

Eurosport will broadcast the Olympic Games across Europe as part of a deal starting in 2018 to cover two Olympic cycles following an agreement signed between the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and Discovery Communications, the parent company of the pan-European television sports network

Opposition group No Boston Olympics have appealed for members of the public to pledge funds to their campaign in order to enhance their resources in their battle to keep the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games away from the United city.