The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) has charged Belarusian coach Yury Maisevich with acting without integrity and in bad faith after the defection of sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, but team official Artur Shumak faces no further action.

Zach LaVine, a member of the United States basketball team that won the Olympic gold medals at Tokyo 2020, has announced that he wants to play again at next year’s Games in Paris.

A rare second-place Olympic medal from the first modern Games at Athens in 1896, complete with its box, is one of the choice items in a huge lot of Olympic memorabilia being put up for sale by RR Auction  with the deadline falling on Thursday (January 19).

Cape Verdean Para sprinter Keula Semedo is set to marry her guide Manuel Vaz da Veiga in Lisbon in July, after the pair became engaged at the re-arranged Paralympic Games in Tokyo.

Early figures indicate that 1.5 billion people tuned in to watch the final of the FIFA World Cup in Qatar while the Olympic Games in Tokyo in 2020 was watched by more than three billion people worldwide. Sport has the ability to command a great deal of attention and the ability to bring people together.

Gaming giants Sega appear to have revealed that a new Olympic themed video game featuring Mario and Sonic is being developed for Paris 2024 after a new job vacancy in the company was advertised.

In another blow to Sapporo's dreams of hosting the 2030 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games, residents in the region have voiced their opposition in a fresh poll, as two-thirds of them are against the Hokkaido capital's bid.

Olympic champion Sam Bosworth has retired from rowing a year after leading New Zealand's men's eight to victory at Tokyo 2020.

Surely the irony has escaped no-one that Salt Lake City could be in line to host the Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games for a second time in 2030 following a bribery scandal.

Cross-country skier Alexander Bolshunov and figure skater Anna Shcherbakova have been named the Russian Olympic Committee's (ROC) best athletes at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics at a ceremony in Moscow.

The Japan Sports Agency (JSA) has delayed plans to privatise the National Stadium which was the main venue for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics - although it could still face annual public subsidies of around JPY 1 billion (£6.2 million/$7.5 million/€7.0 million).

The legacy of karate in Japan following the sport’s inclusion at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics has been celebrated at a tournament in Gotemba.

Former Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Organising Committee executive Haruyuki Takahashi has been granted bail, it has been reported.

Alexandra Patskevich, who won three Olympic golds in team synchronised swimming for her country, has presented a performance on the theme of sanctions against Russian sports.