Eastern Europe

The Hungarian Olympic Committee (MOB) has established a 31-member athletes commission that will seek to advise and promote Budapest’s bid for the 2024 summer Olympic Games.

The Hungarian government has submitted draft legislation to support a bid from the country’s capital city of Budapest to host the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, while rival bidder Los Angeles has strengthened its team with the appointment of Jim Ford as senior advisor for strategic partnerships.

The Ukrainian capital of Kiev and Belfast in Northern Ireland have been awarded hosting rights to the lower tier events connected to the International Ice Hockey Federation’s (IIHF) men's World Championship in 2017.

Kosovo has today (Tuesday) been accepted as a member of European football’s governing body Uefa, while Fifa has been ordered by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) to accept Gibraltar as a member – decisions which open the path to both nations being admitted to the qualifying process for the 2018 World Cup.

The Hungarian Grand Prix, one of the mainstays of the Formula One calendar, will remain at Budapest’s Hungaroring through to the 2026 season of the motor racing championship after its race contract was extended.

Ukraine’s Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk, which reached the final of the Uefa Europa League last season, is one of three clubs to have been banned from European competition by Uefa, football’s European governing body.

The Lagardère Sports agency has been commissioned by Budapest 2024 to lead an international consortium to advise the Hungarian capital on its bid to host the summer Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Organisers of the Champions Hockey League (CHL) have announced that the pan-European ice hockey competition is to expand in order to include a Polish team in the 2016-17 season.

The PwC Hungary division of professional services network PricewaterhouseCoopers has extended its association with Budapest 2024 after being selected to lead a consortium to deliver advisory services for the Hungarian capital’s bid for the Olympic Games.

The Polish city of Gdynia has seen off competition from two rival bids to land the 2019 Youth Sailing World Championships.

The Hungarian capital of Budapest has today (Tuesday) been confirmed as the host city of the 2019 individual World Table Tennis Championships.

The Hungarian capital of Budapest appears set to land hosting rights for the 2019 individual World Table Tennis Championships after it was confirmed as the only city to submit a bid.

The International Handball Federation (IHF) has named Denmark, Sweden and Poland as hosts of three tournaments to determine the final qualifiers for the men’s national team event at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.

Budapest’s city council today (Wednesday) approved the venue masterplan for the Hungarian capital’s bid for the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, as leaders again rejected efforts to stage a referendum on the bid.

A proposal for a referendum on whether or not the Hungarian capital of Budapest should proceed with its bid to stage the 2024 summer Olympic and Paralympic Games has been rejected by the country’s Supreme Court.

The International Basketball Federation (Fiba) has awarded hosting rights to Italy, Serbia and the Philippines for its three Olympic men’s qualifying tournaments, while France will stage the women’s event.