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Organisers of the City Events conference have postponed this week’s international meeting to next spring in the wake of the multiple attacks in Paris on Friday evening.

International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach has warned that Russian athletes will only be allowed to compete at the Rio 2016 summer Olympic Games if the Russian Athletics Federation (Araf) becomes fully compliant with anti-doping rules.

Uefa Euro 2016 organising committee president Jacques Lambert has pledged that France will not be forced to cancel its staging of the national team football tournament in the wake of the attacks in Paris, while International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach said the capital’s bid for the 2024 Olympic Games will not be affected by the events that unfolded on Friday evening.

Powerful Spanish Football Association (RFEF) president Ángel María Villar Llona was today (Friday) fined and warned by the adjudicatory chamber of the Fifa Ethics Committee for misconduct during the bid investigation surrounding the award of hosting rights for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups.

Major League Baseball (MLB) has said its hopes to stage regular-season games in Europe and Mexico in the next five years, while the league has become the first pro-sports competition in North America to partner with integrity solutions provider Sport Integrity Monitor (SportIM).

The ATP World Tour Finals, the season-ending tournament on the top men’s professional tennis tour, will remain in London until at least 2018 under a new three-year deal, it has been announced.

Russian sports officials have ruled out boycotting the 2016 Olympic Games and have said the country is planning to admit to some of the charges flagged up in the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) Independent Commission’s report into doping in athletics.

Multi-territory commercial and pay-television broadcaster Modern Times Group (MTG) has continued its investment in the eSports market by acquiring DreamHack, Scandinavia’s leading eSports company.

Rome and Los Angeles have both moved to strengthen their bid teams for the 2024 Olympic Games.

The Football League, which operates the three club divisions below the English Premier League, is to be re-named the English Football League (EFL) as part of a wider corporate and competition re-brand.

Vladimir Putin, the President of Russia, has insisted that the country must carry out its own investigation into allegations of widespread doping amongst its athletes.

Paris has seen off competition from Gothenburg and Las Vegas to land the International Equestrian Federation’s (FEI) 2018 World Cup jumping and dressage finals, while the federation has signalled its intention to maintain its long-running legal battle with organisers of the Global Champions League (GCL) competition.

Euroleague Basketball has signed a 10-season deal with the IMG Events & Media agency to establish a new joint-venture to operate relaunched European club competitions from the start of the 2016-17 season.

The International Olympic Committee has suspended former International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) president Lamine Diack as an honorary member and has said it is ready to strip medals from any Russian athletes found guilty of doping, however IOC president Thomas Bach believes the country will still be represented at next year’s Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.

Spanish LaLiga football club Rayo Vallecano has formed a new affiliate team, which will compete in the North American Soccer League (NASL).

The World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) has suspended the accreditation of the Moscow Antidoping Center, with Russian President Vladimir Putin set to meet with Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko tomorrow (Wednesday) amid the doping crisis surrounding Russian sport.