Europe

The UK government has rejected a request from supporters’ groups of eight football clubs who had called for an inquiry into the controversial decision to grant West Ham United anchor-tenant status at London’s Olympic Stadium.

Spanish Liga football club Real Madrid has further consolidated its position as the financial powerhouse of world sport by revealing revenue and profit increases for its 2014-15 fiscal year.

Four of the leading women’s golf tours have collaborated to launch the Queens, a new team competition that will make its debut this December in Japan.

Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko has returned to the role of president of the Russian Football Union (RFU) with an immediate remit of addressing the precarious financial position the organisation finds itself in.

The Ladies European Tour (LET) has announced that Scotland and Sweden will battle it out for the right to host the 2019 edition of golf’s Solheim Cup.

Premier League clubs spent a record £870m (€1.2bn/$1.3bn) during the summer transfer window, taking spending in English football’s top flight beyond £1bn for the first time in a calendar year.

The X Games action sports franchise is to return to Europe after organiser, US sports broadcaster ESPN, finalised a deal with Norwegian commercial and pay-television broadcaster TV2 to stage an event in Oslo.

English Premiership rugby union team Harlequins has agreed a strategic partnership with the USA Rugby national governing body.

Uefa president Michel Platini has said his current term in office will be his final one, should he fail to be elected as head of world football’s governing body next year.

The European Tour and Asian Tour will merge into a single golf entity under their new partnership, according to the latter organisation’s chief executive, Mike Kerr.

Plans have been revealed to revive motorsport’s Silk Way Rally and transform it into a major event running from Moscow to Beijing, with the Chinese and Russian governments, along with Russia’s state-owned energy giant Gazprom, backing the project.

After adidas prised Houston Rockets star, James Harden, away from Nike for $200m last month, we look at whether it was enough to give the German giant the upper hand in its age-old rivalry with the Americans.

Top-level motorsport could be set to return to Switzerland with a plan being formed to stage a round of the Formula E electric auto racing championship in Lugano.

The Champions Hockey League (CHL) is to lose one of its founding fathers after the European club ice hockey competition confirmed that Szymon Szemberg has opted to step down as its chief operating officer.

Elisha Chauhan travelled to Kazan to watch the biggest ever Fina World Championships, but in a time of cost-cutting and efficiency why is the aquatics showpiece growing in size?