Europe

Amaury Sport Organisation, which stages a number of leading cycling races including the Tour de France, has threatened to pull its events from the International Cycling Union (UCI) calendar due to a lack of progress in the governing body’s reform drive, according to Reuters.

The London Legacy Development Corporation (LLDC) today (Friday) confirmed that the total cost of building and renovating the 2012 Olympic Stadium in London has surpassed £700m (€981m/$1.11bn).

Euroleague Basketball and Chinese media and entertainment group HBN have formed a new company to manage the rights of the pan-European club competition in China.

Ukraine’s Youth and Sports Minister, Ihor Zhdanov, has said the country will not take up its option of hosting the 2017 EuroBasket national team basketball competition due to a lack of funding and the ongoing military turbulence in the east of the nation.

The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) will launch a new women’s cricket tournament next year in a move that abandons its traditional county structure.

A Spanish judge has asked some of Europe’s biggest football clubs to hand over details of offers they submitted to buy Neymar before the striker joined Barcelona in 2013 after he accepted a complaint filed by Brazilian investment fund DIS that alleges that it was the victim of fraud in relation to the transfer of the striker from Santos.

Formula One chief executive Bernie Ecclestone has said he is considering the prospect of a race-sharing deal between Imola and Monza in a bid to secure the future of the motor racing series’ Italian Grand Prix.

The European Professional Club Rugby (EPCR) body has announced that the 2016 finals of its European Rugby Cup and Champions Challenge Cup club rugby union tournaments will take place in the French city of Lyon before Scotland hosts the showpiece matches in 2017.

Former Barcelona president Joan Laporta will run in next month’s election in a bid to regain his role with the Spanish Liga and European champion.

Martin Baumann, the chief executive of the Champions Hockey League (CHL), has hailed an “excellent financial result” for the first year of the European club ice hockey competition, despite suffering from adverse exchange rates.

The Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) is close to securing a deal for its World Tour Finals end-of-season event to remain in London for at least three more years, according to UK newspaper The Telegraph.

The English city of Manchester will stage the 2016 World Rugby U20 Championship, rugby union’s global governing body announced today (Tuesday).

English Premier League champion Chelsea could be forced into playing its home games away from Stamford Bridge for at least two years if its long-running bid to redevelop its stadium to a 60,000 capacity is given the green light.

European Athletics president Svein Arne Hansen’s reform plans for the governing body have been boosted with the approval of a major restructuring of the organisation’s commissions.

The Race of Champions is set to return to London this year with Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park announced as the venue for the 2015 edition of the motorsport event.