Europe

The International Paralympic Committee has announced that London’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park will host this year’s IPC Athletics Grand Prix Final on July 26.

The International Cycling Union (UCI) has today (Friday) requested that the WorldTour licence of the Astana Pro Team, home of reigning Tour de France champion Vincenzo Nibali, be withdrawn amid anti-doping infringements surrounding the squad.

The 2014 winter Olympic Games in Sochi generated an operating profit of R3.25bn (€47m/$53m), it was announced yesterday (Thursday) on the first day of an International Olympic Committee executive board meeting in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

English rugby union clubs in the country’s top-tier Premiership will propose an expanded competition for the start of the 2016-17 season without promotion or relegation, according to the Telegraph.

The Hungarian city of Debrecen will host its first world-level basketball event after being awarded the 2015 3x3 U18 World Championships by the International Basketball Federation (Fiba).

SportAccord Convention has announced that PwC will be a gold partner for this year’s World Sport & Business Summit in Sochi, Russia.

Fifa has hit back at the grievances of European football stakeholders regarding the proposed staging of the 2022 World Cup in November-December, with secretary general Jerome Valcke maintaining that European clubs will not be compensated for the disruption the move will cause to their seasons.

English cricket stakeholders are discussing the possibility of wide-ranging changes for the game at domestic and international level, including shortening the length of the Test match and one-day international (ODI) formats.

Sir Craig Reedie, IOC (International Olympic Committee) Vice-President and President of WADA (World Anti-Doping Agency), writes exclusively for SportBusiness International about underwhelming Olympic bid races and the war on drugs in Russia

The Australian Football League (AFL) is keen to expand its International Rules venture with the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) to New York, with a trial game potentially taking place in the US city later this year.

The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has confirmed the election of Colin Graves as its next chairman.

Roger Lewis is to leave his post as group chief executive of the Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) after this year’s edition of the Rugby World Cup national team tournament.

The sponsorship alliance between football and foreign exchange (forex) trading companies is becoming a permanent fixture. Owen Evans looks at why. 

The German municipality of Oberstdorf has signalled its intention to make up for the disappointment of missing out on the 2019 Nordic Ski World Championships by entering a bid for the 2021 event.

Barcelona has held off the challenge of Lima to be awarded the inaugural edition of the World Roller Games, which will be held in 2017.

The 2015 European Judo Championships will be staged in Baku as part of the inaugural European Games multi-sport event after Glasgow was stripped of the hosting rights last week.