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New International Tennis Federation (ITF) president David Haggerty has unveiled plans to revamp the Davis Cup and Fed Cup national team tournaments, including the proposal to introduce a ‘Final Four’ concept to the men’s and women’s events.

Michel Platini has confirmed that his bid to become the next president of football’s world governing body Fifa has been scrapped.

Video replays could be used in professional football from as early as next season after the International Football Association Board (IFAB) strongly recommended that technology be introduced to assist referees during games.

The Ethics Commission of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) has today (Thursday) banned three senior officials for life and issued a five-year suspension to the governing body’s former anti-doping chief.

The Formula E electric auto racing championship is targeting a race in the Middle East for its third season, as it continues a gradual expansion plan.

A team of Interpublic agencies, led by McCann London and comprising Octagon and UM, has been appointed to grow the brand of the Wimbledon tennis grand slam in key markets worldwide.

The International Federation of Poker (IFP) has appointed US investment bankers Turnstone Securities to lead a funding drive to develop and expand its digital, non-gambling, team-based Match Poker variant of the game.

US sportswear giant Nike has pledged $13.5m (€12.5m) towards the redevelopment of track and field facilities at the University of Oregon, part of an upgrade for the venue’s hosting of the International Association of Athletics Federations’ (IAAF) 2021 World Championships.

US sportswear and equipment manufacturer New Balance has launched a new digital sport division in an effort to help connect consumers with the technology they desire to improve their athletic performance.

Sebastian Coe, the president of the International Association of Athletics Federations, has outlined a 10-point roadmap to restore trust in the sport and its governing body.

Fifa secretary general Jerome Valcke has hit back at the recommended nine-year ban put forward by the Ethics Committee of world football’s governing body, as its adjudicatory chamber today (Wednesday) elected to grant a 45-day extension to the French official’s suspension.

Suspended Fifa secretary general Jérôme Valcke is facing a nine-year ban after the investigatory chamber of the Ethics Committee of football’s global governing body today (Tuesday) laid out its recommendations concerning an alleged World Cup ticket scandal.

International Cricket Council (ICC) chief executive David Richardson has said the global governing body will make the establishment of a formal competition for the Test format one of its main priorities this year.

Kevin Roberts looks at the runners and riders in the Fifa presidential race ahead of next February’s election.

The World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) has said the second part of the explosive Independent Commission report into allegations of systematic doping, corruption and bribery at the highest levels of international athletics will be released on January 14.

Fifa has unveiled the reforms that football’s global governing body will ask its members to adopt at a special congress in February 2016.