Russia

The ICC executive board meet in Kuala Lumpar, the International Powerboat Union UIM hold their general assembly in Monaco, and the IAAF have their annual calendar conference in Moscow. Find out what else lies ahead in our guide to the week ahead.

Sportbusiness.com will be reporting from Moscow this morning, giving you up-to-the-minute news on the decision as to who will replace Juan Antonio Samaranch as the next president of the International Olympic Committee.

The following are pen pictures of the five candidates seeking to take over from Juan Antonio Samaranch when he retires after 21 years as president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Monday.

Juan Antonio Samaranch just could not ride off quietly into his Olympic sunset.

Outgoing president Juan Antonio Samaranch pulled strings for Belgian Jacques Rogge to win Monday's IOC presidential election, a losing South Korean candidate has claimed.

Newly-elected International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Jacques Rogge has renewed his call to defeated rival Dick Pound to stay on as both the Games' marketing chief and a key figure in the fight against doping.

Former IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch has been taken to hospital in Lausanne suffering from "extreme tiredness", the International Olympic Committee has confirmed to sportbusiness.com.

Ninety percent of the population of Beijing tuned into the broadcast of the Olympic vote on the host city for the 2008 Games which saw the Chinese capital emerge victorious.

Beijing seems to be cruising towards victory in the race to stage the 2008 Olympic Games, despite human rights demonstrations on the IOC’s doorstep and Chinese stadiums that currently exist only as computer graphics.

Juan Antonio Samaranch is to be made life honorary president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and will have the Olympic Museum named after him.

Beijing officials defended China's human rights record on Wednesday but conceded it faced a challenge persuading world opinion that the Chinese capital should stage the 2008 Olympic Games.

BRAND Dick Pound, the Canadian lawyer who has negotiated the marketing and television deals which have made billions for the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in recent years, now wants the top job - the presidency.

Former Olympic rower Anita DeFrantz gets prickly when people suggest she is an outsider in the race to replace Juan Antonio Samaranch as International Olympic Committee (IOC) president.

Dick Pound, the Canadian lawyer who has negotiated the marketing and television deals which have made billions for the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in recent years, now wants the top job - the presidency.

Osaka Olympic bid organisers stressed the quality of the Japanese city's venues and a government pledge of unqualified financial backing in its final submission to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Friday.

Three days before he steps down after 21 years as IOC president, Juan Antonio Samaranch was made honorary life president of the organization.