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The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is faced with the prospect of the bid race for the 2024 summer Olympic and Paralympic Games being reduced to two contenders after a threshold was met to stage a referendum on Budapest’s bid.

US President Donald Trump has offered his full backing to Los Angeles’ bid to host the 2024 summer Olympic and Paralympic Games but has admitted he is unsure whether his stance on immigration will have a negative effect on the project.

The teams behind Budapest, Los Angeles and Paris’ bids for the 2024 summer Olympic Games are now allowed to promote their projects outside their national boundaries after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) confirmed the start of the final phase of the candidature process.

Andy Fry looks at Alibaba's TOP partnership deal with the IOC and what it means for the Olympic Movement.

Budapest 2024 has today (Thursday) hailed a “magnificent endorsement” of its plans to host the 2024 summer Olympic and Paralympic Games as the city assembly gave its backing for the final candidature submission for the bid.

Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt has been stripped of one of his nine Olympic gold medals after teammate Nesta Carter tested positive for a banned substance in a re-analysis of samples from the 2008 summer Games in Beijing, China.

The bidding procedure for the Olympic Games is once again coming under the spotlight. Mark Bisson gauges the mood for further changes to the process.

Rene Fasel, president of the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF), has said that he expects North America’s National Hockey League (NHL) to make a decision as to whether to allow its players to compete at the 2018 winter Olympic Games by the end of the month.

The world of sport today (Friday) reacted to the latest findings from the second and final part of an independent commission report, led by Canadian law professor Richard McLaren, into Russian doping with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) stating they demonstrate a “fundamental attack” on the integrity of the Olympic Games and on sport in general.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) today (Thursday) cleared the three remaining candidate cities for the 2024 summer Olympic and Paralympic Games to progress to the final stage of the bidding process, as president Thomas Bach called for reform of the system to avoid creating too many “losers”.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has today (Wednesday) elected to extend the provisional sanctions imposed on Russia in July amid the allegations of widespread doping in sport in the country.

Brexit and the election of Donald Trump suggest a world that is rejecting globalisation. But sport can provide a counterbalance and an antidote to an an increasingly inward looking planet, says Kevin Roberts.

Technology may be shaping the future of sport but SnapRapid CEO Russell Glenister thinks there is a deeply ingrained conservatism towards tech start-ups in European sports organisations.

Tokyo 2020 has laid out the proposed venues for the five new sports on the programme for its summer Olympic Games, as the International Olympic Committee (IOC) today (Friday) repeated its mantra that the current proposed budget for the event is not acceptable.

Toshiro Muto, chief executive of the organising committee for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games, has today (Wednesday) pledged to keep the total costs of hosting the sporting spectacle below Y2tr (€16.6bn/$17.6bn).

The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) today (Monday) outlined the reinstatement criteria the Russian Paralympic Committee (RPC) must meet in order to have its suspension lifted, as three Russian athletes were among seven stripped of their medals from the 2012 Olympic Games following retests of their doping samples.