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Patrick Hickey has temporarily stepped down as president of the European Olympic Committee and vice-president of the Association of National Olympic Committees after being arrested in Rio in connection with an investigation into ticket scalping at the Games.

European Olympic Committees (EOC) president Patrick Hickey, a member of the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) executive board, was today (Wednesday) arrested by Brazilian police in Rio de Janeiro as part of an investigation into alleged fraudulent ticket sales at the ongoing summer Olympic Games.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) ordered Russia yesterday (Tuesday) to return its gold medals from the 4x100m women’s relay athletics competition at the 2008 summer Beijing Olympic Games after Yulia Chermoshanskaya tested positive for banned substances in a re-analysis of her sample.

Joao Havelange, the divisive former president of world football’s governing body Fifa, has died today (Tuesday) at the age of 100.

Four more athletes have been retrospectively disqualified from previous editions of the summer Olympic Games after doping retests by the International Olympic Committee identified banned substances.

Carlos Nuzman, the head of Rio 2016, has insisted that “Rio will rise to the occasion” by overcoming the swathe of negative headlines that have clouded the build-up to the opening ceremony of the summer Olympic Games tonight (Friday).

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has today (Thursday) approved a series of measures to revamp the Youth Olympic Games (YOG) concept, including an overhaul of the bidding process for the event.

Decisions on the eligibility of Russian athletes for the upcoming summer Olympic Games were announced by a host of International Federations (IFs) today (Thursday).

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) today (Tuesday) received almost unanimous backing from its membership for its stance on the Russian doping scandal, with president Thomas Bach speaking out against the “nuclear option” of imposing a total ban on Russia at the forthcoming summer Games in Rio de Janeiro.

The World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) has defended the timing of the publication of Professor Richard McLaren’s report into doping in Russia.

Angela Ruggiero has been elected as the new chair of the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) Athletes’ Commission.

A two-year window of opportunity presented by hosting sport’s two biggest events in quick succession has turned into a damage limitation exercise for Brazil. SportBusiness International assesses the political and economic turmoil that has accompanied the build-up to this month’s Rio Olympics.

The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) has become the second International Federation (IF) to apply a blanket ban on Russian athletes competing at the forthcoming summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, as International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach sought to defend its decision not to exclude Russia’s entire team.

Kevin Roberts argues that the greater good of the Olympic Games would have been best served by a blanket exclusion of Russian athletes at Rio 2016. 

The safety of spectators and athletes has to be the No.1 priority for any host city, but concerns have been raised over Rio’s security strategy following a series of high-profile terror attacks in other parts of the world.

In the second of a series of articles celebrating the 20-year anniversary of the SportBusiness Group, Greg Pitcher asks rights-holders, media companies and technologists to pick out the new technologies that are changing the sports industry.