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The French Olympic Committee (CNOSF) is considering using public funding to help finance a possible bid for Paris to host the 2024 summer Olympic Games.

Fifa has said that it remains committed to alternative dates of January/February or November/December 2022 for the shifting of Qatar’s World Cup, leaving the prospect of the event clashing with the winter Olympic Games still in play.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has welcomed a United Nations (UN) resolution recognising the autonomy of sport as a means to counter boycotts and discrimination and harbour political neutrality at future Olympic Games.

The German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB) has confirmed that it will bid to host the 2024 summer Olympic Games, with either Berlin or Hamburg set to be put forward as the country’s applicant city.

International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach has pushed forward with his ‘Agenda 2020’ reform plan by revealing that he will seek to transform the troubled bidding process for the Olympic Games into an “invitation for discussions and partnership” rather than a generic tender process.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has granted provisional recognition to the Kosovo Olympic Committee ahead of the organisation potentially receiving full member status at the next IOC Session to be held in December in Monaco.

French officials have not given up hope of securing the 2024 summer Olympic Games even though Prime Minister Manuel Valls has thrown his support behind a bid from Paris to host the 2025 World Expo trade convention.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has been urged to modernise its manuals that provide guidance about hosting the Games by Norwegian Olympic Committee secretary general Inge Andersen.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has reiterated that it has been assured by world football’s governing body Fifa that the organisation’s 2022 World Cup will not clash with the winter Olympic Games in the same year.

The Argentine Olympic Committee (COA) has said it is considering a bid for a future edition of the summer or winter Olympic Games.

International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach has confirmed that the governing body will not reopen bidding to host the 2022 winter Olympic Games despite the withdrawal of a bid from the Norwegian city of Oslo.

Oslo withdrew its bid for the 2022 winter Olympic Games yesterday (Wednesday) evening, leaving only two contenders for the hosting rights – Beijing in China and Almaty in Kazakhstan.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has finalised the composition of its Evaluation Commission for the 2022 winter Olympic Games, with the body to be chaired by Russian Olympic Committee president and senior Sochi 2014 executive Alexander Zhukov.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has praised Buenos Aires’ hosting plans for the 2018 Youth Olympic Games, which will focus on engaging with the Argentinian city’s sizeable inner-city population.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has announced in a letter to the prospective host cities of the 2022 winter Olympic Games that it will add a new anti-discrimination clause to future host city contracts, following the controversy that marked Sochi’s staging of the Games earlier this year.

Gilbert Felli, the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) executive director of the Olympic Games, is confident that a lawsuit against Rio de Janeiro and the developer of a new golf course in the city will not impact the sport’s test event ahead of the 2016 Olympic Games.