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The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has endorsed Craig Reedie’s bid for re-election as president of the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada).

Nathalie Boy de la Tour has today (Friday) been elected as the first female president of the French Football League (LFP) after the candidacy of former national team coach Raymond Domenech was rejected.

A growing group of blue-chip brands are sponsoring esports, but the majority remain on the sidelines. Why? Matt Cutler reports.

Lyon is set to return to the men’s tennis calendar for the first time since 2009 with a new tournament on the ATP World Tour, while the French Tennis Federation (FFT) has hailed its latest victory in a long-running legal battle over the redevelopment of Roland Garros.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board has approved a 16-per-cent increase in Olympic Solidarity funding for the next four-year cycle.

Two-time Olympic pole vault champion Yelena Isinbayeva has been confirmed as one of four candidates to become president of the All-Russian Athletics Federation (ARAF), while Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered the government to investigate means to tighten anti-doping controls in domestic sport.

Rafael Esquivel, former vice-president of the South American Football Confederation (Conmebol), has become the latest senior official to plead guilty to receiving bribes to award media and marketing rights contracts to tournaments.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the International University Sports Federation (FISU) in a move that is hoped will signal a long-term relationship between the two organisations.

The role of the Hungarian Olympic Committee will remain unchanged in relation to Budapest’s bid to host the 2024 summer Olympic Games despite sweeping reforms of the country’s sports administration structure.

Happy Walters, former chief executive of the Relativity Sports agency, has launched Catalyst Sports & Media, a new company that will act as a strategic advisor, investor and talent representative for clients in the sports industry.

Reinhard Grindel has been re-elected as president of the German Football Association (DFB), while Klaus Kinkel, a former spy chief and later Germany’s justice and foreign minister, has been appointed to lead a new ethics body formed in the wake of the scandal surrounding the 2006 Fifa World Cup.

Nicolas Chapart, Fiba's head of digital, lifts the lid on the federation's digital strategy in an in-depth interview.

SportBusiness International chief writer Frank Dunne caught up with JB Perrette, president of Eurosport parent company Discovery Networks International at the recent Leaders Sport Business Summit. 

What can traditional sports learn from esports? Is VR the next HD or 3D? And what will the world's biggest sports property be in ten years' time? SportBusiness International asked the questions at the Leaders Sport Business Summit.

New technology, more sophisticated objective-setting and the rapidly-changing ways we consume media are all having an impact on how brands get cut through and a tangible return on their rights-holder investments. Matt Cutler identifies 10 trends in the new world of sponsorship activation.

Frank Dunne looks at how Wimbledon’s social media strategy broadens the reach and value of the Championships while respecting the venerable tournament’s disdain for signs of overt commercialisation.