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The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has stripped a further batch of medals from athletes caught doping at the 2008 and 2012 summer Olympic Games, with Kazakh weightlifting superstar Ilya Ilyin among those sanctioned.

The Chinese government has said it plans to further develop the country’s winter sports market ahead of Beijing’s 2022 winter Olympic and Paralympic Games by building more than 500 ice skating rinks and 240 ski slopes over the next six years.

Officials behind the staging of PyeongChang’s 2018 winter Olympics and Paralympics have maintained that funding will not be an issue for the event, adding that a major corruption scandal in South Korea will not impact on the Games.

The British Olympic Association (BOA) has announced that Sir Hugh Robertson is to become its new chairman.

US President-elect Donald Trump has told Mayor of Los Angeles Eric Garcetti that he supports the city’s bid to stage the 2024 summer Olympic Games.

Tokyo’s government is set to focus on reducing costs at originally proposed venues for the 2020 summer Olympic Games rather than moving certain events to different sites, according to reports in Japanese media today (Thursday).

The organising committee for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games is seeking to settle its overall budget at about Y2tr (€16.9bn/$18bn) as it continues its cost-cutting drive.

The International Equestrian Federation (FEI) has approved Olympic format changes that are set to allow more countries to compete at the 2020 summer Games in Tokyo.

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.

The PyeongChang Organising Committee for the 2018 Olympic and Paralympic winter Games (POCOG) has today (Friday) agreed a partnership with GS Group through which the South Korean conglomerate has made a donation to aid its preparations for the event.

Riccardo Fraccari, president of the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC), has backed plans for Japan's Fukushima Prefecture to stage some of the sports’ fixtures during the Tokyo 2020 summer Olympic Games.

The construction cost of a new gymnastics arena for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games has more than doubled after Shimzu Corp was awarded a Y20.5bn (€175.1m/$187.8m) contract to build the facility.

Los Angeles 2024 bid leaders today (Tuesday) sought to reassure Olympic Games stakeholders that they should not be concerned by Donald Trump’s election as the next US president, as the bid cities made their first major pitches for the hosting rights to the 2024 Games.

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

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

Los Angeles 2024 has said it looks forward to working closely with Donald Trump following his election as the new president of the United States, adding that it “appreciates” his “longstanding support” of the Olympic movement in the country.