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Rome’s Mayor Virginia Raggi has maintained her stance in not backing the capital’s bid for the 2024 summer Olympic Games, stating it would be better to focus on “abandoned municipal installations” rather than the effort to land the sporting showpiece.

Yuriko Koike, who was last month elected as the first female governor of Tokyo, has said she will use her role to ensure that the Japanese capital city’s hosting of the 2020 summer Olympic Games is cost-efficient and environmentally friendly.

Brazilian police are sifting through emails exchanged between detained International Olympic Committee (IOC) member Patrick Hickey and Marcus Evans, the owner of hospitality company THG Sports, as they continue to investigate allegations of an illegal Olympic Games ticketing scheme.

The Olympic Council of Ireland (OCI) has formed a crisis management subcommittee after a further three senior executives were barred from leaving Brazil amid a police investigation into the alleged illegal sale of tickets for the summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.

Senior golf executives have expressed their confidence that the sport has done enough to secure long-term status on the Olympic Programme following its successful return at the summer Games in Rio de Janeiro.

International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach has maintained that no public funds have been used to help pay for the 2016 summer Olympic Games after local and national officials in Brazil came to the aid of the forthcoming Paralympic Games.

The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) confirmed this afternoon that Deodoro Olympic Park will be closed for the duration of the upcoming Paralympics as part of a raft of cost-cutting measures to be imposed for the Games.

Europe’s most senior Olympic official, Patrick Hickey, has been denied bail and moved to a maximum security prison in Rio, it emerged this (Friday) afternoon.

Automotive manufacturer Toyota has signed up as a founding partner of the Olympic Channel.

Four new members, including banned Russian pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva, have been appointed to the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) Athletes’ Commission.

Kyrgyzstan weightlifter Izzat Artykov has been stripped of the bronze medal he won during the first week of the Rio 2016 summer Olympics after testing positive for a banned substance, while Chinese swimmer Chen Xinyi and Brazilian cyclist Kleber Ramos have also been disqualified from the Games after failing doping tests.

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.

Sports hospitality company THG Sports has hit out after a Brazilian judge ordered the arrest of four of its executives amid allegations of fraudulent ticket sales at the ongoing summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.

International Olympic Committee (IOC) medical director Richard Budgett has expressed his confidence that any competitor aiming to gain an advantage at the ongoing summer Olympic Games through using designer drugs or gene doping will eventually be uncovered due to advances in testing systems.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has maintained that organisers of the ongoing summer Olympic Games have delivered on their promises, as Rio 2016 has been hit by a court ruling that states the local organising committee (LOC) must provide public access to its accounts before it can receive further financial assistance from the government.

The Kenyan Olympic Committee (KOC) has ordered a sprinting coach to return home from the summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro after he posed as an athlete and gave a urine sample to drug testers, while Chinese swimmer Chen Xinyi and Bulgarian runner Silvia Danekova have both reportedly failed doping tests.